tv time

They decided that they wanted to play with Curious George so they tried to push themselves into the TV. 

"Mom, it's not working!!!"

check out these cuties

 

  Seriously?!?!  Does it get any cuter??

 

crazy hair and crazy eyes

 His face is priceless in this one.

 We went to check out the waterfall on our Sunday drive.  Carter told us that he needed to bring his binoculars so he could "spot the waterfall".

 My world

 They are awesome.  Carter has not had much energy lately.  He gets a little energy for a few hours a day so we try to take advantage of it.  He still wants to go do stuff but gets so tired after only a few minutes.

 Me and my kids.  Still hard to believe I have THREE.

 4th of July outfit.

 They are so cute together.

 One of my all-time favorite pictures.  Vienna with the Flash.

 Jude is always injured, it seems.  A can fell out of the pantry while he was playing in there and hit him in the face.

I know.  Super duper cute.

We are loving that it's finally warm and sunny most days! 

7 months old

 Well, almost.  In a few days this little beauty will be 7 months old!  I took her in for her 6 month check-up this past week.  She weighs 13 lbs 12 ozs (5th %) and is 26.75 inches tall (71%).  The doctor told me not to be stingy in the food department :)  She was a champ for her shots, too.  Carter came with us to help her be brave.  She cried until I picked her up, then she was fine. 

So our little baby girl just can't be slowed down.  She's crawling all over the place now.  She can even go up the step from our living room which means I have to keep the entire house clean instead of just one room :(  She also can pull herself up to standing!  She is very proud of herself... until she falls over.

 crawling - action shot

I don't only dress her in hair bows, she had clothes on earlier.

 She climbs over and out the other side of this all the time.

 She has an audience for everything she does.  These two boys could not love her any more!

 I finally started feeding her solids last week.  She loves it.

 She is very cuddly.  Here she is asleep on my mom's shoulder.  So sweet!

She is the sweetest baby ever!  I'm not just saying that cause I'm her mom either, she really is :)

Birthday Party!

 

Waiting for his party.

Carter is almost 4!  His birthday isn't until Thursday but we pretended his birthday was this past Saturday.  His daddy won't be here for the actual day and Carter will be going back to the hospital so we pushed it up a few days.

 

He has wanted a Spongebob birthday cake for months now.

He arranged the "Happy Birthday" candles all by himself.

 

He wanted to invite the kids from his sunbeams class because they are all "so nice!"

 

 Yum!

 

We had his party in our backyard.  Have I mentioned that we love our spacious back yard?  Cause we do.  Dennison has been doing a lot of work back there and it's looking really great.  Now if only we could get some summer weather to really enjoy it...

 

The one gift that he's been longing for is a Spongebob fishing pole.  This was the look on his face when he finally got it :)

He played with it for hours.

 

And he got a lot of other really awesome presents from his friends.

 

Including these awesome sunglasses.

  

Peek-a-boo!

And some binoculars.

Did I mention that Grandma came for the party?

Relaxing after a rip-roarin party.

 Me with my birthday boy.

 Still loving the fishing pole.

So, what was Jude doing during this party, you ask? 

Let me show you

A little of this:

 

 

 

And then a little of this:

 

Where are this kid's parents?!?!  Seriously!

6 months old!!!

 Our angel baby is 6 months old today!  She's still just as sweet and easy-going as ever.  She is just so go-with-the-flow.  None of us can get enough of her around here!

 Her thumb is in her mouth more and more these days.

 

Her latest tricks include but are not limited to:

bringing a smile to everyone's face

sitting up all by herself for several minutes

holding toys and passing them from hand to hand

grabbing everything she gets her hands on

and ARMY CRAWLING!

what?!?!  I was not expecting her to be an early mover.  She's been scootin around for at least a week now.  We have a sunken living room so I keep it free of baby hazards and just let her go.  She rolls and crawls around all the time.  She finds her way over to the step, puts one hand up and whines because she wants to get up there.

Here's a video:

This should make our weekly hospital visits interesting...  Hmmm, not sure how we'll keep her entertained without letting her crawl all over those yucky hospital floors.  She already gets up on her knees sometimes so I'm sure crawling for real is just around the corner.

Vienna is just the sweetest baby I've ever met.  She's a beautiful little thing :)  We are all thrilled that she's in our family.  Dennison and I totally hit the jackpot in the kid department.


I haven't even scheduled her 6 month check-up so I don't have her stats yet.  I'll get around to it sometime...

Happy Birthday Dennison!

Yesterday, Dennison turned 33!  Yikes, I know.  We had a really fun weekend together as a family.  Fish hatchery then backyard swimming then date night on Saturday.  Church, naps, dinner, walk on Sunday.  He tells me he had a great birthday, so I think he did :)  I love him.