The big 2-0 months!

Summertime is so much fun, who can stop to blog?  Also, twenty month old toddlers require so much attention... who has time to blog?  My friend Bonnie emailed last night and asked if Jack was still saying "I don't know" in response to every question.  I realized that he had stopped and that I had stopped blogging and that I am going to forget everything that I love because my brain, if you were to look at a current scan, must most closely resemble a sieve.  Sad.  Moving on....

At the church house... Klint and I may have had a teency fight about the outfits the boys were in

BIG NEWS!~  Jack, West and Lilibeth are in summer school two days a week... and Mama is doing part of her other (much less important) job during daylight hours.  Hallelujah!

We took a little trip to the outlet mall to get appropriate school shoes.  I miss elementary school.  I don't say "appropriate" or "inappropriate"  500 times a day at home.  Maybe that's a good habit to drop :)  Anyway, West had to entertain himself by putting goldfish crackers in his ear.  I say that's inappropriate.  West says shopping is no fun.  We can agree to disagree.

We had a fun morning at Creekside Park with Jessica of JL May Photography.  Klint took our camera and stole some shots.  www.jlmayphotography.com

West Irby... what I don't want to forget about this time... "EEE... up, up."  He loves to be held right now and I am hoping that they "EEE" is his shortened version of "please."  Who knows... it's sweet.

The official photo shoot is over and the party gets started... the boys found a puddle in the slide!

The kids think that the TV is called "Einstein"... how ironic!  They LOVE Baby Einstein and they love to watch and ride on their ponies.

Camp Cousin 2012... Uncle Mark and Aunt Linz came and hosted camp.  Klint and I took off to Florida to celebrate almost 15 years!

Lilibeth loves the slide!  We all love the play set from Ben & Papa!

Funny girls

"It's too dang hot for a penguin to be just walking around out here"

The Zoo Crew!

West is using (I hope!) "gentle hands" with the goat.  Do they sedate those goats?  What a bad job for a poor goat!

Lilibeth and Jack brush the goat who is wondering how he should go about putting in for a transfer to a local farm.

Walker working on his grooming skills

See ya!

Linz (voted Best Girl Counselor) said that she and Mark (voted Best Boy Counselor) got lots of interesting looks... four toddlers and a baby on the way!

Bring your green hat... it's a dance party!

West and Walker tried to escape into the rain.  When it rained on the beach in Florida, Klint and I took off for an unexpected trip to Disneyworld.  I must admit, I have made HILARIOUS fun of adults who go to Disney by themselves... especially those who honeymoon in Disney.  Really?  But... it was by far the best day of our vacation... we raced between parks and rode every roller coaster, saw Cinderella's castle lit up at night... and here I go, I am going to say it.... it was magical.  I don't know how Walt did it, but I cannot wait to take these three!

Sweet pea... always making sure the boys have their sippy cups.  She adores her "bruh-ers."  She has become a chatterbox in the past month... Yay, Lilibeth!

Reading to Jack

Lilibeth wants my spot at the trip-trap...  these boys need a good teacher and she is the girl for the job!

We got a little sick last month.  After gagging up his dinner two nights in a row with the antibiotic, we tried it in Blue Bell.  Now way, Dad.  I'll play with this straw, but I am no dummy.  YOU drink the amoxicillin shake.

I may apply for a job as a nurse...

We are mostly well now and ready to celebrate the 4th!  I can't wait for Lilibeth and the boys to see fireworks!

19 (and a half) months...

19 (and a half) months...  so time just gets away from you when you have three toddlers in the mix! 

What in the world are those three crazy cats doing?

West- Putting together sentences!  Smarty pants!  His sippie cup spilled milk on the floor one morning.  He said, "Mess."  I said, "I'll get it."  West responds, "I keen it."  And so he did... walked right over to the pile of "keen" towels on the couch, grabbed a washcloth and mopped it right up. 

Lilibeth- Currently loves "gasses"... sunglasses.  She is a summertime girl!  We have spent lots of time "ow-side" and a girl needs her sunglasses.

Jack- His most recent sentence, "I need my monkey."  This is true... As Jack, West & Lilibeth get older, their attachment to the monkeys (lovies) only intensifies!  I am amazed at all that they are saying! 

We spent Memorial Day weekend at a family reunion in Louisiana.  Jack ran and "danced a jig" the whole time.  That kids loves a party!  His brother liked the eating out aspect of the trip!  Because one of our local restaurants has a patio, we usually eat there when we go out.  They happen to serve primarily pizza.  For some reason, eating in the great outdoors makes me feel a little bit better about bringing our three little bears out to eat in public.  Anyway, since we don't eat out often, West thinks that when we do go out to eat, he will get pizza.  Each time we put him in his highchair at a restaurant he got the happiest little look on his face and said, "Pizza!"  Jack is now calling West "Wast" and Lilibeth "B-beth."  I took West to the pediatrician by himself the other day and he kept calling out, "Jack, Jack!" as if I had forgotten someone.  (I hope sweet Lilibeth doesn't read this post in the future and wonder why West was not worried about her well being!).

We love to read!

Our Daddy "put in" a pool :)

Woo-hoo!

Fun time with cousins at Ben and Papa's house

It was a rainy day.  Some of us (me) painted on paper.  Others (Jack and his sibs) painted themselves.  Smooch!

We'd really just rather go "ow-side"

Out of order pics.... West after the first haircut

Jack after the first haircut

Daddy pulls the choo-choo with the tractor

More out of order pics... Hunting Easter eggs at Duke and Fancy's house

Jack before haircut... Love those curls, but they had to go... we were getting a little Gene Wilder look every now and then!

Ummm... boys.... don't mess with my eggs!

West on the hunt

Love this guy!

Wheelbarrow ride with Duke

Big kid table

Handsome fella

Hmmm...

Is this OK?

No way!

Sweet Jack

West is still unhappy about this turn of events

First haircut crew... we try to be inconspicuous ;)

A year and a HALF!

.  This is the month of the tractor... we are all OBSESSED.

West and "Dah-ee" taking their first spin

Lilibeth has this driving thing down

If we are not on the tractor, we are watching Daddy on the tractor

I had to take this pic... I know this sleeping position will be gone soon and we LOVE it!

Jack... back with his photo antics

These poor kids have a hillbilly for a mother who just introduced them to "silverware"

Honestly, after what I have dubbed the "oatmeal debacle," we may not see silverware and oatmeal again until we are 5!

West seems to have found a creative new way to wear a hat

Beep, Beep!

Perfect!

Happy birthday to Dah-ee!  I LOVE the father that he is... and I was especially thankful this morning that he is able to wake the babies up with me so that we can have coffee and milk together every morning.

Love

Ice cream is on the way... everyone is happy!

Evening in Round Top with Ben, Papa, Aunt Bev, Aunt Kristen & Reagan

We couldn't get enough of "side"!

So sweet!

Sweet girls

Lili B.

How long can I keep calling them "beautiful boys"?

Jack

First hair cut... during breakfast... he didn't mind at all as long as we kept the berries coming!

Easter morning

First hunt!

go, West, go!

Got one!

Three little chicks