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Joshua’s New Toy

We celebrated Joshua’s 2nd birthday on Monday. I made him one of his favorite foods, shells and cheese, for dinner and we had brownies afterwords. He’ll celebrate with family and friends later this month.
He had fun opening present. Caleb enjoyed it as well. He said, with a big smile on his face and looking at the new Lego train set, “I like Joshua’s birthday!”
This video is of Joshua calling his new truck, Chuck, to him. There are also a few pictures to enjoy.

Pictures from the beach

I promised I’d get photos up soon, but with the way I post, I bet you didn’t think it would be this quick. Hope you enjoy these pictures from our trip to the beach. There are also a few pictures from earlier in the month for your enjoyment.

The Myrtle Beach Report

We’re back from our trip to the beach. The boys really had a great time. From playing in the sand, to jumping the waves, floating in the crazy river (Caleb’s interpretation of the “lazy river”), relaxing in the hot tub (during the hottest part of the day…the boys are crazy), riding roller coasters, crying because one was too little to ride the go carts (no, it wasn’t Ben), and lets not forget playing with cousins, I don’t think the boys, especially Caleb, were quite ready for our trip to end. I’ll get some photos up here soon, but I wanted to get this video up while it was still fresh. It was taken on our way back from the beach. If you listen closely, you can hear Joshua sing along some. There’s a new feature Ben added a while back under the “pages” section of our blog called video gallery. If you just can’t get enough videos of our boys, you can click that page and check out all the videos we’ve posted to youtube. Have fun!

Finally…

A video to post. Ben has had this video on his phone for a while now. I finally uploaded it to youtube for your enjoyment. Of course this was taken after Caleb had been singing his song for quite some time, but I think that’s how it always goes.

It’s Been Awhile…

I’m going to use the excuse that we’ve been busy, and that’s why I haven’t posted anything in over a month and a half. June was pretty busy for us with birthday parties, baby showers, some surgery for Caleb, some eye surgery for Joshua, Doctor’s appointments, and swimming at the water park. The first part of July was busy with a trip to Illinois, Springfield, MO, Oklahoma, and back in a week. The boys were pretty good little travelers, but I think the trip wore us all down. We’ve been taking it pretty easy since. I’ve got a lot of pictures and a few videos to put up. The videos will probably be a separate post, so keep checking back. Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure all the readers of this blog already know, but we are expecting another little one sometime around February 5th. Caleb has named the baby Flump Flumpy for the time being. We’re pretty excited.

Enjoy the pictures.

Memorial Day Weekend

We took the boys up to the DC area on Memorial Day weekend to see their Uncle Jr, Aunt Christy, and Cousin Jada. The boys had a wonderful time. We left Friday afternoon, and arrived Friday night, after driving by some of the memorials and monuments in DC. We visited Baltimore on Saturday and took the kiddos to an awesome Children’s Museum. I think they enjoyed playing. Then we took them home for naps and playing outside in the sprinkler and pool and drawing with chalk. We even made some homemade ice cream in a bag. There are some pictures posted (a few are from earlier in the month) and hopefully a video soon.

I found out today that Joshua’s eye surgery will be on June 30th. I don’t know the time yet, but will let you all know soon. Please keep him (and all of us) in your prayers. Thanks so much!

Caleb is Three!

Caleb celebrated his third birthday this past weekend by having his cousins, friends, aunts, uncles, and grandparents come to his house for a Snap (alligator) themed party. He loved running around the house with his fellow party-goers and playing with all his toys in his room and jumping on his bed. We got him to take a break from playing to eat some pizza and drink some swamp juice, but almost couldn’t keep him from blowing out his candles before we sang “Happy Birthday” to him. We played a few games and then it was time for Caleb’s favorite part- presents! He loved ripping through bags and paper to see what was inside each gift. He had a great time! Enjoy some pictures and a video of his special day!

A Birthday Video

Caleb seemed to have a fun day. He wanted to eat and Chick-a-way, but ended up hardly touching his food. He wanted to play! After dinner, we let him open up presents. I felt bad for Joshua. He wanted to play with Caleb’s new toys, but Caleb was not having that. I’ll post pictures after his birthday party, but I thought I’d add this short video of Caleb trying out his new bike. Enjoy…

Photos by Caleb

Caleb got a hold of the camera this past week and enjoyed taking lots of different pictures.  I think my favorite one is the trucks, because he intentionally set them out to take a picture of them.  I kept hearing him say “say cheese”!  It made me laugh, but I guess that’s nothing new.

I’ve taken a few videos and just decided to put them all together. Hope you enjoy!