crazy missouri!!!

well, the last couple weeks have been quite interesting. first, there was a huge blizzard that came through--it was actually quite cool to just sit and watch the big beautiful flakes fall all day and into the night. the next day, there were quite a few inches of gorgeous snow to play in.

after that melted, we had about 2 days of wonderful warm weather and made the kids play outside as much as kidly possible. then, the rains came down and the floods came up. many in this area were quite affected, although it took a few days for the floods to come down the river. they closed a huge intersection close by and i think only a few people were displaced--that we knew. nate went a couple of nights to do sandbagging. the river almost reached record highs, but luckily it was gone faster than it came.

yes, these stairs leading up to the bank start in the water. the building behind them is the post office--thankfully it never got up to there!

this is again behind the bank, and yes, that is a speedlimit sign so there is a road somewhere under there. it was kinda freaky to see all this stuff under water, but also kinda cool at the same time. lots of people would stop on the highways and see what is undercover. i think some towns south of us got it a little worse, or they just weren't prepared as well.

in other news, the twins are still growing and doing fine. they are each a little over 2 1/2 lbs each and starting to annoy me. adam (baby 2) is up in my ribs and hurts me a lot. i feel quite big. i'm at 28 weeks and am measuring like i'm at about 36. yuck!

we played musical rooms with the kids--painting katya's room a more neutral gray, and moving jeremy into it, and then moving liam in with seth. poor seth! liam isn't used to sleeping with anyone and tends to be a lttle forceful, so most of the time seth falls asleep somewhere else so we can lock liam in there by himself until he falls asleep. now we just have to get working on the twins room!

we've also started potty training seth, and it has been marvelously easy compared to other kids. thank goodness--it's not like i can chase after him too easily.

isn't life great!!????