May/June

Hi everyone, I included quite a few pictures this time, I just couldn't resist. Hope you enjoy them. Oh, and if you didn't check out our zoo/swingset pictures from last month, scroll down after this post (I actually posted twice last month!).

Here she is at 8 months. 5.22.07

The below pictures are from Memorial weekend. We spent it up at my parents cabin. It was our first time up there and we did have a good time, but it felt like we had everything but the kitchen sink with us, so we were tired when we got home.

Here, Caleb is watching Uncle Ben come in from fishing. He hadn't seen him in a while, so I think he was excited to see him.

We got to sleep in the camper that is out back from the cabin. It is old, but everyone sleeps really well in it. We were a bit chilly, but blankets kept us warm. It was a nice place for us to get away from the noise. There were 17 people up there that weekend-in one cabin (with two tents)!!

Yes! These are from Memorial weekend. We took the kids to a park in town and it was so cold that we had to break out the winter hats! Caleb had a good time, but Ellie and I jumped back into the car after a few minutes.

Ellery was pretty tired, but she didn't quite feel like sleeping when we put her in her bed. I think that she couldn't quite figure out how to lay down from sitting up so she just fell asleep like this.

Caleb LOVED Papa's boat and still talks about going on the boat. Uncle Jon was good to me and took him down to the dock even though it was still pretty cold.

Ellery learned to pull up on things on 5.29. She thinks she's pretty cool these days and is trying pretty hard to keep up with her brother. It's cute now they kind of play together.

This picture was taken with Uncle Ben in mind. She was playing around with the hockey stick that he gave Caleb for his birthday and I couldn't resist taking the pic. Future hockey girl???

See, I'm not ALWAYS happy!

The Childrens Museum
We checked out the Curious George exhibit at the Children's museum. Caleb always gets a kick out of the museum. He seemed to really enjoy the water exhibit and the grocery store. Ellery even got to get out of the stroller this time and spent a few minutes in the toddler area.



She had a little rash this weekend too. We had to go in to the doctor to make sure she didn't have some blood issue. But it showed just a virus of some sort. She did pretty well with getting her blood drawn and she is rash free and doing well now.

Trouble with a capital "T"!

She just figured out how to stand up in her pack n play!


Ellery's first time in the pool.

She LOVED it, but Caleb wasn't so excited about it. Ellery even took a few spills and didn't get upset. She fell face first and didn't even cry!

Caleb was more interested in watering the plants and playing with his cars than being in the water.

The Zoo and a Swingset(finally)!

As promised, another post. Since my mom was at the cabin on mothers day and I was sleeping, we got together with my family on tuesday and had a nice dinner. We were only missing one member, my brother Ben was still up in North Dakota.

Ellery with Uncle Jon and Sara

We did get to the zoo on thursday morning. Caleb seemed to enjoy seeing the animals. He absolutely loved to feed and pet the goats-as I mentioned earlier, he is always wanting to touch the birdies or bunnies in our yard. He was a little shell shocked by the dolphin show and spent most of that just staring as if he were in a daze, but once we were out of there he really got going.

Ellery hung out in her stroller while we were at the zoo. She even took a nap. She was a very well behaved girl. Smiley as usual!

The end of the day at the fountain.

The swingset

Is it done yet, dad??

Yep, the swingset is FINALLY up! Tim is so relieved to have that project done. I am just nervous for what his next project will be. He seems to need to have some project to do-I guess that's better than having a slacker around! Anyway, uncle Jon came over on Thursday and helped finish the project.

Caleb and Uncle Jon hanging out.

The first time in the swings!!!

We put both kids in the swings here and they seemed to enjoy them. Ellery was interested in staying in the swing much longer than Caleb. Caleb is more interested in the dirt that is still underneath the slide and playing with dad's tools. Hopefully, we will get lots of use out of this. Caleb has been asking everyday to go out to the yard and play on the swingset so I think so far it's working.

Now today, since it was so warm, we put the kids in their swimsuits and took them outside. We didn't quite have the pool up, but we did turn on the sprinkler for Caleb. He just said "I no yike sprinklers", so we didn't spend too much time running through them. It was Ellery's first time in a swimsuit, so I couldn't help but snap a bunch of cute pics. We didn't even put her near the water so we don't know how she would have reacted.

Caleb was sortof willing to go through the sprinklers with dad, but only a few times.

See ya next month!

May

Here we are again, I seem to only be able to update once a month. I finally decided to update this month because we have had some fun things go on in our house. We put Ellery in the crib at nighttime last night and they both were wide awake when she went in there-no monkey business went on so all went well. And Ellery has officially learned to crawl over the weekend and is starting to pull up on some things. I don't have any pics of her pulling up, but I hope to post another time here maybe this weekend because we are going to the zoo on Thursday and I am sure that will bring fun pictures that I would love to share with all of you. So look again next week if you want!


We have been spending some time outside with the nice weather. Ellery seemed quite interested in the grass until we stood her up with her bare feet and then she cried! And Caleb loves to be outside. Dad should hopefully be finished with the swingset this weekend so he will have a focal point in the yard. Right now he spends alot of time with his friends squirrel and bunny (squirrel apparently has been thirsty-see below).

Funny Secrets???

We started to bathe the kids together a few weeks ago and they seem to do okay together. Above, Ellery took a nose dive into the water, but she didn't even cry. And below, she was too difficult to contain sitting up alone, so we used a square laundry basket. It mostly works, but she slides off to the side and we have to pick her up. At least she can't dunk herself so easily this way.



We were also able to get to the park in late April and Caleb had a great time this year climbing around and sliding-we can't wait for our swingset to be finished. Hopefully it will get LOTS of use. And Ellery seemed to enjoy the swings too, dad took her down the slide, but she seemed unsure of that!

Here Caleb is wondering where the birdies went. All he wants to do lately is "touch that birdie" and he doesn't quite understand why the birds fly away when he goes near them so he ends up chasing birds alot.

This is Ellery in an outfit that I had for Caleb and it was just too cute for me to pass up putting her in it. Don't you love the hat?