Weekend Pics: Daddy Day Care

The boys came to our house on Friday. Evan and Aiden being very civilized and playing cars at the "table".

Peekaboo with Dylan.
Aunt Val was in town for her baby shower this weekend so Mama was gone a lot of the time. Daddy was the man in charge!
Just in case you forgot who plays here.
"Geez, Daddy!"

Practicing for his future paper route?
The Bit enjoying some vitamin D.

Yee Haw.
Evan enjoying the red velvet cotton candy cupcake from Val's circus themed baby shower. His first encounter with cotton candy, It went well. Really well.

Teef!

A completely un-staged shot!!

Tooth Shot - Finally!

Another afternoon photo shoot with the Bit.

And now presenting.....the much discussed but never viewed............TEETH!
Close up...
Again I will say, this is THE sweetest, happiest baby ever created. You're welcome, world.

Big Time Preschooler

We got news yesterday that Evan has been accepted to Pinnacle Presbyterian Preschool for the summer/fall! Even though we swore we wouldn't be "those parents", we are definitely excited that Evan will be attending this school. It has a fantastic reputation and best of all, it is on the way to work for Brian. This means he can take Evan and I can pick him up. While this is convenient from a timing perspective, it is super awesome from an emotional perspective in that now I won't be sitting in the parking lot sobbing for the whole 3 hours!!

http://www.pinnaclepres.org/PinnaclePreschool/index.html

Weekend Pics

We have officially busted out all the baby gear: the walker, the jumper, the whole she-bang. Hollan can just reach with her toes in the walker and she can definitely push herself here and there, but it isn't exactly walking. Evan loves to whip her around the house, Nascar Baby style.

Big girl in her outfit from Aunt Annie & Uncle John.
Another attempt at undies. Another no go.

Evan's creepy uncle mustache.
On Saturday, Brian and Evan went to the Barrett Jackson car show/auction. The boys and a Bugatti.

On Sunday, we flew a kite. Notice how the dudes are dressed alike. Adorable!

Hollan - Five + Months

We were late on the 5 month pics so Hollan and I had a little photo shoot today. Mainly because she was rocking the baby leg warmers from our cousins the Fischers so I had to document Baby Gaga!

As you can see, we are slowly getting more hair...well, some of us are. ;-)


Our next step is to give her raw hide bones.

Sedona or Bust...literally.

Brian and I have wanted to take Evan (and now Hollan) to Sedona to do our "engagement" hike for long time now. Since we have our nifty kid toting devices, we thought MLK day was the perfect opportunity!
Weather forecast: 65 and sunny!

We get to the hike start and it takes us half an hour to feed kids, dress kids, dress ourselves, leash the dog, pack the packs, etc. After two hours in the car, Evan was a bit goofy.

Finally ready!

Notice the white stuff on the ground? While it was 65 and sunny in Sedona proper, a few miles north and in the shade of actual trees, there was SNOW on the ground. Did not see that one coming!

Hollan is in there....somewhere.

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Random brick ruins with no explantion. Could be from the good ol' pioneering days or from the 90's...not quite sure.

Heading into the woods. I felt like I was in Harry and the Hendersons.

So we got about 50 feet into the woods and got to the creek crossing where we realized that this was just the first of several half frozen creeks on the way to our engagement spot.

This is me deciding that I was not going to risk sliding off a slippery rock into the freezing water with mah baybee attached to me.

Yep, no thanks to that.

The Dudes.

Notice the "Bear Country" sign. Good parenting decision to abort the hike.

Back at the brick ruins.

"Cheese!"

The Dudes: Again