meredith, caroline & hannah: caught up-Christmas Part 2

OK, I may have gone a little overboard with the photos and I still could have very easily picked 25 more to post. Here are a few of our goings on the week after Christmas. The past few weeks we have just been picking up the pieces and trying to get all the new things organized with the old things! Trying to get back into the routine of work, school and dance and trying to gear up for Caroline's birthday and our trip to Disney! New Years Eve was not eventful though I am proud to say that we did stay up to see the ball drop (and bonus, the fireworks around the 'hood did not wake the kiddos!)

the boys and the girls joggling ...

the whole she-bang ...

coloring ...

watching A Bug's Life ...

... jump castle

Grayson reading to Hannah (who applied her own lipgloss here) ...

... Hannah's new fancy blocks ... by the way, we split up the twins' rooms and they are loving having their own rooms. It has really helped out with them getting along with each other and sleeping better and going to sleep without the fight. I thought it would be tough on me (can't explain it ... maybe a twin Mom thing) but they have been so happy with the change that I am just happy for them.

Brayden and Mer Bear in the tent

Hannah riding on Caroline's new rocky butterfly ...

Sarah being Uber-Mom ... she could do twins ... piece of cake ;) These two were fighting over Little People Animals ... it was funny for the tables to be turned on Caroline ... she is usually taking stuff from the twins ...

Again ... Uber-Mom ... Caroline and Sylvi with Auntie Sarah ...

Aunt Kristi and Caroline ... it is SOOOOO nice to have a baby who will go to someone other than just me! Alan even put her to bed tonight ... ahhhh a little taste of freedom!

I'm telling you ... always wants what they have ...

Rub a Dub Dub ... three girls in the tub! This was the first time for all 3 in the tub! Caroline is hilarious in the tub ... loves it ... will stick her face in the water and blow bubbles and stick her whole head in the faucet stream when I am filling it ... the twins STILL freak out when I am just trying to rinse their hair!

On their new scooters in their new PJs from Aunt Tricia ... they had to put the new PJs on right away then would not get in "real" clothes all day ... who can blame them ... PJs are pretty comfy ... funny that they did the same exact thing last year with some new PJs from Santa.

We spent one of the afternoons while we were in Spartanburg in Fort Mill visiting my sister and her family ... this is Grayson, her oldest, being very sweet to his baby cousin (he always is so sweet to Caroline!)

Six kids ... no problem!

At my parents house ... my parents have PLENTY of toys as they have 7 grandkids 8 and under but the girls can seem to play with just about anything ... their imagination and their pretend play is fun to watch develop. Here they were "kitty cats" in their kitty cat beds. They would even lick each other on the faces (gross =)

the cutest elf ever ...

making smores with Granddaddy ...

my three girls with their Great Granny ... well, two girls with their Great Granny and one kid playing in the trash can (yuck)

we took the girls to Monkey Joes in Spartanburg and they all had a blast ... all the pictures are terribly fuzzy as they were all running mach speed ...

Hannah was grumping here because Meredith had gone to the bathroom and she kept saying "I miss Meredith" ... she was gone all of 5 minutes ... crazy girl ...