Museum Trip

I haven't taken the boys into Boston for a trip to the Children's museum in over a year. We had gone to the Science Museum last June but their behavior frightened me into doing it with 3 boys alone. I finally got over it and made the journey. We took the train into town and walked the mile or so to the museum. We then walked to Adam's office. Did I mention it rained the whole time? The boys did very well. By the time we were on the way back to the train station I was glad to have Adam with me. He had to carry a nearly asleep Jonathan. I missed the double Bob for the first time. But considering how hard it is to get the giant SUV stroller onto the train I am not sure how I would have managed with Jacob in my arms. Here are some shots of the boys playing at the museum.

Peep and the big wide world was their favorite:

Jacob's Progress

Jacob has become our cuddling bug/ joker. He always seems to be laughing at something. If the big boys are around sometimes he laughs just to get their attention.

He has even started wrestling around with them. This is very one sided still. Usually, the bigger boys just roll around with him until I yell at them to get off the baby.

And of course, the much anticipated soldier crawl. Jacob started scotching at the start of April. For some reason I can't get the video to load so I will hopefully post it later.

Soccer Season Begins

On April 7th soccer season began. Alex started us off with a late evening game. It has been raining so often that there was no practice to get everyone ready. But they all had fun anyway. Alex's good friend Emily is on his team and he was very excited to play with her.

It was freezing out. Probably 40 degrees with a below freezing windchill. So we all got our winter gear back out of the closets.

Alex had a blast as usual.

He is really getting the hang out of being goalie. His coaches have discovered that he has a real talent for the position. Much to our dislike they have been placing him at goalie for nearly half the game the past few weeks. After a couple of quick words from Adam that shouldn't be happening anymore. I think I was doubly perturbed by it when Alex asked to stop and they said " why...you are doing so good". Vomit!

Jonathan plays on Saturday morning. It isn't technically a game. Actually, they call it a clinic. For 30 minutes they run through drills and then for another 30 they scrimmage with another team. Jonathan loves this. He has really picked it up fast and has been asked to take a soccer camp this summer.

Once again we froze our tails off watching. This first game was the only one I watched for half the season. One was cancelled, one rained-out, one a by week, one was so cold I had to take Jacob home, and one I was very ill for. I was so sad but went this past week and saw amazing talent emerging.

Here is Alex watching his bro. Our friends are in the background. Owen plays on Jonathan's team which is good for Alex. He can play with Emily while waiting.

Here is Jonathan practicing.

Such a goof ball.

Vermont Pics Part 2

I got picture from Robin, my sister in law, awhile ago but am just getting around to posting them. She got some really great shots of the boys playing together.

Here is Jonathan teaching Jack some silly faces.

We got the boys to sit still for one picture. We took several others but this ones is it for seeing all their faces.

Gus and Jacob loved to play together.

Jacob is 2 months younger but basically the same size as Gus. The good thing is that Gus is cruising and Jacob is not.

I love this one of my brother and Jack.

Adam went out sledding with everyone. I used Jacob as an excuse to stay inside and warm.

Grandpa and Alex...love it.

We may have been there for only 30 hours but we fit in a lot of fun. We didn't realize that the hotel we were staying at had an indoor pool so the boys went in their underwear. I don't think it bothered them at all.

In the evening Alex sat the boys down and read them a book. It was beyond cute. He was so good at reading the page and then showing the pictures.

Jonathan and Jack were also very attentive and liked being read to.

Afternoon at the Pool

We spend several afternoons a week at the pool in our complex. The boys love it and considering how tired they get so do I.

OUTSIDE!

This winter has been so rough on us. We are active people with very active boys. The massive amounts of snow fall and other bad weather has kept us stuck inside. I know we probably could have wrapped up some and gotten out more but quite frankely we are all California babies and just don't like it out there. But this weekend it hit the 50's. So we hit the park.

I just got a backpack for Jacob so that I can take the boys hiking this summer and I finally got to test it out. The kid is big so my shoulders were pretty sore. After a few hikes I am hoping to get used to it.

Lots of smiles from the boys. They had to run around in their boots since it was lots of mud and melting snow and slush.

We managed to climb into the park area and play awhile. We were sad to see that people just let their dogs poop everywhere all winter and we were stepping over it the whole walk. It was quite disgusting. Hello people...pick up the poop. When I let my kids poop at the park I pick it up.

Adam took a turn with Jacob. I think Jacob really likes being so high up and able to see everything. I just need to get a clip for his hat so that when it falls we don't lose it.

We are really looking forward to getting out and doing some outside activities. Hopefully this weather holds up and we get an early spring.

7 Months!

Jacob is huge...just look at him. He is going to be a very tall boy.

You can just barely see his front two bottom teeth here. He got his first one just before Jan 1st. We are so horrible that we didn't even notice until well after it had popped all the way through. His second one came Just after Feb 1st. But that one we were on top of better.

So cute.