we have a thumb sucker..

our sweet baby miley has found a new way to self-soothe... she has turned into a hardcore thumb sucker!! i mean, HARDCORE!! it is like she is sucking her skin off!! you can her her sucking and smacking all the way in the next room!! :) she's not hungry, she just has a mean, powerful suck:) but, i am not really sure how i feel about the thumb sucking... don't get me wrong, i think that it looks absolutely adorable and she also wont have to worry about her brother or sister snatching her passy or us forgetting to bring her passy when we leave the house....but i hear that it is next to impossible to break and i can't help but to think of all the germs that will be on her hands and fingers as she puts them in her mouth! yuck!! so GREAT... more germs and sickies...but hey, you can't keep your kids in a bubble!! and who knows.. this could just be a phase... but here she is in all her cuteness!! i love this baby girl...

cookie cutter fun times

since the babies have been sick, we have had a lot of sandwiches. i mean a LOT of sandwiches. so tonight for supper, we had yet another.. and i tried to be creative:) bill's mom had given me a box of cookie cutters when we were just dating. she told me that i would have kids one day and i would need them. so i brought them home and tucked them away in my hope chest and never even opened them until tonight. it was a box of 100, so the babies had a lot to choose from. i dumped them on the floor and let them ooh and ahh until they found the perfect one. ella kate picked an icecream cone which she called the "eyes green shop"(icecream shop) and luckily, josiah chose a boy one! he picked out a baseball and bat:) so off to the kitchen we went, to make our yummy shaped sandwiches! and who would've though that they gobbled them up and even asked for more! but since i ran out of bread, i let them make their initials out of cheese slices and they had sooo much fun! when ella kate would cut out a shape, she would say, "oh momma... it's perstick!! (perfect) she also found a tennis racket cutter and said, "hey.. this is your hair ryer!!" it looked nothing like a hair dryer to me, but i just went along with it... here are a few pics :)

sick week

so this week was difficult to say the least. all 3 babies were sick and on antibiotics, the weather was cold and miserable, and i kept feeling like i had bronchitis (although i refused to go to the dr and find out).. anyways, we are all on the mend now and feeling much better! miley had rsv and everytime she would cough, ella kate would run over and pat her saying, "goodness baby mi-ey, goodness!" and josiah was irritable at times when he was not feeling well, and she would say to him, "now 'siah, stop that whining! if you be a sweet boy, my's gonna give you a biscuit." now i dont know where she got that from.. i am sure she has heard someone say something like that before... but i promise i don't bribe my kids with biscuits!

fun times with the little people!

so tonight, ella kate, josiah, and miley are all sick, and i am feeling a little puny myself!! i hate times like this... but thankfully bill was feeling fine, and was taking care of all of us!! (such a sweet man!) so while bill was making us some homemade potato soup (yummy!!), we were downstairs playing and waiting patiently. ella kate wanted to play with their little people sets that they got for christmas. she was looking for her princess castle, and i told her that it was upstairs in her room and that she could go and get it. she told me, "no, momma.. you go upstairs and get it first, and ella kate stay right here". little stinker... her legs work! but being the sweet mom that i am, i helped her get it while i was taking miley upstairs for a little nap. her castle is really cute.. it plays music, and has furniture, the princess and prince can dance and it even comes with a frog!! well, while ella kate was trying to get the castle arranged like 'so', i saw josiah in the corner trying to set on one of the castle chairs!! now, keep in mind that this is a little people set, so that chair was all of 3 inches tall:) he would place it down in the perfect spot, then hover and squat.... but the chair would never hold him up... imagine that!! but that boy has some strong determination, and he never gave up!! he spent a good 10 minutes trying to set in that little chair:) lucky for him, bill rang the supper bell and it was time to eat that delicious soup at last!! so maybe next time, he will fit in that chair!

smiley miley :)

well, since i have shared about the other 2.. i want to fill you in on our little 'squeaker' :) we LOVE this baby... all 4 of us! ella kate is quick to tell people that baby mi-ey is her sister and she yubs her!! josiah loves to headbutt miley (lovingly, i might add!!) and open mouth kiss her all over her face. there she is, our sweet baby miley, with drool dripping off her chubby cheeks and her bubba beaming with pride, over his little baby and his ability to "kiss" her so well:) and miley responds to them so sweetly! if either one gets right in her face, she smiles and squeals and you can tell that she just loves them! it is so sweet, there are times i am teary-eyed and speechless at how the lord has blessed us so... we could not have asked for a smoother transition of our new baby. miley is amazing! 3 months have come and gone, and i am a bit sad! with every new milestone that she reaches, i find myself feeling like, 'wait, slow down... slow down.. you are growing too fast!!' i am trying to enjoy every second of her precious little life. i get so caught up in the fact that we have a 2yr old, 1yr old and 3mo old, and lose myself in the craziness of it all... that i have to make myself take a breather and soak it all in!

miley is such an easy, happy, squeaky baby! she loves her daddy and knows his voice, she has the longest, curliest eyelashes we have ever seen on a baby, she loves her swing, loves when anyone talks to her, loves to smile (and she crinkles up her nose when she does..), loves to squeak, loves to eat and loves her bed! she is such a good sleeper... already sleeps 12 hrs at night! (thank you jesus!!) she really is just happy to be here... and we are more than happy that she is ours:)

sweet 'siah!

ella kate and josiah are beginning to have a cute 'buddy' type of relationship these days. when i say that they are buddies, i clearly mean that ella kate is in charge and josiah is supposed to do whatever she says:) sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. poor thing, he really does love his sisters, but he is surrounded by so much girly-ness.. too much at times! just this morning he and ella kate were walking around the house in my high heels!! (bill would have FREAKED OUT!) but she also tries to put her hairbows and necklaces on him and he'll just wear them with a smile... and i know one of these days she will talk him into having a tea party with her. i just hope that i can sneak him one of his toy dinosaurs to crash and destroy her tea and crumpets:) but being the sweet little boy that he is, he will probably propose a toast to her... such a sweet little brother! i remember when he was 11mo old or so, i had left ella kate and josiah playing in her room and when i came back to check on them, josiah was COVERED in stickers! ella kate decorated her little brother and was so proud of it and apparently josiah was too!! he just sat there patiently until she was done! and it was funny the other day when we were outside, she was running across the grass in the front yard and she hollered, " 'siah davis, com'er son!!" and sure enough...his cute, bow-legged little self, toddled over to her... just a smilin'! but don't get me wrong, there are plenty of times where she wants to 'ring around the rosey' with him, or hug, kiss and love him and he will have nothing to do with it or her! he is definetly capable of telling her he has had enough!! and here is a pic of just that....

josiah is our little cuddle bug! he is a true momma's boy and loves being kissed and held and 'babied'. he has a crazy addiction to remote controls and the buttons on the tv/dvd player/radio. all of which are off limits to the kids!! but for some reason, every morning when he wakes up, he 'forgets' that he is not allowed to touch them and EVERY morning he gets popped. he has the most pitiful 'sad' face too. i really need to get a picture of it... that bottom lip comes out and pretty much drags on the floor. if you tell him no-no, you might as well of ripped his heart out and stomped all over it! he is super sensitive, but strong-willed at the same time.. (fun combination.. huh??!) but he is 'fearfully and wonderfully made' and we thank god for this little man!

oh... and did i mention that he loves baby einstein videos?! he would willingly break his neck just to watch one and here is a pic of him doing just that...

are all of my stories from the bathtub??

i am sure i have said before, that i am one of those moms who bathe their kids every night. bill and i shower or bathe every night before we go to bed, so why shouldn't our kids?!? i'm not really a germaphobe, but i do like for our babies to be clean! clean noses, clean faces, clean hands, clean fingernails... so when i think of all that our babies have come in contact with throughout the day, i can't help but want to wash it all off! so having said that... many of our cute conversations happen in the tub! like tonight... ella kate was looking at our conditioner bottle and was naming all the colors that she saw on the bottle. "wed, gween, byue... momma, say GOOD GIRL!!" (in a super cute, high pitch voice) "good girl ella kate..." i said. however that was not good enough. "no, momma, say GOOD GIRL!" she was wanting me to say 'good girl' in a very high, very dramatic, very enthusiastic voice:) so i did and then she said, "my knows my numbers.. right momma?" well... colors, numbers... same thing!
i know that most of my stories are about ella kate... and i try not be partial, but it is just that she is at an age where she interacts well and talks to you. josiah and miley are loved everybit as much as ek, they are just not vocal.... yet :) josiah is such a cutie! we had chicken nuggets for supper tonight and he had just one more in his hand that he was finishing off. so i let him bring it upstairs with him while they got in the tub. like i have said earlier, that hot bath water makes him go to the potty everytime! however tonight, when his feet hit the water, he started TT'ing immediately. he was still standing and i saw him trying to stick his chicken nugget in the stream, but everytime he would bend to get it in the stream, it would stop... pretty gross, but pretty cute at the same time! and sweet baby miley... we love that girl! she has been then best little addition to our family! she coo's and gurgles all the time and even laughed out loud this week! she LOVES her brother and sister... and as rough as they are with her, she still just smiles!