My Baby Boy is Growing Up

It really has hit me lately that my little Eli is growing up in fast forward time. The other day we put him in the wagon with Ami and I thought Ami would have to hold him. Nope, not really. He held on just like he knew what he was doing.

Then he has started teething recently. When my kids teeth it means that soon they will be walking. It makes me a little teary eyed.

Today I took the kids to the park and wasn't quite sure how it was going to go. I hadn't taken them since Eli has become mobile. I let him down and he was as content as could be with the sand. He ended up climbing up to the top of one of the play sets, like that was what he was born to do.

I guess I'm a little more emotional about this go around since it seems to be happening so fast.

STUBBORN

Sunday mornings around our house has become Brutal, yes with a capital B. Ami puts up the biggest fit about wearing a skirt or dress to church. We give her choices but to no avail she still doesn't want to wear the cute dress with the flowers or ruffles, she wants to wear PANTS!!

This Sunday Scott got Ami ready for church and she was looking soooo ADORABLE!

He even did her hair with a cute bow and and lots of barrettes.

Five minutes later she had something else in mind.

So, from now on she is going to be SHOVED into a dress at the last minute to reduce the time her parents want to SCREAM! No time to be angry you gotta put on your church face honey! In 1, 2, 3...

Labor Day Weekend

We went to Caballo Lake with the Struves and had a BLAST! The kids had soooo MUCH FUN!

"You got mud in your face, you're a big disgrace. Somebody is kicking your can all over the place." Sorry this picture brought that song into my head. Eli LOVED playing in the mud as you can tell. There was no point in trying to keep him out of it.

Ami couldn't get enough of the jet ski. She would start crying whenever we would take her off to give somebody else a turn.

It was great to experience the lake through our kids eyes. Everything so new and awesome to them. It gave me a wonderful perspective on life. What could be better than hanging out at the lake with your family and friends...

Maybe a nap!

Photos? We don't need no stinkin' photos.

As you all are probably aware, we are having problems with photos on the blog. I'm working with Flickr to get the problem resolved, but have no idea how long it will take as I've never had a problem with them before and can't gauge their response time, so far it's pretty slow. Thanks for your patience.

UPDATE: Flickr seems to have sorted out the issue. Everything should be working again.

The Great Zucchini

Charlie Brown had the Great Pumpkin, we have the Great Zucchini.

It almost weighed 16lbs and was pretty close to being as long as Eli. The Griffins like everything big even their zucchini.

The gardener, himself.

Everybody got a picture with the Great Zucchini, except me. I guess next time.

Fun in the Spinklers

Scott's favorite way of cooling off on a hot day after working in the yard is to run through the sprinklers. This particular day the whole family joined in and had lots of fun.

It was COLD and a little shocking to the system. Eli LOVED it!

Ami loves running through the sprinklers. She says, "Try again."

Any resemblance?