July 09

Greetings everyone. It is that time again. Time for another blog update. It has been a while since the last one. I'll try to give the general roundup.

The quads are getting big. Teddy is CRAWLING. He is here, there and everywhere he wants to be now. He has become quite good at it. He is pretty fast when he puts his mind to it. Oliver is doing the army crawl now. He is pretty fast for not getting his tummy off the ground. Speaking of tummy, he was 1 oz shy of 20 pounds last week when he was at the boys check up. He is definately not missing a meal. Audrey is now 2 oz heavier than Melanie. Audrey was the runt but has made up for it. Audrey is our little miss chatty Kathy. She is working on sitting up. Melanie is doing the army crawl as well. She is also doing pretty well with feeding herself crackers. Speaking of that, we found out last week that she can do pincer grasp. I was sitting on the floor with the babies eating some popcorn. She crawled up and put her hand in the bowl. I didn't think anything of it because we had not seen them pick things up yet and put them in their mouths. Well, I was wrong. Popcorn went right in. She really loved doing that, although not for long because of the choking hazzard. Daddy had to put it away.

Bonnie is getting bigger than ever. She is very talkative. She is a great commuting partner in the morning. We talk the whole back and forth to school. Speaking of the drive, I have to admit I am an NPR junkie. I listen to it pretty well daily driving back and forth to work and dropping Bonnie off at school. I like their world perspective on news and the more in depth analysis you get than on CNN and the likes. Anyway, this week, Bonnie asked Naedrie if she could watch Public Nation Radio. I thought that was cute. She has been listening enough that she knows I listen to National Public Radio.

Bonnie has become the little swimmer. She is very bold in the water. So much so that I had to get her a life jacket. She was starting to scare me running off in the water. None of the pools let you use swim floaties down here. Only USCG approved life jackets. So she has one now. She loves going down the little slides at the kiddy pool. She is brave enough to go down headfirst now too.

We took the family to the zoo last weekend. It was a great day, highs only in the upper 70's. Hard to believe that in SW MO in JULY! It was fun. We wore littleBon Bon out. She was so tired when we left. All the babies took a nice nap when we got home. Mom and dad too.

Work is getting busier for me but that is a good thing.

We have survived our first household GI bug in the house. It really threw us for a loop for a while. What do you do when both mom and dad are sick and you have 5 kids at home who have not contracted the bug yet? Thank goodness we had helpers from the church who did not mind coming over and exposing themselves to the GI plague.

Naedrie and I still get occasional date nights. It is nice for us to get the chance to do that every now and then. We are really grateful for all the help we have been receiving.


Hope everyone is doing well. I'll leave some more pictures later

Jim