"normal" fun?

hey... im going to start out saying that is a really long post... and im sorry.... you dont have to read the whole thing... but feel free to linger over the pictures... just kidding..... okay.. so i loaded these pictures all out of order, but wasnt going to delete them and then re-load them.... so... anyway... this picture is of my aunt kathy and uncle lee when they were down from el paso at the beginning of the month.... we all had supper at my parents house since they were down and the babies really enjoyed playing with my aunt and uncle... this pic of bekah and my mom is right after my mom put her hair into pigtails... shes getting better about putting her hair up, but is still kinda fussy when we are in the process of fixing it... i thought that this was the cutest picture....
this picture i actually took today..... we went outside to play and i saw some ants on our porch so i sprayed them with water and they were loving it, so i thought well lets get the sprinkler out... seth was the biggest fan of it.. he loved it.... bekah on the other hand hated it... she barely got two drops on her and she started to cry... luckily about 3 minutes into playing in the sprinker daddy came home so we went back on the porch to play....

here is a picture of my babies with their friends from church... (they are twins).....they came over on thursday..... it was so fun.... everyone was sooo good..... i wasnt sure how my babies would do because other than sunday while in the nursery they dont see other babies... they did really good.. they shared their toys and were overall really good... so im pleased with that... i do need to get them out and about with other kids... just so they know that they arent the only kids in the world... we'll see.... anyway i had a really good time on thursday and i think the babies did too.... (thanks stacy for coming over)....
this is from last sunday.... this is my favorite dress for bekah right now... and they just look so cute...
this also is from last sunday..... these are the "miracle babies".... the little girl is one of my really good friends daughter.... i took i think 10 pictures and this was the best out of all of them... we're going to try another "photo op" again to see if we can get a better pic...
this is acutally a couple saturdays ago.... we went to the zoo.... it was soooo dead..... we went into the lory landing.... they absolutely loved seeing the birds so up close... this was the first time we went because every other time we go to the zoo it is soo packed that we do good just to walk around well when we went this time it was so unpacked that we were able to do that and take this picture on the lions... there was this nice lady who when we first came in saw us and asked about them... and we would see them as we walked through the zoo... then when we were leaving i was talking to bobby as this might be the best time to take the pic.. she overheard and offered and we took her up on her offer.... and im glad we did....
well.. like i said we have some very busy weeks... last week wednesday bekah and seth went to premiere care and did beautifully.... they scored on some of their skills at 22 MONTHS.... how exciting... but then on gross they scored at 16... still within limits.... i was greatly encouraged at this appointment.... the tester that tested seth was very impressed with how well he was doing and gave me some encouragement on how we are raising them.... the tester that tested bekah (bobby was with her) said that bekah behaved beautifully... so im really happy... our therapist was also very encouraging about how they are doing... so im very pleased and happy and excited.... that was really the only thing that happened last week, but it was such a major ordeal it really made the week seem packed....

this week we had speech therapy on tuesday with a new therapist.... she is very nice and has given us some tips on how to get them talking more words.. so im excited about that... our physical therapist came on wednesday... (she is the one who is very pleased with how they are doing).... she thinks they might not be in therapy for much longer since they are doing so well.....

thursday... my friend from church came over with her twins... it is the first time that we have had someone over other than therapists..... it was really nice and fun.... my mom, my aunt bertha, and i (with the quads) went to lunch at red robin later that afternoon.... i am greatly surprised with how well they did with eating at a restaurant.... this was like maybe the third time we have taken them out, but usually its my whole family... so each baby has an adult... this time it was just three adults... they were very good and ate very good...i did feed them a lunch before we left for the restaurant, but they still ate really well at re d robin.... it was fun to do something normal...

that evening bobby and i (with the quads) went to the fair.. i took my camera but didnt take any pictures... that did really good, huh.... it was fun.... we ran into a lot of people that we knew and a lot we didnt.... its funny when strangers are like " i bet your done with having kids" and im like actually i want at least one more.... its like they are speechless... its pretty funny.... it was nice going to the fair as a family... again something "normal" is just so nice...

and then today we ran through the sprinkler in the late afternoon.... so it was fun and busy week...

tommorrow we are getting a BIGGER VAN.... i am super-duper excited about that.... a family from our church is selling it to us at a great price and its just going to be so nice to have all that extra room.... i really am excited... im going to have to get used to driving a bigger van though... i have driven bobbys truck before so its kinda the same... but still... i already hate driving so... im just going to have to practice..... but im really excited....

im sorry for the late and long post.... but better late than never, right???? anyway we have some fun things going on next week so ill let you know what and how they go next week.... anyway thanks for reading....

me