Tricks & Cinco De Mayo

Eli and Josh are fearless. They love to climb up anything and everything. Recently they discovered that they can climb up our flagpole in front of our yard. Pretty amazing.

Eli on the top. 

Eli

Josh getting ready to climb. At the time of this photo he only got about half way. But now he can reach the top as well. 

I made this extra large so you can see Eli better. He is in the red shirt, front row, center. 

Josh and Morgan watching Eli's performance. 

Noelle was excited to crawl around. 

Melissa was there too. 

The boys got to do a Sombrero walk.

They danced to the music. 

Josh won the leia, and Eli picked out a Sheriff badge. 

Changes

Noelle needed a haircut. Badly.  Her hair would always come loose out of the ties and get in her eyes. To quote a friend of mine, "She looked like a homeless baby."

So even though she is not yet 1, and with Morgan's express desire, I decided to give her a haircut. Here are the pictures from the experience.

That is a lot of bangs. 

Hair all in her face. 

She wasn't too happy to get water on her face. 

She's trying not to get water in her eyes. But you can see how long her hair is. 

Long hair. 

I let her comb her hair down. 

Josh took pictures of Noelle while I tried to cut her bangs. 

She did not want the scissors near her face. 

Looking better!

Here she is.  It is a little shorter on one side, but lets just pretend I was going for side-swept bangs on purpose. 

I had to save the hair from her first haircut. It doesn't look like much in the bag. 

Noelle after the haircut. 

Doesn't she look so much better!  Her hair seems a lot curlier now too. 

2nd Update

So Morgan and I have a part-time job writing content. We have been taking turns deciding what to purchase with our funds. First we bought Morgan a handgun, so then it was my turn. I really wanted to get a new dining room table. It took us two and a half months, but we finally got it!  I am very happy to have it.

Empty dining room. 

Here's the new table. It has 2 leafs so it can seat 10 people. 

Happy ELi

Eli is sitting on the bench we bought to go with it. 

Josh showing his car. 

Josh and Noelle playing with train tracks. 

Josh had a final field trip to the Fire Station for his school.  He had a great time learning all about what firemen do and all of their equipment.

Josh and his class. 

He's checking out other kids in this picture. 

Noelle was happy to be there too. 

Playing Catch-Up

Sorry I've been so bad about posting lately.  I have been doing a lot of work on my part-time job and it is keeping me busy.

I have decided that Noelle's birthday cake is going to be a carrot cake. We have some pictures of her eating some below, and she did really well with ti. It was nice that the carrot cake was firm enough that she could just pick it up and take a bite of it.


With the nice Spring weather we have also been going to parks a lot of playing outside as much as we can. Eli and Josh are getting really good at T-ball, but I don't have any pictures of that.

Noelle and her cake.

Yummy cake1

Josh and Eli making faces

This is what I got when I asked for nice smiles. 

The boys played with blocks and Eli made a tower as tall as him. 

Josh pulled Noelle around in the block wagon. 

Noelle loves crawling around at the park. 

Our boys never do things the traditional way. 

Eli the climber

Josh is upside down!

Noelle wanted to check the playground out. 

Noelle and Melissa going down the slide. 

Noelle climbed down our front steps for this picture. 

Growing Up

We are no longer wrapping Noelle up in the baby burrito when we put her to sleep. She has been having a hard time going back to sleep when she wakes up at night. We are hoping that if we train her to go to sleep without being wrapped up that she can put herself back to sleep.

It isn't perfect yet, but she seems to be falling asleep alright with this new method. Hopefully she will get more sleep so Morgan and I can get more sleep.