6 months

It's hard to believe my babies are 6 months already! We decided to get a few new pics of them and MJ...

Sweet brothers holding hands

I call this Dalton's Gerber baby face

One of the few where Braden is smiling

My 3 loves

Braden

Dalton

 Braden

Dalton

Love this of my 3 babes

Anyone who knows Madelyn Jewel know that this is just her...

And now for my favorties

  Braden

 Dalton

Madelyn

Needless to say, I am thoroughly enjoying my time with my loves. It is going entirely too fast. Madelyn started dance the first week in June. She absolutely loves it and she is actually very good for her age. She loves showing off the things she has learned. We also took a beach trip that week. We spent some time with friends while we were down there, which was a lot of fun. It was great to get away. Unfortunately, the next 2 weeks after that, David was sick with one thing or another, which was hard on everyone but especially Madelyn, who didn't like her routine interrupted. We have stayed busy with dance, story time, shopping, feeding the ducks & geese in our neighborhood, and playing at the park. We took an impromptu trip to Atlanta on the 4th, spent the day there, went to IKEA, and watched fireworks in Douglasville that night. A certain little girl loved that especially. Madelyn has also started learning to read. She has always loved books, and she knows all her letters and letter sounds, so we've worked on phonological awareness, blending, and some sight words (Yes, I just slipped into SLP mode instead of mommy mode). I am so proud of her, and she is so proud of herself for the things she has learned. And the boys...sweet little babies. They could not get any cuter or sweeter. Braden has some funny faces. We call his latest on the turtle face, which I was finally able to capture today. I'll try to get those posted soon. He thinks his sister is the funniest person in the world, but he definitely shows a tendency to be a mama's baby. He's not as strong as Dalton, but he can sit up for a few seconds by himself. He still despises tummy time, but he can scoot himself across the floor with his hands behind in him and his rear in the air. He is also my thumb sucker, but he'll take a paci if you give it to him (but he would rather chew on it) My sweet D...he has two modes - happy & mad! Mad is only when he's hungry or tired though. He decided he didn't mind tummy time when he finally figured out how to roll over by himself. He has tried his hand at crawling too, which tends to be more of an army crawl. He can sit up for a while by himself too. They are both giggly little boys. I love to listen to them laugh, especially at their sister. They do great on a schedule, but they are much more flexible than their sister was! They're still little peanuts - when I weighed them last weekend, they were 14 1/2 lbs & 27" each. Everyone says that Braden is bigger, but they actually are right at the same right now. They are little piglets, and they've loved all the baby food they've tried so far. I actually gave them a baby food jar for the first time while we were in Atlanta...it's was quite funny because they gagged on it! It was butternut squash, which they had the night before and loved. They also had it the night after and loved it. Apparently mommy-made baby food is better than premade. I do have some more pics to post, but I'll save that for another day.