Airport Fun!

We finally made it to Florida to visit Stephen's mom after some unexpected airport delays! Our plane was supposed to leave at 4:40 pm on Tuesday evening. To make a long story short, we finally left on a different plane they sent from Atlanta at 2:30 am. A LONG time to be in the airport with 2 babies! We of course missed our connecting flight in Atlanta, but caught another flight to Ft. Meyers at 8am Wednesday. Needless to say, we slept most of our first day of vacation. Luckily Grady and Ella did AMAZING. They were so happy and entertained the other 13 people waiting until 2:30 am for the plane. I was so proud of them - they were more content than mom and dad were! The video shows a rousing game of peek-a-boo they played with daddy.






So content.....showing off their sitting up skills. (Ella has been sitting up for almost a month now, but it is a new thing for Grady just this week!)

hmmm

I tend to find the twins doing funny things when I walk in the living room after leaving for a few moments, but this one really had me laughing when I figured out what happened. No, Ella's diaper did not leak....that would be Grady's spit-up on her bottom! Never a dull moment in this household :)

Atlanta

Last week, my mom, the twins and I

went to Atlanta to hang out with some

family for an extended weekend! We

had a great time...

Grady on the plane (Once we took off, he was sound asleep for the whole ride)

Ella was sound asleep even before the plane took off!

My cousins Wendy, Nolan, Riana, my mom and I went to the Georgia Aquarium while Amy and Kathy watched the twins (Thanks!) We had a great time! Don't worry Nolan and Riana.....the picture with Deepo didn't turn out, so it's not posted :)

We also went to World of Coke. We had a little trouble getting there! Our parking ramp elevator brought us to a really nice building with absolutely no people in it. Hmmm.....we couldn't figure out how to get out! This is everyone posing with the elevator we took a hundred times trying to get outside..........maybe you just had to be there!

We did eventually get there! It was quite the interesting place. You could sample every Coke product made from around the world; a tummy-ache waiting to happen!

Nolan and Grady - the brave boys who hung out with the girls all weekend!

A Food Story....................by Ella

A couple weeks ago, I started getting really hungry in the middle of the night. I would wake up and cry and cry trying to get mom and dad's attention. Grady would just sleep while I was doing the hard work of waking them up, but somehow he would always get fed too. Lucky kid. Then mommy told daddy that they needed to feed us cereal so that we would sleep through the night again. I wasn't sure what cereal was, but it was fine with me because mom and dad were kind of cranky in the middle of the night. So they put us in these weird chairs, and put something towards our mouth that was not a bottle..........


......and that's what I thought about that.


Mom was saying that Grady ate like a champ........


.....so I showed her what a real champ would do - hold my own bottle!


Then Grady had to steal my thunder.

We decided to drop our bottles a few seconds into this, though. We didn't want mom thinking we could feed ourselves yet. It's very entertaining for us to watch her try and feed us both at the same time during the day!

Where did June go?

Wow, summer is flying by. A lot has changed in the Mulligan household since I've last posted. First of all, Grady rolled over for the first time at the very beginning of June, followed by Ella a couple days later....so the time came to sleep in separate cribs :( Okay....well the twins were fine with this; mom is the one who was sad! Now, Ella is a little rolling maniac. Every time you set her on her back, she immediately turns to her tummy. Grady doesn't roll quite as much which I am quite content with as I know the days of them being where I left them are numbered. I had a good laugh on Saturday when they were both trying to play with the same book on the floor. Grady grabbed it and moved it to the other side of him so she couldn't reach it, followed by a prompt swipe of Grady's pacifier from his mouth by Ella! How funny they are :)

On Father's Day we had a dedication service for Grady and Ella at church. There were four other babies dedicated as well. I thought that six new babies in the past 8 months was a lot for our small chuch.....but just when I was thinking that, Stephen had to remind me that our kids made up 1/3 of that number!

We just got back from vacation down on Table Rock Lake last week. We had a fun, relaxing time. Grady and Ella loved the pool! It was a little bit of a bummer that Ella was sick half of the vacation. She was running a high temp. for close to 3 days. Poor girl.

House for sale! We're trying to sell our house. We've had it on the market for a couple weeks and have showed it about 4 or 5 times......no takers yet. If you know anyone looking for a house in Waterloo, send them our way :) Our flyer is online at http://150prospect.mdmichel.com We're praying it sells fast as it is very hard keeping our house clean with the twins and ready to show at any time!



I took this picture today...when I left the living room they were lying side by side...when I came back, Ella was hugging Grady!




Kiss me right here!


Chilling in the pool




Nice evening for a swim!

What a month!

We've had a busy month full of traveling! We've visited cousins, all our grandparents, met new cousins, had a garage sale, gone on many walks in the warm weather, and turned four months old.......what hard work for little tykes! Grady and Ella are little gigglers these days. They love to smile and laugh at toys and other people as well as each other. I found myself smiling last week as I watched them stare at each other for 15 minutes staight. Grady kept laughing at Ella while she stared intently at him cracking a smile every once in a while. Laid back and happy babies - I love it :)


We sat so happily in our stroller during the garage sale...no we're not for sale!


Jayden, Halle, Grady, and Ella


Halle loves "Ewwa"


Triplets? Nah...the one with the cute head of hair is our cousin Emily :)


I loove to smile!


Just playing :)

A few moments with Grady and Ella