8:01am

We STRICTLY enforce the 'no one out of bed before 8AM' rule at our house. Thankfully the babies abide by this rule (after they've eaten at 2-3am of course, but they always go back to sleep, so we cut them a little slack. Hoping we'll soon be dropping that feeding as the boys are getting pretty big, they are on the charts now and were around 11lbs at their last appointment). I'm pretty sure this picture was taken somewhere around 8:01. I guess Irby knew what he was talking about when he convinced me we needed a king bed!

2 months old!

Wow, these pictures are way overdue as the boys just turned 3 months old...Charlie is on the left, Griffin on the right. What sweet big boys they are getting to be! Smiling a lot and on a great schedule-eat, awake 1 hour, sleep 1.5-2 hours, then do it again. Of course there are always exceptions, but on the whole I think we're coming out of the cloud of the 1st 3 months! Hard to believe that such a whitey like me has such tan kids:)

Fall Leaves

And I found this picture of the babies with Ahnie and Papa that I was looking for!

And this is Why....

My Christmas card will be a New Year's card. Pretty tough to get a good pic of all 3 of the boys looking. I thought the hard part would be getting the babies to look the right way, but getting Irby to forget the "Chandler" smile is proving pretty tough. These are from the first 3 attempts.

Thanksgiving, a little late...

Irby's amazing family drove all the way up here to DC for Thanksgiving, it was such a treat! I literally didn't lift a finger and just got to enjoy them and taking care of my sweet babies. We pretty much just hung around, did some sightseeing (Arlington Cemetery and the National Cathedral) and ate lots of good food. All of these pictures are from Lucy, I don't think I took a single one. Hard to remember the camera, I'm doing well if I can remember all my kids! The babies didn't make it into too many pictures, they were either eating, sleeping or bundled up so much you couldn't even see them! Muff, send your pics out to us too! Here are a few pictures:

Jumping down the steps with Uncle Pete. Sweet Pete probably jumped down about 200 of them with Irbs (I think everyone else probably did too!)

Headed to the park with Daddy and Uncles Whitt, Pete and Willie.

Irby and Muff doing a pretty good rendition of the soldiers at the Tomb of the Unknown.

A shot of the babies, doing what they do best, getting ready to snooze (Charlie-L, Griffin-R).

Showing Uncle Willie Peter Rabbit's hole (behind is Mr. McGregor's garden(or Arlington Cemetery), of course).

Hanging with Daddy.

Jumping with Uncle Whitt.

Love my Ahnie. Sorry I don't know why these pictures are so small!

Here are a few pictures of last weekend, Matt and Emily came in town and we got to meet Becker! Also Craig and Nikki brought Ruthie over to play too. Love these pics of all the babies/kiddos.

Irby holding Griffin, with Charlie napping. He loves holding them, and singing to them when they cry. He even put Charlie's pacie in for him yesterday!

Griffin, Becker, Charlie, and Irby.

Youngest-Oldest: Griffin, Charlie, Becker, Irby.

Irby, Ruthie(check out her cute red shoes!), Griffin, Charlie, Becker.

Irby holding Griffin.

Charlie, Griffin (in blue), Irby.

Happy Halloween!

Trick-or-treating. Irby had no fear, ran up to people's houses with no reservations, even tried to get 2 pieces of candy out of some folks by saying trick-or-treat twice.

My little pumkins.

Out for a stroll Halloween morning.

Hayride and Hilloween. Can you find my Irbys?

The whole fam at Hilloween, a neighborhood festival the night before Halloween (we live on 'The Hill', thus the name Hilloween).

Sweet Thomas the Train (or Gordon, depending on his mood.)

Irby in the babies' basket, saying "I'm a little baaaaaby, Mama!"

Who said you ever needed 2 bouncy seats?

Or a triple stroller? Not sure how much longer this rig-up is going to work...

LOVE my Aunt Lulu. Since she left, everyone who comes to our house, even neighbors, he asks if they want to sleep in Lulu's bed. Big honor, Lulu, our guest bed is known as your bed!

Ahnie sitting out front. We had the best visit with her!