Luke & Alexa - 18 months!

Is it weird that I still vividly remember being pregnant with these two crazies?  I swear it was just a couple of days ago that I was lying in a hospital bed admiring their cuteness...wondering how in the world I was going to take care of them.  Well - so far, so good!!

Lexi Loo...She is a spitfire!  If you ask her a question she will always have an answer.  When looking for her stuffed animal she says, "Kitty...where'd he go?"  She loves to give long kisses and hugs with large grunts.  Out of the two of them, she is my climber.  She knows what a kitty, cat, cow & snake say.  Her favorite things to say are, "Mmm hmmm" and "No."  She loves SHOES!  She freaks out if she can't get a shoe on her little foot.  It cracks me up.  She also loves hats, sunglasses, necklaces and so on.  She loves doing patty cake and singing The Wheels on the Bus and There Was A Little House.

 She has gigantic blue eyes...untamable light brown hair...adorable teeth and such delicate features all the way around.  She still sucks on her little thumb when she gets tired.

 Her stats for her 18 month checkup were:

Weight - 20 lbs 11 oz - 3rd percentile

Height - 31.5 inches - 34th percentile

Head Circ - 46 - 30th percentile

My little mama's boy through and through.  He freaking loves me...to the point that he might need therapy one day.  He is in love with his puppy!  He is also in love with dirt.  Or sand.  Or small gravel.  He just digs his hands right in and flips it up into the air with delight.  He also is my water baby.  He LOVES baths, swimming, splashing, puddles, and the sprinkler.  He also loves dinosaurs and cars!  I would have to say that his favorite food is fruit.  He loves it all!  He is a little man of few words at the moment.  Mama, cracker, mm hmmm and all done are the ones he says the most.  When he is in a great mood he does this weird oriental jabber talk that is hilarious.

His teeth are tiny and perfectly straight.  His crazy blonde curls are the best.  I will probably cry when they get trimmed off.  His little belly after he eats is huge.  He walks with it sticking straight out with a cute little waddle going on in his hips.  DARLING.

 His stats for his 18 month checkup were:

Weight - 23 lbs 1 oz - 11th percentile

Height - 32 inches

Head Circ - 48.5

I love them.  SO FREAKING MUCH.

April

April started out with a prank.  I poured some Jell-O into classes, stuck a straw in and hid them in the fridge until dinner time.  I sat out the kiddos dinner, and BAM.  APRIL FOOLS!  Caleb freaked...Rylee was confused and only got upset because Caleb did...Taylor was a little confused, but totally rolled with it.  Tee hee.

Sweet Taylor headed outside with the bin of sidewalk chalk one day.  Shadow just wanted her attention so badly!  She couldn't get her drawing done because the cat just would not get out of her way.

Caleb had a whole week off from school for Spring Break.  One night me and the older 3 went to stay at the Crystal Inn.  We went swimming (Caleb perfected the belly flop)...went to McDonald's...ate popcorn in bed and stayed up until 11 watching the Disney channel.  They had a fun time!

The kids FINALLY got to put on some snow gear and experience winter.  Look how green the grass and trees are?  It was a fabulous spring snow storm.

Casey didn't want his picture taken.  He lost.  I took one anyway.  Look at little Luke....and silly little Lexi.  I want to remember these two like this forever!

Later that same night I went to check on the sleeping beauties....seriously...this little girl is a sleeping beauty indeed.

And I love that Luke was passed out like a total man.  Camouflaged, sweaty, sprawled out and fast asleep.

The net around trampolines is ingenious.  Forget about the safety issue for older kids, it is the best outdoor play pen ever.

Have I mentioned that I love this cat?  I bet I have as many pictures of Shadow that I do of my kids!

Ashley had her sweet baby boy.  Jackson Derrick Bodine.  Luke & Alexa were surprisingly sweet with him.  It was adorable.  It blows my mind how little the start out and how quickly that tininess goes away.  Sniff sniff.