Life at the Lovstedts

It seems like this photo sums up our lives the past few weeks.

Jake is a good eater and he's got the chubby cheeks to prove it. I have no idea why my babies get so cute and fat so quickly. Maybe my milk is packed full of fat from all the carbohydrates and sugar I eat. He's four weeks old today and I'm amazed at how fast the time has passed. 

Jake earlier today after pigging out on a delicious lunch.

This is Jake two weeks ago, so sweet and little. I recognize he's wrapped in the same pink blanket in both pictures. He does have some boy blankets, just not that many. It's unfortunate that he happens to be in this blanket both times I decided to take his picture.

Here's what the girls have learned in the last month. In case you can't tell, their dollies are getting a little bit of breast milk.

We had a watercolor craft yesterday. Penny wanted to paint a picture for her Aunt Amanda who went into the MTC today. (My sister will be heading off to Kentucky after spending several weeks in the MTC learning Spanish.) After they finished their paintings, they slipped away to their room and painted a "mural" on their bedroom wall. I was feeding Jake and knew it was awfully quiet but couldn't really get up to check on them. And besides, I was enjoying the peace and quiet. When I finally went into their room, they had painted all over their walls. Fortunately it was just watercolor paint but still. Penny had watched a TV show in the morning about a girl who painted a mural on her bedroom wall and I remember thinking as they were watching the show that this could end up bad...

Ginger contentedly painting on a piece of paper before her sister convinced her to move on to bigger canvases. 

Another time while I was feeding Jake, Penny and Ginger cut up some paper into a million pieces. Penny said she was making signs for Daddy. Then, she found some tape and managed to tape up a few of her tiny "signs" to the wall and the front door before I could intervene.

And during yet another feeding for Jake, Penny used the same aforementioned tape to make a "puppy house" for Ginger. Notice it's not just your basic scotch tape. Apparently packing tape seemed like just the thing she needed. Here, Penny's looking slightly remorseful about her afternoon project but Ginger clearly is appreciative of the puppy house. Penny had wrapped the tape around the table legs multiple times and covered the entire top of the table with tape. (They'd just showered, in case you were wondering.)

Poor baby Jake

Ginger gets pretty excited about Jake. Here she's getting ready for bed and wanted to give Jake a good night kiss. (Don't worry, she did go to bed with pajamas on.) It started out all sweet and loving with Stephan taking a picture of Ginger kissing her baby brother.

 

Then, so quickly it turned into this. Ginger's intensity is hard to anticipate. I guess that's a common trait of an almost two-year-old. As I look at this picture, it appears that I'm idly looking on while Jake cries out in fear or pain, or both. In my defense, I'm sure I was trying to calmly talk Ginger down from her craziness.