It's a bird...it's a plane...

...it's Jim!

He went skydiving on Saturday and loved every minute of it - he's already signed up to do it again! 

finally

I finally got a picture of all 3 kiddos with smiles on their faces!  Whooohooo!  We are loving the gorgeous-mororgeous (as Mom would say) weather and are trying to spend as much time as we can outside before the heat comes :) 

Wonky Donkey

I was walking down the road, and I saw a donkey - YeeHaw.

If you have small kids, you must get this song.  Immediately.  Kirby gets so wound up and tickled when she sings it! Cracks. Me. Up.

Watch the You.Tube video in the link below before Kirby's video...

Wonky Donkey Song

P.S. - I can now get from Spunky to Wonky without stopping!!!

beans, beans, the musical fruit...

beans are always a huge hit at our house... 

 William is the spitting image of Kirby

 and Mags looks so much like her cousin, Elliot, in this picture!

...so are the bath paints that Aunt Julie gave them!

Maggie and William are still being so sweet to each other - More for my memory than anything else, here are some of their most recent random acts of kindness -

Maggie never gets a pappy or snack without saying, "William?" so that she can get one more to take to him.

Jim took William for a walk before dinner tonight, and Maggie ran around the house yelling, "William, wheh ah yoo??"

When William woke up from his nap this weekend, he leaned as far as he could toward Maggie's crib to see if she was awake.  Maggie opened her eyes and William squealed, " Hi Sissy!"

Major Breakthrough!

So, this morning, Maggie woke up on the wrong side of the crib.  Bless her heart, she's teething and can't breathe because of all the snot in her head.  She was fussing and whining, and I said, "Maggie, you have to stop crying." 

Get this - she said, "ok."  AND STOPPED CRYING!!! 

It lasted all of 6 seconds, but I am still one proud momma!!!!

Yee Haw!

Kirby is in rodeo-mode!  She was so excited to perform for us and for Jim to go to the rodeo breakfast at school.  If the babies can kick their coughy-snottiness, we'll be able to go to the real rodeo Friday afternoon instead of the doctor's office - fingers crossed!!

big babies

M&W are so grown up all of the sudden - they'll always be "the babies," though!!  

 

Look who's eating their snack at the big kid table!! 

Maggie and I had our first 2-way conversation yesterday, too.  It went like this:

Maggie:  Mom.  Mooooooom!

Me: Yes Ma'am?

Maggie: Mom!

Me: Yes Ma'am?

Maggie:  Go, go, go?

Me:  Not quite yet.  We'll go in a minute.

Maggie: Kay.

Then she went back to playing!  Very cool.

She's also been saying, "I love you", "how are YOU?" and she has to know where William is at all times.  If he's not in eye shot, she will stop what she's doing and run around the house screaming "Will-yam!  Wiiiiiill-yaaaam!"

They both seem really attached to each other these days.  They will bring each other pappys, share crackers, and offer random kisses or pats on the back.  We catch these exchanges and ooh and aaah at how sweet they are until one of them clobbers the other and steals a toy and all is back to normal!