Allee & Bella

Bye-Bye Breastmilk

I just made the last sippy with breastmilk. I ran out of frozen breastmilk. *sigh* I was very fortunate to be able to pump for 8 months and stock pile my deep freeze. I've been giving them a couple ounces each day in their bedtime sippy. But now it's all gone.
And someday I'm going to miss the sight of these 5 sippy cups.
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Mothers Ring

My version of a Mothers Ring anyway...
Since I don't plan to have any more children, I decided it was time to get a Mothers Ring after having the quads. However, I didn't really want a traditional ring with all the children's birthstone. So I just haven't done anything about looking into getting one. Then while Alex and I were on vacation a couple weeks ago we stopped in a jewelry store to have my wedding ring cleaned and the sales lady slipped an emerald cut diamond on my finger that I absolutely fell in love with. I didn't want to take it off. Alex was sweating (thinking about the $$$ of the new bling on my finger). I did take it off and give it back to her, but I just couldn't get that ring out of my mind. I fell in love with the emerald cut. So I decided I wanted a new ring. I started researching online. I have not looked for jewelry since... well, I guess I never really have since Alex picked out our wedding rings. Do you realize the numerous choices available? It was mind-boggling. It took me the entire week of vacation searching online just to decide on the design that I wanted. In the end I decided to combine the new emerald cut diamond ring that my heart was now set on with the Mothers Ring that I had been wanting. So I designed my own ring. I put one large center emerald cut diamond to represent my singleton daughter (Anastasia), 2 medium emerald cut diamonds to represent my twin boys (Alexis & Adrien), and 4 small princess cut side diamonds to represent my quads (Alesandra, Aiden, Ashton, Arabella). And my wonderful husband bought it for me for Christmas. I love it!

Frosty King 2010

Adrien, Mom and Alexis

Adre and Lex put the middle on

Mom rolling the head

while Adre rolls the body

We even brought some snow in for the little ones to play with

And of course Aiden tried eating it! (the boy will eat anything)

Gettin' Air

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So much for...

Under crib storage being a good idea! Apparently Bella figured out how to open the drawer from inside her crib and pull out all the sheets and blankets. She's even sleeping on top of 2 of the blankets. *sigh*
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And the fun continues...

Lex giving piggy-back rides
Allee doing front flips (she is so determined to do it 'just like big sister')

Ashton with the toy hit of the day: the toy blackberry!

Christmas Sledding

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Christmas Morning

Merry Christmas
Adre

Lex

Adre and the "Stampede" Nerf gun

Lex and the "Vulcan" Nerf gun

BG opening her Color Wonders set

We tried to line up all the tiny toddlers to open their gifts at the same time, but they would not cooperate very well. They all kept moving from one box to the other, back and forth, but eventually got all 4 boxes open. And yes that is Mother Hen BG directing them on the fine art of tearing open presents.

I guess it really didn't matter anyway since all the toys will be shared by all 4 of them anyways

BG opening her Weebles set

Aiden, Ashton, Allee and Bella. I was really surprised that none of the tiny toddlers were interested in the wrapping paper or boxes, they just wanted the toys

Aiden, Allee, Ashton, Bella

Adre and Lex

The little tent

The big tent

Peek-a-boo Allee

Bella's not so sure at first

Aiden, Allee and Bella

Aiden and Ashton with the Weebles

Allee, Ashton, Bella, Aiden (about to open a box of Elmos)

By the way, Aiden got his clothes dirty so we had to take them off and then got too busy opening gifts to redress him (he eventually did some clothes on)

Bella gets the first one: Tickle Me Elmo

Ashton pulls out the next: Shout Elmo

Allee's going for it: Hookie Pookie Elmo

Ashton loves Elmo

BG gets one too: Tickle Me Elmo

Isn't see gorgeous (yea, Elmo's cute too)

Aiden loves Elmo too

But Ashton really loves Elmo

Really loves him! He did not want to let go

Bella likes the Chicken Dance Elmo

Kiss-Kiss Elmo, Bella

Even with all the toys scattered around Aiden spent most of his morning looking through his new books

BG and Aiden dancing along with the Chicken Dance

We had a wonderful Christmas morning at home with just us (just the 9 of us that is!).