Cohen, playing in the exersaucer and eating a goldfish snack.
Enjoying a blanket tent/fort in the family room.
Camden fell asleep holding an animal cracker, and Cohen figured since he's not eating it, he will.
He got it!
He thought it was pretty funny!
Those things are so messy!
Playing before bed.
Trying out a sippy cup.
Jonmark always does the weirdest things with the babies. We all thought it was funny, but Cohen looks scared.
While we were getting ready to leave one day, Camden decided to put all the extension tubes for the vacuum together and use it as a gun. He made shooting sounds as he aimed out the back window at deer (we have deer go through our yard day and night, all the time, but he was just pretending to see one here).
What happened here? I keep a basket under an end table in the family room for toys, and Camden pulled it out just a little, and for some reason (I never found out what he was trying to do), climbed up on top of the basket, which flipped upward due to his weight and sent him crashing down on the corner of the table (the tables have straight edges with corners and they're not baby proofed - never had a problem like this before). It happened so fast, blood was immediately going every where, and since I wasn't sure if he was going to need stitches, I called Jonmark to come look at him. We ended up at an urgent care, where they applied a steri strip. It continued to bleed after being bandaged, so it looked gross for quite a while.
The babies always love walking under the table.
Notice the pacifier is never far away!
Camden was sitting at the table while I got things ready for Mykenzi to do school work that day. He especially loved playing with the colored cubes for counting.
Mykenzi, the little mommy, offering to pick Cohen up.
I don't have any idea why Camden did this.
Mykenzi was busy at work outside.
Camden, eating lunch at the Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, an educational field trip for Mykenzi. We rode the Metro into D.C. That was quite an experience with 3 kids, 1 walking and 2 in a double stroller. It was worth it though to not have to deal with traffic and parking, and it was really neat when we came up the elevator from the Metro and found ourselves right in the middle of the city.
Mykenzi was upset because they were selling ice cream in the cafeteria/food court area, and we said no.
Doesn't she just look like a tourist in her jeans, tennis shoes, and sunglasses? She spotted a sidewalk vendor.
We couldn't deny them the experience of shopping at a sidewalk vendor, plus they were so good on the Metro and in the museum. They earned it.
Camden loves ice cream sandwiches. This one is huge, so Jonmark thought for sure he'd get to eat the leftovers, but no, Camden ate it all.
I felt so bad for Mykenzi having to walk every where, and we did end up walking several city blocks to go see the old post office building. That was another experience. First finding our way in, then the right way up to the top of the building, which included a couple of different elevator trips, one that was so old and barely the size of a coat closet, which was very difficult for a family of 5 with a double stroller. The view was priceless though!
Maw Maw and Pop needed some dirt, so we loaded up the truck, and the kids went to help spread it around.
What a look!
Busy busy!
All that manual labor makes a boy thirsty!
One evening I found Cohen sleeping in his swing like this.
That cut above Camden's eye left a little pink scar. If you look closely, comparing Camden's eyebrows, you can also see that in preparation for stitching (before the doctor decided to do a steri strip), he cut away Camden's eyebrow, which took some time to grow back.
Kenzi has such beautiful blue eyes and pretty eyelashes! When you look at her, or hear her talk (she thinks she's a 40 year old adult, I swear), sometimes it's easy to forget that she is just a little girl. She thinks she's so big and she really carries herself that way most of the time, but really, while she's not a "baby" anymore, she is just a baby in this world. There are two times I'm reminded of just how small she still is: 1) when we go to the doctor or dentist (because she's terrified of both), and 2) when she's doing school work (I think it's even humbling to her when she realizes she in fact, does not know everything yet).
