Little Helper

Ty learning to sort silverware.

Birds nests and Mud pies

I took Ty & Micah out to play today.  It is VERY stressful to me to take them outside to play.  We are working on following direction.  Anyway, their favorite thing to do it throw balls down the sloped drive way where they end up in the road.  They do this over and over and over.  They are only allowed to go so far down the yard, so I am having to run to catch the balls before they go in the road.  It is a pretty busy road.

So, today when I took them out, it only took 1 ball going down the drive & one car seeing me running like a crazy trying to catch it for me to take them to the back yard.  The backyard isn’t terrible, but there are a few muddy spots from the rain. 

I promise as I was taking this picture I didn’t realize he had mud on his fingers. It all happened so fast!  As I snapped the photo, I realized he had something on his fingers and he was putting it in his mouth.  My first thought was that it was poop, I was relieved to see it was only mud!!  I did panic for a second though!   This is what ended our time outside however.  I could hear him munching on tiny rocks so we had to go in to get the mud off.  Silly boy!

 

Teeny Tiny Baby

My nephew Dexter likes to play tiny baby after bath time.  My sister wraps him up in his towel and he pretends to be a baby.  It’s pretty cute if you ask me:) 

Ty & Micah have both recently started noticing babies.  About 2 weeks ago some of our close friends had a baby.  We went over for a visit and took the boys also.  The older brother of the baby got to hold the baby while we were there.  After that, Micah kept reaching to hold the baby too.  I wouldn’t let him, but he seemed okay with that. 

Now when we go out and we see a baby, Ty especially will point it out and say ‘be be’

So, today I gave the boys a bath.  Micah is always the first to want out.  I have to save hair washing till last because the second Micah gets water poured over his face he is ready to get out of the water.  Today was no different.  I do have to say, he is getting somewhat better about this though.  Today instead of trying to stand up in the middle of it to get away from me, he just started frantically wiping his face.  Then I let him get out.  I wrapped in him in the towel and just to be silly I started rocking him and said he was my baby.  He loved it!  He let me rock him for a while, well, until Ty wanted out to be a baby too. haha. Ty usually wants to do what Micah is doing.

I wrapped Ty up and held him for a while. Rocking and talking to him.  He kept saying ‘be be’ over and over.  I started to put his clothes on him but Micah came over and started reaching like he wanted to hold the ‘be be’.  Now this is a baby I WILL let him hold:)  I was thinking, there is NO WAY Micah will really want to hold Ty.  But he did! haha It was SO funny.  He held him and even tried to rock him like I was doing.  He didn’t even want to give him up when I tried to take Ty back.  Ty loved it too! He kept smiling at Micah and saying ‘be be’ over and over.  I really wish I could have captured it, but I know as soon as I moved away to get the camera or even pulled the camera out, the moment would be over.  It was so sweet. Hopefully they will do this again for Ian later, I know he will want to see this too:)  Just thought I would share my cute little story!

Ian’s Birthday Weekend

Ian is pretty funny about his birthday.  It’s one of the many reasons I love him:)  Our marriage started out with a birthday weekend devoted to Ian and someone how over the years managed to turn into birthday week.  Nothing really special happens that week, but Ian does get his way on a lot of things.  I will admit it, he is just down right spoiled:)  Anyways, we always go to his parents for his birthday weekend and both of his brothers and their wives come over too.  I think most of you know that me and my sis married brothers, so my sis is always here too.  She wasn’t able to come this year though:( Poor Dex was sick. 

Here are some pictures from the trip…

Ian & Ty

Micah Ty Ty & IanMicah & Uncle Sean card from Rebekah and Alex (Rebekah made it) Family Photo Sean & Alisha

Michelle’s Baby Shower

My brother, Bruce, and his wife Michelle are having their first baby.  He is due June 5th.  I am SO excited and I know they are too.  It’s a boy, his name is Bruce Isaac but will go by Isaac. Cute name!

Anyways, my sis and I put together a shower for Michelle.  There were lots of difficulties (the door to the building wasn’t unlocked like it was supposed to be, the cake I made fell apart) but at the end of the day Michelle still got lots of nice gifts for Isaac!

The cute monster hats Rebekah (my sis) made for baby Isaac. 

The centerpieces I worked so hard on.  Okay, so they were super easy to make.

I unfortunately didn’t too many pictures of the shower.  I can promise there will be TONS of pictures when Isaac gets here though!

Happy Birthday Ian!!

 

I love the bed head in this photo:)  I think they went to sleep with wet hair. haha

Happy Birthday Ian! You are THE best husband and father ever! :)  I am thanking God for another year with you! I love you!