Addie decided to help me feed Taylor some rice cereal. Honestly, Taylor does seem to like it, but from all the cereal you can see on her bib, it may look otherwise....
I can tell Addie didn't enjoy that as much as she thought she was going to. :o)
Thanks for being a really good helper, Addie! You're a sweet girl!
This is what we've been up to lately:
Taylor's been rolling around to get where she wants...She'll be facing one direction (on her back) one second, then the next second she'll be facing 180 in the other direction, and on her tummy! She's quite pleased that she can turn circles & chase down her toys. She hasn't figured out how to get up on her hands & knees--just her hands or just her knees--but it's only a matter of time! Next step: baby gates!
Mikey's been reading lots & lots & lots....he has Pokemon cards to work for! His 3rd grade teacher started the whole thing by rewarding his students with Pokemon cards for every 340 pages read. This sure fired Mikey up--he's always enjoyed his reading time, but for Pokemon Cards!!!!! It was a dream come true! 
Needless to say, Mikey started earning his own collection quickly. Too quickly. His teacher finally said that Mikey couldn't earn Pokemon cards anymore. It was too expensive! Let me clarify--Mikey couldn't, but the other kids in his class are still earning cards. Hmm.... Mikey does love a fun book! I decided to pick up the slack by purchasing a deck of the cards & raising the bar from 340 pages/2 Pokemon to 1,000 pages/3 Pokemon. Mikey's doing great keeping track, & I just keep picking up new books for him at the Library. 
Needless to say, Mikey started earning his own collection quickly. Too quickly. His teacher finally said that Mikey couldn't earn Pokemon cards anymore. It was too expensive! Let me clarify--Mikey couldn't, but the other kids in his class are still earning cards. Hmm.... Mikey does love a fun book! I decided to pick up the slack by purchasing a deck of the cards & raising the bar from 340 pages/2 Pokemon to 1,000 pages/3 Pokemon. Mikey's doing great keeping track, & I just keep picking up new books for him at the Library. Mikey and Kelli had Crazy Hair Day at school to show their school spirit. (I also think it was a part of green ribbon month--the program promoting pedestrian safety, etc.) Mikey got the 'flock of seagulls' hairstyle, but he came home telling me that everyone liked his "birthday cake hair"---can you see the candles on his head? :o) Addie had to be a little crazy, too, hence the peanut butter toast hanging out of her mouth. :o)
Kelli & Addie have kept wonderfully entertained with their imaginations....everywhere we go (whether they have toys or not) I'll overhear them saying, "Pretend I'm doing.... and then this happened..." It goes on and on. 
Addie & Kelli have continued to make me nervous about their well-being.
Kelli's arm is doing a bit better, but yesterday, Kelli was racing Mikey to the crosswalk, tripped over his foot, & went sprawling onto the pavement--she's got a nice battle wound on her hip for that one....luckily missed her face! She scraped up the knuckles on her broken arm, but her arm wasn't hurting more. Whew!
Addie decided to swallow a chain bracelet of Kelli's today, and we are anxiously awaiting the resurfacing of that item. (Yes, that warrants another, "Eew!")
Sunday evening, we all got together for some silly time...Here's a few of the silly pictures we took--most of them looked awful of me, so this is what I'd allow to be 'published'--everything else is in desperate need of photo-shopping! 
We also had another funny moment--which ended up costing us a pretty penny. Mark came up to me on Friday evening saying, "You know how you've been wanting to replace the sink hardware in our bathrooms?" "Yes..." "Well, we're going to have to replace them a little sooner than we thought." He handed me the handle to our bathroom sink, which had just broken off. 
You can see from the picture that it wasn't about to go back on without a nice welding job. I'd rather have a nice new faucet! There weren't even any replacement handles readily available--that would have been a lot cheaper!
Here's the new one. All of the nice "oil-rubbed" ones were about $50 more than we wanted to spend...oh well. They were a little on the dark side anyway. :o) Mark got the faucet installed Saturday night (after a full day of activities), so the sink stopper hasn't been repaced to match the new faucet yet...that's still coming, but I have promises that it will happen! 
Thanks, Mark! You are becoming a pretty good "Handy Manny." :o) That's all for now! Happy Days! Joy
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