pictures and stuff

We were cutting onions and the boys were complaining that their eyes were stinging. So here’s what we did…

Recently Erik has decided that he can carry Tyler around. I’m not quite sure how I feel about that…but it is cute.

And some more pictures of everyone’s favorite baby…well mine anyway! :)

Mmm, Mr. Potato Head’s hat makes a pretty good binky.

I can’t believe Tyler’s going to turn one next month! And Erik will be turning six!

Erik and Adam are so cute with Tyler. They are constantly saying how cute and snuggly he is, and they love to make faces and funny noises at him.

4th of July week

The week after the 4th of July my family came to visit. Which of course means lots of fun with uncles and Grandparents :)

While they were here we went to Old Tucson Studios.

We all had a very fun visit!

Happy 4th of July!

Matching ties

I got all my boys matching ties for Father’s Day!

LOVE Erik’s expression in this picture! It is perfect. I wish I could get him to smile like this all the time.

Let’s take a closer look at his cuteness, shall we :)

I even had a matching skirt. I promise I didn’t plan that in advance at all.  That morning I was looking in my closet and I realized my blue skirt matched the ties very well. Yes it was a bit of overkill, but it was fun. :)

Adam was being terribly grouchy, and all that fussing made Tyler upset…so I mostly took pictures of Erik:

 

Hansom boy!

I ordered the ties from myfavoritepal.com, just incase anyone was wondering.

new old clothes :)

A friend gave us some second hand clothes. Fun stuff :)  When I brought them home…this is what happened! The clothes were mostly in Adam’s sizes, but Erik insisted on finding something to wear. Stylin capris you have there Erik.

Adam liked to try the underwear on over his pull-up. He put it on backwards because usually the larger picture of the character was on the back – and he wanted it in the front wear he could see it.

Then Erik’s outfit got even BETTER when he added snow boots and a cowboy hat!

Wow! That’s about all I could say about that ensemble. I was laughing quite a lot! ;)

Adam has had fun wearing a new shirt everyday since.

Sleeping with Buzz

A few weeks ago my kids had never seen Toy Story. One of them saw a Buzz Lightyear toy at a friend’s house and had no idea who it was…they liked it, but didn’t know his name.  This made me think that it would be good if we watched the Toy Story movies…how did I ever let Erik get to be almost 6 without seeing Toy Story. (Insert slightly sarcastic over dramatic tone here.) ;)    The first 2 movies have been on TV recently with the 3rd one coming out – so we had our chance to record them!

Fast forward a couple weeks and now the boys LOVE all things Toy Story. They want to watch one or both movies every day (if I will let them)…and Alex got them some Toy Story toys on sale at Target this Thursday. I think between all three boys someone has been holding Buzz almost constantly since then.

Here is Adam sleeping with Buzz this afternoon.

Last night Erik wanted the toys to have a pillow. Cute.

Here’s Erik wearing Alex’s old Cub Scout shirt from when he was little! I can’t believe Alex wore this when he was 8 or so. Erik is pretty small for a five-year-old, and this shirt is very narrow and very long on him. I have to think it’s shape has changed  and distorted over the years. Anyway, quite fun to see him in Daddy’s old shirt!

Tyler likes real apples. (Not to fond of applesauce though.) I thought he would just mostly suck on it, but he is using all four of his little teeth (the top two just barely came in) to bite pieces of apple off. He also loves blueberries. We were eating some and he was crying for what we had. I held one up to let him lick it. To my surprise he bit right in. He made a face and I thought he wouldn’t want much more. Boy was I wrong! He kept going back for more bites. He probably ate about 7 blueberries that first time. Today he was eating them in his highchair. I just ripped them in half so they weren’t so choke-able, and he ate them all by himself. I suppose this isn’t that remarkable…it’s just none of my other kids will touch a real blueberry anymore. (They only like the tiny blue specks in the frozen blueberry waffles.)

And Adam eating…and sleeping. I saw him nodding off and I tried to convince him to go lay down. He insisted he was still eating, and wanted to just sleep where he was. And then he did just that!