Shanti is quite amazing with this one. Driving home Ryan and I talked about how calm and relaxed she is with Ashlynn. And, Ashlynn LOVES her.
Saroj is a good sport - He plays hide and seek, colors, chases and even snuggles with the girls.
Ashlynn figured out how to push this little toy and just wanted to go back and forth between Shanti and I. It's the closest thing to running we'll probably ever see and 8 month old do. 
This is likely the last picture with Delilah in the background, her days are numbered...
While the big girls were outside, this is what Ashlynn is into doing these days. Finding any door she can open and emptying the contents of the shelves
The sun is rising in these pictures, Adie and Eliza were very excited to get out there when they woke up. I'm glad I can send them out and stay inside this year.
Ashlynn wanting to be out there
Billy, Danny and Alex came over to sled. We could get going pretty fast even without much snow
Adie and Eliza LOVED sledding
I didn't think about how tiring it must have been for them to walk up that hill (and we stuck to a small path) for 45 minutes, they don't usually nap these days but Eliza crashed on the chair this afternoon.
Ashlynn whispering to Opal that soon enough they will be dominating the toy room at Grandma's together
This is my mom's house, but is what our table looks like these days. Adie and Eliza love to color and paint
Ashlynn trying to get in on the fun. One of her nicknames it "the destroyer" because she always wants to be in the middle of what ever Eliza and Adie are doing. Her other nicknames are "puddy-puddy" and "The Little Lord of Jesus" Ryan and I were laughing pretty hard the night they started calling her The Little Lord of Jesus. It must be because they are learning the song "Away in a Manger" at Sunday School. They play where one is the mommy and the other is the sweetie. This night they were taking care of their Little Lord of Jesus. Then it stuck, today Adie came to me in tears. When I asked her what was wrong her answer was "The Little Lord of Jesus messed up my toys..." Ryan and I can call her puddy-puddy but we just can't call her Jesus...
We're without a camera again, Jim took this one the other morning when we went over there. Their outfits remind him of when one of his daughters was their age and he always gets a kick out of them. Here Adie wore a skirt under her pants all day. It seems like we've been really busy but when I think about it, we really haven't been doing much. One little outing is a big deal these days though. I'm coaching, and going into it an hour practice a day seemed manageable. It is manageable (and fun) it just takes up way more than an hour. I have to start getting everyone ready around 2:00 to get out the door with everything they need while they're with the babysitter by 2:45. They love the babysitter, I get to take them to the school and one of the highschoolers hangs out with them in a classroom while we practice. They also LOVE getting to run in the gym when practice is over - reminds me of when we got to go to practice with my dad. Ashlynn is great, funny, sweet...and we had one good night of sleep! I know better than to hope for a good one tonight but at least I feel good today. One event the girls like talking about right now is the butcher. I took Ryan's deer in last night and thought there would be an office or something that I would go to and they would take the meat. Nope, I drove up with the girls and I had to take it into the room right where they are cutting up all the huge chunks of meat. I was grossed out but they were fine. I didn't even tell them about the deer, and they saw a picture of it this morning and I told them that's what we took to the butcher last night. "oh, can we eat it and put cheese on it?" That same butcher will be coming to get Delilah pretty soon here and they can't wait to "eat her in a hambagur" Don't think these girls will ever turn into vegetarians...
The trip part was a success, all three traveled well and two out of three slept well -thanks to the tent Katie set up for Adie and Eliza. Ashlynn's not sleeping wasn't so bad when I get to hang out with friends, walk to the park, walk to coffee, and have other people cook for us (thank you Scott and Katie for all of the good food) during the day. I love seeing all of these kiddos together. I started to download pictures from Katie and Tristan's web sites to put on here but then realized I wanted all of them and didn't think everyone needed to see 100 pictures from the weekend. We got to celebrate Tristan's birthday while we were there - I LOVE when Tris and her Captain get together! That was probably the hi-lite of the trip for me, sitting around the (loud) dinner table cracking up with everyone. That and our mid day IPA's...
Heading to coffee with Eva
Ashlynn's expression whenever Eli came into her view
Ashlynn is quite fond of Eli - and I think they make a pretty cute little couple
It's tough to get a picture of Eva, she is at the stage where she just runs. I've always thought she's had a really funny personality, and she's still got it. I don't think it will be long before she's the one telling Adie and Eliza what to do.
This was cute, we didn't realize they were coming down together - cracking up
One of these days I'll grab my camera when they're having one of their knock-down drag-out fights over the princess polly-pockets.