July

Random pictures from the past month!

Avery (11 months) - Avery is more active than ever.  Her newest trick is stair climbing.  She loves cruising around, laughing, eating, chewing on anything and being held.  She has moved up to some 18 month clothing and is working on tooth #3!

Lounging with Madie

Playing with brothers' cars in her pink dress

Banana Cookie

Showing off her stair climbing

Parker (3 years, 8 months) - Parker is a such a ball of personality.  He is adorable with Avery and dotes on her constantly.  He wants to do whatever Carter does and loves hanging with the big kids.  He prefers to do things his way and is generally too busy to smile for the camera.  But occasionally we get a good picture!

Sprinkler fun

Cheering for the USA Soccer Team

Silly clothes day - Parker chose his outfit

Hanging with Addie at the Children's Museum

Carter (5 years, 2 months) - Carter has been having a blast with his summer adventures.  He has been soaking up lots of time with friends before they all separate to different schools.  He has developed a love for cooking shows (Good Eats is his current favorite), he is a great helper around the house and loves to take adventures!

Carter's cat

Fun with friends at school

Siblings - These three together are just hilarious and amazing.  Its loud, crazy and full of laughter and love!

Taking sister for a ride

Art time

Taking little sister for a ride... again

Sibling hug

Playing leap frog on the stairs

Cheering on Team USA

Parker followed Avery around with his arms out to catch her if she fell

Zoo Trip

Colin had a company outing to the zoo today so after the boys's final baseball game, we headed that way.  It was crazy hot and surprisingly busy given the weather.  But the kids had a blast.  Avery loved riding in the stroller.  The boys thought the new Reptile house was awesome and they even won a few prizes from the Animal Planet Network who was at the Zoo to celebrate the Panda twins second birthday.

Petting every sheep/goat at the Petting Zoo

Carter requested a mean Tiger

Parker originally wanted a Warthog but settled on a Giraffe

Showing off their prizes and happy Avery

Watching the Monitor try to escape

Summer Baseball

Parker had a friend ask him to play T-Ball this summer and Carter wanted to join so we signed both boys up for summer baseball and Dad agreed to coach the team.  It was quite hot at times but the boys had a blast playing on a team together.  And Avery enjoyed being outside.

Baseball ready - they liked to play next to each other

View from Parker - #3

Waiting to bat

Pregame at the Playground

Assistant coach mom

Carter hitting

Parker's turn

Cheering section

Coach and his boys with trophies after the last game

Happy Birthday Uncle Reid

We hosted a belated birthday for Uncle Reid that the boys had a blast planning.  They went to a puppet show with Mimi that afternoon and came home with masks which they insisted on wearing to hide and surprise Uncle Reid when he arrived.

They also made banners and signs to decorate with.

We had dinner...

 And then celebrated with a Pinata!

After dinner the boys put on a shadow puppet show

And we celebrated with birthday cake.

Happy Birthday Uncle Reid!