Spring 2012

Alex loves his little sister!

Becky--Kristina--Emily

My college roommates.  Well, all but one. :)  

It was Kristina's 30th bday and her husband arranged a surprise party for her.   It was a nice evening of good food, friends, and no kids!  

The boys spend countless hours playing on our dirt pile.  I feel a little hillbilly-ish with a weed-grown pile of dirt in our front/side yard.  But the boys love it!  And eventually it will be covered in watermelons again this year.

4mo old

 Lookin' good!

 I made the boys vests and ties for Phil and Chelsey's wedding.  It'll be here before we know it!

5mo old

 We made airplanes out of popsicle sticks and cloths pins. Who knew the boys would spend hours playing with them!?

Oooo!  Tractor!

 Rollerskating in Logansport for a cousin's bday party. 

 After skating for a while, the kids headed to the blowup bouncy toy. 

Alex is about to tackle the green cone thing.

5mo old

Adam playing with cars/trucks/tractors

We've been busy busy busy this spring.  We finally got a net enclosure for our trampoline, so the boys have been jumping alot more lately.  It's so nice to be able to let them jump without worrying that they'll fall off (Adam mostly).   They also spend lots of time in the creek playing on a sand bar and digging in the water or throwing rocks into it.  Puddy likes it too because he can stand in the water and get cooled off while they play.
Alex has been trying to whistle at Puddy lately.  However, he can't whistle.  So he does his best impression of the sound and just says "hoot" instead.  Yes, hoot.  It took Andy and I a few times to figure out what he was doing.  He would say, "Hoot!"  "Hoot!  Puddy come here!"  Of course Puddy ignores him and so Alex hangs his head a little and says to us, "Puddy just won't listen to me, Daddy.   I called him, but he just wont come!"   We also signed Alex up for preschool in the fall.  He's very excited about it.  It will be interesting to see how it goes since he wont know anyone there and none of his friends will be there. 
Adam loves to sing.  He breaks out in song all day long.  His favorites lately are 'Deep and Wide' (with all 3 verses!), 'This is the Day', 'God is so Good', and 'The Bumblebee Song'.  There's others, but those are the ones he usually breaks out singing, complete with motions and/or dancing. 
Erin is starting to be a bit more active in her movements and voice.  She's started solid food and so far loves it.  She hasn't rolled over yet, but that's partly my fault.  She doesn't spend alot of time on her back.  She's usually in her excersaucer or in the carrier that I wear on me.  She loves to go shopping because I put her in the carrier and we just go, go, go!
We planted potatoes in the garden a while ago, and they've just started to come up.  I took the boys out to show them and Alex exclaimed, "Wow! Mom, look at all these potatoes!"   I said,"No honey, those are weeds.  The potatoes are over here," and I pointed him to the correct area.  :)