And the First Tooth goes to: Teagan

Well, the tooth is still under the gum line, but we can feel it. She's made this last couple of days some of the worst we'd had in a long time. She'll get up SCREAMING every hour and needs to be rocked a long...long...long...long...long...long...time.

Teagan feeling for her tooth.

We think Rianne is also getting a tooth coming from up top and Brielle, well, she's cranky whether she has a tooth or not, though her daytime demeanor has been pretty amazing.

I'm watching frozen planet and the male penguins, after waiting all winter, holding the egg, finally get something to eat! However, the female penguins, have been eating all winter and one penguin was so fat she jumped and ran into a wall. I feel like her. Hopefully, this summer I will shed some of my winter fat, though I continue my emotional eating when the kids get unmanageable along with the chronic lower back pain and sleep deprivation ... I've reduced my menu, but can still make a single serving out of a lot of ... family serving items. Mindy continues to be amazingly skinny, and even if she weren't, well, I'm no dummy.

We've got their baptism coming up here in a few weekends when my parents come out to Iowa and I am so excited. I haven't seen my family for over a year and my mom, brother and grandfather have never met the children so it's going to be amazing! Plus it's my 20th, 30th, 40th birthday on April 17th. I wanted to run the 800 meter masters in the Drake Relays in April but right now my fitness is such that I could only run one of the 400 meter laps at a 'non-embarrasing' pace. Maybe next year, I'm not running unless I can get around 2:20 for the 800 meters. My foot is still goofy, but I'm starting to build some good swimming fitness and will gradually build back up.

No really, enough about me, here's a preview of the girls' dresses. We just tried it on Teagan to see if it works, I hope this dress isn't like a bridal dress where no one is supposed to see until the big baptism day.

Most ladies try to slim down to get into a dress. We've got two weeks to make them big enough!

Another bottle? Sounds delicious!

 I'm not sure what to say about this next picture. Megan captured a great picture of the girls.

And I'm pretty much like, Oh my gosh, our 8 month old daughter (Brielle) has cleavage. Not true, she has her monitor belt on that's pushing everything together. I really am at a loss for words.

 

Our Daughter is feeding herself. We put two Our Daughter is an Honors Student bumper stickers on our Cars.

The School Board asks for the bumper stickers back.

My insecurities about my daughters as teenager aside, Brielle has started talking, well, it's a language we don't really understand completely but here are some YouTube clips.

Brielle Part II. Failure to Launch.

Going to try to go to sleep.

Thanks again to everybody that came over this weekend to help. It's keeping us off the cliff.