I’m working on photos and a post for about our cruise, but for now, I leave you Thing 1 and Thing 2. We got these for the kids at the airport because Brenden really likes The Cat in the Hat.

My niece and nephews came for a visit with my parents and came over to our house two different days. We had a great time swimming in the pool all day. And even though Brenden spent most of that time in his sandbox instead of swimming with us, he was so happy to have his cousins here. When they left the second day he was really broken hearted and he wanted to go find them.

Grandpa and the girls.

Not a quality picture, but a cute moment.

Emily is crawling, sort of pulling up, getting her third tooth and just generally keeping busy growing and learning. Brenden is rethinking all his wishes that she would get bigger so she could play with him. He’d like to keep his toys to himself please! They’ve both been a fun handful lately.

Sometime around October of last year we tore up the deck in the backyard. It left no room for dogs and kids to run around and it wasn’t in the best of shape, so up it came. Ever since then we’ve been trying to get it ready to have sod laid. We had these great plans of doing the work ourselves and we’ve been trying to get all the rocks and junk up. We finally decided to call and see how much it would cost to have it done professionally and were pleasantly surprised by the quote, so we hired the guys and out the came yesterday. A pending storm had them scurrying about. They were in and out in about 45 minutes. We are so happy to have grass instead of a big ugly spot.

Before.

Before again.

After.

On Tuesday Emily had her 6 month checkup, even though this Wed. she’ll be 7 months.

Stats:
Weight: 17 lbs 1.8 oz (57%)
Height: 25 3/4 inches (33%)
Head: 16 3/4 inches (39%)

She was miserable the next day dealing after having her shots. Poor thing. But she got in a good cuddle with Grandma who was spending the night.

Starting her off on technology early.

And I can’t forget Brenden.