Reagan's Birthday

The Three Musketeers!  They are all getting so big!  

And now Reagan's 2 :)  They play so well together...

Reagan and Jace playing so sweetly!

Jace loves the giraffe tent we gave Reagan :)

Here's Grandma Shiela playing "shopping at the mall" 

with the girls!

Katie was pretending that the tent was the mall!

Rory and her sippy cup!

Isn't this baby just the cutest!?!  

She is doing so well drinking out of a sippy cup!  

She is doing new things every day and it is just so amazing to me!  

I am going to have to get a picture of her pulling herself up!

Playdate with the Reeders'

Here's sweet Emily with the girls'!  She is so good with them and they LOVE her so much!

David was playing hard to get when I wanted to take his picture!

These kids are so wonderful!

Aunt Amanda's Candy Land!

Rory bummed because we wouldn't give her any candy, but happy with the cheerios that Amanda gave her!

Jace LOVES to go see Anina (what she calls Amanda)!

Doesn't she look like she is gazing at someone adoringly?

Anal Anina cleaning up cheerios behind Rory!  Hahaha!  Yet she continued to let her eat them and spill them ALL over the floor!

And NO we were not letting Rory eat candy!  lol!  but she REALLY wanted too!

Anina and the girls' (they LOVE her)

Doesn't she look like a natural?  She's telling me to bite my tongue as she reads this :)

Roar is hoarding ALL the good stuff!

This was candy heaven for Jace, esp. since we didn't go trick-or-treating!

My Little Pumpkins

Jace dressing Rory up...

Jace sure can annoy Roar sometimes!

I promise I wasn't letting her "ride" on Rory's back!  She was just standing over her!!!  haha

There goes my adorable little bunny!

Isabella's costume birthday party

They loved these pumpkins that Isabella's Daddy made :)

She LOVED the pinata!  And she swung the bat right AND left handed :)

Jace in the CUTE pumpkin dress that Jerica made!  The girls' wore matching pumpkin dresses because Trey was being "difficult" about Halloween :)  Needless to say... he's a little "iffy" about this particular holiday!  LOL

Look at Jace's friend, Reagan, in the cutest Hershey Kiss Costume ever!  She definitely wins the sweetest costume award!  haha

Jace and Brenden "sharing" the slide!  

It's ALL the BABIES!  Minnie Mouse (Elizabeth), Monkey (George) and Little Pumpkin Roar!  TOO CUTE!

Baby sisters have to stick together!  Their older sisters will be leaving them out before we know it!!!

Future slumber parties...

The girls' already practicing for their future spend the night parties...  who do you think will be the lucky parents with all the giggling girls who refuse to go sleep at a decent hour!?!

Picture catch up...

I am going to do several posts to catch up with our pics... hopefully I will not get behind again :)

Well, its been about 2 weeks!!!  Life gets so busy and before you know it weeks at a time have passed you by...  the girls are doing wonderful!  Rory is EVERYWHERE these days!  She crawls so fast and it is so cute to watch.  Jace never really crawled.  She rolled everywhere and wasn't even sitting up until she was about 7 months.  And almost from the moment she started pulling up she walked.  So this crawling business is new to me :)  Rory is almost 9 months old now and she's already so smart.  And LOVING... she leans in and hugs and gives kisses all the time.  She is the sweetest thing.  She is sleeping all night most nights but she is teething so she can get pretty restless- but no teeth yet!  Jace had 5 by the time she was 9 months!  These two precious girls of mine are turning into polar opposites of each other!  LOL  Its so amazing to see how the 2 of them are turning out!  Jace is doing excellent as well.  She is getting smarter and smarter every day and the potty training is going wonderful!  Hardly any accidents ever, although we had a day recently where she wet her pants 6 times and pooped once!  She has not done that in MONTHS!  But I think I figured out why...  I think she had a slight bladder infection or something because she was telling me she had to go but just couldn't hold it AND she went potty TWICE as much that day as she normally does.  Plus she'd had juice, (which ALWAYS makes her have trouble with her bladder control) not to mention more sugar than normal from her all of her halloween candy.  Of course people think I'm crazy when I say that sugar affected her potty training, but it does.  There are multiple studies showing the negative side affects that sugar can have on a toddler/preschooler's kidneys and bladder.  But she's back to normal using the potty so that's good.  We had also had a rough couple of days with her being hyper sensitive--- but I chalked that up to not eating enough, or sleeping enough, and, again, too much sugar!  But people have bad mood days all the time, why should it be any different for a 2 year old!?!  We've switched Jace to her big girl bed and she is doing EXCELLENT in it!  YAAAY!  I was a little concerned, esp the first few days because she was giving me some trouble at nap time.  BUT we've passed the hump I think!!!!!  She is getting up earlier since she can get herself out of her bed, which is no big deal, but we have had to adjust her bedtime to put her down earlier.  Jace NEEDS ALL of her sleep... she is too cranky without it!  :)  She's turned into a picky eater... also no big deal except that she gets cranky if she doesn't eat well too... so I am trying to figure out healthy foods to feed her everyday.  But, of course, being 2, she'll eat one thing one day and not the next!  But yesterday she ate breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner and she had the BEST mood day she's had in a while!  Now, if I could just get her to eat like that everyday!  We are watching Kai this weekend for my brother.  It has been nice to have him but also a real eye opener!  We are very thankful that we DON'T have twins, hahahaha!  Trey got a little cranky this evening... I think he was worn out!  LOL...  I don't think he would make it if he was a stay at home dad every day!!!!!  It has definitely been an exhausting day, but a very fun one for the kids!  They must have upended EVERY toy in the house.  It took me 45 minutes just to clean it up...  I called it Tornado Grooms 2008 since all the kids are grooms progeny!  And of course cleaning the house today was OUT OF THE QUESTION!!!  :)  I'm lucky I got some laundry done heehee!  If Trey and I ever have any more children I am definitely going to have become a better time manager!  The other day I was vacuuming and poor Rory screamed bloody murder until I finally just turned it off!  It scared her so much!  So then I waited to put her down for her morning nap to vacuum.  Jace was suppose to be coloring, but I happened to look up and didn't see her.  So I turned off the vacuum and went searching...  and my adventuresome little 2 year had learned how to turn the child proof door knob to MY bathroom and in the space of five minutes had flushed the toilet enough times to cause it to overflow, pulled out ALL of my makeup and played in it, upended ALL the q-tips, and was eating toothpaste when I walked in there!  And to show how smart she is... she closed the door back so it took me a minute to even find her in there because I was searching everywhere else first because before then she hadn't been able to turn that doorknob!  :)  It was so hilarious that all I could do was laugh...  although she definitely looked very GUILTY when I found her!  I will try to post some pics soon... I have been very lax in my picture taking and am waiting on some pics to be emailed to me by other people!!!  I will try to do better with the pic taking and the blog posting!