Summer sillies

Girls doing their thing. Ryder doing his. The kid likes to be clothes-free. I don't fight it.


Well, I suppose they all like to be without clothes to an extent.


The boys.


Kyle carrying all the offspring.

Ryder is tough

He may cross dress on occasion, but he definitely favors cars, trucks, motorcycles, dinosaurs, tools etc., over any of the girls toys. One night recently he insisted on having his car in his crib with him. This was no hot wheels car. Check it out.

4 month STATS:

weight: 17 lb. 5 oz.
height: 26 inches
-has rolled over twice (tummy to back)
-is always chewing at his hands
-takes a pacifier pretty well (I'm trying to have a non-thumbsucker for once)
-sleeps 12 hour nights waking up twice, on a lucky night once
-between 2 and 3 naps a day
-LOTS of babbling going on
-size 3 diapers
-still squeezing him into 3-6 month clothing, 6-12 fits better though (today he is wearing a comfy 12-18 m outfit!)
-tolerates his swing and bouncer for small periods but mostly just LOVES to be held and snuggled
-started to grasp and bat at/kick toys
-LOVES bathtime
-LOVES being outside
-love love LOVES being in the beco carrier
-still eating about every two hours :)

Cooper Danny - 3 month pics

My favorite photographer (and good friend), took Cooper's 3 month pictures for us a while back. She did a good job capturing his delicious rolls and cute facial expressions. Here's a few of my faves. Thanks Erica!!

Yeah, so?

My kid likes to dress up as a ballerina.

Goodbye Kindergarten!

Kyra getting a taste of the Kindergarten carpet with her sis.


Mrs. Stanley is the best teacher in the world and we love her so much! She is a teacher that just LOVES her students so much. Not to mention every single person in her class has mad reading/writing skills now thanks to her.


She read The Kissing Hand on the very first day of school and then again on the last day. Except today she changed it to Mrs. Stanley being the mother raccoon sending her little raccoon off to 1st grade. Then she gave them all a "kiss" stamp. It was so sweet as she choked back tears.



Breckyn with her best friend.


I take comfort knowing I can send Kyra to Mrs. Stanley soon!

Beach Season 2010

So happy to be back at the beach! We've missed it so! You better believe we'll be there as much as possible this summer.

We may not have snow, but we have sand! Sand angels.


We went to one of the most beautiful beaches this time, Laguna. The waves were CrAzY and it was a tad chilly so we spent most the time playing on the beach. Not too much swimming.

Chubbers

So let's catch up. Little Coop has grown.. and grown.. and grown. Until he looks like he is going to pop. He's become quite the little fatty weighing in at 15 pounds at age 2.5 months, the same as Breckyn when she was one year. He is delicious. I seriously eat him up every day. YUM!

We can barely squish him into the Bumbo.


Proud daddy.


Just chillin'.


Happy baby.


Sleepy baby.

Love my chubbers.

SIX

It is always crazy when Breckyn has a birthday. I feel so old and feel like she is so old and like everything is happening too fast. We left our camera somewhere so these were just taken with my phone.

We just celebrated with our little family.

She was shocked when a little kitten jumped out of the present she opened. Poor girl jumped a mile high.

What followed was a smile so genuine we all couldn't help but be happy for her. This is what she has wanted for years. This kitten was born on St. Patrick's Day so we call him Patty.

Happy Birthday Breckyn! Love you!

We are alive.

Okay, so we've been a bit busy. I know these 'look what we did the past 2 months' and 'more pics of my kids' posts are pretty lame, but that's all I've got right now.

We blessed our little Cooper and had a houseful of guests. It was more lovely than I care to go into on this blog.

Our kids nearly died with all the fun kids to play with. Really, they did.


Cooper is soooo cute. And fat. And we just love him to pieces. I love having a fat kid cuz I know in about 4 months he'll stop growing and turn skinny just like my other kids. He smiles, but we have to work for it. I haven't been able to catch a pic of him smiling yet. This seemed close, but he was actually gearing up to let out a scream.


His feet are my favorite.


I just love them!

I have other kids too. Here is Breckyn. Our roses are freakishly beautiful right now.


Kyra, tan dulce, como siempre.


And Ryder, well he doesn't stop to take a picture. He almost stopped to make a funny face for me.


But he got distracted and started cutting dirt with a butter knife.

That just lasted for a second and he was off to something else.


There. That should catch you up a bit. Now Kyle will be happy.
The end.