10 weeks old!

June 26th: Will is 10 weeks old...here are just a few pictures of him this week...first time in the exersaucer...

And, just some smiles. He is a very happy baby who just loves to talk constantly!
Cooing to mama...

Here's "cheese" girl...who just turned 2.5 a few days ago!!

4 Kids 1 Picture

June 22: The kids were all dressed up and looking cute after church, so I decided to attempt to get a picture of all 4 of them together...here's a glimpse of some of the pictures I took in this attempt...

And here is a picture of Mommy and Will (now 9 weeks old!)...


And Daddy and Will...

Father's Day

June 15th: Nana and Papaw were planning to come and visit us, but Papaw decided to drop a huge ladder on his knee the night before and so last minute change of plans had us driving over there instead! Will entertained Papaw and kept his mind off his horribly swollen knee...

He's quite the conversationalist...
Just resting with Papaw...
Back home...look at me, I'm 8 weeks old!!!!
His shirt says "Cool like my daddy!"

Summer Time!

June 8th: Katie and I went to Target to pick up a new pool for the backyard for this summer...she picked out this nice one because she thought Drew would like the basketball hoop!!
After spending half the day inflating the darned thing and realizing after it was half-full that we were supposed to tie the slide down while it was empty for the slide to actually work, then having to dump the pool, tie the slide down, and start over...it was finally ready...

Alex wanted nothing to do with it, which surprised us because she loves water and we have to drag her kicking and screaming out of the bathtub every night...Drew tried to convince her to get in...
Katie enjoyed it...you can see Drew trying to carry Alex behind the pool to get her in...

Finally, Drew realized that Alex didn't like the water that was spraying from the orange arch for the slide, and once he turned the water off...she got right in!

Now we're having fun!!

Taking a rest...
Katie said "Take a picture of this"...so I did...
Daddy and Will hanging out...Will sat outside in his carseat under an umbrella while everyone else played...soon he will be able to join in the fun!

Streeeeetch! Showing off how long he is getting now...and his cute stripey frog romper from the Footes!

This picture shows how light Alex's eyes have gotten. Not sure what color they will end up, but they're so light now they're almost grey!

Visit from the cousins

June 6th: Uncle John and Aunt Ida and all of the cousins came to visit. They were in Columbus to take a tour of the Statehouse. We started out the morning by attending the school mass for Drew's last day of school, the Rich took Drew and Katie on the tour as well! I put some of the pictures Rich took in a slideshow...but I need to go back and have him tell me what some of them are! Drew was excited because he had never been in the "big city" like that before, right next to all the big buildings. The closest we've been in COSI! As usual, I didn't get around to taking any pictures of our actual visit...someday I will remember to take pictures! We had a great visit and look forward to seeing everyone in August!!

Alex and Will...

June 4th: Just some cute pictures...our happy little smilin' Baby...

"I want to snuggle my Willy"...
Seven weeks old tomorrow...
I just love this picture of Will looking at Alex...
Hello! Such a cutie pie!

Six weeks old!

May 29th: Will is six weeks old already! I have a picture of each of the kids at 6 weeks old in the same gown/hat. Unfortunately, the hat is missing! It made it through 3 kids and then mysteriously disappeared...I'm sure I'll find it in one of the other clothes bins in the basement! But here are all the kiddos...

Drew...(we didn't have a digital camera when Drew was born, so this is a picture of his picture...our scanner isn't hooked up right now)...

Katie...Alex...
Will...without the hat, of course!...

Close up...can you tell who Will looks like? I see a lot of similarities between Alex and Will...

Cuteness!

May 28th: Alex, looking cute in her little springy outfit with her matching hairband...she walked around telling everyone "Look at me, I'm cute!" Her favorite phrase!

Katie had soccer today, so she is dressed and ready to go. Her pigtails are getting so long, but she wants to cut her hair shoulder-length like her friend, Norah, when we go for our next haircuts.
Here's Will, ready to go, but not very happy about it...I just wanted to get a picture of him with the beautiful blanket my grandma made for him.

Katie's sweet new ride!

May 25th: We love to ride bikes. We haven't been able to do much this summer as a family since Will obviously isn't big enough for the bike seat or trailer. Drew can ride as far as Rich can take him, but Katie still has training wheels and can't quite keep up on her bike. She weighs too much for the bike seat so I suggested to Rich that he get a tandem for his bike...so despite his skepticism that she would like it, we bought one and he put it on his bike, and she absolutely loves it! And she's just too cute on it as well...they rode to a park a couple of subdivisions over, so I drove with Will and Alex and met them there. On the way home, I was driving past them and happened to have the camera in the car, so I took a picture and then shot a quick video. Luckily, they were on a side street that doesn't get much traffic (look familiar, Thompsons?) so I was able to drive along beside them. No one was hurt in the making of this film...

The video...



And, just a cute picture of our little tagalong!

Five weeks and counting!

May 22nd: Will is 5 weeks old today! Luckily, I remembered right before bedtime, so got a shot of him during his pre-bedtime snooze! Here he is, sleeping peacefully in his swing...

Katie and Alex were having fun running around in their robes after their baths. They were so cute we had to get a picture. The robe Alex is wearing was made by my friend, Rachel, when we lived in Michigan, for Drew. It has held up well through 3 kids already!


May 23rd: Will is starting to smile and coo a lot more now. When he has wakeful periods I feel like someone should be available for him to look at and make his little noises. I needed to get dinner together, so I had the kids all sit and hold him in the boppy and talk to him so he could have some interaction...
Here's a picture of him "talking" to Drew...

Cutie pie!
Katie's turn...despite being told not to pick him up off the boppy, Katie has gotten brave and now feels the need to hug Will when she holds him...he doesn't mind...too much...Alex had to have a turn, of course...she is so funny with Will..."He's got a soothie" (said in your best cartoon character voice)...

"He's got fingers!!"...

"He's got a belly button. Look, Willy, I got a belly button too!"...
We got out the bumbo...Will liked it okay, he likes to be upright when he's awake and watching everything around him...I thought this picture was funny because Drew's head looks huge next to Will's!

I have a cute picture of Alex in the bumbo, with Drew and Katie behind her, but trying to do that with all 4 proved much more difficult. Surprisingly, Drew was the one who just couldn't follow the directions to squeeze in behind Katie, and then Will decided he had had enough of the bumbo, so maybe another day!!