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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

July 19 through July 28

Walt has taken on a major project in our yard.  Thank goodness he has some helpers :)  Both boys love helping Daddy, but Jackson is especially helpful.  He LOVES everything about it!
Aiden has started crawling.  He has been army crawling for the last few weeks, but he is now officially doing the traditional crawl.  He is not all over the place yet, but he is getting there.  He is also trying to pull up.
Dillan eating after a hard days work :)
Jackson had put in a hard day of work, too :)
Play time in the play room

Jackson and Aiden....I love that Aiden has his hand on Jackson's face.
It has officially begun....the boys are all playing together :)

Aiden is getting better at sitting up
Everyday he is getting into more & more things...our life has forever changed :)
I love this sweet boy!

There are always random tidbits that I want to document about the boys, but when I sit down to update the blog...I can't remember them all, but I'll give it a try :)

* Dillan is learning his colors and for awhile he would say "brownie" instead of brown and it was pretty cute.  He is talking more and more every day which is a lot of fun, but he is still not able to communicate quite like he wants to so there is some frustration and tantrums.

* Dillan goes "tee tee" on the potty before bath time and has started to ask to go.  At first it was random, but then this last week...he has asked to go several times.  Usually it was when Jackson or I was going, but it became apparent that he is getting more and more control.  So much to my dismay, we are going to start the 3 day potty training next weekend.  So I think we need to seize the moment.

* The boys have labels for their cups and Jackson will point out the letters to his name and say "J-A-C-K-S-O-N...Jackson".  Then Dillan will try.  He does not know his letters yet, but he will say "O-N-A (or some variation of letters)....D (meaning that is his name)".  If you ask him what his name is, most of the time he will say "D" instead of "Dillan" because that is what Walt and Jackson call him most of the time.

* Aiden still does not babble much, but he has some sweet coos and noises.  It is not uncommon for him to only take two 30 minute naps.  On the rare occasion, one of his naps will be a little bit longer.  Needless to say, by the end of the day he is exhausted.  He goes to bed for the night around 6:00 PM / 6:30 PM because he is so exhausted from not taking good naps during the day.  He wakes up around 4:00 AM to eat and it is not uncommon for him to wake up a couple of times before that, but usually not for long.  So he is not the greatest sleeper, but I am hopeful that we will be dropping the night time feeding soon :)

* Jackson recently went to a little 2 day mini-camp in our neighborhood.  I was initially thinking about turning it down, but then a friend mentioned that she asked her daughter if she wanted to go.  Such a novel concept :)  So I asked Jackson and he was so excited!!!  It made me realize that I was the one who had reservations about sending "my baby" to camp....obviously not him!!!!  He had so much fun and was so excited about it!

ok....it is late so I better call it a night....but there is so much more about each of them...so I will try and post more another time :)

Friday, July 19, 2013

July 5 through July 18

More good times in the pool





 Aiden even likes the pool :)
Aiden is getting better at sitting up, but still is "wobbly".  He has been army crawling for a few weeks and just this week he has started traditional crawling.  He still has to work at it a little bit, but it is only a matter of time before he is into everything!!!!
 
Home Depot Workshop with Daddy...the boys love it!!!!
   They made cars and painted them at home.


 After church, I got a few pictures of sweet Aiden.


 We met some friends at a park and spray ground.


  It's payback time!  I have a similar picture of Dillan after Jackson gave him a bunch of toys to play with when he was about this age and now Dillan is doing it to Aiden :)
 Pilates :)
 Walt has started a major project in our backyard which required this rock...the boys were super excited.





   
While Jackson and Dillan played with the rocks, Aiden sat back and chewed on the keys...poor guy is teething :(
 It's never too early for legos (obviously they are the duplo size and therefore not a choking hazard)

 Getting in position...I need to take a video of him crawling!
 More pilates....Aiden does this move A LOT!

 Dillan playing basketball

  Jackson being silly

 Brothers
 I love this picture!!!!  It captures their personalities!
 A rare picture of my 3 boys together!!!
   
  Dillan has had a rough few days (very emotional)...I hope he is not getting sick.
 James came over this week and when he arrived he had written over his arms and legs with markers.



 Dillan and James dancing & being silly


 Jackson is starting to drop his nap and therefore is having rest time where I set the timer and he reads books or quietly plays in the play room.  On this particular day, he was busy :)
 Its hard to believe this little guy is about to be all over the place and into everything!!!

 I LOVE THOSE CHEEKS!!!!  Aiden was having an "off" day and fell asleep in the car.  It doesn't get much cuter than this!!!!