meredith, caroline & hannah: Caroline, Caroline and more Caroline and my fun 2 year olds!

Well, I need to make this quick so I will cut a lot of my normal chatter ... Caroline is doing well ... she is becoming more aware (which means also more fussy) but she pretty easy to soothe and does still have her moments of being relatively "easy" as far as newborns go. She is a champion eater and already nursing in like 10-15 minutes flat ... it was still taking the twins an hour at this age. She has been rolling from her tummy to back since she was 3 weeks old and already has some impressive head control ... this full-term baby thing is great! She was 7 pounds 11 oz at her last bilirubin check which was when she was about 2 weeks old so I think she will be my little chunky monkey. She has her month appointment on Thursday so we will see how she is in the ranks by then. The girls are doing better with the change. They like it when she is awake and looking at them. They like to take baby wipes and clean her hands and face. They like to "give" her stickers (by putting them on her clothes) and involve her in their stories they like to tell (which are constant ... they are a running dialogue of chatter ... wonder where they get that from? =). They are getting to be more fun and love to play tea party, follow the leader, hide and seek, they love any kind of craft (especially if it involves stickers or glue sticks), they love to "twirl like ballerinas" and to generally be girly with dancing around the house and carrying their purses and putting on dress up clothes and Mommy's lip gloss. They are going great in school and recently were the only ones in the whole class who earned a sticker for the day (if they are behaved, they get a sticker on their hands when they leave.) They crack me up daily with the things they say and the way they say it and with their general silly selves. They make me want to scream sometimes, too, but will turn around and do something endearing just before I decide to give them away ;) Here are some photos of the past few weeks ...

These are from the photo shoot for the announcement picture ... I just took them myself but thought some of them turned out pretty good ...

I did warn, Caroline, Caroline and more Caroline ... it is just so hard to stop myself from taking pictures of her ... I am trying to savor this age as now I know how fast it goes by =(

Alan likes to tell the girls he is going to eat their noses and they will run around and scream "No, Daddy, don't eat my nose!!!" and he will chase them around the house ... well, I guess Caroline is trying to save her own nose here ... 3rd kid learns early ...

Just another cute one

The girls got some mini m&ms in their Valentine's Day treat bag at school ... well, here, Meredith is putting all her baby critters in their "spot" (they have spots they have to sit in at school and when we play school they tell me "Mommy, don't get out of your spot!") and giving them each an m&m =)

Meredith

They have decided that Hannah's favorite color is pink and Meredith's is purple ... so I found these cute skirts and couldn't resist. The shoes just top off the whole outfit here.