Catch Up Pictures

I have so many pictures to share its amazing!  :)  I have some fun ones that were taken before 4th of July, a lot of great ones from the holiday, and then Jake's swim lesson pictures to share.  So for this first post I am just going to share those earlier catch up ones.  :)

But the boys are great and we are having an amazing time with them.  AJ just turned 11 months old on Sunday and he is just so much fun.  He has a fun personality and is just so happy most of the time.  He is still not crawling but honestly I think its because he is really trying to figure out this standing, pull up and walking thing.  He is not really close yet but loves standing up and holding onto us and has scootched up to me and pulled himself up to standing a couple times...so he is getting there.  And even though the silly boy cannot crawl...well forward that is, he can go from playing on his tummy to sitting up.  So between that and rolling, turning and scootching backwards, this boy can get around pretty well.  And...big news here...on Friday he finally cut his first tooth!!!!!  So we are on the road to more solid foods which makes this little food lover very happy.  :)  His favorite foods right now are strawberries, pancakes and yogurt...but he really enjoys all the baby foods too.  :)

Jake is doing wonderful as well.  He has developed a deep love for cupcakes and dinosaurs.  Cupcakes are from one of his favorite books If You Give a Cat a Cupcake  and so now anything he finds with cupcakes is just the best thing in the world.  :)  The other night we were praying before going to bed...basically me telling him word by word what to say...its pretty cute, and we were in the middle of thanking Jesus for Mommy, Daddy and AJ when all of a sudden he thanked Jesus for cupcakes.  lol  And then dinosaurs...we have a fun place to eat and shop around here called Charlie Brown's and out front they have all these huge animals...they have a few dinosaurs and so this was Jake's introduction to them...it was love at first sight.  :)  His verbal is also coming along well.  We are all working with him and we are seeing more and more come out of him and its really fun to see what he is really thinking and have small little talks with him.  I so love my little Jakey Bear.

Well onto those pictures...enjoy   

Introducing "Ma" to a couple of his pals

Such a cutie pie

AJ loves going over to his books and pulling them all out...I remember his big brother doing the very same thing

"Mmmmm ice cream...someday maybe Mommy and Daddy will give me the real stuff"

Hehehe...often times when scootching around backwards on his tummy, AJ will find himself stuck in some furniture.  :)

This was a toy that Jake had gotten for a first birthday present from some good friends and AJ LOVES it...often gives us the time to get Jake a bath which is really nice.  So much fun to watch AJ enjoy the same things that his big brother did.

Well more soon!!!