my, you have your hands full....

well, so i was going to post earlier (kinda sounds like the beginning of all of my journal entries), but we lost our camera there for a while and have been trying to get back to normal after courtney left. yes, we are now without a babysitter and will never leave the house again. thank goodness we have a ton of movies at home to watch and no time to watch them anyway! but, the camera has been found (nate had left it in the back of a stroller), although it was discovered AFTER halloween, so now i can pretend like people care about what is going on.

as for exciting news, i went to sams this past week with the younger 4 kids (even their carts aren't quite big enough for us--maybe i need to start using those flat-bed things). i was so excited b/c i almost made it through the entire store before hearing the "my, you sure have your hands full" comment, which i hear everwhere i go. at least, my cashier said it to the other cashier and not to me, and then i had to brag about having others, but only one girl, and sharemy whole life story...blah, blah, blah. they were very complimentary of me, which was nice. normally, i think people are usually thinking that i'm quite insane (like the other moms at seth's preschool). that, or i'm some kind of saint, and we all know that's not true!

i like pics of the twins "fighting"--here's adam rolling over on top of caleb.

here's caleb kicking adam in the face--they end up kicking, or eating, or rolling on, or bonking each other a lot. it's fun to watch.

yeah! we got them both really smiling. they like to see me do "peek-a-boo" and caleb now rolls both ways, so he might start getting around. they are also on solids (which is the worst baby phase ever, and believe me, it's even more worse with 2 than 1). now i just need to get them sitting up and we'll be good for a while.

something else funny: here is a conversation that i walked in on between seth and liam last week:

Seth: Liam?

Liam: what seth?

Seth: watch this! (and then he jumps over some pillows)

Liam: awesome, seth, awesome. (repeated 8 times in a row)

anyway, on to the pics....

here's the only real halloween pic--we had to use nate's camera phone and i haven't tried to get it turned around. the kids had a blast though and got some great candy (kit-kats were my lunch today).

earlier on halloween, seth comes in our room and says: "i'm the stamping monster! (growl)" and boy, was he ever. he had gotten a stamp at his school party, and i'm still finding evidence of it all over the house. i think he went through a second time and stamped more walls after i finished the first pass. katya and liam were also attacked. i didn't even try to clean him up--ninja turtles were usually dirty, right? too bad princesses weren't!

in general though--the twins are sleeping great, the kids love school, nate will hopefully get released in the next 6 months, i'm almost in my skinny clothes, and the trees have been absolutely gorgeous. can life really get any better? i think not!