So excited!

House garden.

This is for you Erin. Here is the garden in front of the house. I tried to plant a bit more sparingly but everything here just goes crazy. My two tomato plants have burst through their cages and the chard and beets are doing very well. The zucchini is in a power struggle with the baby's breath but I'm trying to help it out by pushing the bb away. Good eating.

My helper.

We had Eden's 4 month check-up yesterday. Kaiya really is my big helper when it comes to taking care of the other girls. Kaiya watches Eden while I get ready and can now put Raine in the van for me when we are leaving. I took all 4 kids with me which went well. Eden peed all over the weigh scale (14lbs 4 oz, 25inches) but didn't cry too much while she was naked. Then I took all the girls grocery shopping where my only problem child was Raine. Oh well, it's getting better and better.

I love my mama & my mama loves me!

A bit of a long one of Eden. I also can't stand hearing myself in the video (don't we all feel that way?) but I'm sure when I'm old and look back at this I'll be glad it's a whole minute!

Bocce Ball!

I asked them to pose for this one - wow what a close one!

Sleeping baby, all cuddled up.

We finally got out for our first bocce ball game of the season. It's so great the girls are getting old enough to play now too, not just throw the pea. Raine missed her nap today so she was in a foul mood and spent a lot of her time screaming and crying. Near the end we finally coaxed her over to be our pea thrower. And my sweet little baby napped in the stroller, being pushed around to every spot with us. The girls were pumped to play and I'm looking forward to many more games with them :)

Street Performers Festival '10

Sword swallower/balloon swallower

Miss Eden taking in all the sights and sounds.

Ping Pong magician.

We took in the Street Performers festival for the first time ever! Auntie Calyn came with us which was a huge help as the girls love hanging with her and the more hands the better. We started with the sword swallower which was pretty amazing. Then he took a long, skinny balloon and swallowed the whole thing! And it didn't come back up! He said for a price you could watch it come out the other end - gross! We also saw a magician whose expertise seemed to be tricks with ping pongs. He was really good too and I enjoyed his humor.

We checked out some shops and had a snack - yummy elephant ears and then bubble tea.

I think it will get better every year as the girls get older and we can stay for more of the shows. This is going to be a must for us every year!

Hurdles!

Another video. Our little track star Livia doing the hurdles!