Visiting Adi and Abram

Last night we were finally able to visit Adi and Abram.  We hadn't been able to see them much since they were home because we were all fighting colds.  So last night Olivia and Ben got to see Abe and hold him for a bit.  They were also thrilled to play with Adi again! 

The 3 amigos with their matching headbands

Olivia was so gentle with Abe.  I think she would have held him all night.

Ben enjoying holding him also! When we got home he kept saying baby! baby! baby!  I see these 2 being good pals in the future!

Bean Days

Saturday was the Bean Days Parade in Wayne City. The weather was perfect and the kids had so much fun! After the Parade we spent the day at Nate's parents house and we were outside the entire day.  It was a very fun filled day!

Mati's bucket was filled up and emptied 4 times.  We have enough candy to pass out at Halloween!

Nate's parent's church float, won Best in Show!

Ben's favorite part of the whole day... seeing the Tractors!

Grandparents and grand kids posing out by the lake.  It was so beautiful out there!

Sweet Matison

Olivia giving me her best pouty face

Concert in the Kitchen!

This morning Olivia told me to sit on the floor in the kitchen and watch her on stage (the stage was her step stool).  Ben quickly joined in on the performance.  They took turns singing their songs! Ben's songs were much shorter than Olivia's, but they were just as cute!  The performance lasted about 30 minutes before I thought to get the video camera out. Here is a small glimpse of the morning concert I was blessed to be a part of! 

Apple Pickin'

Today we went to pick some apples with Grandma and Grandpa Bevis.  It was a lot of fun! I of course cared more about the pictures than I cared about the apple picking!  

Success!!

I'm happy to announce that Olivia was a champ at the dentist today!!! For the past week we've been looking on the dentist website and she kept calling him the Happy Dentist!! Happy he was!! She was so excited and kept asking if it was her turn to go back. I was shocked. Then they called her name. I walked her to the door where she met a smiling assistant, she looked up and for the first time I saw a bit of fear in her eyes.  She said quietly "I want you to go with me". The assistant stepped in and said "You get to come with me and we get to go play!!" The difference between a dentist and a pediatric dentist, they know how to work the kids!  She took baby and walked away with the nice lady.

Meanwhile I had Leland and Ben in the waiting room playing with the millions of toys they had!  About 10-15 minutes later I heard the door open and the lady said "With Olivia!" I stood up and rounded up the kids and my bag (which wasn't an easy task, good thing I never had twins!).  I walked in the consultation  room and sat down.  I heard a very "happy" dentist saying "Do you want a green balloon? NO I bet you want a Blue balloon!" Then I hear a little girl laugh and say "PINK!!" to my amazement that little girl was Olivia!  She came around the corner with the Dentist with a HUGE smile on her face! She came in and showed me her clean teeth and her pink balloon, and her little race car and her new Ariel toothbrush and her babies bracelet! She was so excited!! The dentist told me she did great, she had a few tears (I wish you could see how he told me this... he was talking to me like I was a kid myself) Very funny! But the man is good.... because he had Olivia liking him and as most people know she's not usually to fond of any man.

She did have some plaque on her teeth and she scored a "C" on her report card, but that didn't even matter to me! She made it through her first, well second, dentist appointment and to me that is a big fat "A"!!! Way to go Olivia!! Mommy is so proud of you!! :)

Our Little Princess

 We have so many Disney World pictures I am going to have to do several posts to fit them all in.  I'll start with the princesses!! Olivia was so excited to meet these Princesses, and she even got to wear her Snow White dress!  Ok truthfully maybe I was a little more excited for her to meet them than she really was but she did love them all!! We bought her an autograph book when we first got there and that was a good way for her to walk up to them and just hand them the book.  I was so proud of her for walking up to them all by herself!  The wait to see these Characters are always long but it's so worth it when they spend several minutes talking to your little princess!  She was a little disappointed that Flynn Rider was out on an adventure until October, he is her favorite Prince!  Here are a few of my favorite pictures from this day!