Where have we been????

I know, it's been forever since I posted...well, only a little over a week actually.  I should do better though! 
We have been busy....I was gone two nights last week, one night was our new women's Bible study which I think is going to be awesome.  The other was a Relay for Life meeting.  We have lots going on!  It's good to be busy!  The twins are doing great and walking everywhere!  It is so cute to see them walking.  They walk with their legs far apart so they don't fall.  Emilynn usually has one of three things tucked under her arm when she walks-either a baby doll, a bottle, or her play remote control.   She looks like a little football player-so cute!  We did some visiting this week, which was so nice.  We finally made it to see my grandma "Granny" (my dad's mom).  We had not seen her since way before Christmas.  She was thrilled to see the babies and watch them play.  We about tore her house down, but she doesn't mind.  While there we broke an angel figurine, Emilynn pulled a lamp down on herself, Emilynn rolled off the sofa, Carson pushed all the buttons on the satellite dish, and I found out later we apparently lost Granny's remote control.  She says she doesn't think we did it....but I'm pretty sure she had it before we got there.  ??  After that we went to my other grandma's, Nanny (mom's mom) to see Rosa, the lady who helps my grandparents.  Rosa watched my mom and uncle when they were small.  She's been in our family forever.  She was so excited to see the twins and just watched them and played with them.  They had fun following her around the house.  Cousin Hunter was there and he accidentally dumped a huge box of Frosted Flakes on the living room floor.  All three kiddos were sitting in the floor when I walked in the room, just chomping on frosted flakes.  My kids were SO excited and chowing down. They've never had anything that sweet!  Nanny and I just laughed and watched them till they lost interest and then it all got vaccuumed up.  What else could you do but laugh and let them have a rare treat?  Friday we made it to see Dustin's grandma, so we got a lot of visiting in this week.  She was also thrilled to see the babies and it was so good to see her.  We are still not taking the babies out in places where they'll see lots of people or be exposed to lots of sickness, but I'm glad we are back to getting out the house a little.....it's good for all of us!  We delivered the last of our Christmas gifts while we were out so that was nice. 
Another update-Emilynn's fingers are healed up and knock on wood-she's not sucking her fingers anymore!  I guess a blessing came out of something bad.  Isn't there always a blessing?  Carson continues to battle eczema, poor little guy.  We are trying to figure out a solution for him.  I don't want him to be on medicine for it because it's going to be a constant issue it seems.  He does have some prescription cream, but I am going to try to change our diet to help with it and see how that goes.  He had a flare up this week and it was right after he ate some yogurt that is shelf stable-ewww!  It was given to us so I thought they could use it when we were out and about and didn't have access to our normal yogurt (Stonyfield Organic Yo-baby whole milk yogurt-it's awesome!  The babies LOVE it and if they see it before they are done eating their main course...it's over. You may as well give them the yogurt or have a riot on your hands!).  I didn't buy this "fake" yogurt but hate to waste so I let them have some this week.  He broke out right after.  I'm guessing it's probably full of preservatives and who knows what so I'm starting to wonder if his diet is really affecting his eczema.  I will pay more attention and see how it goes.  I have been researching a more whole foods type diet without a lot of processed foods.  I am blessed to have a wonderful lady who makes us bread each week.  She grinds the flour and everything and it's delicious!  I am so thankful for that resource.  We also now can get free range eggs from chickens fed an organic diet, so that is all the babies will eat as long as we have that source.  I feel like they eat pretty good anyway (almost all organic), but I guess I'll keep making changes and hope it helps Carson.