We found out today our little Max has croup. I feel so bad as he struggles to breath. The dr. said if I would have waited to come in we would have been looking at hospitalization :( glad I listened to that mommy instinct!
I took the twins in for their 4 month check up on the 8th of Dec. They are doing great! Here are the stats: Cooper is 25 inches (47%) he weighed an even 14 lbs (26%) and his head was 17.25 inches (76%). He has lots of brains the dr. says. Amelia wasn't far off percentage wise. She was 24 1/2 inches (53%) she weighed 12 lbs 13 oz (26%) and her head is 42 cm (72%) I don't know why one is inches and the other cm but they both have lots of brains :) I feel very blessed to get to be a mother of twins!
Once upon a time there was a dress. It wasn't just any dress, it was a red dress. My MBM girls, you know what I am talking about and maybe you can help with the story. So circa 1999, I went shopping for dresses with my mother. This wasn't just any dress shopping trip, it was for dresses for my mission. I saw this pure red dress with red buttons up the entire front. It had a collar and was kinda like a blouse that went to the tops of my ankles. It had tie backs around the middle and was 100% polyester. My mother wasn't a huge fan. But she liked it enough and there was no talking me out if it. It was a very durable dress but also looked very professional (for the day and age.) I wore this dress to any mission event as I felt like I was "putting on my best." I didn't realize how often I wore this dress to mission conferences etc.. until it somehow became my signature dress. This photo is the only picture I have of me in it that is currently scanned on my computer. It isn't very good but you get the idea! It not only became my signature dress but red became my favorite color and still is to this day. 
Well, so when I saw this tiny red Christmas dress I fell in love with it for my daughter. I knew that she would look adorable in it (and she does!) I know that this will be the first of many red dresses that I buy for this little girl. She will probably hate red dresses when she is older. But I think she is darling!
This is one of my favorite things! I love that Turner loves books. I really love that he loves to "read" to his younger siblings Ü I hope that the love Josh and I have for reading gets handed down to them!
Today I am overwhelmed with the feeling of gratitude. I just feel so blessed that I get a front seat to my children's lives. I am a very rich woman indeed! Rich with blessings beyond measure!
we spent the month giving Thadeus our Thankful Turkey feathers by thinking of things that we were thankful for! It was really fun to see the boys think of things they were they were thankful for! About half the time Max was thankful for Jesus :) It was cute and I loved it! I think one of my favorite moments was when he declared he was thankful for "Toop Toop and Melia!" at the top of his voice in such a cute sing song way! Some of our other favorites were friends, going to preschool, the Barkers, snowflakes, dolphins, Daddy, food and "this pizza right here."
We loved it and I think we have started a new tradition! Although since I have seen a couple of places where they did it with a tree branch and fall leaves, much cuter so we shall see, something of the sort hopefully will be done by the Thomson family each year. 
Ok so since I figured out how to blog from my phone, I may be posting a lot of these one picture one line posts!
The big twins sitting in the bumbo chairs! Sometimes it isn't until I take a picture that I realize how big my kids are getting!
I am going to attempt to get a good picture of all four of my kids. I realize this is a very lofty goal! I am going to keep track of all my attempts in the mean time. So here is attempt number 1. So the twins are screaming... maybe I shouldn't try to do it right at nap time.
The other night I was trying to get my big boys in bed and trying really hard not to get frustrated with the dragging of the feet. Yet I wasn't doing so good. I have really really really tried lately to not make threats that I know I won't follow through on. So when Turner was playing instead of putting on his PJ's, in a moment of "I don't remember how I am suppose to handle this situation" (that moment happens a lot around here,) I blurted out "if you don't get your PJ's on right now you will regret it!"
Well, he started crying and said "I won't gret it!" then he completely breaks down and in pure frustration he cries out "I don't know what gret it means!" It made me laugh, take a step back and really try to enjoy just being with my adorable kids.
So I finished the placemats the next day! Here they are. It works great. I can have Turner set the table and he knows where to put everything- even my husband can set the table properly now. And I love how cute they are!
And the idea was 100% totally out of my own head!
It is kind of a tradition around here to get mysterious treats dropped off during Halloween called being Boo-ed. We have watched year after year as people around us have been boo-ed and we haven't. But this year we got boo-ed! So we made these treats to boo fellow neighbors :)
The Cat:
She really does like to pose for the camera!
This is our first mother/daughter picture! We are getting ready for church Halloween day. If you recognize the skirt it is left over material from Max's fish costume.
So these aren't the best pictures of the twins but you take what you can get, and these smiles melt my heart! 
Um... she reminds me of someone....
Oh yeah me!
Turner wrangling the dino!
This may look crazy but compare it to my earlier shopping trip to Joanns. I had to get some material for Halloween costumes. I put the car seats in my top twin tool... the double snap n go. Which we scored at a yard sale for $8.
I then bribe my two oldest with a trip to McDonalds if the behave. Don't judge me.... I knew I would have to feed the babies before I could make it home and so McDonalds and the mall are the best options for me- the kids can play while I nurse 2 babies. So I have the two babies in there with two older ones holding on and trying to push through the small bolt lined aisles. It worked great (I had done Joanns once before with flying colors) UNTIL I needed to get 3 different colors of felt by the yard. Those bolts are HUGE and LONG. Plus I had two other materials which were super slippery. I had tried to stack them all up on the handle. It wasn't working very well as I kept hitting things on all sides of me. I am trying to get to the cutting counter and I can see the take a number dial in front of me. I tell Turner to run ahead and "get a number" so he goes in front of me and starts grabbing sale tags off of sewing machines... duh mom he was just doing what you asked, there are numbers on those! Finally I push my way up to the dial just to have a lady with one small thing in her hand walk in front of me and snatch a number. The other ladies at the counter had PILES of bolts. Poor Cooper kept having bolts fall down on him. After I got the material cut, we played a little choo choo train as Turner held my pockets and Max held onto Turner's hood on his sweatshirt. We were probably 15 feet long from Amelia to Max and the most entertaining thing in the store.
So the worst part was after Joanns, after Walmart and we finally got to McDonalds. I was nursing Amelia and she had just finished so I was going to get Cooper. I thought I had pulled my shirt back down but I had a button-up sweater on and a nursing cover so I guess I had been lulled into a false security. Max happened to bump his head and was running to me, needing a kiss to make it all better, so the whole PlayPlace was looking at me and I bent over and my nursing cover went one way and the sweater went another and I had NOT pulled down my shirt, or pulled up my bra. One guy in specific was looking straight at me- for a second, before he quickly looked away... that is what gave me the clue that my shirt had indeed not been pulled down. I was hanging out like a picture in the National Geographic. So how are your shopping trips? :)
Poor little guy! I hate it when my kids are wiped out with a fever!
This is us having yet another PJ day!
