We’ve been busy the past few days.  The most important bit of news is ….

Welcome

IslaMae Reid Mitchell

July 16, 2010

2:12 pm

7# 5oz

I had the privilege of delivering this precious bundle.  Joy did great…as usual!  IslaMae is beautiful!  We couldn’t be any happier!

My crew has been having a blast lately!  We went to the library the other day for a puppet show.  The puppet show was fun, but I think they loved looking through the books even more.  Lydia and Julia came with us, and they made it so much fun!  It honestly relieved a ton of my stress.  I do plan on making the library a regular trip for us now.  We’ll see how that goes!!

Can you see the look of joy on Evie’s face?

Julia and Josh are looking for a book about trains!

Maggie wants to explore the world wide web with Julia!

Lydia is reading Evie a book!

Can you tell my kids are related to their Daddy?!

Maggie is cuddling with Julia watching the puppet show.

Lydia, Josh, and “Juice” are enjoying the show!

Me and my Evie!

I love you all.

Ginny

The kids and I have had a busy day.  We went to gymnastics, we went to the park, and then we collects leaves, twigs, and grass.  When we got home from our excursions, we went to work.

First, we colored.  Honestly, I was trying to get the to do the collages, but they saw crayons and wanted to color.  I figured it was easier to join them than fight them!

They colored wonderfully. 

Then, I showed them what I wanted to do with our treasures.  They loved the glue!  The glue was better than anything else to them!  They each worked on their individual collages.  Then, they started sharing their leaves and twigs!  I was adorable!

Now that their masterpieces are finished,we are going to hang them up for all to see!

Josh’s Collage

Maggie’s Collage

Evie’s Collage

I love you all.

Ginny

Today the kids and I had a fun outing.  A couple of moms in the North Fulton Mothers of Multiples Club have started a business planning activities for kids in the area.  We had so much fun!  We went to Z’s Pizza in Johns Creek. 

The kids got to touch the dough and play with with it.

Then they got to talk about all of the ingredients on a pizza and look at them.

Here comes the fun part!  Each child got their own personal pizza to make however they wanted!

It was great teaching the kids the “process” of making a pizza and helping them to follow the directions.

They all wanted to taste the ingredients, and that was fine.  Evie did a great job of making her pizza as did Maggie.  Josh wasn’t quite as sure about the sauce and the cheese.  I had a great time helping each of them.

After we made our pizzas, we sent them to be baked.  They were then brought back out for us to eat!!

Z’s Pizza is all organic.  The difference was obvious to me!  The kids had made three great pizzas, and we ALL enjoyed them!

We continued to enjoy them after we got home too!

We have another outing with KidVentures to the Duluth Train Museum in a few weeks.  We even get to go on a train ride that day too!  Josh is going to go nuts!!!

I love you all.

Ginny

Every single morning when the kids wake up, they all want to be held.  It exhausts me.  It’s tough to be one person trying to give three two year olds all of the love they need and deserve.  The other morning they all sat in my lap as we watched Handy Manny and Daddy cooked breakfast.  I think they thought they were in heaven.  That morning was priceless.  I got to love on all three of my babies at one time…..without wailing, hitting, or fighting!!

I love you all.

Ginny

Today, we celebrated the fourth early with Jim, Sam, Ben, and Logan!  We had a blast!.  Last year we got together for the fourth too!  It is so fun to have such awesome friends to spend time with and who understand life with multiples!  Now that the kids are getting older, it’s even more fun to watch them play!  They all love hats, stuffed animals, bouncy toys, and cars.  It was such a fun, relaxing afternoon.  I can’t wait until we do it again!

All of our kiddos!

Yummy dinner!

Josh and Maggie are so happy to finally get their hands on the marshmallow pops!

Maggie loves her marshmallow pop!

Wild ones!!!

Ben, Evie, and Maggie are laying on the tent they collapsed!

Evie and Maggie are chatting with Sam.

Evie’s playing the guitar!

Josh and Jim are in deep conversation.

Sweet Evie

Logan and Ben are enjoying the toys.

Maggie and Evie are having too much fun!

Logan finds it odd that Maggie and Evie are on the zebra together.  Neither was going to give up their spot.  That’s why!

Logan and Maggie are on the coolest toys!

Josh and Evie are happily playing.

Maggie with one of Logan’s hats!

Josh’s playing on his own.

Daddy’s giving Maggie kisses!

Logan loves puppy too.

Oh yeah.  One other thing.  The trip thinks Ben and Logan have the coolest toys!  It’s so funny to watch them!

I love you all.

Ginny

Having sisters is an interesting dynamic.  I know.  I have two of them.  One day you love them.  The next day you won’t speak to them.  You fight over petty things like whose turn it is to clean out the dishwasher or fold the laundry.  You argue about what movie to watch.

However, there’s the flip side of being sisters.  No matter what happens, you’re always going to be there for the other.  You are going to lift them up when their worlds are crumbling.  You are going to celebrate  with them as the earn awards, graduate, get engaged, get married, and have babies.  You are with them for life….love it or hate it. 

My girls don’t understand that yet.  However, when I went to check on the kids, the girls were both in Evie’s bed.  It was so precious.  I love that they love each other on such a primal level.  There are going to be fights, hurt feelings, and disappoints over the years.  However, when all is said and done……they will always be sisters and best friends for life.

I love you all.

Ginny

I can tell the kids are growing up (way too fast for me personally though).  Today, Evie went to  Josh and rubbed his back and gave him a kiss.  Both Evie and Josh told me to “shhhh” because sissy was still sleeping.  Then, when we went to Publix, I asked Josh to hold Evie’s hand and Evie to hold my hand.  Maggie was in my arms.  They followed my directions, and we happily walked into Publix.  They gives kisses to each other, me, and their Daddy on a regular basis.  They are out of their cribs and in toddler beds.  Evie is getting interested in the potty.  They can entertain themselves.  They only make half the mess with food they used to make.  I think that when I blink, I’m going to be at their college graduations.  I’m not ready for that yet.  Anyways, here are a few more pictures from the beach!

I love you all.

Ginny

Oh, the thing you will do.  This is instead of  “Oh, the places you will go”….

You will play in the ocean.

You will play in the sand.

You will learn how to swim.

You will ride the choo-choo train.

You will ride on the swings.

You will fly on airplanes.

You will ride a ferris wheel.

You will love life.

I love you all

Ginny

We went and had beach portraits taken this morning.  My kids were NOT happy about it.  However, we did get a few good pictures.  I can’t wait to see the pictures from the photographer!

Thanks to Lydia we got this first picture….and I adore it!

Is he not the most handsome little guy in the world?!

Maggie was not happy…can you tell?

Evie looks like she’s straight out of a Strasburg catalogue!

Daddy and Josh

Me and my girls….with the sun in my face!

I love you all.

Ginny

I think my kids were meant to be fish!  They absolutely love the water!  None of them are afraid of the waves.  I think we were meant to move to the beach one day!!!

Daddy with Evie and Josh!

Building sand castles is fun!

My crew!

Beware if Maggie!

Daddy, Josh, Lydia, and Maggie

Josh’s boogie boarding….with Daddy’s help!

He got a wave!

Then, there’s sweet Olivia with her Mommy!

Uncle Casey, Aunt Susan, and Olivia are floating!

I’ll tell you about the airplanes and choo-choo trains later!

I love you all.

Ginny