June 26th

Well, the GARDEN is done! Thank you Carol and Tim for helping with the habeneros. John can't wait to sweat I mean eat them :) I think we even did this without my "one month time limit" or if not it was really close! Yep, we started this May 21, finished it today, June 26th. Not bad. Not bad.

I can't believe Jude will be 8 months on the 4th. Ahh he's getting so big. Scoots all around his crib. He's never where I laid him! It's pretty funny. Also I have a belly sleeper (finally)!! This would have been nice around 4-5 months but oh well. He sings, talks, all the time! He's also getting a bit of an attitude if you ask us. He LOVES mirrors, talking to himself in the mirror, while banging with my hairbrush. BUT if you take him away from it before he's done, oh man, watch out! He'll get mad. Yep, my happy, so easy going baby as a bit of an attitude :) He also is obsessed with stroller wheels. Becky and I went to the mall for a bit and I actually had to camp out at Macy's for about 15 minutes so that he could get it out of his system. Ugh. Here's what we've been up to!


Finally using Sophie has she's suppose to be played with.
Sod! Garden!
Sod! Garden!
Jean diapers!
Right, she did this herself. Silly dog.
Had to lower crib. Belly sleeping with legs crossed!
Helen and I playing Dart Tag.
Uma wants the pretzel rod, Jude wants her collar. Whoops, just noticed I already posted this. Oh well! You love it anyways :)

Well, the GARDEN is done! Thank you Carol and Tim for helping with the habeneros. John can't wait to sweat I mean eat them :) I think we even did this without my "one month time limit" or if not it was really close!

Sippy cups?! Psh, those are for babies....

Two teeth now. I'm a real boy mom! Yikes. Two bottom. The second one just popped through. :( At least they aren't up a whole bunch yet.

He'll crawl for things. Uma's collar...
New favorite toy. Uma's bell. Loves the gold door-knobs, water bottles, lights, and Uma's bell. Who needs toys!

Scary storm coming in!

Well I have this great video of Jude drinking from a cup, yes a cup. But this thing won't let me load it. I guess I'll try again later :(

Also had lunch with Carol, thank you Carol! It was SOOO good. I haven't had that salad since I was pregnant! It totally hit the spot. I will be eating that once a week now :)

Update!

Meet Basil. Not the herb, the turtle. He just appeared on my back porch one day. I asked John if we could dig up the dirt in the veggie garden we just created and place him in there as a home, but John's no fun and said no. Later that day we found him walking across the street to the pond.

Laughing at Uma and Fran playing


Loves Uma.

Tubby...


Oh my. What a group.



Thank you Rachel! She was so sweet to join me in celebrating my 1st birthday! :) Love you Rachel!

What is this!?

So let's see. Those pictures are what it is new :) Actually, just today (June 20), I started sleep training Jude. I realize that when I start my internship in Aug., the ladies that will be watching him won't be able to nurse him to sleep. :( So here begins the struggle with putting him down for naps. Today was okay. Actually not as bad as I thought it would go. Woohoo. But tomorrow is a whole different day ;/

Other than that, same old. Just hanging out all day. He doesn't really have any new tricks. Ha. I am not quite promoting the movement. No need to chase him around all day. I'll save that for then I start my intern :) Ha. Suckers. Just kidding! Okay more later :) Enjoy the pictures!

First Official Pool Date with Eli!

Ahh so the summer begins! Love it. Had our first pool date, of many, with Eli! It was nice and hot! The pool was cool and felt great! Jude only lasted about 10 minutes then wanted to walk, talk, etc. Eli was a trooper and was entertained in there for quite some time!


I think I recall doing this before...Yikes.




Sooo cute!

Apparently, this is the funniest thing ever! <3


This is how he likes to chew on Mommy's chin.


This is how he likes to NOT chew on Daddy's chin.

Gulf Shores!

First family vacation to Gulf Shores! It was a blast. Nice weather. Much cooler than here but not cold. It was great! The beach was beautiful. We left Friday, June 3rd, John's Birthday, at 7:30 hoping the boys would fall asleep. We went with Stacie, Rob and Joey! They did, eventually. We drove to Jackson Mississippi. It was a looong, tiring drive. The boys did okay. Joey would wake up, cry, then stop. Then Jude would wake up, cry, then stop. Repeat for about an hour straight. Nothing we could really do so we just kept driving....We got to the hotel around 3 am, slept until Jude woke us up at 6:45 (which is actually sleeping in), then left there around 9. Took us a bit longer to get to Gulf Shores, but we made it! Rob immediately put his suit on and was ready to jump in! HA. We didn't really do much, but relax, play in ocean, lay out, pool time, etc. Here are all the pictures! There's a lot! Too many good ones to pick from!

First time on beach/looking at ocean!


View from our balcony.

Stacie insisted that we clean the place as we got there...This is Rob mopping. Yikes.

So happy in the hotel in Jackson!

Checking out that water!

Getting acquainted with daddy!



POPATOT. Cool thing. Put it up, he plays, we play :)

Loved the pool!

I think he's going to be a swimmer!


Took a little bit to get used to it, but he loved it after a bit!

Wanting to eat Joey's head.


Played on the balcony, alot.


Telling Sophie about his ocean experience.

STILL his favorite toy.

Pretty sure I was reciting "Hop on Pop"


Our pool.

Chilling while we swim :)

Time to jump in!

Slowly, jumping in.




The sweetest thing.




Boys on beach!

Joey prefers to eat like this :)




Soo cute!

My favorite boys!

Love him so much.