A few random pics to hold you over...

Rather than leave you with nothing while on vacation, I thought I'd share a few random pictures taken over the past few months. Some may be repeats for all my facebook peeps!

Taking a stroll on a sunny day!

Just this past week, Korbin learned how to climb fell out of his crib. Unlike Baxlyn, when I found him he wasn't beaming with pride. From the look of his right eye it was a tough landing. Needless to say, he hasn't tried it since...

Splish Splash!
Their first swim of the summer!

Kylee LOVES accessories!

The coolest quad on the block, Baxlyn.

This is what happens when a triplet mom and a quad mom go to a children's museum that has the smallest elevator in the world.... babies go down on one trip and the choo choos on the next! Yeah...that didn't cause a scene.

The boys have had many many haircuts and this was Brody's first time to be brave and sit in the chair all by himself! (The lump you see under his cape is, of course, Dudu!)

How sweet is this? 2 brothers and their rolly polly!

Water sprinkler or a quad-friendly water fountain?

Four wheeler fun at Pa-paws! Kylee wanted NOTHING to do with it, poor girl!

Lil' explorers...

It's nice to see a little love among all the fighting these days :]

Working together for a GOOD cause, doesn't happen often!

We took the quads to one of my dad's softball games a couple of weeks ago. I grew up on the ball fields watching him play and it was about time my kids experienced it too! Love this one of Brody & Kylee watching him bat - Go Papa!

After the game we let them out on the field. Rather than roam what do they decide to do?? Clean. Yup, four 2 year olds on a ball field and they chose to clean. Below is Baxlyn using her foot to smear away the "yucky" lines someone put there...

While she's doing that we look over and notice Korbin is trying desperately to sweep the dirt out of the dugout with his lil' hands...

Before we knew it they were all in the dugout picking up and throwing away cups and trash the players had left behind...

This picture is SO Baxlyn, trying to juggle as many cups as she possible can!

Kylee with the Tew boys at the zoo. She talks constantly about Emmett. From the looks of this picture he's got a lil' crush on her too! Looks like he's saying "Back off Bro, this one's mine!" Lunch with their BFF, Levi James.

I'll leave you with one of the latest. This was a trip to Walmart. We passed through this section and in an instant I had a stroller full of toddlers yelling "Hats! Hats! Haaatttsss!!!" No sweeties, those are not hats!

Until next time!!

A Visit From Santa!

The babies' friend Levi (or "Leli" as Baxlyn would say) came over a few weeks ago for a visit from Santa. Last years visit wasn't too bad but I figured this year they would FREAK. To my surprise it wasn't as bad as I was expecting! They sat at the door and waited and waited...

They all were nervous when Santa walked in, Kylee being the most scared :(

We let Santa hold Levi right away to show the others he was a nice guy!

I was surprised when Brody was the first one to warm up to Santa, after a good boot inspection Brody was convinced this guy couldn't be too bad!

Here's the Broman telling Santa all about his "DuDu". Yep, DuDu. Not Mickey. Not Mick. Not Mouse. Of all the things Brody could call Mickey, he chooses DuDu. Bret and I are hoping once he builds his vocabulary he will choose a more appropriate nickname for Mickey, until then it's DuDu (spelled with the "u" verses the double "o")!

Baxlyn warmed up shortly after Brody and sat long enough for a picture!

Korbin took a little more convincing. He too had to inspect Santa's boots and clothes. After a few minutes he crawled up and sat in the corner of the couch as far away from Santa as he could. As Santa dangled a candy cane Korbin slowly got closer and closer...

We all (including Santa) sang the chorus of "Hot Diggity Dog" and Korbin was all smiles!

Poor Kylee never really did warm up to the thought of a big man in a white beard holding her.

She did manage to give him a smile after he gave her a candy cane!

The official group shot...

Group shot minus Kylee plus Levi...

Thanks Santa for stopping by!!!

Halloween Festivities Part 1

We had so much fun this Halloween letting the babies trick or treat! We took them to a few houses up and down the street late in the afternoon, ensuring we could get them in bed before the big trick or treaters came! We borrowed this ginormous awesome wagon from a couple at church (thanks Scott & Diana!) and it was the perfect accessory for our barnyard theme this year. We filled it with hay, sat the babies inside and they were good to go!

L-R Brody Baxlyn Korbin & Kylee

We were joined by the quads' best friend and little football player Levi! How SWEET is he?!

The babies each got suckers on at the first stop and within minutes had the wrappers off...

We stopped by the Thompson house to see the triplets. Here's Baxlyn and Deuce. Don't ya just want to know what they were thinking? I'm sure it was something along the lines of: Deuce "What the heck is this?" Baxlyn "Woooaahh... I wish I has that much hair!".

I captured several of these looks over the course of the evening! "Really.... you are gonna let me grab what I want out of this bucket?!"

Baxlyn spent most of the time swapping out candy from each bucket making sure everyone had some and made sure everyone had a sucker in their mouth at all times. The girl is REALLY becoming the momma of the group, such a sweet big sister!

Every farm needs a farmer!

Another one of those "wow you are SO nice!" looks!

After parading around for a while we unloaded our STICKY farm animals, got 'em fed and into bed! By that time it was getting dark and us adults had an awesome evening scaring the guts out of older trick or treaters (and their parents at times..haha)!
My wittle babies last year...

What a difference a year makes!