The usual

This is a usual occurrence in our household.  Maverick takes something from Violet.  She cries (sometimes) and he looks all innocent.

Luckily, Violet is easily going and usually will settle for another "toy"

I took the kids outside one afternoon to play (which doesn't happen very often since we don't have a fence in the front yard).

She got into Autumn's bowl of black berries before I could stop her and right before "picture time".

I bought these Little Tike cars at a garage sale for $10 each.  I was only going to buy one, but I'm glad I got all three!

Autumn being bossy

Cow Appreciation day at Chick-Fil-A.  The twiners were dressed up too but I didn't get a picture of them.

We've had road construction on our street going on 3 weeks now.  We haven't been able to park in front of our place for 2.5 weeks.  It is SO annoying.  I feel a bit guilty complaining, but hauling 3 kids down the street just to get to the car is a hassle. Plus it always seems like they are extra noisy at nap time.  Although it doesn't seem to affect the babes too much.

But they do like to look out the window at them (and yes that glass is filled with their finger prints).

Getting into things...again

10 months/ the Fourth

This is how the summer has been thus far...I never did finish putting away our winter gear.  So one day Autumn took her snow boots out to jump in some rain puddles...while in her bathing suit.

The babes are 10 months and are getting very hard to photograph.

After the pancake breakfast on the Fourth of July Evan says to me, "I want to start a tradition of taking the kids to the firework store and letting them pick something out."  Well just as I suspected Evan came back with a whole ton of fireworks.  So we spent all evening and into the night setting off fireworks.  Evan thought it would be safer to do them in the back yard on the grass instead of in the front in the big asphalt parking lot.  I quickly figured out by safer he meant...safer from the cops, not fires. [Editor's note: I wet all the surrounding areas including, fence, roof, grass, rooftops, grass on other side of fence for safety. I had the ground really wet...no problems. Autumn said multiple times while lighting fireworks, "This is the best day ever".]

Autumn wears this crown a lot in stead of doing her hair.

We took a break from doing our own fireworks and went to the top of our street to see the city fireworks.  Autumn fell asleep on my lap.  Then Evan did more fireworks.

This is often my view these days.  My children are all mobile, but not all of them know how to entertain themselves in a constructive manner, so the twins often get stuck in their seats.  As long as I continue to get them food they are happy.  They eat a lot.  They like fruit, peanut butter sandwiches, yogurt, Cheerios, Life cereal, pancakes, french toast, oatmeal, black olives (pretty much anything I give them)

They are quick.  They like to make music.  One of Maverick's favorite "toys" is an empty protein powder canister.  It makes a great drum...and it rolls.

Autumn loved this car when she was the twinners' age.  The kids love it too.  I don't often have time to push them around, but they like to play with it when it is on its side too.

Violet is a daddy's girl.  She'll often hold on to his leg during dinner too.

Maverick loves to play peek-a-boo with the curtain.

Maverick loves to get into the toilet, the plunger, the cupboard where I keep the cleaning supplies, and unrolling the toilet paper.  Violet loves outlets and taking all the wipes out of the wipes container.
The babes each only drink 24 oz of formula each day.  They are in size 3 diapers and rapidly growing out of their 9 month clothes.  Maverick now claps, and Violet is a fierce dancer.

Residency Graduation

Evan finished is residency.  Driving to the Little America Hotel where it was held, Evan and I looked at each other and said, "it doesn't feel real".  That day Maverick and Autumn were not feeling well.  Maverick was so pathetically sick he just wanted to be held and would fall asleep if I stayed still for any length of time.  So I called a babysitter last minute for the babies.  Maverick ended up going to bed at 5 PM that night!  Autumn told me in the afternoon she was tired so I let her take a nap.  So when she fell asleep at the graduation I was really surprised.  Evan's parents ended up taking her home for us after the ceremony so she could sleep.

This year the residents voted for a real dinner for the residents and their families.  So we had steak and shrimp.  Autumn and I wondered around the hotel for a good portion of the dinner.  The ceremony went smoothly.  Evan presented the award for faulty member of the year and was in charge of thanking the families.  

I made violet get dressed even though she didn't go with us, because I wanted her to wear the same dress Autumn wore to Evan's medical school graduation.

Evan's family at dinner.

Our intern friend Dustin Durham

The interns

Evan's speech

Evan getting his certificates

Lyndzee and Becky my resident wife friends

The graduating interns with the program director, Dr. Malm.