Seth and Isaac in the same onesie

Around the house and at Grandpadad's and Grandma's

Gracie in the ever-popular box

David loves cruising around this little house from First Baptist Dallas!

David pulls up on everything all the time. He's a busy boy! Will has started fighting him for toys and for my lap space. 

A better picture than previously posted: Aunt Jody with David in her arm, Gracie, Seth, Will, and Isaac with Marcie

The boys (David was too goofy to sit still, so he's rolling around on the floor)

Grandma with the girls in their dresses from Sharon. Gorgeous ladies!

First real pool experience!

The kids LOVED the pool at Don and Sandi's, although it took Marcie a little bit to warm up to the idea (literally). What a gorgeous day in Texas! What a blessing to all of us Joneses and crew!

Will in Daddy's hat

Marcie "flying" from Aunt Sam's arms

The kids really enjoyed climbing the rock fountain (with an adult right with them in case of  slippage!)

Grandma and a VERY HAPPY Gracie!

Seth and Aunt Jody

The whole gang before getting in the water. Love the boys' Lifeguard shirts from Lynnette! David, Marcie, Gracie, Seth and Will (looking a little unsure, but he was the most water crazy of all!)

Fun times with friends and family!

We're having so much fun these days! Aunt Jody is here from Oregon (she's married to Gavin's brother Jared), "Aunt" Esther is here from Nashville (14 hugs back to Gail Roger's class!), and "Aunt" Edna has been one of our regulars. Both Esther and Edna are my "aunties" from Lomalinda days. In fact, I grew up in the house that once was Esther's family's!

Esther and Marcie visiting

Esther's daughter Lynée (a regular volunteer) comes almost daily to work with Seth. He's doing so much better with the bottle and food! He's still vomiting, though, so we'd appreciate continued prayer for that. It's much less frequent than previously, but it wakes him up every morning at 5:30 or so - a rough start for us all.

Aunt Jody with the whole crew, including a very upset David (he was tired). All the darling baby clothes are gifts!

Aunt Jody meeting Seth for the first time.
Gracie is in the yellow shirt, Marcie is in the stripes, and Jody is holding Will.

Edna with David. (Do YOU love our children enough to let them pull on your jewelry?)

Will and David

This is so cute of David!

Sleepy Seth. He rarely has the cannula on anymore during the day, but sometimes still drops low enough to need the supplemental oxygen for a while. We pray he won't need it during the daytime anymore by next week, Lord willing.

Isaac takes his cousins' gift of a silly straw very seriously.
Thanks, Ethan and Levi!

Can you send siblings back?

David appears to have the great idea of boxing Will up so he can send him back . . . .
He's sharing his fun idea with Aunt Samantha in this picture.

"In you go!"

Will: "But I don't want to!!"

"On second thought, I'll go with you. I'm getting bored around here. Move over."

Batten down the hatches! David is crawling!

Yesterday was the first day David really crawled distances across the floor. Before he would kind of scoot around or creep, but now we have coordinated hands and knees, and there will be no stopping this kid from getting into EVERYTHING if it's not gated, locked, or sealed! The outlets have been plugged, the fireplace has been covered with foam padding, we have the cabinet locks ready to install, and there's a gate and a set of doors to cordon off the kitchen. :) In addition to crawling, he's also climbing up on things (mostly the huge stuffed puppy), as nuts as that seems to me. He's just now 7 months adjusted age! Three weeks earlier than Isaac started crawling, and he was a bit "early" according to my book.

Last night David rolled over into Grace's Boppy (U-shaped pillow; she was resting on the floor as bedtime was nearing) and proceeded to push her out of it and onto the floor using his muscular little legs and feet. He then assumed her place in the Boppy. Of course, once he'd succeeded and she was lying nearby fussing about the situation, he vacated the Boppy and got back to climbing on the puppy. Poor Grace! It might very well be that he has to have his own area of the house away from the other babies because he is so much more "accomplished" than they are and is therefore more dangerous - add to that the fact that he has a few teeth on top as well as on bottom! We discovered a bite mark on Marcie the other day. I should assure you that none of his antics siblings-ward are malicious or intentionally hurtful; he just doesn't seem to have a clue that they might not like being used as teething toys or relocated against their will. :}

David likes to cruise across the back of the swing or the couch or from leg to leg if people are sitting nearby. His kiddie pool time is mostly spent standing holding onto the legs of the watching adults. :)

Grace might be the next one crawling. She's already doing the rocking motion on hands and knees. She truly is small but mighty; making the cutest pursed lips of intense focus and going crazy on her toys, trying to play with and manipulate several at once.

Marcie is still the ultra social one; she thinks everyone is there for her and flashes her huge smile and whimpers to be held. She's also pretty nuts about tactile experience of her siblings. She loves to pat, gum, bite, nuzzle, etc., and sometimes actually tolerates it in return (depending on how tired she is).

Before I forget: Some people in this area offered us used Pack 'n' Plays a few months ago, but we turned them down since we already had one per child. Well, we could really use them now. We have "day beds" and "night beds" (to aid in napping mostly) and it would be really nice not to have to move the Pack 'n' Plays around several times a day. So if any of you still have extra Pack 'n' Plays around your house, please contact us at jonesquints@yahoo.com. Thanks!!


Thank God, the babies have stopped crying/screaming to be held as much as they were a few weeks ago. I have to remind myself every time I think I'm going to pull out my hair that they are in a phase which will pass.

Seth is SO enjoying being free from oxygen during the bulk of the daylight hours, and because he can take enough food by tube while he sleeps, he's able to be free of the pump as well during a few hours of the day. That allows him to roll around in the walker, bounce like crazy in the bouncers or Johnny-Jump-Up, and scoot/roll around on the floor to his heart's content. It also makes him so much easier to carry around or play with, so it seems to be making a HUGE difference in his development. His therapists say he has just leapt forward in the past couple of weeks! He loves each of his siblings and has a huge sweet smile and fat little patting hands ready for them whenever they get near to each other. He and Will just smiled and smiled at each other yesterday when I got them both up. Precious!

Will is still the biggest and most "chill" overall. He loved going to the lake yesterday (a man-made local lake oddly named Joe Pool Lake) for Aunt Courtney's birthday. He wanted to touch the waves and play with the rocks. Marcie mostly just wanted the rocks. As you can see to the left, the fun and sun and wind and waves wore Will out! Aunt Samantha is always a comfortable and willing "cradle" for the babies. I was feeding Marcie at the time. I love a one-to-one ratio of adults to babies! :)

Will enjoying a beautiful day on the porch

Sunday escapades (in coordinating outfits!)

Matching/coordinating really is inordinately meaningful to me. I was thrilled when I discovered the girls' new dresses from Lynnette matched the boys' shortalls from Lisa! And Isaac had a matching shirt from Cathe - are we blessed or what?!

Blurry but cute: Our church in the morning, with Gracie, Seth and Marcie in front, Isaac holding Will and David

We actually went to two churches yesterday, our own in the morning, and First Baptist Dallas in the evening to hear Anita Renfroe of "The Mom Song" fame (Look it up on YouTube.). She was SO funny! A huge bonus was the kids getting to play with all new toys. They seemed to have a blast! 

Marcie

David and Marcie

Seth - it's wonderful to be able to take him places without the tubes and oxygen!

Isaac, David (standing, as usual), Will and Gracie in the background

Precious little Gracie up close. She loves exersaucers!

After morning church on our new swing, thanks to generous grandparents. We all love the swing, including the babies.
Left to right: Will, Grace, Seth, Marcie and David, with Isaac behind of course

As Samantha wrote on Facebook (and I can't top): An extremely representative photo of our days. Isaac being a silly big brother, David climbing something, Marcie smiling at anyone who will look, Seth and Gracie interacting with each other (or everyone!) and Will completely contented with himself 

Will

Goofy David