Betunia Sandwiches

When I picked Em up from school on Wednesday, one of the aides in the class informed me that Emily helped make the sandwhiches for lunch today. So in the car I was asking her about it. Here is our conversation...

J: Em, I heard you helped make lunch today.
E: Yup, I served the kids their fruit with my hands and the teacher said not to.
J: Yeah, you have to use a spoon, so what kind of sandwiches did you make?
E: Betunia.
J: You mean tuna fish?
E: NO! Betunia, you know, like we had that one time. Remember?
J: Yeah, we had tuna fish sandwhiches.
E: NO MOMMY! BETUNIA SANDWICHES!! NOT TUNA!
(At this point she is getting annoyed).
J: I'm sorry, Em, I'm not sure what a betunia sandwich is.
subject dropped, and actually we went around and around with that a lot longer. Later in the day our friend Leslie came over to watch them so I could run some fast errands, so I was telling her the betunia story. So she asked Emily, "what did it taste like?" Emily said, "like fish" so she said, "so it was tuna" emily: "yup, it was tuna." I couldn't believe it, I mention tuna and get the third degree for thinking betunia was tuna fish. I guess Leslie has the magic touch! At least we know for sure what it was because she still asks for betunia sandwiches.

Growing Up

Emily: Emily started her first day of school this week. She officially started Tuesday, Monday was just an orientation day. She is doing really well so far, not too tired when she gets home and is doing well during school. I think she was really ready for preschool. We have her at the local elementary school and she is going five days a week from 8-11:30. It's gone smooth in the a.m. thanks to Mike dropping her off, it's a little hard to get her in with three kids. She is doing great as a big sister, she is super helpful, always getting me the things I need when I can't get up.

Allyson: Ally loves baby Rylee, what she doesn't love is mommy paying attention to Rylee! She's doing a lot better than expected but has started throwing screaming kicking tantrums. And bewitching hour is not 4-5 anymore, it's basically sunup to sundown. But in her defense we were very active pre-Rylee and now we've parked ourselves at home and sissy isn't around as a distraction as much. But overall she's doing great!

Rylee: Rylee is two weeks old today. She is a dream baby! She sleeps all day and pretty much all night, last night she slept uninterupted for 8.5 hours. She is so sweet and we are asked a lot about if all our girls had that much hair, I thought so but I guess not because no one really commented with them but they sure do with Rylee. I know it's probably the darkest so far, our girls seem to get darker hair each time. She had her 2 wk checkup today and is the smallest of our girls at that age. She weighed 8lbs even. Em was 8.4, Ally a huge 9! I think Rylee would have weighed less after her appt. though because she had a major diaper explosion when we got home, soaking her third blanket for the day! Rylee was also the only one to lose any weight at the beginning and it wasn't much! But since she is our last for SURE, sorry grandparents, I want her to stay small for a while. That's about it for Rylee, I'm sure with a newborn you can fill in the blanks with the rest of her life.

That's it on our girls for now, it's amazing how fast they grow up and how fast the years go by once you have more than one. If anyone figures out how to stop time let me know. These years are going by way too fast! Also, scroll down a little to hear about Rylee and Jackson, her first little friend!

Rylee and Jackson

As most of you know, Jennifer and I were pregnant neck and neck. She being due Aug. 9 and myself August 11. Well, me being early and Jenn being late, we had our babies nine days apart, with Rylee leading the way. So when we visited her in the hospital we got some cute pics of the two together for the first time, Rylee 9 days, Jackson fresh from the oven. The next set of photos are when Rylee was 13 days and Jackson 4 days. They were so cute together, I couldn't snap a photo in time but when we laid them down together on the table, Rylee rolled next to him and cuddled up. But as most little girls realize, boys have cooties,(probably spelled that way wrong), so she scooted away. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures...my next goal is to take some of the all 6, Tessa w/Em, Bella w/Allyson, and Rylee w/Jackson. It's totally funny watching us all walk together, we look like copycat families!

Rylee's First Week

Rylee is now one week old. I can't believe it. She is such a good baby. She is still sleeping well at night, I generally have to wake her up to feed her once at night. It's really, really nice. In the a.m. I'm able to get the girls and I ready while she sleeps. She is opening her eyes a lot more, that's been fun. I took some pictures of her eyes open but she looks kind of funny in them, I guess that's a newborn trait! I also included pics of the girls coloring and painting. As you'll see, Allyson couldn't help but to taste the markers! Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Rylee Madison

As most of you know, Rylee madison made an entrance into the world a little before 6 on Wednesday night weighing 7lbs 8oz. 20.5 inches. She came out super quiet, never cried and for the most part has stayed that way. I've yet to hear her really go for it. Hopefully this trend will stick around and she won't show her true colors in a few day! She is really cute, we feel so blessed to have such a sweet, cute baby. Emily and Allyson are in love with her too, Ally loves to pet her and Emily is great at holding her. They both have been really good during the huge change in our house. Mike has been an awesome husband as usual, cooking cleaning, playing with the girls to give me a break, and being at my beck and call. There is no way I could do this without him. I hope you enjoy the pictures, I'll do my best to keep them updated.

August 8th!

Mike has been telling me I need to blog, he says its been a long time. But I haven't had too much going on lately. But today, my doctor gave me the go ahead to get induced tomorrow, Wed. August 8th, at 7 a.m. I had asked a few weeks ago because my doctor will be gone for ten days starting the day before my due date. So after meeting with her today, she said I'm totally ready to have this baby, it would only be a matter of time anyway. So hopefully, if all goes well, we'll be welcoming our newest little Littau girl tomorrow. And be praying for her, we still don't have a name. We've always had a name by this time, so hopefully tonight we can figure out a name we agree on! It might be a few days but I'll try to blog some pictures asap. I'll also try to get my mom to blog some pretty quick and if you haven't visited her blog, it's http://devonemyallybragsite.blogspot.com/