Big Time!

So the last week of August I ventured up to Omaha for a few days since Jill was coming back from Colorado with the kiddos.  It was nice to get the kids together again this summer and see the twins.  My kiddos are still very much loving the babies.  Poor Jamie came barely get them into the house and Henry is saying "hold baby."  It's a good think Aunt Jamie had 2 babies to pass around to all of the cousins :-)  All the kids got along well, but Vivian and Paige's limit is about 2 - 3 days and then they are ready for a break. One afternoon I took Vivian, Paige and Henry to the park and Vivian was doing the monkey bars.  She went all the way across (10 bars) without any help at all.  It was amazing! It's crazy how strong she is! Good thing we have her in gymnastics! Cute pictures below!

We didn't do much over Labor Day weekend.  We did some things around the house and had some friends over for a BBQ on Sunday night.  I hung out on Saturday with Avery and Jenn for awhile.  Sunday we met Jenn and Avery at church and Avery and Henry are now in the same classroom during church services.  Our last minute BBQ was fun and it was nice to see everyone and get together.  Two of our friends have new babies (2 months old and 2 weeks old) so we got to see the babies and help get everyone out of their houses for a night.

Henry has added some new words to his vocabulary.  He is constantly saying "Dang it" which he got from Vivian.  Then the other night at dinner Vivian was acting like a 2 year old so I told her she was acting like "a damn baby" Henry then proceeded to say "damn baby" about a dozen times in a row.  Lovely.  Henry has been dressing himself (tops and bottoms) so Dan started calling him "Big Time" so now of course he's walking around saying "Big Time."  He's very chatty and says just about any and everything lately.  It's fun because we never really experienced it with Vivian since she spoke so well and clearly at a young age. 

Dan and I have signed up to do the Waddell and Reed KC Half Marathon in October!  Yes... 13.1 miles folks. Dan has done a half and a full marathon before (about 10 years ago) so guess we decided it was time to update that...plus I really want to put the 13.1 sticker on my car!  I know seems silly right...but still a goal :-) 

Just in case you are wondering, Henry's halloween shirt says "Will Trade Sister for Candy"  I'm pretty sure he would.  She's a bossy little thing! :-) They are also both sporting their new raincoats!  And Vivian found her very first Halloween costume and she wore it around the house all weekend.  Funny to see her in it now.  She's getting so big! Sure would be nice if we knew of a way to stop time for a little while....