Doubly blessed

James and Cheerios.

2009-05-21T11:04:00.000-07:00

"Look Ellie! It's me and Jeremiah!"
Gotta love twin cheerios.

7 months is a long time for no posting.

2009-05-20T21:28:00.000-07:00

Well, basically. We're 6. We just turned 6. Last week. And 6 year old have extremely busy lives. Usually our days include playing, wrestling,doing some school here and there, wrestling, quoting "Transformer's" movie lines, wrestling, playing in the back yard with our sisters and having nerf gun wars. Today I, Jeremiah, shot one of my nerf darts up in a tree and its stuck. I'm still somewhat depressed about it and hoping a breeze will come along and blow it down soon.
On a lighter note, we spent last week in Myrtle Beach, SC to celebrate our birthday and Mother's Day! We had a blast!
We met this kid named Bobby and he was really nice and we played with him a lot. When Jimmy introduced himself the conversation went down like this..."Hey Bobby, My Name's Jimmy! Wanna know how to spell it? I'll tell ya! J-A-M-E-S. Wanna go swim now?! Lets go!" (All this was said in about 3 seconds. tops.) Bobby was kinda shy at first but he didn't need to talk a whole lot, we did all the talking for all of us. We basically adopted him and he was totally cool with it.
The Twinnettes loved him too and whenever we would go in our room the would ask "Where Bobby? Bobby go night-night?". He doesn't know it, but Bobby has a fan club.

Pictures coming soon.

Vote for Jimmy

2008-10-01T15:49:00.000-07:00

"Rule number one... dont put your head under someone's hiney.

Rule number two... don't steal someone's candy."- Jimmy

If we just live by these two simple rules, the world is sure to be a better place...:)

Guess Who's 4 years old?

2008-09-13T11:20:00.000-07:00

September 10th was Josiah's 4th birthday but it was also his very first birthday in America! We had the whole family over and had lots of fun.

Yay!!

sharks eating whales?

2008-09-13T11:03:00.000-07:00

So the other day, we were home with Ellie and Papa and Ellie was upstairs. Papa thought it was a good idea to let us watch a tv show on animal planet that had a shark eating a whale...right before bedtime. Well, I, (Jeremiah), went running upstairs to tell Ellie what papa was letting us watch and i was pretty excited about this show. Then Ellie came downstairs and told Papa that was probably not the best thing for us to watch right before bed...Silly Papa. Well today I came downstairs and said "Papa, Guess what?! I didnt have a bad dream!! I just have a picture of it in my eye..."

So basically he was like "Thanks dad, now I will have a mental picture of a shark eating a whale for the rest of my life...in my eye."

:)

A much needed update!

2008-06-17T21:19:00.001-07:00

Ellie has been a slacker lately in helping us post. Here are some pictures of us lately and some of the stuff we have been up to!

Jeremiah lost his first tooth!! We started getting allowance for helping mom with things every week.

We have been playing outside whenever we get a chance...as in... when it is not 139850938 degrees out..:-)

Just being Crazy!! We like being crazy. Today Ellie taught us how to play 'London Bridges Falling Down'. That game is like the coolest thing ever cuz you get to grab people and pull them down... and laugh...and...yea, we liked it. We laughed for like 5 minutes straight. Ellie made us stop because we couldn't breath anymore.

Our Lovely friends Mrs. Paige and the Pease girls made us these super cool quilts WHICH we LOVE but we were being boogers in this picture and wouldn't smile. We bring them everywhere with us when we are in the house and are constantly making up games with them or making tents with them...etc.. anyways..we love them.

Here we are doing story time with mom...all decked out in costumes and camo paint.

Josiah is working very intently here on this huge fire truck puzzle as you can see. This, and story time are part of our homeschool preschool. We are writing our names now too! Jeremiah can write his whole name without any help now and writes it constantly. We love to do our school. We cut and paste...capital 'p' in paste...as in we like glue. and we pretty much like to cut stuff up too. Josiah loves to color pictures. we all do and we hang them up in everyones rooms and all over the house really. Ellie says we are gonna take pictures of them and put them on here soon but she is going to China in a few days so it might be a while before we get to post on here again.

Picking strawberries!!

We will post more pictures soon! We have lots of pictures from our beach vacation that we are going to post too!

We are soo cool...

2008-04-27T20:45:00.000-07:00

This is us at the mall with our super cool new sunglasses. We know we are cool...

fun, fun, fun!!!

Quotes from the boys...

2008-04-06T16:58:00.000-07:00

Jimmy: " 'Jao!' ( jer) Don't do that! We gonna yoose our priya-giss!!!"

( apparently jer was doing something that jimmy thought was going to cause them to lose a privelege :)
.......................................................
Jimmy: "You...Ponky!!"
Ellie: "Whats a ponky?"
Jimmy: "You will see!!!"
..........................................................

Jeremiah " We are big boys. When we see bumble bees, we don't cry. We get sticks!!!

..........................................................

Jeremiah again: " Hey papa? Had you known I have a rash on mine arm?"

Papa: " Yes, I did."

Jeremiah: " Ok, I has to go find someone else to tell."
............................................................

( A few months back...)
Mama: " Hey Josiah, did you know that sissy has a baby in her tummy?"

Josiah: " Cool! 'Ina' One!!!!" ( 'Ina' means I want to Josiah)
...........................................................

Josiah: "Ina Ishah Cleam Pleash!!" ( translates to: I want ice cream please!!)
.........................................................

More coming soon....

We are uncles!!! And we are still in preschool!!!

2008-03-20T20:49:00.001-07:00

Today our sister, Melissa, had a baby boy and his name is Vaden Elliot!

Isn't he cute?! We can't wait to meet him

Jeremiah said a couple of days ago..." I sink I goin' to weewee yuv baby Vaden vewwy much." ( or 'he thinks he is going to love him very much!' :) We all are!

Silly Glasses

2008-03-18T19:44:00.001-07:00

These silly glow in the dark glasses are so old but they were somehow found somewhere and have become a favorite toy among the littles as you can see...

Silly Boy Siah!!

Cutie Crick-a-bug

Kerennie-roo

AND Kiki-Zee. AKA Ducky.

Baby Zee again. ( don't you just want to eat them up?!)

Coloring easter eggs!

2008-03-18T14:59:00.000-07:00

Today we colored Easter eggs and it was tons of fun! Here are some pictures:

Us and our Easter books...

So excited!!!

Stirring...

Voila!

"And they are sooooo pwitty!"- Jim

rockin' to chicken little music

2008-02-27T09:51:00.000-08:00

Here we are rockin out to our chicken little music video :) We got Chicken little for Christmas and are totally obsessed. We watch it everyday almost and basically have the whole thing memorized.

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Yeah, Josiah was totally in my bubble and I was totally into my dancing. I got in some trouble for pushing though. :)-Jimmy

Heehee :)

2008-02-25T10:55:00.001-08:00

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Jeremiah's Prayer

2008-02-03T17:52:00.000-08:00

" 'Deo' God, dank you for dis day and for all mine 'bwessins' ( blessings) pwease dus help the babies to get teef. Oh! And pwease help us to figure out a new game to tackle Beej. Amen "

Translation: He thanks God for this day and all of his blessings, adding a prayer for his little sisters to get teeth so that they can eat pizza like him and then... prays to be able to beat his 17 year old brother in a wrestling match. Amen. :)

Oh, and all the while was using a very passionate, dramatic voice.

The joys of having 4 year olds in your home :)

Jeremiah Paul

2008-01-20T10:48:00.000-08:00

Sweet Bebo! He loves his thumb and his burpy and he loves to cuddle. He is such an encourager to the other boys and he is always ( well, most of the time :) so sweet!
He is sick today so he is home with me while the rest of the boys and the girl twins went out with Mom and Dad. They JUST left and he goes over to the window and says: "Ohh, I miss mine vwuzzo's." He is so cute!!
They are cooking with play-doh here and He says: " Wow! Good Job Josiah! That looks really yummy! Good job Jimmay, you are the best cooko evvo."

Well we are gonna go play pop-up pirate or Monopoly...or candyland. He can't decide. ttyl!

Josiah Abel

2008-01-20T10:24:00.000-08:00

We love our baby brother sooo much!! He loves us too and he really LOVES cheerios!!

This is Me ( jeremiah) and Josiah racing around the house on a little firetruck that we broke :) It was a blast while it lasted!

"We have to 'top for our popcorn Gaso-yeen!!" ( Don't worry, Mom made sure we chewed it all up before we started running again!)

We Finally Got Snow!!

2008-01-20T10:17:00.000-08:00

Our HUGE snowman!!

Well.... maybe he wasn't so huge :)

We got a real NC blizzard. A whole inch!! We hope that we get some real snow soon!

CRAZY NC WEATHER!!

2008-01-02T20:22:00.001-08:00

It was snowing here today! It didn't stick but it looked pretty. This is us playing outside a few days before Christmas...in shorts and t-shirts.

This is our 'hamp-sto wheel' or hamster wheel.

Its pretty much awesome.

Line of the week

2007-12-29T14:02:00.000-08:00

The boys have 3 matchbox cars that are firetrucks and they love them, Josiah at the time had 2 and James had 1... leaving Jeremiah with none. So, Here is what jimmy had to say...

Jimmy: "Can 'Jayo' (Jer) have the firetruck?"

Ellie: "Jer can have 'A' firetruck ( meaning one because he might have taken both)"

Jimmy: "Which one is 'A'??"

Just Chillin'

2007-12-04T14:03:00.001-08:00

We LOVE our new brother!!
btw, we do all our own stunts.

Dinosaur bones!!

2007-11-14T20:14:00.000-08:00

"Hey Ellie! Look! Its a dinosaur bone!! Come look 'ebrybody'!"
(look at that cute little finger!)

He was so proud!

Even Jonathan and the puppy came to see!

(Don't tell them, but this was totally a tree root! :)

Our 'v-wuzzo and thi-thas' are coming home!

2007-11-14T20:07:00.000-08:00

Mama, Papa and Ellie leave REALLY early on Sunday to go get our brother and sisters!!! We are so excited and can not wait to meet them!

Monopoly

2007-11-13T12:36:00.000-08:00

Ellie: "I have to be the banker because I am the only one that knows ALL of my numbers"

James - "I am a good knower of numbos! A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K- EN-O-NEN-O-NENNO-P...(jeremiah joins in) See!"

Ellie- "Yeah Jim, That is why I'm the banker."

He really can count, he was just a little confused :)

conversation of the week

2007-11-01T12:43:00.001-07:00

James- "Just get a contwact!"
Jonathan- "What?? Do you know what that means?"
James- "YES!" (in his bossy tone)
Jonathan- "Well, what does it mean then?"

James - "I don't know!"

Silly Cricket :)

This picture was taken a few months back after they had seen 'The Land Before Time' and they would going around asking "I fly-did?" "Nope, you fall-did" Yeah, this one ended in a 'fall-did' :)

"picklenickle bread!!"

2007-10-30T14:00:00.000-07:00

We love 'picklenickle' bread. Some people think it is called 'pumpernickle' bread but now you know the real name.

sorry!

2007-10-28T20:43:00.000-07:00

We are very sorry we haven't posted in so long! You see, we are only 4 so we still need help with some stuff and Ellie has been really busy lately with school. 8-) We have been SO...funny lately! Especially Jim. He has been saying things that he thinks sounds really cool but in actuality has NO idea what (or if) it means anything. Ellie will try to remember some of the phrases and post them on here. So long for now!

Whine king and Boss man

2007-10-16T09:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Jeremiah was whining about absolutely EVERYTHING so my Mom told him "Jeremiah, you are the 'whiniest' little boy, infact you are the whine king!" and no sooner had She said this when Jimmy chimed in in his little voice "and I am a boss man!!"

(You can totally tell their personalities in the pictures from the post 'SuperMEN')

Jimmy saying his favorite line

2007-10-14T22:15:00.000-07:00

"Just forget about it"- I have no Idea what this means but I like to say it...all the time.

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Our Tapestry of Grace co-op

2007-10-13T10:22:00.000-07:00

We are ready to go!

Here we are doing our craft. We were learning about creation.

We were all learning about Judaism and Mr.Mel came to speak about it and demonstrate a Shabbat service.

And... We play with our friends!!!

This is our friend Thomas

This is our friend Molly!! We love Molly.

We also eat lunch but we have no pictures of that!
We love our preschool!

"Whatcha doin Bebo?"

2007-10-11T15:50:00.000-07:00

"Nussin"- Bebo

Nothing really new going on here with us, we will be posting more pictures in a few days but Ellie has to help us and she has to do school right now :(

New pictures of "Our Baby Thithas!!"

2007-10-10T17:35:00.000-07:00

Keren

Keziah

The baby shower

2007-10-02T12:23:00.000-07:00

We had a baby shower on Sunday and we had lots of fun. Our Speech Therapist was there and we were so excited to see her! We don't need speech therapy anymore so we haven't seen Ms.Sarah since Melissa's wedding :(
Gina even let us ride Dancer after the baby shower!

We LOVE broccoli!!!

2007-09-27T15:45:00.000-07:00

We didn't used to think so but, broccoli is sooo... yummy! Mama got us to eat it when everyone told us that they were really little trees (for some reason we thought it was cool.)These pictures are of Me, Jimmy, because Jeremiah is still in his don't take my picture stage. This is actually spaghetti and broccoli, and as you can see the broccoli part is mostly gone.

I didn't know she was going to take my picture :)

There was alot in these bowls!!

Silly boys minus one :(

2007-09-25T20:37:00.001-07:00

We can not wait until he is no longer a picture but a real boy here with us!
P.S I am holding a tiny piece of burpey in this picture. ( burpey is falling apart!)

I Can Explain

2007-09-25T20:30:00.000-07:00

I have this blanket (burpey is it's name,it was a burp cloth from when I was really little, now a rag :) and I bring it absolutely everywhere. Well, burpey went missing and I was not happy (as displayed in the pictures below.) We found it today behind the couch,(oh yeah! That is where I had it!)and I was sooooooooo.... excited! The happy boy Bebo has returned. I will get a picture of me and burpey on here soon.

SuperMEN

2007-09-25T20:12:00.000-07:00

Here we are looking SUPER cute... btw, Jer is in one of those 'don't take my picture or else' stages of life so excuse the mean looks...they are not me :) (he still wants to see the pictures after you take them ,though...occasionaly he will burst into tears if he realizes that you got a picture of him :)-James
"No need to fear, Jimmy is here!"

In case you hadn't noticed, this is my superman face.
Sad Jer... Happy Jim

I was not having a good day alright? :)- Jeremiah

paparazzi shot :)

Superman!!

2007-09-25T16:05:00.001-07:00

We have a super cool superman costume that we absolutely love. It was Jonathan's (our older brother) when he was little and we wear it all the time. We have lots of cute pictures of us in it and we will post them in a couple days (we don't have the little thing to download the pics. on the computer from the camera, Papa accidentally left it at work.) Until then!! (We also have some new pictures of the babies!! Go check out Ellie's blog...they are in her slide show)
~The Twinnerz~

Cutie Crick-a-bug

2007-09-21T12:13:00.001-07:00

Aren't I cute?

yard sale

2007-09-21T12:12:00.000-07:00

"We are making a pile for people...no...THINGS we don't like!"-James
We are having a yard sale tomorrow to raise money for the adoption and we were big helpers getting the garage cleaned out!

Ellie had to bribe us with candy for this picture.

Jeremiah: "I don't want nobody's arm on me!!!"

Ellie: "Please!"

Jeremiah:"NO!"

Ellie: "I'll give you candy..."

Jeremiah: "Ok! Dus hurry!"

James: "Yay!!! Candy,candy,candy! I like candy!"

Jimminy Cricket at 2 years old

2007-09-19T19:10:00.001-07:00

Wordless Wednesday

2007-09-19T19:07:00.000-07:00

Wait, maybe one word is neccessary... Heh?

My monster

2007-09-14T15:38:00.000-07:00

Me (Jeremiah) and Ellie made this 'dinosaur' because I REALLY wanted to make one with our super old lite-brite toy. Aren't I cute?

My monster face :)

Ellie is artistically challenged when it comes to making dinosaurs with Lite-Brite.
Can't you tell? Oh well, she tried and we had fun making it :)

Can you put your hands on your hips?

2007-09-14T15:31:00.000-07:00

I can't! I put them on my sides. I probably look way cuter than you when you try to put your hands on your hips! "Whus up dude?"

How to make a PB&J sammich

2007-09-14T15:08:00.000-07:00

We love PB&J sandwiches! Here are step-by-step instructions on how to make one.

1. get out the stuff to make one :)href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CgBWvubCj3g/RusHYYsT9II/AAAAAAAAAKk/PcBcetHwIAE/s1600-h/New+york+etc.+002.jpg">

2. Take 2 peices of bread

href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CgBWvubCj3g/RusHYosT9JI/AAAAAAAAAKs/D8gLhcMiZDk/s1600-h/New+york+etc.+003.jpg">

3.Don't forget to look cute!

4.put the peanut butter and jelly on the bread and SQUISH it together!

href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CgBWvubCj3g/RusHZIsT9LI/AAAAAAAAAK8/4JpxXhEDvdY/s1600-h/New+york+etc.+005.jpg">
It's fool proof! mmm...

This tastes funny! ;)

(We just put those weird things there for decoration :) We like abc's!

Our very cool room

2007-09-14T11:51:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of our very cool room. It is all ready for Josiah. (3 boys only 16 months apart, hmm... we probably won't get to sleep right away!)

WE LIKE COMMENTS!! :)

2007-09-13T21:51:00.000-07:00

We can't read but we like 'em! We can't get the new babies home because of the "fwudds"( we can't say floods) or in bigger people words 'rainy season'. The rainy season is almost over though! 11 more days until the Ethiopian courts open! And then... JOSIAH! and the girl twins :)( the twinettes) Also, our oldest sister is married and she is having a baby! We are very excited about that too. "Lossa babies are comin to our house!"- James

Finally a picture of Bebo!

2007-09-12T20:10:00.001-07:00

The very cute.. the one and only... BEBO! (Jeremiah)

I haven't posted any yet really because I prefer to cuddle with my blanket or ride my bike. But, here I am! Hi.
So long.. until next time!

-Bebo the Great

Grandma and Grandpa's puppy

2007-09-12T19:51:00.000-07:00

This is our Grandparents very very "Noculous"(we can't say obnoxious) puppy :) He IS pretty cute though. We have fun with him until he starts jumping on us.

Our new bro

2007-09-12T09:12:00.001-07:00

Isn't he cute? We love him. His birthday was yesterday! Happy Birthday buddy! We can't wait until he comes home. By the way, Grandma got us a new train and we are having lots of fun! Thank you Grandma!

My very cool trick

2007-09-09T21:55:00.000-07:00

This is me (James) performing my very cool trick. How many 4 year olds do you know that can point out Ethiopia on the map? btw, my sister did something weird with the camera and the flash reflected off the plastic table cloth onto my face:) I am going to get Jeremiah to post on here soon but not right now.

Jiminny Cricket

2007-09-09T21:41:00.000-07:00

(That's me!)

See-saws don't work with twins!

2007-09-04T09:15:00.000-07:00

I wish I had my camera last night. We took the boys to the park and they ran straight to the see-saw. It didn't work because they are the same weight. It was completely level and neither one could touch the ground so they sat there a second trying with all there might to move the thing and both almost started to cry because they could not even get off!
I will try to get a picture next time!
~Ellie~
The twins will be posting on here from now on ;)

Twins are the best!!!

2007-09-02T11:33:00.000-07:00