Fun with Friends!

Gavin hasn't been over on Tuesdays like he always used to be in a LONG time! I think since early October--the beginning of bedrest. This week he came over on Wednesday and Layla and him played together great! Now that our basement is finished they can play down there which works great. At times they were being a little too quiet so I went to check on them to see what they were doing and they were just busy cookin' in her kitchen:). I'll do a post eventually with before and afters of our basement, but finishing touches aren't done, the key one being a section of our couch still isn't in. It wouldn't fit going down our stairs (too long to turn the corner) so we thought it'd be no big deal to put it through the window, until we discovered that our window doesn't come out all the way so easily. We had a window guy that we know come look at it and he was able to order a new pane which will then allow the whole window to come out. So hopefully in the next week or so we will have a complete couch:).

Smoochin' in her room...

Having fun (as well as some fights) on Gibs' bouncy seat...I realize they're a little old to be sitting on it, but I figure that there are some babies that weigh the same as Layla so she hopefully won't break it:).


Our office/toy room in our basement is FULL of everything that was in the rest of our basement before we started to finish it off. It has a HUGE shelving unit that takes up pretty much the whole room! We were able to clear out some of the stuff that could move into the finished rooms, but we still have a LONG way to go finding places for the rest of the stuff. We could, however, at least clear a path now so that Layla can get to her kitchen. It looks ridiculous that the kids have to play behind a big shelf, but they love it!

A little glimpse into the madness (you can see the roof of the kitchen behind the shelving unit)...I really should be embarrased to even post this picture, but oh, well:).


Watching Sesame Street during snack time...about 5 seconds after I took this picture Layla grabbed a blanket to put over her legs which of course then Gavin wanted to share and Layla was not happy about it. They definitely fight like siblings!!

Watching Mike arive to pick up Gavin. I just put some new pictures in Layla's photo book and she loves pointing out Mike and Em. She likes to point out Gavin (as well as others) too, but how she says his name sounds nothing like Gavin.

I don't know what Layla and Elv were looking at, but the other day they were both just sitting at the top of the steps staring...



Today I was feeding Gibson in the living room when heard Layla saying "mess, mess" down the hallway. She doesn't like messes. She then came in the living room holding a towel she had grabbed off the bathroom counter still talking about the mess. I figured there were some water drops or something on the bathroom counter that she thought she needed to clean up. Then a few minutes later she came into the room saying "Uck" and was holding that same towel which was now full of brown nastiness!! I went and looked in our room and Elv had thrown up and Layla had picked it up with the towel. Yuck!! I took the towel from her and went to grab the carpet cleaner and paper towels and when I came back she had grabbed one of Gibson's burp cloths and used that to clean it up some more! She actually did a pretty good job of cleaning it up and didn't get any on her, but we still made sure to clean her hands good after that:). I'm glad that Layla doesn't like messes, but she always thinks that needs to clean them up! Any time Gibs has spit up dripping out of his mouth she has to clean up his milk with a burp cloth too. Just being a good big sis I guess:).
The only times that Elvis has thrown up like that have been when he's had a seizure:(. I had heard a little bit before that that he was making some ramaging around noises so I'm thinking that's probably what happened. Poor little guy. At least he doesn't have too many of them--I can't remember when the last one was, but I think that time we also weren't positive that he had one so we didn't mark it down. It seems like he maybe just has a few a year. Hopefully they don't increase!
Yesterday Joe's cousins, Christi and Cindi came over with their kids to meet Gibs. I forgot to get a pic of them with Gibs, so here he is just chillin' yesterday...

Layla, Cassie, Camryn and Spencer...like I said, poor Gibs was sleeping and missed the pic. He may have been the most cooperative:).

This is just a random pic of Layla with Joe the other day. She looks thrilled to have her picture taken:).