The Hopperton Family: October 2010

Some fun new developments have happened over the past few days….

Lila’s new sleep position

Lila trying to help feed Madelyn however I think she might be secretly trying to get the bottle!!

I LOVE strawberries

This Hair did not come from me…Lila’s morning hair!

TV can be a beautiful thing in times of desperation…this was one of them

I was in the kitchen preparing the bottles while the babies were in the living room gated in. I didn’t hear them which was odd so I decided to peak in and see what they were up too. I found Carter but no girls…I couldn’t find them anyway and then I heard a banging on the window and looked behind the sofa chair and this was a what I found…having lots of fun.

This is Carter’s new face…he does it ALL the time.

Here you can see his top 2 teeth

Watching Cartoon’s with Daddy…Madelyn was too busy playing

Lila loves walking on this walker. When she stands up and starts walking she yells…yayayayayaya….hehehehehhe and snorts a few times…she just gets so kiddy. While she is walking with the walker sometimes she looks like she is shopping…just walking along pushing her cart and browsing…its so funny. The big news is that Lila took 2 steps on her own on Thursday…won’t be long now and I am in big trouble.

Madelyn will not be left behind….here she is using the walker. She was walking and then stopping and dancing…I didn’t get it on video but here she is being super cute.

Can you believe that we are almost one year old?!?! I can remember when they all three were in this chair and there was still alot of room left!!!

Lila still has no teeth and really no signs of them coming in anytime soon. I am not sure if God is just sparing me sometime until she does or what! Developmentally she is doing really great…she chatters up a storm. In fact, she tells Carter and Lila what to do and raises her eyebrows as if to say “whatever you know I am right”. She just started yesterday pointing her finger at me and jabbering….this girl has some serious attitude. Her favorite thing to say is “oy oy oy” like boy with out the b and if you do it back to her she just laughs and laughs. She is also saying a word that sounds like good but I am not sure what she is trying to say. She says da, ba, ca, and ma really well. She is standing alone for several minutes, cruises along the sofa or whatever is the right height for her to cruise. I also think she took a step the other day but I couldn’t be certain.

Carter has FOUR teeth (two upper and two lower). He is very very ticklish and when you barely touch his belly he laughs so hard. For a kid that we were worried would never crawl he is getting around really well. He is standing and cruising and may even beat Lila to walking. He can be a bit of a bully sometimes although I don’t think he means to be. When he wants something you better watch out because he will take out anything and everything in his way and this includes the girls. His favorite word is dadadadadadada and on and on and on and says it with a very hard d sound….too sweet. His newest thing is opening the gate to get into the kitchen where I am. He has figured out how to open the gate, crawls in and then shuts it behind him and the girls just cry because they can’t figure out why he is in there and they are not. Here is the crime in action….

Madelyn still just has two teeth. She never ever sits still and is always moving. You hold her up in the air and she moves her legs up and down, you hold her up with her legs touching the floor and she does the stomp, and when she is sitting she is bouncing and moving her head from side to side…its not wonder she can’t gain any weight. She is perfectly content playing by herself and loves to do things over and over and over again. She is cruising along the couch as well but isn’t quite as steady on her legs yet as her brother and sister. Her choice of words are dada and oba oba and her favorite things to do is twirl what little hair she has on her head. She also enjoys pulling other peoples hair!!

Daddy with one full lap

We are filling our bath seats much better now…we LOVE bath time!

Lila loves looking at books but I want I think she likes most of all is tearing them off the shelf.

Madelyn is always content just flipping through a book…9 times out of 10 she is playing with one of the books. She is really enjoying this one…drool and all.

And Carter still loves to stand…anywhere and everywhere. Hey Mom watcha doing up there.

This is what happens when daddy watches the babies!! He gave Carter and Lila, a Mountain Dew bottle of all things, and this is what happened…

Lila playing with the bottle

Carter steals it

Lila steals it back and Carter says wait a minute

Carter tries to get it back

Struggle

Carter gets it back and he is now very upset

Lila Wins and look at that sad face

These girls wear Mr Carter out. Why can’t they sleep past 7:30. Lila is like clockwork…she NEVER sleeps past 7:30 but poor Carter would love to sleep in a little and ever now and then he and Madelyn get a little extra snoozing!!

Cuties….

Last weekend we attended the Fall Festival hosting by our multiples group. We had such a great time and the weather was perfect. We dressed as the Wizard of Oz.

Tin Girl (Lila) Scarecrow (Carter)

Lion (Maddie)

We’re off to see the Wizard…the Wonderful Wizard of OZ

Follow the yellow brick road!

We won the cutest babies!!!

The one place I won’t be asked…”where did you get that train” This is the lineup for the goods (candy)!

This past weekend we went to Joe Huber Farms near Louisville. We had a blast and once again had beautiful weather. We met up with our best buddy Isabella and her mom and dad!

We are ready to go…