Sunday

Whenever Dallas is in charge of dressing the babies, you can be sure he will put on a onesie that says something about Daddy. He is so proud of his skills. :)

Church today was pretty simple. We focused on learning the song "Have I Done Any Good in the World Today?". We just sang the first verse a couple of times and made some actions to help remember the words. After that we sang a sacrament hymn and took the sacrament. We've been trying to figure out a way to help sacrament be a little more reverent and help the girls (and ourselves) think more about Jesus. So after the sacrament we went through the song we sang and talked about what the words meant. 

Dallas and I hadn't really gone over a lesson for the girls today so I wasn't going to do much else but  then Emma asked if she could do a "musical number" for primary - so of course, Alice and Lucy wanted to as well! Here are their musical numbers. 

Alice just barely started learning "I am a Child of God" this week. After last week when we talked about trying to remember Jesus more, she asked Dallas to teach her a song about Jesus. So this is the one she is working on.

Lucy starts off playing "I am a Child of God" and then says she want to play the "Mommy Song" which is actually called "Love is Spoken Here". The "Mommy Song" used to be one of her favorite songs to have Dallas sing to her when he got her to bed. We hardly sing to her at bedtime now because she just falls asleep with the girls. 

I took this picture of Emma because I wanted to remember her love for ketchup-mayo sandwiches. We discovered this love of hers a couple months back when we were having hamburgers. Emma and Alice had been requesting hamburgers for a long time so we figured they'd be pretty excited. I asked Emma what she would like on hers. "Umm, I would like a hamburger with ketchup, mayo, cheese, and no meat." Uh, Emma. The meat is what makes it a hamburger. Since then, we have realized that all she really needs to have a "hamburger" is ketchup, mayo, and cheese. I also took this picture to remind myself Emma is growing up! Today she tried to make her sandwich all by herself.

And here's Alice diligently working on coloring the postcards we got from the Epcot at Disney World back in February. I have thought about throwing these away many times, but I always stop because I remember how much my girls love coloring and how much they loved Disney World. Seeing how excited Alice was to find and color these postcards reassured me that keeping these cards was a good choice.

This might be weird..but I took a selfie of my favorite/most efficient/most comfortable way to nurse the babies. I prop myself right next to the arm rest on the firm couch and hold the babies with one baby's head on the other baby's tummy. Don't worry, I hold that head so it's not squishing the other baby's tummy. I usually have Mabel on the bottom because she is bigger than Olive. 

While I was sitting here nursing, I took a video of Alice coloring and Emma writing out all the words to the song we'd learned that morning. She said she wanted to remember it so she was going to write it all out and then she would teach it to her friends this week and sing it with them.

Candy-sorting time! I forgot about this oh-so-important part of Halloween til I saw a video my friend had posted of her kids sorting way back when. So, here we are - sorting into chocolate and non-chocolate. I'm always surprised that my kids like anything non-chocolate (because that is all I like). Which is unfortunate, because I was looking forward to getting rid of a lot of candy but in the end, we kept pretty much all of it.

Alice was really excited to show me how much of the song she knew with actions.

I love her sweet voice.

Pie time! I have never really enjoyed pumpkin pie. But holy cow. I don't know if my taste buds have changed or Dallas is the world's greatest pumpkin pie maker, but this pie was SO GOOD! There is not much left...

Dallas reading with the babes. You'll notice that now BOTH girls have outfits that say something about daddy.

Here's a close-up of just the babes :)

The girlies ended the night by playing with glow sticks with their friend/practically sister. They loved it. My favorite part was peeking out the front door and seeing Lucy zoom by in her light-up scooter, with her dress flying and glow sticks all over her neck and wrists.