Family Pictures 2014

Our family pictures were taken at the Pearl Brewery downtown.  We had not gone there before.  Asher had just learned to get up on his own, so it made the pictures tricky.  He kept trying to get up when he set him down for the picture.  So,  there were not very many family pictures in our first session.  

The photographer did a second round of pictures for our family because Asher did not cooperate in our first appointment.  We did not get very many of our whole family because Asher kept getting up and trying to run away.  The second time around went a lot better. We went a little closer to home and took pictures at O P Schnabel park.  

mary, larry, barry

Julia got her first finger eye puppets at Peter Piper Pizza for Analisa's birthday.  She got another one at a school treasure box.  She enjoyed putting them on her fingers and talking with them.  She likes to go on photobooth and do videos with them.  She also has them on her fingers when she is getting on the bus and she says that the bus driver gets hypnotized when he sees them.  She even has them write notes.  She has named them Mary, Larry, Barry, Gary, Harry, and so on.

4-22-15  more at Isa's party again

Brayden - Leaving the Way He Came

It was a chilly November evening when Brayden was hassling us about not getting his way about something.  When he threatened to run away, Matt took a play from Uncle Joey's book and told him that would be fine, but if he was leaving the family he would have to leave the way he showed up - buck naked.  Brayden, smiling a little, said OK and stepped out onto the front porch.  It was dark out and the porch light was off, but we figured he would stand out there in the cold for a minute or two to make his point.  After several minutes without hearing from him, we looked out the front door to find his clothes in a pile, but no sign of Brayden.  It was cold out.  Matt was about to go out to looking for him when he came running back chuckling.  He had been hiding on the side of our house with only his underwear on.  

Face Shirts

A while back I bought a face shirt for Brayden at Children's Place and he really liked it.  Every season Children's Place comes out with new face shirts.  In 2012 and 2013 Brayden was on a kick of wanting to wear only face shirts.  He wanted one for every day of the week.  The red shirt is the one that started it all.

Blake in the past year has jumped on the face shirt wagon too. 

Someone gave Asher a monster face onesie and I decided to get him some face shirts because they are so cute.

These are some of the face shirts the boys have.