happy little ladies

Maelle is in the red swing- Macy is in the blue!

I weighed the girls today and Macy was 16lbs 4oz and her little sister was a whole pound smaller!! I knew Maysen was heavier and I've been thinking that they look a lot different, lately, but I had no idea that it was such a huge weight difference. The most different they've ever been before was 1/2 a pound. Guess it really pays to love to nurse and be the calmer one who's not so good at climbing the stairs- you have more time to put on weight!

my new workout routine

 Before the twins started taking regular morning naps from somewhere around 8:30-11 every morning I went to the gym almost every day...since they started this new napping routine I have almost discontinued going to the gym :( It was a hard thing to give up- as it was a nice break from the kiddos and a nice time to chat with my friend and workout buddy, but as life gets easier time away from my kids becomes a lot less necessary, and absolutely it becomes a lot less necessary when it involves dealing with cranky kiddos for the rest of the day! So, you may ask...what am I doing to keep myself in shape and loose some of my twin baby fat?? Well, I have a new workout routine...

for cardio I switch up my routine, about every 5 minutes, but it includes: 

bike riding...it may be at the speed a 3 year old can peddle, but I think I make up for the speed in the fact that I pull 3 kids in a burley behind my bike 

cleaning up after my kiddos....my twinnies can definitely make quite a mess and haven't quite learned the art of picking it up, so I spend quite a bit of my day sweeping up after they eat and putting the toys away that they get out 

 chasing after my little twinnies. These little "movers" keep me on my toes and enjoy getting into trouble of some kind or another....keeping them away from trouble takes quite a lot of running and chasing after them! 

                             

for "weights" I do some pretty exciting stuff- carrying 4 kiddos around. Luckily for me, they are varying sizes and shapes, so I get a fairly varied routine during the day!

 lifting all 4 of them in and out of the bathtub is a great upper body and lower body workout :)

 My kids are a great workout routine (not to mention all the running up and down the stairs- carrying laundry baskets and kiddos), but I would have to say that the best part of my new routine is 9 months and going and that is nursing! I burn probably close to 1,000 calories a day just sitting in a chair or on the floor wrestling my 2 wild monkeys getting them to eat, errr...I mean, snuggling and feeding my sweet precious cherubs :) While I do really miss the gym and my dear workout partner I think I'm going to be ok in the "keeping weight off" department :) (for a while anyways)

mini-me's

Last night we went on a bike ride and Hailey was really having a hard time keeping up. That in itself isn't a huge surprise, but then I saw that she was dragging her foot every once in a while, which was kind of curious...but, then I noticed that I dragged my foot every once in a while, in an attempt to slow down and wait for her without riding the brake the whole time. She just copied exactly what I was doing- without even knowing why! Later, Korey's chain fell off his bike and he got off and walked his bike home...without even missing a beat, Hailey got off her bike and started walking it home. Our kids copying us is absolutely precious to watch, but kind of scary in reality! It's so fun to see them do the nice and cute things that we do. I love to see Hailey and Jack rock the babies or try to give them their sippy cups. It's adorable to hear them play, "Miss Jenni and Mr Korey", as they are right now. It's sweet when they sing to their baby dolls or "work on stuff" like Daddy. What's not quite so endearing is when they yell, scream, "bark" or talk meanly to one another. It's not so precious when I hear Hailey saying, "no Allie, go away, you're irritating me" or say to Jackson, "go to bed, right now, no more talking and no more smiling" :) Or to say to Korey, "I don't get Hailey, she's perfectly happy and cheerful until she doesn't get what she wants, then she's off to her room pouting and throwing a little fit" and to just have him look at me....and realizing that that's how I respond when I don't get my way! (eeeh!)

 I know we're not responsible for all the bad things our kids do and they have little sin natures of their own, so they're more than capable of coming up with bad things to do or say on their own, but it's very humbling to see and hear your own sin being lived out in your kids!  

That is one of the biggest reasons why I'm so thankful for the verse, Philippians 1:6, that says, 

"Being confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it until the day of Jesus Christ"

I know that we aren't going to be perfect parent's, I'm not going to be a perfect wife or have perfect children- we are all going to screw up and make mistakes- the goal is that we don't stay there. We want to keep growing and maturing and striving towards the goal of being made perfect and complete in Christ. Hopefully, as we grow in our relationship with the Lord and our kids grow into a relationship with the Lord, we can all spur one another on- in the right direction!!