Playtime!

Here are lots of random playtime pictures that I just wanted to post.

My baby was doctoring me.  He took  my temperature with the handle from a broken pair of plastic pliers, covered me up, and gave me his favorite stuffed animals.  Such a sweetie!

I was putting away outgrown clothes and getting out bigger clothes (a chore I hate) and Elijah kept trying to put this beanie cap on.  I helped him out, then he wallowed in the clothes!

This swing is hanging from a massive oak at Gram and Deda’s house.  I grew up swinging on it. I love this picture because everything is blurry except Jacob’s typical crazy face.  He’s such a fun daddy and I’m so thankful he has this much energy so that I don’t have to!

  Granny and Papa gave this tricycle to Josiah for his third birthday.  Between the lack of concrete to ride on and the fact that his legs are a bit too short for it, he struggles to ride it and usually just pushes it along :)

Daddy picked up this extra slide for the playset on one of his bee trips to Ohio.  Thanks Daddy!

Fun with Daddy: Hide n’ Seek…a nightly occurrence.

Thanks for the Razor, Grandpa!  It is a favorite… …even Jacob likes it…   …and Elijah is learning.

Josiah’s favorite new pastime is to “mow” after Jacob mows and he can play with the clippings:     A hot (cute) mess…literally!

A hot (cute) mess…figuratively ;)

This boy was born to run and loves to do it!  Look at that form!  Just in the last few months he’s gone from having arms flailing at his sides to proper arm pumping.  His (former) runner parents are proud!

  This is Jacob’s childhood cowboy hat.  I’m going to have to dig mine out for Elijah.

Sometimes all ya need is dirt and a stick.

Both of them love books!  Elijah got this book out, pulled out the chair, and sat down to “read” it on his own.

Josiah loves to play “tadoh”.  I made numbers with the blue and he made carrots with the red.  Obviously I always buy the snack size carrots.  I wonder if he realizes carrots are actually long and have stems?  Oh well, he eats a lot more of them than he would if I had to prepare them :)

 

Just making this post left me grinning from ear to ear.  I love my three men and all the memories we make with day to day play!

Independence Day!

We had lots of fun this year for the fourth of July.  We had planned to hit the streets of Alachua for fireworks, but when we found out UF offered them the day before we decided to try that to attempt to avoid the horrendous traffic in Alachua and be able to sleep in (Yeah right!  Not with kids) the next morning.  So, after work I picked up my already tired boys and met Jacob for dinner, who worked most of the previous night and was also tired.  Then we picked up some small fireworks and headed to UF to reserve a spot. 

Here’s a tip…the commuter lot behind Hume Hall is a great place to view them and get out easily at the end, but going there WAY early is NOT necessary.  There is plenty of space.  Our boys enjoyed playing in and around the car while we waited, but that wore off well before dark.

Rather than individually apologizing for each blurry, terrible picture, I’ll apologize in advance and tell you we are in bad need of a new camera (and time to shop for it!).

Poor baby!  I didn’t get enough good pictures of him having fun before he crashed, but this is pretty much how much he enjoyed the fireworks.

  Yes, Josiah was pantless.  He was so hot and sweaty so we tried to help him out.

 

The next day we had a small Independence Day bash at Grandma’s.  This included a cookout, pool time, fireworks, and too much dessert!

Jacob gave Elijah a mohawk!

  The kids liked the smoke bombs.  They enjoyed yelling out the color of the smoke each time a new one started.

I didn’t get nearly enough pictures of these fireworks being set off because I was busy making sure my babies were safe, but here are the remnants and they weren’t even all used!

 

HAPPY FOURTH!

Elijah’s Doctor Checkup

Just a quick post with Elijah’s stats for his 15 month wellness visit.  I had been concerned that maybe he had fallen off his growth curve since he is such a picky eater, but he’s kept right up with his skinny 10th percentile :)  Here’s how big he is:

Height              31 inches                 50%

Weight             21 lb  9 oz                10%

Head                    46 cm                    20%

He also got 2 vaccines which other than a surprised jump followed by a cry, he was a champ for!  He has also done well as far as side effects go, thankfully.

Dr. Worthington commented on how healthy he is and that took me by surprise because I feel like we have passed every germ around this house 20 times, but her point was that even through the winter he’d hardly been sick enough to be concerned or come in.  I hadn’t though much of that blessing.  However, she did write a prescription for yet another eye medicine since he was in the early stages of a case of pinkeye!

Our wonderful pediatrician also said he was one of the easiest 15 month appointments she’d had because he just laid there and cooperated happily.  I promised her he really is obstinate! :)