18 months old.....already!?!?!?

Here are my sweet sweet 18 month old babies! We went to the dr. last tuesday (3 shots each=NO funx3!) and they all got a perfect bill of health! Avery is still the shortest and lightest, but she's catchin up fast! She weighs 23lbs 2oz (18 months ago she was 3lbs 6oz!), and is 31.5"tall. She's in the 50% and 25% on the charts! Zach is 23lbs 8oz (18 months ago, 3lbs 4oz) and is 32.75" tall, also 50% and 25%! And the big boy Colby is 26lbs 6oz (18 months ago 3lbs 11oz) and is 33.25" tall, in the 75% and 50%!! While we were there, the dr. asked me how many words they said....i was caught way off guard, and guessed in the range of 12-20. When i got home though, i started listing everything they say, and the list is well over 30!!! Way to go talking babies! My all time favorite is "I yah yah"....I love you. They all say it, sponateously and on their own, and know exactly what they are saying, and it melts my heart every time!

We have had lots of fun with this wonderful (sometimes too warm!) fall weather! We went to HallZOOween last weekend at the Cincinnati Zoo! It was a beautiful day and a great time! They had "treat stations" around the zoo...and by far the favorite was the banana ("nana" station!)

(Snugglin with Mamaw! They're getting so big all 3 barely fit...and when they do fit....they aren't smiling, they are pushing to try to get their 'space' back!)

Yabba Dabba Dooo!!!
This weekend was my multiple's group fall festival! We had a blast! (And won the 'most original' costume contest!!) It was the perfect location for my crew to run around and have fun! We went on a trail walk through the woods, ate a yummy hot dog and mac and cheese dinner, went trick or treating and ate lots of treats....doesn't get much better than that!!

Fred and BamBam

Fred and Dino (this is pre-pumpkin accident. =( Colby found a little pumpkin and was carrying it across the yard and fell....and dropped the pumpkin...well his momentum was going towards the ground, and the pumpkin bounced up off the ground and they met in the middle with a big bump and scrape in the middle of his forehead)

Fred and Pebbles

The whole Flintstone Family

Fall Picnic

We had to run an errand tonight, of course right at dinner time, so instead of dividing and conquering (Josh stays home and feeds the babies and i go out...or vice versa) I packed dinner up and we all went together! We stopped at a park for dinner...and had a BLAST! Pretty much as soon as we "sat" (by sat i mean josh and i sat down on the blanket while the kids ran around and stepped on their food) down, 2 ducks must have smelled us coming. And once the kids saw them, they were in trouble! Avery chased one duck around waving at it and yelling "HI!" And the first thing Zach did when he saw it was made and "Elephant" noise...i guess looking at elephants in pictures makes them look about the size of ducks!....we'll have to work on that one! Then Zach ran after one and was talking to the duck in a language we couldn't understand....but i think he was explaining that the pieces of bread that Josh was throwing to it were going to be shared between the ducks and the babies....b/c that's exactly what happened. They all took turns (kids and ducks) eating the bread out of the grass. We didn't stay too long (hate that it's getting cold and dark so early!), but had tons of fun in the short time we were there!

This is when Zach was talking to them! Wish you could have heard it....it was hilarious! Maybe with a little bit of a french accent??


Here's Avery eating some bread...good thing the ducks were good share-ers


Left the hubby in charge of taking a pic of our picnic, and this is how it turned out...me with a freaky looking hand, and one child completely hidden by another...owell...we were at least all in the same place right?!


The ducks were not scared of us at all!! Just a little intimidated when the babies started chasing them...throught for a second they were going to come sit down on the blanket with us!! =)

Dinner Breakdown: Avery: A few bites of bread, some grass, and a bag of vanilla wafers she wouldn't give up on the way home. Colby: A few bites of his sandwich, and a vanilla wafer or 2 Avery passed to him in the car, Zach: A few bites of bread, some grass....he sits infront of avery, so no wafers =( Ducks:2 slices of cheese (who knew ducks ate cheese!?), and about 3 slices of bread, Cooper: (after we got home and were cleaning out the bags) 1/2 a piece of meatloaf! VERY Nutritional when you go to the park for dinner!