Kennedy is on the left
I wanted Mom to take a picture of all four of us kiddos. She just loves how both babies are fascinated in whatever Harrison had in his hands...
This is one of the few motor developments that Mom is cheering for. She's a bit more nervous about the rolling and crawling and walking stuff with two little munchkins to contain!
Madison
Kennedy
We had fondue for dinner. The look on my face in this picture of us climbing up to the island to eat captures my definite hesitation about the menu.
All fear disappeared though when we got to the final course and I gladly dipped everything into the chocolate! Harrison was fearless and ate the cheese, the meat and the chocolate (although we did have to do a little encouraging with the chocolate part....what a funny kid). Daddy even assembled the new high chairs this weekend, so the twins were able to be a part of our family Valentine dinner.
We're starting off another week without Daddy and we have one sick mommy and one sick Harrison. Hopefully everyone else stays healthy! The good news is that we are a little over halfway through the legislative session so we can start counting down the days until Daddy is home full time. He's doing a fantastic job down there though. Mom was able to go down for a dinner the other night and (as always) heard such amazing things about him from his colleagues. We miss having him at home but are proud of him and what he is doing. As hard as mom's days at home with us are, she's pretty sure Daddy's are just as long (probably longer), just as busy and full of multitasking, just as stressful and just as rewarding in the end.
Getting everyone in one picture would have been a nearly impossible feat! They tried to get all the great grandkids together (and again, this isn't even all of us!)....
Needless to say, with so many babies, getting a good shot was also close to impossible. But it sure will be fun to look back on these pictures someday. Everyone kept commenting on how much crazier their 65th anniversary will be when all the babies are running around with the rest of us! We had a great time and loved seeing everyone. Talk about one big happy family!
and Madison. They both love their baths, but they are also loving it so much they've started creating mini tsunamis with all their kicking and we end up with lots of water all over the kitchen!
The girls are actually wearing the original outfits Mom brought for coming home from the hospital. She ordered them 0-3 month outfits because that's what Harrison and I came home wearing....luckily, she also packed two premie outfits in case they were tiny. And it's a good thing she did because apparently, they needed four months to grow into the others! (we got it right this time and Kennedy is on the left)
Kennedy is kicking herself in circles these days. They started out side by side and by the time we finished taking pictures, she was checking out Madison upside down!
Kennedy is even already trying to flip herself over. Before we know it, these girls are going to be on the move and we are going to be in for some serious craziness!
Harrison is doing awesome (finally) with potty training....but he's decided he still needs a little privacy when doing his business, so if he is sitting on the potty to go #2, he insists on being covered up with his Lightning McQueen blanket. Whatever works! Actually Mom was trying to find a similar picture of me in this pose because I had similar modesty issues....she got tired of searching for it and had babies to tend to, so she quit looking, but if we find it we will post it!
Funny....in the last post we called it winter wonderland -- well about a week ago, Mom had some less flattering words to describe our winter! 10 days without sunshine, freezing temps, blizzard conditions and loss of power all equal a mommy on the computer mapquesting directions to DC and/or Santa Barbara -- both grandparents live exactly the same distance apart....crazy, huh? She actually thought 24 hours in the car with four small children sounded better than this! Luckily, sunny days are here again and we're back on track. Mom's mood was so good that she even got brave enough to take all four of us kiddos down to Pierre yesterday to see Daddy at work! Our original plan was to go swimming at the Y and then go see him but then we ended up taking the babies along and Mom was wise enough not to try the swimming thing. Luckily, the Y has an awesome KidCenter that you can go and play in when they're not using it for childcare. We had the whole place to ourselves and ran off lots of energy:
Harrison climbing through the play structure
Where's Reagan?
Just in case the babies suddenly developed an insanely early ability
Mom managed to get a couple shots of the twins...they're actually starting to study each other a little bit. It's really hard to believe they will be four months old already on Saturday! Since they were making their first public appearance on the floor of the South Dakota Senate, mom figured they better wear matching outfits...(but she messed up again and has Madison on the left...)
(their shirts say "best friends")
Mom couldn't really get in to get many pictures but this is Daddy introducing all of his kids to his fellow Senators. He was such a proud dad! We brought the session to a bit of a standstill as several other senators took a moment of personal privilege to comment on us kids...it was pretty fun! And when we got there Daddy was introducing and debating (and got a winning vote!) on a resolution -- it was pretty fun to sit up in the gallery to watch him in action!
Harrison and I with Daddy -- Daddy's seatmate was feeding me lots of tootsie rolls as you can see from the lump in my cheek!
