Elise is now two weeks old! That was the fastest two weeks I have ever experienced! Before church last sunday, we decided to do a photo shoot with the girls. They were very cooperative.
Yesterday Santa Clause can to the library to read books and surprise surprise, my children actually sat on his lap! It was fun to watch them sing with and listen to Santa.
Sleeping peacefully
This makes my heart melt!
I thought she looked like the abominable pink snowman.
We are excited to have her here with us, and really excited to have a name for our precious Christmas present. Even though my mom had warned me that third labors are always different, this one was pretty much the same as the other two: quick and uneventful, which is great but makes for a pretty boring story! But here is the breakdown
On Thanksgiving the girls went to the circus with Grandma Maralu and Aunt Alisha! They loved it and have been playing "tiger doing tricks" everyday since. The game consists of Kate telling Lily to jump, dance, and do other things for pretend treats.
For those of you who were just dying to know what we do all day, here it is! Dance around in panties and sing into whisks. Don't you wish you could come over?
Here is her grunge guitarist face. Lily was moving around so much I couldn't get her guitar pose. 
The two little witches who don't like to take pictures...
Just thought this was funny!
One of the kids at church dressed up like Drew, pretty good huh?
Drew was very excited to win the trunk decorating contest at church.
Last week Drew, the girls, and I went out to Emerald Isle, NC for a Heckert family vacation. It was beautiful and so relaxing.
This is the view from the beach house all of us stayed out. Pretty cool, huh?
We tried to take family pictures while we were out there. Of course, 5 seconds before it was our family's turn, Drew accidentally knocks Kate in the head and she cries the WHOLE TIME! I was not very simpathetic. Lily started crying in the big family shot when I dared to pick her up and move her...she recieved even less sympathy. Why do children always seem to cry during pictures? Maybe its a test to see how loving the mommy is...
As reviewed on the previous post, we have had a clogged kitchen sink over the weekend. I really really really didn't want to call a plumber over a clogg, so this morning we called Home depot to see if there was a machine we could rent that could help us out. Fantastically, there was such a machine, called the "electric eel!" For $40 and 30 minutes of work we were finally able to reach the elusive clogg and get our sink working again. Take that outrageous plumber prices!!! Drew is the official hero of the day for saving us money and a headache!!!
I made it to 28 weeks! It is hard to believe my due date is only 12 weeks away when it is still 90 degrees outside! Our family is anxiously awaiting our little "Christmas Present!"
Saturday night brought about another milestone in the Heckert household. Kate and Lily were in their room when Kate starts screaming like a maniac. Drew goes in there to discover Kate with a huge gash in her head. I followed soon after to find three shocked individuals with eyes as big as saucers. After a quick clean up and some ibuprofen, we went off to convenient care for some fun!!! Kate was really calm and brave except for the actual stitching part, but who is calm with needles near their face? The picture above is from last night, right before bed.
This is from tonight during the band aid change. Looks pretty good, but you can see it was a pretty big gash!
This week we went to the Doctor to see how much we were growing! Kate is 45 1/2 inches tall (105%)and weighs 48 pounds (89%). Lily is 36 lbs (89%) and 39 1/2 inches (94%). Both are healthy,happy little girls!!!
During our trip we headed up to Preston, ID to visit my grandparents.
A much safer view point!
Enjoying the cool Idaho summer evening. I think it might have been in the 70s. Loved it!
; Kate and Lily with "Mama 'Zina" and "Papa Clair."Papa gave them a ride in his scooter!