Silver Lake

Out and about at Silver Lake. Emery has graduated to the backpack!

Baby Snow Leopard

We took Jackson to the zoo today for his birthday and there were several new babies. The baby elephant was born a week ago and is doing great bonding with her mom but will not be on display for another 5 or 6 weeks. There is also a baby giraffe and a baby snow leopard, both born a couple months ago. The snow leopard was very playful today.

He's 3!

Today is Jackson's 3rd birthday. I can't believe my baby is 3! It was a fun filled weekend with 2 birthday parties and lots of Thomas the Train.

Project

We've been wanting to make our backyard more user friendly for a while now and were going back and forth between getting cement poured and doing a deck. We finally decided on the deck about a week ago and Tim tackled it this week. Thanks to a lot of help from Dad, they somehow managed to get it done about an hour before Jackson's birthday party started today.

Emery's Baptism

4 Months

She loves to sit up now and must be facing out to the room when you hold her so she can keep an eye on everything. Now we are going to work on sleeping through the night!

Windsurfing

Went windsurfing at Deer Creek yesterday with the Miscos. The kids had fun floating on the boards and playing on the beach and Tim and I both got a couple of rides in.

Andy and Sophia

Me

Tim

Binky or Thumb?

Two weeks ago Jackson threw his beloved binky in the garbage. And I thought, what luck! He's going to have to give it up sometime and there's going to be a lot of crying involved. Might as well be now. So when nap time came and he asked for his binky, I told him he threw it away and he was a big boy and didn't need it anymore. And there was a lot of crying.... for about an hour and a half. Then he slept. That night he asked again and cried for half an hour. The next day he only asked at nap time but didn't cry and didn't ask again after that. They say kids don't go to college in diapers or with their binkys. One down, one to go. Why can't potty training be that easy.

Now I'm a little worried because you can't throw a thumb away!

This was my baptism dress and I'm hoping Emery still fits in it in 3 weeks for her baptism. I had to get a picture just in case she doesn't!