Its so hot, its cold!

...or something like that. Somehow, during one of the worst heat waves of the summer, dressing up in our snow suits seems the rational thing to do.


In other news: We've been to the pool a couple of times and I didn't have a sun hat for Rosie. So I decided to make one. I found a tutorial and I'm so happy with how it turned out! I have another one cut out for the next size up because she won't wear this one for too long.

brother to brother

We have one of those toys where you sit and spin around. Pete had just discovered that toy this particular day. After lunch (i.e. after he had gotten a burst of energy), he got down from his high chair and started crawling in circles like he was a little tipsy!





This one reminds me of the movie "Hook" (watch it!) where the Lost Boys are eating invisible food. (Hey, his name is Peter too! What a coincidence.) You can kind of hear Pete go, "Mmmmm" after one spoonful. It was funny to me that Pete was so willing to keep taking bites. His little imagination is starting to kick in, with the help of Charlie's very active one.




Ring around the rosie:

Soup buds

Seriously, bath time is the most fun that is had by anyone in our household. If I could, I would keep them in the bathtub all day long. They would shrivel up to little raisins, though, but at least they would be happy all day.

I love all the "vroom"/crashing sounds that Charlie makes as he's driving the foam cars around.

I LOVE the sounds Pete makes trying to copy Charlie.

I love scrubbing out all the peanut butter from their hair and getting in between the toes.

I love sitting back and watching them just play.

I love the wet spots I have on my pants when I stand up.

I love the towel-wrapped up kid, squirming to keep warm.

I love pausing at the mirror to let them see what they look like all wrapped up. They love it, too.

I love combing the clean hair and the smell of clean pj's.

And the smell of a nice, clean, little boy, just melts my heart and takes me to my favorite, happy place.





I'm sorry for the delay in video of walking Pete. Actually, he still isn't really walking that great. Charlie did it over night. It is taking Pete more time. I've tried to get him to walk on video lots of times and it just doesn't turn out right.

But I do have some fun "brothers" videos coming soon. I didn't realize that the video setting on my camera was on the high resolution (whatever you call it) and so a 1 min video is too big to upload directly to blogger.

And it takes SOOOOO long to upload it to youtube.

Just hang tight.

Sunday best

These were taken last Sunday. Charlie has had a haircut since then. You can't tell by the pictures but Pete is sporting 100% linen shirt and pants which were gifted to him from his cousins for his birthday.

recap, review, contemplate...

1st Birthday cake faces:





My boys don't look a thing alike. Why not??

We are who we are.

Charlie in need of a haircut, Pete getting some hair....it doesn't get any better than this.

Mom and three boys

For Mother's Day, Dave made me a corsage out of the Calla Lilies that were broken in the heavy rains we had last week. Very pretty.

Here we have Detective Pete inspecting his hand.

And here we have Charlie showing off his nice big boy pants.