Just pictures

Since I am lacking with anything new or funny to post, I will just post some recent and very random pictures.
Here is our funny monkey Avery.

And here's Drew. We were rocking out playing Guitar Hero World Tour and I realized my drummer was no longer drumming. I guess we weren't rocking that hard. Here they are watching their morning cartoons together. Avery never actually finished those bananas. I found them in my closet later.
This is their new favorite thing. Avery figured out how to turn the water on in the bathtub and Drew thinks it's funny when she does things she's not supposed to because he gets the chance to try it out too. They love to turn the faucet on and drink the water. They've learned that the bath water is yucky because the soap gives them diarrhea so this is the next best thing to quench that mid-bath thirst.
And at the end of the day, they love to unwind in mom and dad's bed.

I told you these were random.

Happy Day

I am a happy girl today. Drew has finally been discharged from his feeding group. For those of you that know the frustration we have experienced with his gagging and throwing up, this signifies a tremendous step forward for us, especially for Drew. We are trying a new food for lunch at Mother's Day Out tomorrow: a cheese sandwich. We have been talking about it all week and he is very excited. I never thought I would get so excited about things like a cheese sandwich but then again I never thought I would have to worry about a child that threw up at the sight of a strawberry either. This is progress people.

Our New Table

Before we bought our house, the apartments we lived in were small and there wasn't anywhere to put a kitchen table so we gave ours away and ate on the couch with tv trays in the living room. Since we didn't have a table when we moved in our house, my mom let us borrow one they had in storage. So we have had a borrowed table for two years and after a remodel at my mom's house, she needed the table back. We knew we were just using the table until the remodel was finished so right before Thanksgiving, the table was moved out. We have not gotten a new table and have just returned to the good old days of eating on tv trays or eating at the counter. Well, all that changed this weekend. We found a great new table and I even got to buy a new rug to go underneath. Everyone helped put it together and we finally have a table to eat at! Avery is using her magna doodle "pen" as a screwdriver.

The kids found a seat on the table edge that was just their size.

Drew unscrewed the stabalizing blocks all by himself.This is a before and after. I love our new table and I'm just happy not to have to eat standing up anymore!

Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. Drew and Avery had a fun day and enjoyed opening their presents. Here are some pictures of our Christmas morning. Before
After

Drew with his Hulk Hands

This is Avery hoarding all the candy she can find. She was on sugar overload for a couple of days.

Drew wore these Batman pj's for 2 days strait.

On Christmas Eve, we went over to my parents house for a special treat. We ate a nice dinner with everyone and then all the grandkids decorated cookies to put out for Santa. As they were putting the plate of cookies out for Santa, who should appear but Santa himself?! He appeared at the top of the stairs and then came down to talk to each child and hand them a gift. The kids were so excited and could not believe that Santa was at Grammy's house! My mom made the Santa costume for my dad and he was a good sport to wear it and talk to all the kids. They had no idea they were really talking to Papaw. It was a fun experience that has started a new tradition for our family.

Drew enjoyed talking to Santa.

Avery not so much.

Happy Anniversary!

9 years ago today Brent and I were married in the Seattle, Washington Temple. Look at how young we were!

Here we are today.
Who knew that the happiness and love I felt on that day would be exponentially multiplied as the years went by? I feel so blessed to have Brent and the kids and I look forward to what the next 9 years will bring.

Our Nativity

A few days before Christmas, we attempted to reenact the Nativity using our toddlers. Most of the kids were cooperative.
Others not so much. This is what Avery did when her costume was draped over her shoulder. She may be a diva but apparently not a stage diva. (This is a loud one so turn your volume down a bit.)

The story was read very quickly and at some point, props were being climbed on, knocked over or eaten. The boys of the bunch were very well behaved--the girls all had ants in their pants and all of them ended up laying in the manger with baby Jesus at some point. Doesn't Teik make the cutest shepherd?
Here is a picture of the whole crew. Avery still did not want to cooperate.(Nyah, Drew, Avery, Teik, and Sevy)
This is Avery and Drew the Sunday before Christmas. Luckily for Avery, she redeems her ornery behavior with her general cuteness (or at least I think so).

I will post Christmas pictures once I download them from the camera. We have had a fun time over the holidays.

Drew's Birthday Party

As I mentioned before, Drew wanted to have his party at Chuck E. Cheese. Hoping all our guests were current on their shots, we ventured out for a pizza party with the Chuckster. Drew had a great time and I think all the other kids did too. Since we had to reschedule, a few of our friends weren't able to make it this time around so we missed them. It ended up being a perfect night to go and we had lots of fun.

Jacob, Nyah, Drew, Avery, and Kassi

This is our cake that Wal-Mart remade for us. It's actually made of cupcakes and the icing left my fingers black for days, but it tasted really good. Drew wouldn't eat it because he thought it was chocolate icing.

Grammy and Papaw were the heroes of the evening because they got Drew the present that he has been wanting for weeks. Ever since he saw this Batcave in the Toys R Us Christmas catalog, it's all he talks about. Grammy caught wind of this and just made Drew's day when he opened it. He woke up at 3:45 am that night to play with his Batcave.