how to tell someone loves you

Ron loves me because.....
he bought a minivan...awww...
lst night he gave me the choice -a warm meal, which he cooked- or a nap. I slept. And in the end I got both. Awwww.....

How to tell it has been a good day....

It has been a good day here at my house. How can I tell??
Weeeellll.....
I got to brush my teeth BEFORE lunchtime
both babies have taken naps at the SAME time
I got to take a nap
I took two dogs, and two babies on a walk with no problems
I haven't had to change 10 diapers yet today....only 7
I drank only HALF of my diet coke (goal is no sodas, but I needed the caffeine)
and my honey called me :)

family pictures

We had family pictures done for Christmas cards. And the photographer came to our house and took these!! They did an AMAZING job! I just love the photos of the kids. F A B U L O U S!!

I have been busy trying to handle three kids. Mostly trying to get them ALL on the same schedule, AKA I get a nap! So far it has been OK. I get a nap each day, for at least an hour. Sure there are a ton of other things that need to be done. Like laundry, clean the house, blah blah blah. But nothing gets in the way of my daily nap.

Melissa's vocabulary still grows in leaps and bounds. She hollers "PHONE" whenever the phone rings. And she hollers it until I pick it up. She continues to learn about her body and can locate eyes, and so forth.

Caleb is still complaining that holding Ryan while I make dinner is NOT a reward for good behavior. I continue to try and convince him otherwise.

And Ron broke down and bought a minivan. It is a ooo la la version of what we need. It has LOTS and LOTS of bells and whistles, DVD player (Thank goodness!) Navigation (so I can ACTUALLY FIND my home to Utah!) and so forth. I am looking forward to having it. No more kids poking each other's eyeballs out, no more "Melissa is pulling my hair", no more WHY can't we bring the DVD player with us when we are driving to the grocery store .5 miles away?? Sweet peace is what this will bring us. Of course, another car payment too. bluk! But worth it I think. It is located out of state and so we are waiting for it to be delivered to us. Hopefully my parents can deliver it to us and manage to come for a short visit at the same time.

no photographic evidence

I have no photo evidence of this event, but I assure you it has occurred. Ryan smiled. Yes he did. He smiled at three days! I know I know most babies do not do this until they are a few months old. But my sweet Ryan did it at three days.
He also has HUGE feet! They are like Thumper from Bambi, huge feet. They are as long as my longest finger, then he can still wrap his toes around the top of my finger. He never fit the newborn shoes we have for him. So we nick named him Thumper.
Melissa has learned many new words as well
eyes- as she tried to gouge your eyeball out
Har- for Harlee. She yells this because we all yell at the dogs when they bark
Baby -for Ryan
ritty- AKA pretty as she puts lotion on her cheeks
shoes
out-as in take me outside NOW!
It is all pretty cute. Then she also babbles and tattles on the parents. She will cry to the other parent and tell them all about it. We laugh at her.

Halloween - of course!

OK, so I know everyone will be posting pictures of their kids today from Halloween. So I might as well join in right? Well, as besides the point that my kids are so cute I just have to share. Melissa was a honey bee-big surprise there! Caleb was the monster person thing from Scream. (As you can tell I know SO much about this subject! HA HA!!) Little baby Ryan was a mummy till he peed all over his costume. Again- how appropriate! So here are some pics from Halloween, pumpkin carving and other stuff from the last week or so. My m-i-l is still here with us and I have been abusive of her wonderful kindness by taking naps in the middle of the day, and letting her do ALL the dishes. I haven't seen the inside of a dishwasher for almost three weeks now! She is the BEST!! I am always told by other women how lucky I am to have such a great m-i-l, believe me I know it!

On a side note, I am also happy to say my hormones are returning to normal, I am not so weepy, irratable, or in general grumpy. That is as long as I can get some sleep at night! Most of the baby weight is gone, and Ron prossed his love for my flabby body. Did I mention I TOTALLY adore Ron?! He is he best hubby. He has been good to get up witht he kids at night and changing diapers even!!