Peanut and Potty

We are very excited to annonce that we are pregnant!! I had an ultrasound on Monday and we are pretty sure that we are just having one this time which is a huge relief. Jeremy and I never felt like our family was complete even though many people think that once you have one of each you are set. We were not planning this but feel that this is a gift from God and we are both very excited. We are due at the beginning of October so a fun, hot, pregnant summer for me. In other baby news, my daughter is starting potty training and today she peed on the potty for the first time. She pooped on the potty first about 2 weeks ago,which I thought was a little crazy and backwards but she is doing a really great job. I was telling Chelsea today that I can not believe that we are potty training our babies. Anyway we are really proud of her and are going to go tonight so she can pick out some big girl panties. She is so excited but she only wants "dreen,lellow,and bue, mommy." Well I hope that everyone has a great weekend. Here is the first picture of the "peanut". I know that it is really small and just in case you are not sure what to look for, it is that round spot on the right side of the picture.

Way Back When

This video was from May of last year but I thought that it was cute enough to share with you. Hope everyone is having a great week. Congratulation Justin and Amy, we are so happy for you.

What a Weekend

So this has been a crazy weekend for the Perkowski's. On Friday I got all four of my wisdom teeth pulled and that left my wonderful husband to care for the babies. Mom so loving came up on Friday morning so that Jeremy could go with me and then she helped out with the babies all day. Thank you again mom. Here are some pictures of the fun that my family had while I slept the day away. So Jeremy says that all he did here was cover them up. They both came in the office crawled up on the bed and laid down. They have been going through some teething this weekend as well.

Doesn't he look like Fievel? I love this kid.

So serious...She had a really bad fever Saturday and today but she is still so cute.

Ok, warning this is a little gross but I have to share. I have been really lucky that besides being really dizzy and nauseous from the pain meds and antibiotic, I have had very little swelling and so far no pain. The worst thing was where the Dr. started the I.V. Here is a picture of my pain. Hope everyone has a great week love you all.

Happy 17th Birthday Jordan!!!

We can not believe that you are 17 already!! You truly are an amazing kid and we love you so much. Hope you have a great day and we are sad that we can not be there to celebrate with you.
I know that this is not quite as good as moms since I do not have any baby pictures or anything but we just wanted you to know that you are so loved by all of us. Love you.

Play Doh

Uncle Michael and Auntie Devyn got the kids playdoh for Christmas. I love doing stuff like that with them because I am not very creative and playdoh is not nearly as messy as finger paints. They told us that we were not allowed to open it until they had left because they thought we would get "mad" but I was really excited because like I said I love doing projects with them, I just can not be the one to come up with them. Thanks guys, but remember that what comes around goes around. Your count down is almost in double digits, so exciting, we can not wait for baby Jane. It came with like 40 colors and accessaries like a rolling pin,scissors,and cookie cutters. Elizabeth picked green as her first color and Elijah picked...

black...

Elizabeth's first attempt with the monkey cookie cutter.

Elijah kept pushing it down and saying "mmm".

Not sure who was having more fun here. You can make noodles with one the things so Jeremy was making noodles for Elijah until he tried to eat them...
So off the subject, our whole family has been battling this cold and one night the babies just wanted to lay on Jeremy with the blanket over their heads. They layed like that for 20 minutes at least.

Christmas Fun Part 2

This truly was one of the greatest Christmas' we have ever had. Thanks to all the great food and even greater company. We went to Mesquite on Sunday after spending some time with the family at the Mann's house. Sunday was full of playing and relaxing, spending time together as a family. Monday night we had the traditional Christmas Eve dinner which as always was amazing. One of the many things that I love about being married into a Polish family is the traditional Oplatek(which means Holy Bread in Latin). This is a time where we read a story and some scripture and then we each take a piece of the oplatek and share it with everyone else along with a hug and words of thanks and appreciation for who they are. One of the things that the story said this year was that this is a time for forgiveness and once we have forgiven others that we are to never again remember the wrong. I thought that was so amazing and something that is so important for all of us to do. I probably am not explaining it very well but I hope that you get the point. It is a very neat time for the family and one of my favorite parts of the Christmas season. Christmas Day came and went way too quickly but it was great watching everyone open their presents especially the kids. We then had dinner of Pirogi, Kielbasa, sweet potatoes, ham,and rolls. Everything was so good and it makes it even more special to know that it all was made by the hands of our family (Terry,Jeremy,Jason,and Jordan...mom and I did a few but we mostly took care of the babies).Thank you guys for a wonderful Christmas and for all the great memories. Here are some pictures of our fun. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.On Monday we went to the park and played. Jeremy and I loved this picture of my dad with the babies walking and holding hands. Cute picture of mom and grammy.

It looks painful but no one was complaining.

Elijah being a big helper handing out presents.

This never gets old to me, him saying "ooo" to everything.

Elizabeth just taking it all in, doesn't her hair rock.

The twins are opening their Christmas presents from Mama and Dza-Dza. This was a "learning center" that teaches shapes and letters and music and has a piano and drawing board. They both love it.

Here are the boys laughing about how ridiculously emo the Rivers cd is. Sorry to any of you who like it.

Christmas Fun Part 1

Christmas seems to be really drawn out for us. I think that having the twins birthday at the beginning of December makes it feel like a month long event. I am not complaining, really, I am not but it makes it hard after the Christmas festivities are over because the babies keep asking for "pwesents". Spoiled little pumpkins...along with the "terrible twos" syndrome that my children wasted no time embracing. Anyway, my Aunt Judy and cousin Teresa sent Christmas gifts for all of us with my dad and we spent one evening opening all of them. The kids had so much fun. They kept saying "ooo" and when asked if they wanted to open another present Elizabeth would say"yeah okay". Thank you guys again for everything. Here are some pictures of all the fun.

Elijah opening his first present and saying "ooo" as he looked in the bag.

Aunt Judy got each of them a cup with their name on it and both of them loved pretending to drink from them. Those cups are just so darn cute.

Aunt Judy made them little stockings and Elizabeth wanted to put hers on the bears foot.

Elijah only wanted "PaPa" to help him open his presents. It was really cute and my dad did not seem to mind at all.

He sat there forever looking through his coloring books.

I know that this picture is not very good but it was so cute of her giving her bear "woofs" (kisses)as she calls them.

Thank you again guys. We love you.