Houseful of Kids

Okay so there are officially 6 days until the wedding, and Abe and I couldn't be more nervous! There's actually not much left to do, but we are starting to get a little freaked. Neither of us are to excited to walk down the longest aisle I've ever seen in any church I've ever been to in front of 100 people! But this time next week, we'll be relaxing on the beach with Alex, so it's all good. In an effort not to look like complete fools on the dance floor we practiced slow and fast dancing last night after we put Alex to bed. I'm not telling what our first song is...it'll have to be a surprise! I think we're getting better at it though. Dancing has never been my thing, but I know we'll have to do it at the wedding, so we're honing our skills for the big day. I am going to the salon around 4:30 today to get my hair done as a trial run for the wedding, so we'll have to see how it turns out. I'm definitely having it put up,since our wedding is taking place during the hottest time of year! What's kind of funny is, we're actually already married and are coming up on our one year aniversary- September 21! So we have to decide which date we want to celebrate as our anniversary. I think we're probably going to celebrate the September 21st one, because that's also the anniversary of the day we met, so it has even more special meaning to us. On a side note, Alex started solids with rice cereal about 2 months ago, but on Saturday, he started eating strained veggies. His first real food---Carrots! He loved them, and hasn't shown any signs of having problems with them. I think we'll try a fruit next--maybe bananas. I could tell that he was really ready to start eating other things, because he is starting to grab at our food, and he is opening his mouth and swallowing his rice cereal instead of spitting most of it out. I can't believe he'll be 5 months old tomorrow! Almost half a year has gone by since he was born. It's hard to believe how big he has gotten. Baby Julia was over at Abe's Mom's on Sunday with all the kids and looking at their sizes compared to her is amazing. I can't believe Alex was once her size. Speaking of Baby Julia, Sunday was our first time having 5 kids at Abe's Mom's house and it was wild! LOL. During lunch we had one baby in the swing and one baby in the bounder next to the swing. While we were all packing up and getting ready to leave, the kids were all so loud together that you could hear them in the street! LOL. It was fun to see them all together though. Some pictures follow from yesterday and the rest of last week...

 

Alex opening wide for his first taste of carrots

Smiling in his bumbo seat

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                               Big Smile!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Baby Julia in her pink dress

The two babies--Julia and Alex!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lola with the babies

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      Abe and Dylan

Abe holding baby Julia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria with a lap full of kids

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   Maria holding Julia