Happy 2nd 1st Birthday...

The girls would have been one yesterday had I been able to go full term... Although there is very little chance that I would have been able to go full term, it's still a milestone worth mentioning. I often find myself comparing the girls at their adjusted age to Declan when he was their age. It's silly really since all kids are different, but what I will say is that I think they are almost on track. They are definitely smaller than Declan was, but Aven is walking more than Declan had at this age (adjusted), Bria is about where he was (taking a few steps) and Stevie is still just crawling (but also cruising). None of them are talking much besides baby babbles, although we are pretty sure that Aven has said "momma" and "bye," Bria has said "bye" and today Judy said she said "momma" clear as day and Stevie hasn't said anything that we can recognize yet. I'm usually one that doesn't really count words until they repetitively say them and you can clearly tell what they are saying, but i'll take these :-) All of them love to dance - must be a girl thing because I don't remember Declan ever wanting to dance (until now of course). But one thing all of our kids have in common - they are happy, health, sweet kids!

This weekend I tried taking a few pictures of all the kids. It's basically impossible now given their mobility and a toddlers lack of interest of letting me take a picture of him. But this is as good as I could get :-)

L to R: Aven, Stevie & Bria

Love Declan's face - he's giving Aven the stink eye because she's choking her sister Stevie. Bria doesn't seem to care...

Declan has given up, Aven continues to beat up Stevie who is now crying and Bria, well she's just thinking this whole thing is hilarious...

And tonight we had our ritual dance party... Which is normal in our household. Here's a video of Aven dancing - not very clear, but you can get the jist. Aven definately has the best moves of the bunch and it's just so cute how she shakes her booty...

Here's another video from tonight. I love this video... The girls love their brother and think he's pretty funny... But tonight, all of them got the giggles. Declan was just throwing the cheesehead off of his head, and they thought it was pretty funny :-) It's the little things...