Planting a Garden

We decided to try and plant a garden this year. We have a little area in our backyard that we set up. The girls are too excited. They are constantly checking on it to see if anything has changed. We planted tomatoes, carrots, peppers, cucumber, zucchini, squash, and some flowers.

WE have spent a lot of time out side lately because of the nice weather. Here is Benson this week.

Nate and Benson bonding. Notice Ari trying to escape over the fence.

Getting ready to plant a garden.

Explanation of the Pictures

For some reason I cant figure out how to write on the post I just posted.

Picture one is of Ari drinking Chicken broth. I walked out of the room and when I came back she was drinking it. YUCK!! She thought it was really great.
Picture 2 is the girls sleeping in Benson crib last night.
The next two pictures are just of the girls posing.

The pictures of Benson were taken this week. I dont know how much he weighs but he is getting bigger. He acts like a completely different baby. We found out that his is getting tubes in his ears in a couple weeks to help with his hearing.
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More of the girls

 

 

 

 

Pictures of Benson from this week

 

 

 

 

Devynn

This has been a pretty busy week and for some reason I have taken a lot of pictures of the girls, so each of them have their own post.
Devynn is my wild girl. Sometimes I wonder if she is part animal.

Right now we are training out dog not to bit. There is only one problem... Dev loves to get bit. Her poor arms have bite marks all over them. Its crazy but she really likes it. She gets the dog all wound up and them runs across the yard.

This picture was taken Tuesday night. We called the girls in for dinner, this is where we found Devynn. She does this type of thing all the time. You would think that it was summer or something. She was so cold but so happy.

Here is one of my favorite pictures of Dev.

Benson update. This week week we took Benson to the pediatric gastroenterologist because he isn't gaining weight. There is a number of things that can be causing this. We also talked to the nutritionist and are upping the calories in his bottle. If he isn't gaining significant weight then they are going to have to but a feeding tube back in. He really seems to be doing better but we will see what the scale says this week.

Ari

This week Ari and I were talking again about getting old and dying. With 3 people in our family dying in the passed month and a half this discussion comes up a lot.
Ari- "Mom, I really really don't want to get old."
Me- "Ari. you have nothing to worry about for a long long time. Besides getting old isn't that bad."
Ari- "Well it doesn't seem too fun."
Then she pauses and starts to smile.
Ari- "The ONLY reason I would ever want to get old is so that I could look in the mirror and laugh at myself. I am going to look so weird."


Ari definitely loves fashion. It is not necessary what is really in fashion but what she thinks looks amazing. We are usually late because she is trying to find the right shoes or accessories. Here is one of her creations. (This one isn't actually too bad).

This week Ari started pick Benson up. I set the little man down in the family room and find him a few minutes later in the play room. She is so good to him.

Here is a fashion disaster. Ari had a T-ball game and she refused to wear her sliding pants because they looked too ugly. She wanted her black stretch pants with her green high tops and bows. It wasn't' worth fighting over, and besides Nate was taking her to the game.

Party

On Friday night we were lucky enough to have the Burtenshaw kids over. We had a great time them. (Don't ask what Ari is wearing...so scandalous)

We got out two twin mattresses so they could watch a movie. (franki-have have many more pictures for you).

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