Sleeping

On Sunday morning, this is what I found when I went in the living room.

Adam rolled over – no one woke up.

I took pictures with the flash – no one woke up.

Adam rolled over again – no one woke up.

Cute!

Alex’s Birthday – May 25th

Here’s Alex putting out the forest fire of 33 candles.

Erik and Adam put sprinkles and candles on Dad’s cake. They got the candles more evenly distributed than I expected. Not too bad boys! Or, as Adam said, “We made the best cake I’ve ever seen!” Gotta love his enthusiasm :)

Sneaky mischief and a good sleeper

Tyler got caught red handed in some mischief the other day.

It’s funny how careful he is to make sure each blanket is unfolded “enough.” Meticulous mischief, hehe.

The next day he set a new recorded for sleeping the longest ever. About 18 hours!

Erik made him this baby “merit badge” to commemorate the accomplishment. When Adam asked for one, Erik said no, because Tyler earned it! I mean come on ...we can't just be giving out merit badges willy nilly here...

Tyler liked it, and he was very happy and busy after his long sleep!

He has made sure to get in his fair share of playing with Adam’s new birthday toys. Can’t let those big brothers have all the fun ;)

Speaking of birthday toys…Adam has made up a fun game with his airplanes. The orange one is a snow airplane…so it went to the North Pole to look for Santa. Then I asked where he thought Santa might be? Adam answered, that he was in the red airplane! So now the red one is officially the Santa airplane, and he and the orange jet like to have fun at the North Pole together (the North Pole is located on our very light blue pillow  - that looks like snow of course!) Adam keeps asking me to play this game with him. I get to be the orange jet and he is the Santa airplane. When he asks me to play he says, “Will you play nicely with me?” I guess that’s how he perceives the difference between how I play with him – “nicely” and how Erik plays with him – with explosions and typical little boy drama and disasters.

While I was writing this, Tyler saw the picture of the airplanes so he went and got six of them and put them on the desk next to me!

And he brought his merit badge over earlier when he saw the picture of that. Too cute…wait I take that back…as we speak he is getting the blankets out again (see mischief portion of this post.) Art imitates life…life imitates art…I think we are going around in circles here.

Okay…he’s still cute, what can I say?

Adam’s 4th Birthday

Pre-Birthday preparations:

Presents wrapped  - check

Balloons from last year blown up again - check

Cake baked – check

Tyler got to lick some cake batter…and of course he wanted “more, more!”

May 11th:

Our traditional birthday water play :)

Cake…

And Presents!

Adam and Erik got life jackets. (We gave Erik one too since we didn’t want to wait till his birthday at the end of the summer to give him his.)  It’s too big on Tyler but he likes to try it on.

We went to the pool a couple days later and had a great time. It was fun to have Erik and Adam be more independent in the water and be able to “swim” with the life vests on. Much less stressful for us too.

What a fun rocket!

 

The boys were playing with all the new toys non-stop for a long time. Birthdays are so fun!

Then friends came over and we had round two of water play, more cake, then more playing with toys, then hot dogs, and finally ice cream making and eating. I think Adam was busy with birthday fun from 11:30 am to 8:30 pm.

As you may notice no one is wearing a swim suit in this picture…guess what resulted…a lot of wet drippy cold children. Our friends had to change into some of Erik’s clothes. I ended up washing and drying their clothes because they didn’t want to go home “looking like boys.” Since when does a basic t-shirt and solid color knit shorts make you look like a boy? Anyways, it was a very busy, fun, crazy day ;)

Water is Fun

Water is fun, running water is even better. Whether it’s in the bath or outside with the hose, Tyler loves to play with running water.

 

Tyler loves the hose. I think he was trying to water his brother ;)

Bunk Beds

The bunk beds are done! Alex finished them a couple weeks ago, and Erik and Adam love their new beds.

Tombstone

My parents came to Arizona for the week after Easter. It was great to spend time with them and go on some fun outings. Here are some pictures of the little boys enjoying all the wild west attractions during our visit to Tombstone.

It’s the surrey with the fringe on top…

or no fringe…take your pick.

Yeehaw!

Adam looks pretty serious about this horse riding thing.

And Tyler’s turn :)

Easter!

Three brothers in matching shirts for church.

Time to look for eggs…

Is that an orange egg, or a flower?

Found it!

I always love the grass in Easter pictures :)

Tyler wanted a real colored egg that was not peeled. He licked and rubbed most of the color off of it. Then I peeled it and he didn’t like it anymore. No fun once it was just white I guess.