Grandma's Birthday

For Mom/Grandma V's birthday dinner we went to a small, beautiful park and had a picknick. 

I am not sure who had the most fun...

T. playing with cousins.

K. not sure she is happy, because we did not let her get down on the ground.

Aunt L. taking the kidos for a walk.

T and his Aunt L. (She is his favorite aunt right now.)

Grandma V showing them how to play "Pooh Sticks" 

Happy Birthday Grandma (Mom), we love you

Gardening

This Mama's best friend right now the Pack and Play.

Miss K. loves to eat things, so I took my pack and play down to the garden with me while I worked. 

I put some screen over the top so that she wasn't bug and mosquito food and she played in it happily for at least two hours. It was a little bit of a pain taking it outside and then back in, but it was definitely  worth it.

I got to put all the irrigation tape down in one afternoon, then Titus helped hook it up that evening. So glad to have a happy watered garden again. 

happy baby = happy mama

T. helped me put some dirt in the garden. 

We transplanted a rhubarb plant and exchanged the old dirt for some compost.

The wheel barrow is so much fun to ride in! 

Do you see strawberry juice anywhere?

Wow I need to update this already! The garden has grown so much since these pictures.

Miss K's 8 mo pictures

K is now pulling up on everything.

(It made taking pictures of her more fun and more challenging at the same time.)

She has said her first word: Dada

She has no teeth yet...(Gonna be like her Mama, I didn't get any till I was 9mo.)

She laughs at her brother all the time, and loves him unconditionally. 

She loves food, any kind of food, well, she loves putting everything in her mouth anyway, and doesn't understand what Mama's big deal is when she does. Who cares if you choke on it and end up puking, you have to try it.

She is wearing 6-9 mo clothes and some 12 mo stuff.

She is getting good at pulling her head bands down arould her neck and then holding onto them while she sucks her thumb. (I have found her asleep on the floor this way more than once.)

She also has to hold onto something while she goes to sleep sucking her thumb.

You are growing up so fast, K.

K. I pray everyday that you will grow up to be a Godly woman, and that you will serve Jesus with all your heart.  ~Love Mama

Curiosity

An evening we spent outside. 

K. got tired soon after we went out, so she had to be put to bed. 

She has been making this little cute scrunched up face lately and it makes me laugh every time I see it.

I think she looks like one of her cousins in this picture.

My little lawn mower/ grass eater.

I spent the rest of the time chasing Tyler around with my camera. I got lots of exercise but I think all the running paid off.

Swinging with Daddy.

 

Investigating.

T. is such a little boy. 

He loves every stick and rock he finds and carries them around for hours sometimes.

Nobody ever told me how hard it would be to get a little boy to stand still and smile at me for two seconds. T. is so interested in anything outdoors that he hardly will look at me.

The only way I got him to look was by asking him where my nose was and where his was, and that didn't even last very long.

Where is your tongue?

He though he was big stuff sitting in a tree. (about a foot off of the ground)

The tree bark was soon much more interesting than Mom.

T. your curiosity in everything amazes me all the time! 

I love it!  

Just a little Spoiling

My Mom and my cousin came up the second week in June and we had a blast!

T. learned several new words (of course, he will say things for other people) and got to sleep in the basement with Mam-maw several nights.

Thanks for all the book reading and diaper changing that you both did. It was so nice to have a little break from being the only diaper changer around. ;)

I think you spoiled us all, including Titus. After you left he said that he had gotten used to having coffee made when he got home.

T. now thinks he has another aunt too.. So glad you could come up M.! Come again sometime!

On Sunday we went to Stearn's Park in Ludington and walked out to the light house. It started raining soon after we got there so not everyone went to the light house, but the rain didn't last long. The clouds and rain just made it so beautiful. Perfect lighting. 

I really like this picture.. I did nothing to the saturation, and it looks like a black and white photo.

Mam-maw reading to T...

K. pulling up on her toy.

I was too busy having fun to take pictures. 

One day we went and watched a good friend make soap and then tried it ourselves two days later.  

We also went shopping in Muskegon.

I have so many good memories from this week!