So big!

Well, you two are 3 1/2 and  a lot of sass and trouble. So cute, but getting so big. You have cute little phases and cute things you do. I wish I could record them fast enough and often enough. It is so hard to keep up. Especially when you are growing so fast. Lately you and Jace are trouble. :) You are always hungry, digging in the fridge. Jace has taken on saying "butthead" the last week or so. You both tattle tell on each other, esp. when one says, "Ha ha." You both adore Scarlet and just light up no matter what. Jace can go from crying and whining to and 180 shift to smiling and cooing at "carlet." I savor the moments when you are truly twins and show love for each other or just sit next to each other and play. I love it. Juliet you are such a little momma bear and bossy. You are sienna sometimes. Thinking you are in charge and can do things...it is cute. You were just barely sitting next to me and had Mia's ipod. You were playing o it and asked me who was on the pic..I said I thought it was Megan, so you starting pretending to talk to Meghan and said, "OK Megan, I will text you." :) Super cute. Jace, you have missed your bowling pins so badly since I packed them a few weeks ago. This past week, you came into the front room and asked me "have we moved to our new house yet, can I get out my bowling pis?" You have asked me often....wondering when they get unpacked. :) It is cute. You will be reunited with them soon little buddy! :) And I will be aggitated you don't pick them up! :) You two are fun though, and I am sad it has gone by so fast, but I love seeing what you are growing into. :)

March Madness

Well, its appropriate I am sitting here typing while I watch March Madness. :) Both of you are so big. 3. I just can't believe time has flown by so fast. Before I know it, Scarlet will be 3. :( Juliet, you remind me of Sienna so often. You little attitude and bossy way sometimes. I think you think you are the boss of Jace sometimes. I also think you like to hear yourself talk sometimes. Often you just go on and on and on to talk...even if it isn 't about anything real. It is funny. You like to pretend to be on the phone also. I guess you won't have a problem being social. Jace you love sports. Holy  moly. I can't pry you away from the wii resort and wii sports. You can beat everyone at it and hold the high records...I guess that is what happens when you play all day long. The other day we went into Dick's Sporting goods and it was like you were in a candy shop. Oh my goodness.... it was funny....You do love sports. You both still adore your baby sis and are just so big. You love nursery and love your friends. You think it is so fun to take your lunch places and really you are just good babies. You put up with mom and all I do..you help out when I need it. Mostly. Juliet you are a typical girl and love to help and pretend. You love sit by mom and are always right on top of me and Scarlet when you get a chance. I cuddle with Jace whenever he gets a wild hair. :) I love you both so much.

Full of Personality

Why has it been so long? Maybe because we have a new baby! You both are in love with her, especially Juliet. From the beginning, you have loved her dearly. You have had an obessession with her feet...you used to always just go nuts about her tiny feet. When I was in the hospital, you both facetimed me and would say, "Baby Car-let, Hi Baby Car-let, Hi baby Car-let!" So cute. You both love to hold her, and are such big helpers, getting her binky, etc. You hang on her a bit too much sometimes, but I know you love her so much. At least you aren't hurting her or angry, you are both full of so much love.

You both are still good little babies. You go to bed pretty decently...some days are an exception. But you are both a little trouble during the day..climbing, getting into whatever you want, driving me nuts. :) Jace you are obsessed with just dance, and it isn't the actual wii, it is you tube...other people playing and posting. You love Despicable Me, One Direction (what makes you beautiful), Animals, 5 Little Monkeys, I'm Gonna Catch You, The Final Countdown, and let me tell you, you have some skills!!!! you are pretty good.

Juliet, you are a little Sienna I think. You are such a momma bear and bossy. You often tell Jace what to do and get on to him. Saying exactly what I would say. You say to the girls, "That's Enough!" after I do. You play with Jace and say, "I'm gonna get upset!" haha. It is funny. Although you guys keep me on my toes, you are so cute and I can't believe almost 3! Where does time go? It spirals by.

I am so grateful for my two little twins, I can't believe it sometimes still. You are both such angels, and I love nothing more than when you are getting a long and playing and just show me how much you really are good friends and buddies. There are special moments, I wish I could just bottle up and re watch and re watch and re watch.

I Love you both so much! Keep up the cuteness. :)

Big Beds

Last Friday, Dad put up your big beds! I can't believe we are at this point. But the climbing out of cribs was out of control! This is much easier. :) Of course we are done with naps...there is no way you will take them...you wouldn't anyways before in the cribs. But for some brilliant reason, you don't get out of bed at night. When it is time to go to bed, you both stay in there and are so good. I guess I will take that! :) You both love your beds and although dad and I were at the temple the first night you went to bed, so this was the pic, but we weren't here. Still, you both have done so well. How can you be so big? 

You are both doing so good on the potty! Jace has it all down except still needs a diaper at night...Juliet has everything down but has a hard time pooping :( But so good for starting 3 weeks ago! I am so proud of both of you! In 5 weeks we will have a new baby and you two will seem like huge monsters compared to a new born. So I am trying to suck up every second of you still being my babies. Time goes so utterly fast. It has been such a blessing having both of you. 

I love you both so much! 

Potty Training

Well, we have been potty training for a week now. Last week we started on Monday, and after two days I didn't think I would make it. Neither of you seemed to be catching on and me being so pregnant didn't make it easy. On Monday, we borrowed a little potty from a friend, and you both the loved to sit on it and just kept taking turns, but didn't connect the dots. Tuesday, Juliet really didn't want to have anything to do with it....I think she was just holding all her pee in.... SO MANY TRIPS to the bathroom! The girls were a lot of help at first, they thought it was fun, but that quickly wore off by Wednesday. I honestly didn't think I was going to be able to do it. Wednesday proved to be a difficult day and although I just kept thinking to myself...." I should just keep up and have patience," it wasn't easy. Thursday proved more successful. One day Juliet seemed to be doing better then the next day Jace. I wasn't sure if either of you would figure it out. But I kept on and just kept thinking I can do this....keep trying. Thursday Jace seemed to finally get the idea. As long as we reminded him he would go pee on the potty...just not initiate it himself. Juliet was starting to figure it out, but not quite there yet. By Friday, Juliet was a pro! I don't think she has had an accident yet. Jace just started today to catch himself before peeing a little in his pants. We are definitely making progress. Sunday, Juliet wore panties to church and did so good! She told her teacher she needed to pee and they came and got me...she did sooo well! So proud of her. Jace wears a pull up when we leave and although isn't quite as an intiatior as Juliet when it comes to thinking ahead, he is learning.

Now a week later, I am so glad I stuck with it. It has never been this hard with any of the other kids. That could be due to there are two of you, or Jace is much younger than Ryder and Kason, or I am so pregnant....or so many things. But enduring the week as made it well worth it.

I sat in church Sunday thinking about the week and found so many correlations to what I have learned this week. I thought about how enduring and having patience even when I wanted to give up really paid off in the end. It was almost a clear hill I climbed and after the hardest part there were rewards. Rewards to help keep me motivated to keep going. I imagine it is a little like that with us and Heavenly Father. We are trying so hard to improve and overcome our weaknesses and if we just endure the blessings come. It isn't always easy but the rewards are clear. Then I thought about how as a parent I was so frustrated and just kept allowing them to try and had to not give up. Heavenly Father must feel like that every day for us. We are always failing and trying again and failing and trying again...but He will never give up on us or run out of patience. He sees the benefit of what will become of it and just waits for us to catch on. And He knows how great we will be when we accomplish our goals.

I have learned so much and even seen myself have more patience (which says a lot when I am pregnant). I ususally tend to have high expectations and when they aren't accomplished right away, give up or get frustrated. But I have just thought to myself, that there is no rush....if we have to go somewhere, I put a pull up on you two and when we get back home we put back on underwear. It has worked well really, even to a point where Juliet saw me packing them for church and said, "I don't want to wear those!" So  we are making progress. It is exciting and worth the effort. To think I may not have anyone in diapers before the baby comes is crazy!!!!! I have had someone in diapers for the last 13 years!!!!

Both of you are getting so big. You won't stay in your cribs...you climb out every morning and come into my room and turn on Daniel Tiger. As a matter of fact, today I put you down for a nap and even after spankings, I still found you crawled out of your cribs...on my bed with the door locked, watching Daniel Tiger or Peppa Pig.

You are both something else! So super smart and just so cute it is hard to see you grow up. I am trying to enjoy every second because when the new baby comes, you two will seem so big and so old..you won't be my babies anymore. :( It makes me sad. Time has gone by soo fast! We are hoping to get you twin beds in the next couple of weeks, that should be fun! :) You will love them! I hope you will stay in them!

I am grateful every day for the blessings of twins. You are so much fun to watch and the moments here and there when you have "twin" moments...melts my heart. Like squeezing in an chair together and reading or watching tv.

Juliet you are so motherly and love babies. Jace does too...but you are crazy about them. You "mother" Jace sometimes too. The other day He was doing something by the tv and we were telling him to stop...you went over there and said, "Jace! One, Two, three!" Then you spanked his bottom. We laughed...but seriously.... funny,

Jace we have had to put you in time out a few times because you love to hit...you can thank your brothers for that and Power Rangers. You sit in your chair, puff your lip, put your head down and pout. It is truly adorable. Even if you are in trouble.

You both got some new undies this week and loved them!! Juliet you even took your package in the car with you. It was so cute.

I am sure there are so many more things I wish I could remember to write down, but I look forward to a day when the veil on my mind is removed and it is perfected...because then I can remember every detail of each of of my children and the wonderful experience of being a mother.

I love you both dearly.

Time is flying

Time keep marching on, faster than a blink. I can't beleive how long it is has been since I wrote in here. :( The last day of school was around June 26th...and that was the first day you two both climbed out of your cribs for the first time! Yikes! Now you are quite the experts at it and come into our room in the wee hours of the morning and say "WAKE UP!" It was cute....but not so cute I am not purchasing black out curtains today in hopes of you sleeping later. Luckily we have only had one incident of you not staying in bed at night time....and none for nap time...so ....so far so good. I guess sometime soon it will be time for regular beds...but then that will really be a problem trying to keep you in. So we will see.

We went to the splash park yesterday to play...Juliet loved playing in the water, even by herself...but Jace wouldn't have anything to do with it. He just hovered around me. There were quite a few people there, so mabye that's why...we'll see next time we go.

Both of you are big talkers and have quite the personality. You also want to do everything yourself and it drives me nutso! But you are so big and I can't believe where the time has gone. Being pregnant this time I feel the same as with two but not so much pressure. I guess being #9 and after twins my body just does what it does and I look like I am due any day now..... evident to me and everyone else who asks when I am due and shocked when it is still a couple of months away. "Yes thankyou people for making me feel even larger!"

You are both super smart, can run iphones, ipads, the remotes, Roku...whatever you need. :) You love to watch Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and sing the song often. Jace, you love watching Power Rangers and get all Karate-ish when you watch..."hi-yahing" everything and showing us some serious moves. :)

Juliet you love babies and love patting my tummy and saying "baby." You will be so cute when there is a new baby here. Jace likes babies too, but not like Juliet....she points one out everywhere we go!

You two love to play outside, ride bikes, jump on the trampoline, and just do anything! You have been so much fun and great babies! Definitely tender mercies!

Keeping up

I find it so hard to keep up with everything these days, and when I think I am slacking on your journals, it makes me so sad. Not only are there 8 of you, we are expecting #9 in Septmember. I think you both will be such a great big brother and sister, I can't wait. You both love babies, esp. Juliet, so it will be fun. You are both still babies to me...and it makes me sad when a new one comes, that you will seem HUGE. That is how it always it. So I am trying to enjoy you too tunks right now while I can. You are both so cute and full of personality. You can talk so much and it melts my heart. Juliet, the other day in the car you heard me or dad (or both) say, "OH MY GOSH!" (because a car almost hit us). Since then, you say it all the time...with a little attitude. It is adorable. You are super duper smart and it amazes me. You love to play with hair still and want to do hair whenever you get a chance. You and Jace have a love/hate relationship. Mostly love, but everynow and then one of you purposfully bugs the other...:) When you giggle together or hold hands in the car, or just play together I can't savor the moment long enough or capture enough pictures with my heart. You both love your siblings so much. Jace, yesterday at church you and Ryder were just sitting and you kept saying, "HUG!" and kept squeezing him around the neck..it was adorable. He just kept giggling. You both love them and they adore you both so much. You both still suck on binkies like there is no tomorrow...we have to break that habit and potty train you before this next baby comes! :) I just can't believe how fast time has flown by. I am so sad to think how old you are. I love and enjoy every second, I always have...but it almost feels as if I didn't have twins. :( The older you get, the less it seems so. Maybe because you are boy/girl...I don't know.....but I am sad how fast time goes.
You both love to facetime Grandpa and Nana and "Annie" as Juliet calls "Auntie Angie." You have both opened up a bit more to people and don't give quite so many crusty looks to them before getting to know them real well. You love nursery and go right in. You love to play and you both love to say, "here is is" or "there it is." When you see church, home, or something you are looking for. I wish I could capture every moment and keep it. I guess that will be the great thing about the resurrection when are bodies are perfect, so will our memories be...and then I can look back at them and cheris them even more. I love you both so much. You are adorable and I want to cuddle you both way more than you will allow, but I will take whatever I can get.


PS your favorite movie these days is "BeoMax" (Big Hero 6) we watch it at least 1 or 2 x a day. There was a moment when Juliet couldnt get enough of the songs from Annie...although we don't have the movies, she played them on my phone whenever she could. She would say, "Hard Knock yife!" :) So cute. Also Juliet says "Bunny Yabbit" which I make her say whenever I can, because it is soooooo cute. You both love Mr. Peabody and Sherman also...and there is a part when Mr. Peabody talks aobut all he invtented and stops and dances....you two must get off the couch from watching and stand up and dance...just for that part....it is hilarious!

Cherishing every second!