The Family That Rocks Together, Stays Together

The Haircut: Things have been moving so quickly around here sometimes I forget how amazingly cute my twins are. Today we took Elizabeth to get her first hair cut. I may be out of line here, but after looking at the photos that Sarah took I am pretty sure that the hairdresser is a part time stripper. I mean who owns a leopard print smock. Those things are called smocks right? Anyways Elizabeth's hair had been looking a little rough so we decided to get her hair cleaned up a little bit. As she was leaving, the hair technician asked Elizabeth if she would like a sucker... which brings us to....

The Hard Candy: Elizabeth had a puzzled look on her face when the stylist asked her if she wanted a sucker. After Sarah explained that it was candy, she was all over it. Not only was she all over it but she grabbed some loot for Elijah. Needless to say they loved them. They didn't finish them, but they loved them none the less. While Sarah and Elizabeth were gone, Elijah and I decided to play around. Which leads to...

The Hard Rock: Rock Band 2. Sarah bought Rock Band 2 for me a little while ago and we just haven't had lots of time to mess around with it. So Joshua was asleep and a light bulb lit up in my brain. I whipped out my Wii Guitar Hero guitar and strapped it on my son. Needless to say tears welled up in my eyes. He looks like a natural, and no I did not put his hands in that position. Many hours of studying my Dad playing his acoustic lead to the near perfect hand hold on his instrument. I love being a Dad sometimes.

More Cuteness

Just a little update with some really cute pictures of my kids. We are doing really great. Joshua is sleeping through the night and the twins are getting used to having a little brother. Nicole and Jason stayed with us for a few days this week and took some really great pictures of Joshua. Nicole posted them on their blog so be sure to check those out as well.

5 a.m. Feedings and Fountains of Pee

Joshua has finally arrived!

Born October 1, 2008

Weight: 7lbs 9oz

Length: 20in

The newest addition to our family is here. Joshua was born about three days ago and has already changed our entire world. The entire birth went without a hitch, except for Sarah's drug induced haze on Wednesday. We came home on Friday from the hospital and are settling into a routine here at home. Elizabeth and Elijah are adjusting to their baby brother and have been a little mopey, but they are excited to interact with him as much as possible. Sarah is being a real trooper and is already more mobile than I was the day after we moved. Everything is going great and we would like to thank everyone that has been praying for us and wanting news about the birth. Everyone said that since we had twins having one more baby would be a breeze. I used to think the same thing...except for the fact that we still have the twins and now we have three babies instead of two. I think this was just an oversight on some peoples parts, or maybe they were just trying to make us feel better. He is amazing and has peed on me almost everytime that I have changed his diaper. We love him and we can't wait to show him off to the world.

New Beginnings

Wow, it really is amazing how much can happen in such a short amount of time. This picture below is of our new house! We are going to be moving into it on September 13th. It has 5 bedrooms and 2 3/4 bath. We are so excited to move into a place that will comfortably fit our growing family. My dad is going to be living with us as well, which we could not be happier about. Speaking of our growing family, we also found out last Friday that I am scheduled for a c-section on October 1st. So, needless to say this will be a very busy couple of weeks for the Perkowski family.

It has been way too long

I went to change our templet and realized that it has been like 2 months since I have updated. Not a whole lot has been going on, we have just been enjoying our summer vacation together which is ending too soon. Here are just some random pictures from this summer.
Daddy snuggling with his babies watching a show before night night time. Sorry for the red eye, it would not come out.

Daddy taught them to do somersaults. Elijah is really good but Elizabeth only likes to look between her legs at you. It is still really cute. I think Grandma was working on this with them this weekend.

Jeremy took this while I was in Ohio. They were watching a show and Elijah wanted to sit on Elizabeth's lap. I love that his little hand is on her shoulder.

This is Elizabeth with her potato head family. If you can see in the right corner, the potato head that is Elizabeth fell over and she could not get it to stand up. This is her being very upset about that.

Our Cali Trip

We went to California over the weekend to see baby Jane and take a small family vacation because it is going to be a while until we can get out of the house again. We had so much fun. The twins were so good in the car and behaved themselves for the most part at the house. We got there really late on Wednesday night so on Thursday we took the kids to the Zoo. We left at about 9:30 in the morning and by noon we were ready to go home. It was so hot and if it was not a giraffe, elephant or a turtle, they did not really care. But they were very well behaved. Devyn warned me that this is not a great place for pictures because you can either not see the kids faces or what they are looking at and she was right. Here is really the only good picture that I got.:(
On the way home from the zoo we picked up Uncle Michael so that he could go with Devyn and Jane to the doctor. Poor little thing had to get 4 shots. Here is a picture of Uncle Jeremy trying to make it all better... Isn't she so adorable.

Then on Friday DeEtte took us to Legoland. I was really afraid that the kids would again want to only be there for about 2 hours and everyone else would want to stay but we were there for almost 5 hours. They LOVED it. There were rides, and a water park and so many fun things to see. Here are some pictures of that fun day.

I loved this next picture so much because Connor was Elizabeth's little buddy all day. He was such a huge help with pushing the stroller, or holding onto hands, or anything we asked of him really. He is a great kid. So is Lily and you will see her cuteness in a minute.

Here they are at the water park.

DeEtte was so awesome to take Elizabeth on the rides because I was afraid the bars would hit my belly in a bad spot. These were the first rides they had ever been on. They went on an airplane, helicopter,boat,and safari ride. They loved every single one of them.

Lily taught Elizabeth how to be a beautiful princess. Aren't they adorable.

And here is the most adorable little baby on the planet next to my daughter. Jane is the happiest, smiliest(is that a word), most precious little angel. Here are a couple of pictures of her.

Thank you guys again for having us and for such a great vacation.

Alot Going On!

This summer, so far, has been crazy, fun, spontaneous, and hot (well today was like 105 and I think that is the worst its been so I really should not complain but...). Jeremy and I said that we were going to get the twins potty trained before the summer was over/before Joshua was here and so far it has been an adventure. The first day we made them a potty chart and told them that when they filled that up we would go to the store and pick out a special toy. Please do not make fun of my ghetto chart, I am not creative and I will never claim to be but they loved it and that is all that matters right? Anyway, the first day was a disaster and by day two Jeremy and I called it quits...I am not kidding, potty training is HELL...excuse my language but there is no other word to better describe it. Then at lunch on day two, after Jeremy and I told the kids we were going to take a break from the potty and try again next week, my sweet little daughter told us she needed to go and off she went. She has only had 2 accidents in a week and she even did really well at grandma's house this weekend. We are going to Cali on Wednesday so hopefully she will do as well there. Elijah wants NOTHING to do with the toilet. He is perfectly happy with mommy tending to his potty needs(change his diaper). But he will get there and we are not stressing over it. Sorry for the rambling. Here is a picture of Elijah and Elizabeth with their first potty chart complete(thanks almost entirely to Elizabeth, but we are still proud of what he did do.)

I forgot to post this picture from our swimming adventure day. I just thought she looked so cute! We went to Mesquite this weekend for Father's Day! We had a great time. Here are the babies playing bass with Uncle Jordan.