Another HotPrints Book!

I made May's HotPrint free photo book of William as a baby (Up through 18 months)
See the pdf here.

Andrew is 9 Months Old!

Andrew has officially been outside the womb as long as he was inside!



Andrew kept crawling off when I sat him down to take his picture, so I sat him on this little stool/chair.



















He did try to get off a few times, though!



(this is him leaning forward to get off!)
















My little charmer!

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"The Thinker"

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"Thinking, thinking, thinking...".

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I tried a toy to keep him in one spot...

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but then he just played with the toy!

William was with me when I set up the backdrop (ie blanket), so he crawled onto it and posed for a picture, too!

(My other little charmer!)

Just Some Random Pictures

Andrew loves to feed himself!

This is cool!



















Will being a Firefighter
















Emily being Cinderella.

































Holding his own cup



















1st chocolate chip cookie (a CHOCOLATE chocolate chip cookie!!)

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YUM!!!

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We went into the living room the other day and found this note on the LiteBrite. Sarah had started it, but we called her to dinner before she could finish it.

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Andrew's newest favorite thing to do...stick his tongue out!

oh look, Will's doing it too!

Playdate in the Park

Sarah brought home a flyer about "an evening in the park" event. I invited my sister and her kids to come along.

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We parked at Rachel's house and walked to the park.

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Sharing pizza with Peter.

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Sarah's chalk art

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Emily didn't play very much on the play set

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On a side note...

anyone know what this tree is? It's in my sister's yard and they aren't sure!

Strider Pre-Bike Giveaway!

Bizzi-Mommi is doing a giveaway and it would be really cool to have one of these balance bikes. I'm sure that all 3 of the older kids would love to ride it! (Andrew not so much, since he isn't walking independently yet!)

The Ups and Downs of Potty Training!

Lately, I have alternated having William in training pants, regular underwear, and diapers. Most days, I'd let him choose. Then after changing wet undies for the 8th + time in a day, I'd put him in a diaper. We would talk about the fact that pee and poop going in the potty and not his pants.

Two weeks ago, I decided that I needed to intensify my attempts at potty training him. So I put him in regular underwear and had him sit on the potty every half hour. We had about 4 successes and about 8 misses. Partway through the afternoon, William told me he wanted to wear a diaper and I told him that he didn't wear diapers anymore. The next day he had 6 successes and 2 misses. It has been up and down with how he does, but on the whole, he's getting better! He even had one afternoon where he went all on his own 4 times! We're up to about 1½ hours between when I have him go and he's usually dry when he wakes up from his naps.




I had gotten this froggy potty awhile ago to make it easier for the boys. It is alot easier than trying to use the "Splash Guard" on our other potty or the ring for the big toilet.















Action shot.

Here he's actually wearing training pants (pink ones at that!) since I hadn't had a chance to wash his regular undies and some of them were missing somewhere at the time!

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Here are a couple pictures of the"Itsy Bitsy Spider" in the church nursery.
The web didn't turn out how I had seen it in my head. I guess I should have drawn it out on paper first!






William is pointing to her


















Here, he has gotten the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" book

Andrew playing with new balls