My babies are 10 mos today!

Wow, where do I start? I know I haven't updated in awhile. Sorry! Last Friday night, Toni came over and helped me give baths. I really wanted to go to the Forest Park Balloon Glow, but we were getting 9 mos pics taken, so I thought my kids should probably be clean for them. And its always fun hanging out with Toni. I guess the baths wore us out because we started watching Baby Mama and we both fell asleep about 9:30. Wow, we're old! Not many bath time pics b/c I was too nervous to let go of the babies b/c I didn't want them to fall.

This is the first time I've given them all a bath at the same time. I'll probably stick to doing one at a time until they are a little more steady. (Jimmy, Jenna, Cassie)
Toni washing Jimmy's hair
Alli washing Jenna's hair
Toni gave Jimmy a faux hawk
Jenna doing her side sitting and looking like a model. Her physical therapist would be so proud :)
On the way to the park for pictures, we hit a 4x4 flying around on the highway and had a blowout and ruined our wheel. So, we sat on the side of 370 with 4 other cars that hit the same thing and all had blowouts. So frustrating. Luckily our photographer had a big Explorer and we were following her. She packed me and all the kids and carseats in and we still ended up going to a different park for pictures. I was upset we couldn't get family pics though b/c Jim had to stay and change the tire. It was just really stressful and a pain and the kids were tired. We did end up with a few good pics though. I'll post soon. The photographer felt bad for us I guess--she didn't even charge us!

So, then the next day we were going to watch Pearl Heart perform at Jefferson Barracks---luckily my family is so great. Ann let us borrow her van so we were still all able to go to the show. I think the suckiest part was that the van is my car and it wasn't getting fixed until Wed and I can't drive Jim's car.
Here is a pic of the babies in their new stroller (Jenna, Cassie, Jimmy)
Pearl Heart rockin' the stage (Angela, Court, Amy)
Alli had so much fun dancing to the music. She was so into it and everyone was watching her be so cute :)
Alli's "friends" (Angela, Courtney, Amy)
So, the week goes on...gets worse before better. My computer broke, but we had the warranty and all was good.

These pics must be during the week when "Ma" was watching them. You can see where Alli gets her funny personality :) And my mom says I never have pictures of her on here ;)
Alli wearing "Ma's" glasses
Alli and Jenna
I mentioned the babies are holding their own bottles now...here is a pic of all of them together
And this video of Cassie is just showing how much she enjoys her bottle ;)

We used to read to Alli all the time, but hardly ever read to the all of them. I think this might be the first time. I thought it looked so cute.
Story time
So, I think they are starting to act like 10 month olds now.....they are getting into everything! Cassie started crawling a little today. She has eaten two People magazines and a Scrapping magazine in the past two days and two of my scrapbook pages....that I put a lot of time into!!! Guess I need to start picking up after myself. Ann told me I should still put them in the book anyway b/c now it will have extra special meaning and memories :)

They all have their own different modes of getting around right now. Cassie is pretty much crawling. Jenna just rolls all over the floor, wherever she needs to go. Jimmy does some goofy looking thing on his butt. He just keeps bouncing and inches forward. But he does roll around a lot also. I also call Jimmy the bulldozer because he is constantly rolling over Jenna and Cassie b/c they are way smaller than him. He knocks them right over. Here he did it to Cassie this morning.
This video is of Cassie trying to crawl and Jimmy doing his thing...


When I was at church this morning, Jim said he was in the kitchen and heard Cassie and Jimmy cracking up laughing. He walked into the living room and Jimmy rolled himself under the table and then he was stuck.
Today I decided I think the kids are getting bored with rattles and 'baby' toys, so I brought up some of Alli's old toys. Her big house, her piano, some ELMO toys. Jenna was really into the piano.
Baby Mozart



Oh, and just for a side note....we went to the Counting Crows/Maroon 5 concert last night. Counting Crows has been one of my favorite bands for a long time and we were soooo disappointed! I think the lead singer was stoned or drunk or something. He didn't sing..he talked all of his songs and they each lasted about 20 minutes! I was so excited to finally see them b/c I never got the chance, and now I see I didn't miss out in the past. Good thing Maroon 5 sounded good. And of course, we still had fun because it was a night out away from the kids and a lot of our friends were there. My camera batteries were dead, so you'll have to check Toni's blog for goofy pics and I guess the rest of the crazy story after we left;)