Three months already!?! A Buckley update (and photo overload). --- copied from my family's blog

Where does time go? I feel like it was yesterday that my ankles were cankles and my skin was stretched to the max -- haha!! Hope you like the visual.

(Ivy and Maya at 6 weeks.)

ANYWAY, I can't believe that Maya and Ivy are already three months old. I have to admit I was kind of wishing for the first few months to pass fast because it is so hard to take care of two crying babies at once, but now that they are going by I am feeling sad that they are. I guess that is the story of life, always wishing for tomorrow and missing yesterday, right?

I am really enjoying the babies now. They are getting a little easier since they are more social and can be soothed a bit just by being talked to (while I am holding or feeding the other). They are both smiling a lot now and are starting to get a little chubby (Ivy was 9 lbs when we had her at the hospital last week...I am guessing Maya is about 11). They still sleep in the same bed and I think they really know each other.

Their personalities are starting to emerge. Ivy is the super sweet, cuddly type. When she cries it is so pitiful it makes your heart melt.

Ivy at 3 months.

Maya is kind of funny. She makes silly faces and has a sweet countenance, but isn't very patient. She sucks in real deep and make a squeally sound to get my attention and when she cries she just sounds ticked.

Maya at 3 months.

LOL -- we'll see if these are really predictors of their personalities.

After our scare with Ivy last week (if you didn't hear she was admitted to the hospital last Monday for what they thought was meningitis but was really an ear infection) everyone is feeling better now, and Bryan was home this entire week (he has been traveling to St. Louis for work a lot lately -- he has been gone three out of the last four weeks and will be gone again next week). We miss him when he leaves, but he kind of gets in the way of routine when he is home (just kidding...kind of...we really just miss him).

(They let me keep Maya there too since I am nursing them both. Excuse the photo quality...all I had was my phone.)

Eleanore is doing awesome. She loves her sisters -- almost too much sometimes. And, she is a great helper most of the time.

(Easter dresses.)

She is getting to be a picky eater, but I've found that she'll eat almost anything if I put it in a lunchbox and let her eat it in a tent.

(When I took this picture I told her, "Say cheese." She shouted, "I love my Daddy!" It was funny.)

I've been taking her to a mommy/toddler gymnastics class and she LOVES it. It a great place for her to get out a lot of bottled up energy. Her favorite activity at home lately is swinging on the patio - she could sit in that thing for hours if we'd push her. Can't say it enough, I love this girl. She really is my best little pal these days, a great conversationalist with a funny sense of humor. Bryan and I laugh, she must of gotten some real "Eleanore Jolley genes" because she can talk and talk and talk without a break from sun-up to sun-down (and even sometimes in her sleep).

(Helping Mom plant flowers.)

I'm busy doing the mommy thing (and getting a strong back by hauling both babies in the Moby) and have given up on doing my hair (pic below proves it) or, it seems, mopping my floor. Wish I could find time to exercise...sometime soon, I hope.

Hope everyone is doing good! Love you guys.