May Days

I have almost no pictures of all 4 of my kids together so when an opportunity presents itself I am going to take it! Of course it is when they are in pajamas or no pajamas as some are preparing for a bath. But it was cute anyway.

These next 4 pictures are from a series of photos taken by Jensen while I was in the shower. He got a hold of my camera and took about 25 pictures, these are just 4. I will spare you the others as they are mostly random items in our house. These are of his siblings and not too bad for a 4 year old.



The advantage of having a husband who is a plumber is that we get new sink fixtures when other clients replace the ones they have. Cree put a faucet in our kitchen that was almost new from a family he did a side job for. They got a new one and we got the leftover almost new one! Of course we have two plumber apprentices.
We went swimming last week in grandma Mitzi's pool so we had to have a picture of the first time the babies got to be in the pool. They both loved it and splashed and kicked their legs. It will be a fun summer to have everyone swimming together.
My friend Carrie who lives in Colorado came to visit her mom in Riverside last week and so I took my kids down to Riverside to spend the afternoon and evening with Carrie and her three kids. Our friend Katie brought her four kids as well and we all had dinner together. It was really fun and between the three of us we have almost twelve kids! (Carrie is going to have her 4th in a few months.) These are the only pictures I got one of the boys and one with Carrie, Katie and I and my twin babies and Katie's four month old baby. It was so much fun to visit and catch up. I am so grateful for my girlfriends who have grown up with me and continue to be my friends. I am glad we can go through motherhood together!

Spring Events

These are some things that we have been up to lately. My mom and I gave my brother's wife Christina a family baby shower on Saturday. She got so many cute things, I told her that I hope she doesn't mind that Callie was going to suddenly have some matching things in her closet!
Now both Riley and Callie can stand up in their crib. Callie almost has crawling down and Riley thinks he should be able to walk by himself. So we have lots of bruises on heads already!
All the kids in the wagon out for a stroll in our front yard. Everyone loves to be outside!
Jensen and Tyler's Easter baskets. Of course we can't see Tyler's because he has to see what his brother is doing and then repeat the action exactly. So we saw Tyler's after the picture was taken.
Riley and Callie in one of the few matching outfits that they have. I should say coordinating not matching. Riley would not look too good in a skirt!
The boys outside at grandma's house. Resting from running and playing on the slide.
The running. Hence the reason for the resting above. So cute and so fun to have all these wonderful, good, active children! I am so blessed!

7 Month Old Twins

Okay so this is obviously not the twins, but as a side note, what kind of cure is there for a 2 year old who bites his nails to the nub? Is life really that stressful or is it just a habit he has because of some unknown reason? I wish I knew and could find a good safe cure.
Also these are out of order as usual, but here is Riley who at 6 months was crawling and at almost 7 months is standing up in his crib and on the furniture and anywhere else he can pull himself up to. What am I going to do? I thought I would have a bit more time before I had to be pulling him off of things.
The babies can both sit up and make all kinds of babbling sounds. They are still so happy and so fun. We can't wait for summer when we can all go swimming and be beach babies. Disneyland has gotten easier and life in general is becoming more routine. I guess until they start walking around!

Jensen's 4th Birthday

Jensen blowing out the candles on his cake. He got to go to lunch all by himself with my mom on the day of his birthday. He thinks he is very grown up and says things like "Tyler when I was your age I did that" and "I can put the bathtub plug up on it's hook because I am 4 now." We just love him and all the funny things he says and does.
This was the cake he chose out of a book of cakes I have(thank you to Nora). But he wanted my mom to make it not me! That was okay as I was (and am) trying to juggle cooking time with baby and toddler time. She did a fabulous job as I knew she would and it looked just like the picture in the book.

3 Months

So we've made it to three months. Alas I am always a bit sad as my babies get older, but it just gets more fun as we go through each stage. These babies are so good and they have been sleeping through the night. The boys love them and they smile and talk all the time. Overall it has been so fun to have 2 babies at our house. Because they are boy and girl I don't really think of them as twins but just as two babies. I haven't torn all my hair out yet, but I rarely leave my house! It is incredibly time consuming to get four kids out the door. That is when they all feel like they are the same age! Hopefully I will continue to post each month, so I can keep track of the changes.

Halloween

Since this is my first year with four small children to outfit for Halloween our attempt was a little bit lacking. I wanted them all to match or have the same theme so the only thing I had the time and the inclination for was spiders. My mom fortunately was able to really help and sew the spider arms since she has the sewing machine and I don't. The kids cooperated really pretty well and even for being a bit of a lame attempt they looked kind of cute anyway. We had our ward Halloween party on Friday night and the kids had a blast trick or treating around the rooms and playing the little games for the primary kids. On Saturday we went to my grandparents house and Cree's dad's house very briefly. Hopefully if I start now, next year's Halloween will much better in the costume department!

Callie and Riley. (I know who is who but it is kind of hard to tell in some pictures.)

Disneyland!

So my mom and I decided to take all the kids to Disneyland for the twins first ever trip.( We took both of the boys to Disneyland when they were 4 weeks old, the twins were 8 weeks old.) So can I just say (and I never thought I would say this about Disneyland) NIGHTMARE! Okay so we were outnumbered 2 to 1 and that was bad enough. But it was so crowded because of Halloween time and 2 double strollers and that many people do not make for easy maneuvering down Main Street. So we got on no rides, had to eat dinner at the Bakery (the only place that we could take the strollers through the line with us) and couldn't even stay for the fireworks because we were so exhausted by then. My mom and I spent most of the evening laughing incredulously that we had even attempted this. So our next trip will consist of at least one adult to every kid and probably one more just in case! So here are the few pictures I was able to grab before we left.

Tyler's 2nd Birthday and the Twins Blessing

My baby is two years old now! I can't believe how fast it went by. The years seem to go faster with every kid you have. Tyler is really a lot of fun, a bit mischievous but just so darn cute! The look he gives us when he is doing something naughty just makes it so hard to be mad. He still loves the babies and tries to always pick them up. He adores Jensen and must do all of the same things that Jensen does. It is really interesting to watch.
He is my food lover kid. Well, him and Callie. He will eat most anything and loves all meal times.
This is outside our building after the twins blessing. All of our families and friends that gathered are here. Cree did a great job but said it was a little bit hard to do two blessings right in a row. The babies were so good through each of their blessings. We had a nice lunch after church at my mom's house and had a very relaxing afternoon. All in all it was a very nice day.

The great grandparents of the babies. Grandpa Cree and grandma Ila Kofford and grandma Renee Reed. Grandpa Roy Speirs left before we could get a picture of him.

The Joy of Motherhood

This is Riley waving to the camera. Actually he does not wave on his own yet, but because he is a newborn and they wave their arms frantically, Tyler is convinced that the babies are waving "hello" to him. He loves it and says "momma baby waving" with a huge grin.
This is our Tyler look a like, Callie. They have so many similarities already. She is a pound bigger than Riley at almost 8 pounds. She has so many of Tyler's looks it will be interesting to see how they compare when the twins get bigger.
Riley is 7 pounds at one month and Callie is almost 8 pounds at one month. We should have put Callie behind Riley so she could have looked smaller than her brother, but they are both so cute it doesn't really matter who is bigger than who.
I have to say there is no way to describe how it feels to have twin babies come to our house. I think only if you have had twins would you even begin to know how to explain. It is such a humbling, wonderful, scary and awe inspiring feeling all wrapped up together. They are so amazing. It is so, so fun to have two babies at once. I feel that if I ever have any more children and they came just one at a time, I would feel like the second one was missing and it just would not feel right. We are so blessed to have had these two children come together to our home. I'm glad that one of them grabbed the other's hand on their way down from heaven. They must have known something that I'm only just beginning to discover. How can any one not feel the presence of the spirit when they have children in their home? My four perfect babies just confirm to me each day how much we are loved by those in our home from above. I love motherhood!

Babies, Babies, Babies

Okay, sorry I can not get the pictures in order or write better captions, but I have two toddlers wreaking havoc in the house and I am too technologically impaired to try to figure out how to improve the blog. Enjoy the pictures, I will try to be better next time.

Loving to be on the outside, but still close together.

Some cute new outfits for the cute new babies.

All four of the Chang kids in order of birth Jensen 3 1/2 Tyler 22 mos. Callie 4 days Riley 4 days
Grandma Celia in heaven with two! new babies to hold.

This is Callie and Riley in the hospital just before we got to leave. The newborn clothes obviously are meant for actual newborn size babies.

They love to be together and they are so small they fit in the same swing.

This spontaneously happened and I had to get a picture of their intertwined arms.