Never Say Never

I can vividly remember my mom putting my hair in foam rollers on Saturday nights and screaming at her, I’ll never do this to my kids!Well, Mom, I eat my words!
Both little girls have my naturally nappy hair and since I can’t put the massive amount of product that I use on my hair in their hair, I took option #2.  They don’t seem to be too bothered by it and I’m sure they’ll all be out in the morning when I go to get them dressed!
We’re headed to church bright and early in the morning and then to spend the day with family!
And I must share a special text I got from Matt today….. it said, Hannah Noelle just said do you remember the day Jesus came out of the cave? That’s the day we celebrate Easter!
It sure feels good to know that I’m doing something right as a parent!

Have a Happy Easter

The Zoo

Yep, that was the best title I could come up with!
We headed out at 8:15 9:20 for a spring break trip to the
New Orleans Audubon Zoo
15 minutes into the trip Cannon had a melt down and
Hannah Noelle said, mommy, look at Gunner!Dude had the right idea! Plug those ears up and block out the noise! He rode like this for a good 20 minutes!  Within 5 minutes of being there, we had our picture taken twice that we saw and probably 10 times we didn’t see.  And we heard the whispers of look, two sets of twins, qua-triplets and my personal favorite ever, Look at the Four-Flets!
As you can see though, we came to the zoo to see animals!
Mr. Chad (my best friend) and his son, Gage, came with us to the zoo and we had a blast!! HN was so happy to have someone to wander around with and Chad keeping an eye on them made it easier for Matt and I to be able to tag team the questions coming from both directions about the babies! We’ve gotten really great at both answering the questions at the same time with different answers, which leaves everyone even more confused that when they first saw us!The babies were AHHHHMMMAZING! We were there for 5 hours and never once got them out of the stroller.  Yes, I just told on myself that I did not change the first diaper the whole time we were there.  When we had our picnic lunch I said, let’s get them out and Matt said, why mess up a good thing.  Good thinking Matthew! They were absolute ANGELS!Lauren saw every animal! She could spot them 
from yards away!     Cannon would call them towards him..
Keettty Katt, Keetttty KatSometimes the glances from far away were the best. Avery liked the ones that didn’t move the best!    And have I told you lately what an awesome husband I have?
I caught him playing pee-pie with the babies behind his hat while Hannah Noelle and I were “browsing” in the Gift Shop.

When we got back to the van we realized we had left the rear passenger door open the entire time we were inside! Thank goodness nothing was touched or stolen!
I can’t wait to go back to the zoo next year!
Have a Great Week and Happy Easter! 

A Job Worth Having!

I complain a lot about my job as a mommy, but when it all comes down to it, it’s the best job in the world!
Thanks Hannah Noelle, Cannon, Gunner, Lauren and Avery!
I love my job as your mommy!

Flying High!

One out of four has a love for swinging!!

Isn’t his smile just CONTAGIOUS!

Spreading the Love!

And it’s not necessarily the love we like to be spreading!
Saturday Avery woke up sick and was sick all day.
Sunday everyone woke up great and I thought, wow, we dodged that bullet.
Monday Lauren woke up sick and was sick all day.
Tuesday started with Lauren and Avery both pretty puny and by 8:00 last night I was in the same puny boat with them!
To spare some majorly graphic details today has been filled with lots of clothes changing, several baths, several sheets being bleached and a whole lot of, back up Hannah Noelle, she’s sick again!
We’re praying we can keep everyone hydrated enough to stay home and not have to make a run to The River.
As of the latest tally, all four babies and myself have caught “the love” and we’re just holding our breath hoping
Pae-Pae, Daddy and Hannah Noelle don’t get it!
And while we’re on the topic of spreading some love, hop over to Gen’s Review Blog and see the love towards
Designed For Babies that she shared with us!

Who you Callin’ a Monkey?

 We recently got a Monkey Joe’s near where we live and after attending a party there, Hannah Noelle has been begging to go back! So, I, in what was FOR SURE a moment of insanity, decided to take all 5 by myself!
The play area for younger children was a HUGE HIT!Even Hannah Noelle loved it! She wasn’t getting to far from Mommy because Monkey Joe, himself, was there! And to say that he was NOT a hit with my kiddos
would be a HUGE understatement! Lately the boys have been teaming up a little,
which is good, but scary all in the same!This was all they would do in the jumpies.  They hated going through the little entrance holes, so we just played at the bottom of them.  There are 2 that are designated just for younger children so we just hung out at the bottom of those!
Since it was around lunch time we decided to eat there!   One problem, only 3 highchairs! For some UNKNOWN reason, I chose Lauren to be the “Big Kid” and sit at the table with Hannah Noelle. Do you see why it wasn’t such a good idea?

The babies all wore yellow for two reasons. 
Reason #1, if I have them all dressed similar it’s easier to count them 1, 2, 3…… um, there she is, 4. 
Reason #2, Gen McNulty is one of my best friends.  When her Nani went to give Jesus a big giant hug, Gen shared with us that Nani’s favorite color was yellow so sometime last year shortly after that I went and got the girls these yellow dresses and the boys some yellow shorts.  We wore them then and sent Gen a picture and this year when I was busting out the Spring clothes I saw those dresses and this year, they’re doubling as shirts. With some more digging I was able to find the boys some yellow shirts and we decided to have another Nani Day! I asked Hannah Noelle to go find something yellow in her closet and she said, in her biggest 5 year old voice, I love Aunt Gen, but yellow is just not that fashionable, she’ll understand! With a straight face (which was very hard) I said, oh, okay and began texting Gen as fast as my fingers would allow!
Something VERY exciting is going to happen on Gen’s Blog and Gen’s Review Blog one day this week, 
**cough, cough* TUESDAY *cough, cough* 
So please make sure you make your way to
her blog this week Tuesday.

U Name It!

After coming up with about 50 different captions to put above this post I figured I would let you caption what Avery is thinking because TRUST me, she was thinking something!