They are SO cute!

Yeah, you can just call this a "brog" (bragging blog) for the day...they're just so cute, I had to put some of the pictures of them up:

Kaitlyn and Natalie waiting to go outside to swim

The kids swimming...I think I need to buy a new pool (the blue one cracked from all the lifting and use of it), but I want to find one with a plug in the bottom!

Note, Carolyn wore the swimsuit Natalie is wearing when she was 5 months old. Kaitlyn is wearing the one Carolyn wore at that same age. Carolyn is wearing the only one that fits from last year (she had three!), and every time she puts it on backwards! haha! Seth has two from grandparents, here he is sporting his Nemo swimset.

Carolyn has been asking for weeks to make 'shape cookies', so I finally gave in and here they are with their cut out and sprinkled cookies (I revoked their icing privileges a few times ago!)

Did I ever mention how little I enjoy making sugar cookies with the kids?

We bought Natalie a new carseat last month (she needed one sometime this year, and we happened to have some money for it, and we thought she was big enough to face forward). Turns out she's not heavy enough to face forward, but she's almost a year and a half!...the straps of this one were cutting into the sides of her neck anyways and she likes to face forward and doesn't scream when I put her in anymore, so she gets to stay in the frontwards one and this one goes in the attic.....

But before it goes in the attic, let's play in it!

This is what I usually get when I try to take pictures of the babies! (that's a finger in the lens)
Kaitlyn

Natalie

We rearranged the den again, and they liked sitting on the chest looking out the window...aren't they cute?

Seth has been telling me he wants to be a dragon (or dinosaur) for halloween, so I told him I'd make him a costume. He remembered that he had this a few years ago, and has been begging me to get it out for him. I told him he wore it almost three years ago and it would be way too small, but he didn't care, so here he is in his three year old high water dragon costume!

(Ignore the way too long tail and leaning head spikes..I have trouble with things that are supposed to curve one way but that I have to sew in curving the other way...maybe I'll have more luck this fall when I make him a new one - red with yellow spikes he says.)