"The Bouncer"

 Lola and Ivy have both LOVED this little bouncer!

 It has got so many gadgets on it, that it keeps them entertained for awhile which I love.

 Lola had a hard time adjusting to sharing. She still will try and sit in it when Ivy is not. Or she tries to climb in with her which Ivy knows there is only room for one!

 I love this face

 Smiles all around

 Lola needing some attention too,

Mommy! Pick me up.

Ivy's Laugh Party

 Evan and Makaeli took credit for making Ivy laugh the first time. It was so cute. Evan was playing games with her and she just started laughing and squealing all at once.

 So pretty for her special day!

 It is tradition that who ever makes her laugh provides the meal. Evan helped me make sloppy joes,

 Makaeli brought potato salad, and we had the rest of the fun BBQ fixins.

 Summer helped Ivy put salt on the plates; which according to Navajo tradition keeps the baby from growing up stingy.

 Preparing the plates.

 We had a fun time as you can see, the kids played super heroes and the adults ate good food, we had a special treat of homemade ice cream too which is always a hit!

 Wyatt had to show off his super-hero costume

At the end of the night she was all tuckered out! Before everyone even left she zonked out in her chair. Ivy we love hearing you laugh and look forward to many more chuckles, giggles, and squeals as you grow up.

Sisters

 Lola has 4 favorite foods.... Milk, Cereal, Chocolate, and Chips

 Quite the refined palate, I know!

 Ivy wanting some attention,

 Not so sure she liked the attention she got!

 Lola is 19 months and Ivy is 4 months. Who's Bigger?

 Reading her books!

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble

 Lola has established a nasty little habit of playing in the toilets lately and it is driving Russell CRAZY! The last 2 days we've had to give her at least 2-3 extra baths a day because she wont stay out of the toilet. (yes we put the seat down, but we have two little boys who don't know what that means)

 Anyway, last night we found her playing in our toilet downstairs. She had put some toilet paper in the bowl so after we cleaned her up we tried to flush the toilet to get it to go down. The toilet flooded and we couldn't figure out why. That night when I went to wash my face, I reached into the shower and the soap was gone, guess where is was. Lola had put it in the toilet and we had flushed it down causing the toilet to flood.

 Russ took a hanger and started chopping at the soap to see if he could break it into smaller pieces to either go up or down. Luckily after a few pokes the soap slid right out. Silly little girl!

 That same day, Lola wasn't feeling very good and had pooped in her diaper. Almost a blow out, not quite though. Well she did this while I was in the shower downstairs. Well she decided she wanted to come find me and headed down the stairs. She goes down by sliding down on her bum.

With the added pressure of the stairs on her bum it proceeded to push her poop out of the diaper, out of her pants, and onto each and every single stair. It took me 2 days, a lot of scrubbing, and a lot of patience to get our stairs back to normal. Lola we love you to death. But trouble seems to find you or lately, you go looking for it. Luckily Russ and I both have come to terms with the humor in it and have decided, now that everything is back to normal, that it is pretty funny!

Tummy Time

 I just have too cute of kids, I can't pass up the chance to show them off.

 Ivy as with all of my kids hates tummy time. She is now 4 months old and still hasn't even made any attempts to roll over.

I try to give her time on the floor to wiggle and move but it is tricky because Lola likes to wrestle her when she is laying down. Which makes it hard for Ivy to wiggle.

Babysitting

 The other day I asked Evan if he could watch the girls while I took a shower. Wyatt was at school so he just needed to keep them happy for about 10 minutes.

 He did a fabulous job though a little unconventional.

 when I came upstairs this is what I found.....

 Lola had taken Ivy's pacifier and was "trying it out" (she hasn't had a pacifier since she was about 4 months old) so she really didn't know what to do with it. She was mostly using it as a chew toy....

and he had propped Ivy up with a book so she could read....

 And Evan was in the living room watching cartoons.

Thank heaven for big brothers!