Sickly and Youtube

We’ve been sick here, and when I say sick I mean two hospital visits, and a week out of daycare. 

 

Aiden went to the hospital because daycare thought he had aspirated his pizza.  Turns out it was only a coincidence he was eating pizza during a coughing spell and actually had croup.  Alexis and Carolyn were the next to make a visit to the ER with Alexis—upper respiratory infection and Carolyn – ear infection (second in a month).  Carolyn was out of daycare for about 3 days, and Alexis hasn’t made it back yet.  She is still not feeling good, but is improving more and more each day.  The rest she gets at home helps a lot. 

Since it has been a while I’ll go ahead and update you all with pictures.

Aiden has gotten himself all spiffy recently

 

100% crackhead cuteness!  His hair was shocking at first when Andy brought him home, but since I have gotten use to it.  So glad too because it made me sad to see the little almost bald.

Greedy Maxwell

The child is constantly testing the limits and trying to get away with mischief with just a smile.

He does this a lot!  Especially when he doesn’t get away with whatever he is doing.

lucky for us he does a whole lot of this too!

Alexis has stopped walking and is now running.

She is so dramatic!

Everything is funny

whatevs.

So not amused.

walking like a pro!

Diva.

As for youtube our videos are on there now.  Just search for phillipsquads and we’ll come up.  Click on our username and you’ll see our channel.  Facebook and blogger take too long to upload so we’ve made youtube our spot for videos!

Meet Cattie

Our Caterpillar.  When I say “our” I means Alexis’. 

Cattie came to us last Christmas from Auntie Ri and Uncle Max.  She wasn’t played with much, but Alexis would squeal in delight when I brought her out.  So eventually she stayed out of the closet for good.  Before Cattie only slept in the crib while Alexis was out and about playing.  She waited on Alexis to come nap with her, and then slowly she started escaping more and more.  Now Cattie almost always gets out of the crib when Alexis does, and if someone touches her Alexis starts to cry.  Cattie is not shared, and when Momma had to wash her last night Alexis sat up in her crib and cried until Momma found something acceptable.  It turned out that the acceptable replacement was a Brown Bear with the same type of fabric as Cattie, and also sent by Auntie Ri and Uncle Max last Christmas.  When I walked into the room this morning Brown Bear was cast aside and Alexis was lovingly petting sweet Cattie.  I must find a backup Cattie.  Now.

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A Glimpse At Everyday Life

These are every day images from my cell phone camera.  I’ve seen these posts recently on several blogs, and it is always fun to look through pictures that are caught in the moment.  These are our moments.

Maxwell has given up on fighting the sleep

So has Carolyn

Me, Carolyn & Max

Toy hog

Sweet Aiden

Done.

Ace waiting on just a taste.

Carolyn…the splash queen.

Goober.

Max telling Carolyn the tub rules.

Max, Alexis, and Carolyn crammed themselves in this plastic drawer.

Dinner Time…

 

Bubble head

LOL

Choo Choo & Playground Adventures

Step2 finally released the Choo Choo wagon, and we got one!  Thanks to Andy’s parents and my grandparents we are the proud owners of a four seater wagon.   

Sometimes when we’re out for a choo choo ride we get stopped by people driving past, and sometimes we get stopped by people in their yards.  The choo choo wagon always gets attention.  Maxwell loves the wagon and will laugh or clap most of the ride.  Since it’s started getting cooler we haven’t been able to go since the babies didn’t have hats.  So I had to make some hats for them so we could continue our choo choo adventures.

I made these hats late last night and early this morning so we could go to the playground on base.  They were great and kept them on the entire time!

We’ve never been to a playground before so we decided we would head over to base this morning and see how the kiddos would do and if they had anything age appropriate for them.  It was the best Saturday morning I can ever remember.  They have a really nice playground with a soft ground and a lot of things the babies could play around.  They really enjoyed being outside and having free roam.  Here are some pictures from our morning adventure.

Alexis thinks she might give this choo choo pulling gig a try.

A group shot before going up to the play area

Alexis making sure the boys aren’t getting into trouble

Carolyn trying to decide where to play first

Daddy helping Alexis slide

 

Getting ready to leave…

 

We’ll be back for more fun!