Happy Birthday to Ashton and Addy

Wow!  My twinners are 4 years old.  Where has the time gone. They are getting so big and don't seem like to ddlers to me anymore.  They are starting to do things that big kids do and it's so crazy that my little babies are growing up.  They are such individuals. Addy is such a girly-girl and loves princesses, playing with her little girlfriends, dress-up, and all things girl.  She is also full of attitude and sass. She usually spends time on the time-out chair about everyday for her sassy little mouth!  I can't believe how she acts sometimes.  I think she gets it from the Hales' side.  Ashton is still into cars, trains, Toy Story and he is perfectly content to play with his toys by himself.  He is usually very sweet, but is starting to act more like a rough boy all the time.  He is starting to be into super heros and bad guys.  I feel so lucky to get to be mommy to these two sweethearts and I love seeing them still be best friends together even though they have other friends and have different interests.  Love you two!!

This year for they party we just kept things simple with family and friends, and cake and ice cream.  They got some great presents and had so much fun playing with their cousins and friends. We had everyone over on Saturday for their little party and then on Sunday they got presents from Mom and Dad and from my family, since they weren't able to come on Saturday.

So me and Sharon found this Cinderella carriage on an after Christmas sale for a killer price.  She was SO excited.  Her reactions was priceless. Jumping up and down screaming.  She ran over to Nan for a big hug and papa even got one too!

All three babies in the Hales family all born a month apart.  Carter is the oldest, but he is huge!!

 

Playing Super Heros with Bree!

 Candles in their Pancakes!

Opening presents from mom and dad

They had such a fun birthday and thanks to everyone for all the presents and celebrating with us.

Backyard campout

We decided we needed a tent mostly for backyard campouts and maybe for an occasional overnight real-life camping trip!  The kids were so excited to sleep outside in their sleeping bags.  I thought there was no way they would actually go to sleep outside, but they totally did!  During the night the wind got blowing really bad so they came inside for the rest of the night.

Swimming Lessons

The twinners did swimming lesson at the start of this summer. They were a little nervous the first day and Addy did eventually get in but Ashton would not get in the pool the first day.  The next day I decided that he was just going to do it, so I kind just pushed him in a little and he loved it!  They had a great time and were sad to see it end!

5 Month Carter

Oh wow where has the last five months gone?  It is going so fast.  My baby is getting so big.  I peeked in on him during his nap yesterday and he looked so huge all stretched out in is crib and it made me a little sad that he is growing so fast.  He is such a fun and happy little guy.  Ashton and Addy are loving him and he recognizes them and seems to love them too.  Although, sometimes they love him a little too much.  the other day I was painting Addy's room and could hear her saying to Ashton to hold him and she would get his toys.  Well I had left him laying on the floor so I didn't know how Ashton was now holding him so I walked out into the family room to find Ashton dragging him across the floor by his arm and Addy following with a bunch of toys and Carter just grinning at them both!! It was too funny and then we had a talked about not moving Carter.

Some things about Carter this month:

He has started to roll from tummy to back and he rolls onto his side when he's on his back.
He screams and squeals soooo loud!
He laughs and is is super ticklish under his arms
He had two teeth on the bottom so close to coming through
He is loving toys more all the time
He is super close to sitting up.  He will do it for a few minutes now before he topples over.
We set him in the bumbo on the table while we eat dinner and he watches every bite you take.  Gotta get him some cereal.  I think he's ready!
His sleeping at night is about the same, still waking up once a night for a bottle.
Went to the swimming pool for the first time