8.21.2009

Happy 3rd Birthday Lane!!!

I can't believe my "baby" is three!! He is off having a fun day with Grandpa, Grandma, and Norah at the fair. I'm sure we will get plenty of time there this afternoon and weekend. Have a great weekend!

8.5.1980

Happy Birthday Melissa!!!

I am so lucky to have such a great sister and best friend!!

7.23.09

I can't believe how fast summer is going!

Kate turned 7 months old yesterday, heres what she can do:

• sit up by herself for a long period of time
  


• eat ALOT of baby food
  


• eat crackers, puffcorn, goldfish,and misc other soft foods


• smile alot


• scoot around on her belly and rock back and forth on her hands and knees


• she has 2 teeth
  

She also loves to jump in her jumproo, chew on all of her toys and her brother's toys

We've gone to the waterpark 3 times and love it!

Here is a short video of Lane rockin out to the Jonas Brothers when I was trying to take a picture of him and Norah. It is pretty cute.

I took a self-paced class on photo editing and special effects for photos using photoshop elements, it has be fun learning more about photoshop and playing with all sorts of techniques on my photos. Here are some before and afters:

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

One more doctored up just a little:

Here are a few more pictures of the kiddos:

Faces of Kate

Yep, I'm here

I have no excuses, just enjoying my family and ignoring the blog. I am going to try to update once a week, but no promises! We have been very busy now that summer is here, Jason in playing alot of softball and wishing he could be fishing more. Lane is really enjoying going to the games and playing with all of the kids there. He will tell anyone he is watching his dad hit the ball and run fast. It is really cute how much Lane loves watching Jason! Kate still pretty much just chills out in the stroller snacking or playing with a rattle.

On Memorial Day, we went to the Minnesota Zoo, we all had a blast! Lane had his face painted for the first time and he thought that was great. The Africa exhibit opened that weekend so they were doing free giraffe facepainting. Half of his face was a giraffe. The kids were exhausted that night!

Lane is really being a great big brother and such a big helper at home. He talks and plays with Kate alot. He likes to be down on the floor with her just hanging out.

Kate is doing great! She is starting to sit up all by herself and gets up on her hands and knees and rocks. I am not ready for her to start crawling yet! I think she will be getting her first couple of teeth any day now. The two bottom middle are threatening to break thru very soon. She is eating baby food three times a day and having lots of snacks. She loves club crackers, the graduates wagon wheels and puffs. She is a very hungry girl!! She is also a good sleeper, which Mom and Dad Love!!

I will post more pictures soon.

adorable

1 month pictures

We had these pictures of Kate taken a week ago. She did pretty well. I was hoping to get some on her tummy with fairy wings, but she wasn't having it at all. I was laughing the whole time. It doesn't matter, we got some good ones anyway. I went back to work yesterday, so Kate went to daycare with Lane. Lane was so cute, he was glued to her the whole time. He is not that attentive at home. When Claire was feeding her, I guess Lane was a little confused because I nurse at home so Claire had to reassure him that Mom said it was okay for her to do it.