The Lake

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend.  We went up to the lake and had an amazing time as usual.  The weather was crummy on Monday, but we got in two full days of lake fun and the kids had a blast.  I came down with a nasty stomach bug, but the rest of the family seemed to skip it, thank goodness, and we had a great holiday.  Matt and I were talking on the way home about how lucky we are to have 3 kids that are such champs at a 5 hour road trip - I don't think we had any complaining either way.  Good thing since it looks like we will be spending 2 weeks up at the lake this July:) 

 Firework parachute men = huge hit

 Charlie's reaction to the fireworks

 Electric scooters - they are awesome

 Checking out Pearl, the neighborhood peacock

Quick Catch Up

We have been running around like lunatics as usual and are headed to the Lake with the Wolfes tomorrow for the long weekend.  Josh is way too close to crawling, Charlie has his late day of school tomorrow, and Alec had the best soccer game of his career last Saturday.  Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend. 

 Charlie and Alec are OBSESSED with the Gangham style video...and their own interpretation is really hilarious

 They took their first trip of the season to the driving range on Saturday

 A terrible picture of me, but I cut my hair:)

Uncle Mike and Josh!  We've been enjoying Aunt Kat and Uncle Mike this week - they got to stop over on their move to Ohio:)

Happy Spring

 

Catch Up

I'm a little behind on Josh's 7 month pics, but life is crazy around here!  We have been busy and really enjoyed getting a taste of some spring weather over the last week.  The boys were outside form the minute they got up to the minute they went to bed....makes me wonder what we do all winter long:)  Unfortunately the rain is back and it looks like it's staying for awhile.  Josh is adorable as ever, he mastered sitting up on his own this month and is enjoying sitting up and playing with toys.  He smiles and squeals and coos all the time and loves to watch his big brothers.  He gets pretty rough housed by them sometimes, particularly Charlie, and he is a great sport about it.  He still isn't sleeping through the night, and doesn't really seem close, but he is getting better and better.  He progressed out of his crazy sleep suit this month into a

regular sleep sack.  While I can't even imagine what even 6 straight hours of sleep feels like anymore, I know it won't last forever, and I'm actually okay with the sleep deprivation, as long as I'm greeted with big happy smiles in the morning.  Josh also started to eat solid food this month and is enjoying lots of new tastes.  So far oatmeal and bananas for breakfast seem to he his favorite.  The other boys are maniacs.  Charlie has fully embraced the terrible twos and causes trouble 99% of the day.  His current obsessions are basketball and golf.  We just ordered him his own set of left handed gold clubs, because despite doing everything else right handed, he golfs left handed and its hard for a lefty to use right handed clubs.   He can literally hit the golf ball (even with a backwards club) all the way across the yard, which is pretty insane for a 2 year old.  Alec had his first spring soccer game last weekend and did great.  We moved him up a level so he is now playing with the kindergartners, who are a full year older than he is, but you would never know it.  He scored 4 goals in his first game and seemed to have no trouble fitting right in with the older boys.  Pretty much we are 100% sports around here all the time.  We also had a fun visit last weekend from Papa Gene.  He got to see Alec's soccer game and went with Alec and Matt to a Dad's Day at Alec's school, we played putt-putt, ate out, played outside, did a few house projects and had a great visit.  Happy Spring:)