Wow, am I getting bad at this! I may resort to just posting pictures to keep everyone up to date - even our weekends get away from me these days! this is such an amazing time in our little family. Annie is talking like crazy and, as everyone knows, when your baby starts talking everything that comes out of their mouth is adorable! Annie is no exception - there were a few days when every sentence ended with "all day", then she entered the "um" phase of imitating Molly by putting um before most words, now we sing everything and, I have to say, this may be my favorite. Of course, now that she is talking, Annie wants to talk on the phone so all of my poor relatives are getting phone calls with a loud Hi and then baby babble for a few minutes followed by a very sweet "bye bye" and the apology from Mommy for making them listen (or not listen)! So that's Annie and the babies are equally as adorable - Lizzie is sitting up and playing all the time while smiling at anyone who makes eye contact and Ellie is almost sitting up and blows rasbperries all the time. Peter is amazingly mature these days - he has long conversations with us about important things and is really interested in hearing what we have to say. Peter is in to Biographies and Autobiographies and he can spend hours telling us about the people he reads about. His teacher is SO cool - she is teaching them about Lou Gehrig and in the process taching the kids about what it would be like to be alive at that time - including all about the cars of the time and all sorts of other stuff. I love hearing Peter's enthusiasm. And Molly did the BEST thing this week - she totally GOT money! Money is terrible to teach kids - my least favorite thing if you ask me - it always seems obvious and easy to me but it takes FOREVER for them to learn it! But my girl has it down cold! Can you say Brilliant? I'm thrilled to be done with trying to act patient!

Ellie had so much fun in the exersaucer that she just got pooped out!How cute is our girl?This is the hat that Annie got in the hospital when she was born - the kids put it on Ellie and it actually looked adorable!Sweet baby girl!She's a thumb sucker - no doubt about it!Molly had a cousins sleepover on Friday night and they all had a blast. Bob went to a movie with Colin so it was just me and the 8 kids - very few pictures!She loves books already!Katie came to visit but didn't get to sleep over - not yet!Molly loving on Katie!Abby and Julia ended up sleeping on the same mattress - Julia was trying to get closer and closer to Abby but Abs kept moving further over - it was very cute! Check out Abby's drool!And then there's the princess all sprawled out! My beautiful goddaughter sleeping!Is there anything better than a toddler with an ice cream cone?Annie wasn't too anxious to leave for the beach with Papa - right?kisses for Mommy and Daddy!Annie and her favorite pal - Papa!Lizzie is sitting up and having a blast!She even looked through the flahscards - brilliant!

What a face - I love the personality on that sweet baby girl! We have a busy weekend - Molly's dance recital, the Memorial Day Parade, memorial Day at the beach house - hint hint, Mom and Dad!

GNM - ILY!