The party pics!

Here are the party pics of the girls at their first birthday party invite. They had so much fun & the venue where it was held was sooooo perfect for all of the 2 year olds!

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If the previous post was confusing, I'm sorry! The "WHAT IS IT?" was our new Lazy Susan. It is so perfect and we are really excited about it. I promise Mom that it won't always be used as a riding toy, but I think we do need to get a sit & spin.

What is it????

The other day we had a huge, strange, VERY heavy box arrive. We waited for Beau to come home from work to undoe the packaging & to move it. Needless to say, it was nothing that I would ever have imagined, and yet the MOST perfect thing for a large family! I think the video clip says it all:

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I can't wait to start having family dinners around this! We are so greatful for this generous gift. Thank you!!!!
EDIT: The "what is it" is the Large Lazy Susan! It is 30in in diameter and will be perfect for putting things on & spinning it around for everyone to get my amazing cooking! (ok, mac & cheese out of the box counts!)

Stayed tuned! The girls went to their first birthday party. They had a blast getting all ready in their party dresses. Ms. Emily even shared some lip gloss with the girls since there would be boys at the party! I mean, a girl's gotta look good, right? And by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESTON & LANDRY!!!!!!



And yesterday was the Gerwer Quads Birthday! Congratulations on being one!

Introducing MISO Pottery

My mom, who is one of the most creative and amazing people I know, has now entered into the blogging world! Go NONI!!!!! Her blog/new adventure, Sony's World of Mud & Yarn is going to showcase new work, let people know where her work can be seen or purchased, what she's doing, with the clay, yarn, wood and fibers and where she hopes to go with all of this. She is amazingly gifted and talented and much of her work is now in galleries throughout Texas & Louisiana and in yarn stores like Yarntopia in Katy, TX. It has been so much fun watching and being a part of this journey with her. I was with her when she bought her first potter's wheel & sat in one of her first knitting classes. I guess after teaching me, everyone else has been a piece of cake! (She had to take pain pills to teach me!!!! She says it was because she just broke her ankle, but I'm not so sure). Since then she teaches all the time & if she isn't teaching, she's painting or throwing. I can only hope I can share some of the love of the creative arts with my girls that my mom has shared with me! And I can't wait to see Noni teach my girls to knit & make their own horse hair or Raku piece of pottery.
You can also see alot of her work at her website Misopottery.com . AND if you are in the Dallas area, we will be at the DFW Fiber Festival with a booth in late April. Wish us luck that we sell lots & lots!!!!
Here is Skye modeling Noni's Shrug. If you got one of Christmas cards, you got to see all of the girls in the shrugs she knitted & designed for them.
One of her "artsy" pieces as my dad calls it. This is one of her Raku fired pieces.

And here is one of her "practical" pieces (on one of her knitted shawls). I LOVE the coffee cups, because of them being hand thrown, when you put them in the microwave the coffee gets hot & not the cup! You can actually hold the cup! I love that since I seem to have to re-heat my coffee a million times these days!

Then & Now

Here is one of our favorite pictures of all four of the girls when they were really little.

And two years later........



I couldn't believe when they all sat on the couch today with their blankets. Needless to say I had to take a picture and compare it to the other one. They have gotten so big!

A High-Five for JuJu!

JuJu had her annual assessment for ECI yesterday & hearing tests today. We are beyond thrilled at her progress, but to have it validated and in writing is so awesome!
Here are the results from the assessment & the progress since last year:

Yesterday 1-8-09 at the age of 25 months
She scored:
Communication- 21 months ( 11 months progress)
Self-help- 26 months ( one month advanced)
Physical - 22 months (13 months of progress)
Cognition- 22 months ( 10 months of progress)
Social- 26 months ( one month advanced)

And on her hearing test, she responded to as low as 15decibels (WITHOUT the hearing aides) and that is considered within the normal range! So we may be getting rid of those for good (Oh, I hope!)

So THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU for all of you who have prayed, followed, and offered your support.
And HUGE, HUGE THANK YOU'S to ALL of her therapists! You are such a huge part of her success!

My Little Artists

We took the girls today to Pee Wee's Picasso. It was so wonderful & the girls just LOVED it! They did so well and I'm so proud of them. Hope this little montage will brighten your day as much as it did mine!

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Happy New Year!

I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! 2008 was a great year and we hope that 2009 will be more of the same (though Beau did say something about a budget last night!?!?!?) Again, I want to thank everyone so much for all of the nice comments on the blog & from out Christmas cards this year. I know I missed a few people, but our address book was having some techinical difficulties.

I do want to wish LSU & TEXAS congratulations on their bowl wins! The girls even got in the spirit with wearing their new TEXAS cheer outfits.The Urech Cheer Squad getting prepared for the big game!
Hook 'em HORNS! GO Texas!
Don't worry, they were still cheering Geaux Tigers too!
I have some great pics from them playing yesterday in this, so watch for a slideshow.
THis is actually how we spent the first couple of days of the New Year~ snotty noses & lots of coughing! This is the first year we aren't "quarantining" the girls during RSV season so we have had a few more colds. Luckily we have been fortunate in not getting RSV, but we still are avoiding the major germ places!
River taking it very easy. Poor thing was so stuffy and not feeling good that day. The girls are pretty much over it now & it seemed to be minor. As my Grandma would say, it was just the "meanness" coming out!
Yes, we have streakers! This is our new daily thing! We strip to nothing, throw our diaper over the baby gate & then runaround like crazy-babies! THe LOVE IT! I swear if they could be naked all day they would, especially Skye & JuJu (big shock I know!). So here they are trailing after Beau to get clothes. They have decided if they get undressed then they have to get new clothes. Well all of their clothes are in the guest room which they LOVE. They like it because of the bed which is their favorite thing to jump on. However, the other day someone decided to "spring a leak" and the bed is now in time-out. HA!
Oops, they are awake! More later, Mist