Happy Birthday Jacob!

We are so happy to celebrate Jacob's 1st birthday today. The boys went through all their old baby toys and picked out a few to give him. (so happy that I packed so much away) Adam and I gave him the little riding toy. Both the older boys had one but it was among the many things we got rid of before Jacob existed.

Thank you Grandpa Allen and Carol for the cars.

Considering no one in our family is huge fans of cake and that Alex's birthday is tomorrow. We did cookies for special dessert. This is a favorite among the kids. Especially Jacob.

Yum!

Jacob goes for his 12 months physical on Wednesday so I will post his stats then.

Baby Katie Quilt

This might be one of my favorite quilts that I have made. Very simple but very nice. I gave it to my bestest friend Carol who just had baby number 4. Katie Ann on June 6th. Can't wait to get to meet her.

Cute in July

Morning time in the summer comes very early. As soon as the sun comes up in fact. Which, unfortunately, is before 5am. Usually, I can get Jacob back to sleep by nursing him in our bed. This morning Alex actually fell back asleep too. There is no hope with Jonathan. When he is up he is going 100%.

Uncle Don came to visit. He is in school in CT right now. Hopefully, we get to see him more often.

Here is a very rare lap nap. Of course, Adam can fall asleep in about a minute, Jacob takes much longer.

He is too cute.

I was getting everyone ready to go the other day and turned to get Jacob and saw this. I have no idea how he managed this one but he was sure proud of himself.

Alex drew this for Jonathan today. I couldn't believe how detailed his beach setting was. I am so glad that we got a great art curriculum for next year all set up.

Beach Day

Adam has been in Spain, playing around on the beach for over a week. So we decided that we should follow suit and go too. This was the first time to the beach with Jacob. I must say taking all 3 boys by myself was scarey but turned out just great.

Jacob loved the beach. Not so much the sand but he did get used to it.

Jacob is 11 months!

Jacob is already 11 months old. So hard to believe. He has started pulling up on everything and cruising around. He has been soldier crawling for awhile but now he is beginning to get up off his tummy. He has an amazingly sweet personality. Always ready for hugs and giggles. We sure love him.

Happy Birthday Jonathan!

For Jonathan's fourth birthday we celebrated with lots of friends at Putt Around Golf. The boys love this place and it was a quick fix to our picnic party that got rained out.

Jonathan was the first one to start playing and he had a blast.

Of course, Alex also had fun.

Emily and Owen came.

Nathan!

Noah!

This was Jonathan's favorite hole.

Alex concentrating...

Here is baby Christopher, who is only 2 months older then Jacob. His brothers are Nicholas and Jonathan and are only 1 day older then our Jonathan.

All the kids got to watch these little 3-d movies. They were only 5 minutes each so everyone got lots of turns.

The place had lots of games to play. Alex and Noah loved the mini air hockey. Which is right next to the full sized air hockey.

We all had pizza.

I can't believe my baby is already 4.

Jonathan designed the cake. He said he wanted a chocolate cake in the shape of a 4 with rainbows on it.

Here is the whole gang. Thanks everyone for coming. It was great.

Bowling Party

Every time Alex finishes a big part of his schooling we try and celebrate somehow. This year when he finished his first year spelling book he chose bowling. This is hardly a surprise as he loves to bowl. (May09)

Jonathan has finally got the hang of it. One good thing is that here in New England most bowling alleys are candlepin which is a much smaller ball. The boys can throw them down the lane much easier this way.

He actually had a spare for the first time and was very proud.

Alex also did great. They had a fun time.

jacob is excited to get to play. Maybe next year.