Family pictures

Here are a few impromptu family pictures. Do we have one of the whole family together? Nope! But they are still pretty cute. Hair might be ruffled from wrestling, mouths might be dyed from cherries, but we are all wearing coordinating colors. That should count for something.

Happy Independence Day!!!

Sean fell asleep in the van on the way to the fireworks and then promptly fell back to sleep on the blanket.


Hope everyone had a great holiday!


Don't worry Sean did wake up to enjoy the fireworks. Kaelin loved them as well. Miss Mei was asleep in the nice, cool van while we were sweating with the mosquitoes.

Is this helpful?

I don't know about any of you but when I check blogs, I try to do it fast. So whenever Kaelin updates I always make a mini post telling everyone that she did. Does that help or do you already check hers? Anyway, she did update. I wanted to put it on my blog but she was too excited about it and wanted it for herself.

Pool time

It wasn't just a couple weeks ago that we were at the pool and the kids would come out with blue lips and the shivers. Now, we hardly go because it's been SO hot that the pool is now more like bath water. It is not refreshing at all, more along the lines of gross. Here are some pictures from a couple weeks ago.


Micaela helping Sean hold Savanna. Savanna loves the water, but she ends up just trying to lick it. "Savanna, you shouldn't try to eat everything"



Kaelin just lounging. She recently started some swim lessons. She does very well. After only a couple lessons she swam from the deep end all the way into the shallow by herself. It still makes me very nervous though.



Sean was floating around in the deep end singing to himself. Thank goodness for zoom.





She loves her goggles! I just can't help laughing when she wears them. This last picture is of Kaelin two years ago, she loved her goggles then too.

Buh-bye

I was so excited to see this happen! My kids are fantastic, but they are always late bloomers when it comes to clapping/waving/laughing. They are pretty much on schedule for everything else. So even though this is probably really late, Savanna did it! She waved and said bye-bye! Can she clap...nope but she can laugh, you have to work for it, but she does. Kaelin and Sean would run to her and give her hugs and then they would run to the other side of the room and wave bye-bye. She was so pleased with herself. I decided to try and catch it on camera and I got a little bit of it. It's a short video and pretty cute.

They might be small...

...but they are still successful pigtails! Kaelin rarely wanted her hair done, even now it takes some convincing. So, I have decided that I'll start as early as possible with Savanna and maybe it'll work. Kaelin called her, "My little bunny" all day. They didn't last through her nap, but for a first time they worked very well. I need to find some smaller rubber bands. When I had braces, my orthodontist would give me extra bags of rubber bands. Those were tiny and perfect. Anyone, know where I can get teeny tiny rubber bands?
Sorry her hand is in her mouth in both pictures, she's seems to be always eating something.

Rob's birthday

Alright I know this is really old but I just uploaded pictures from Rob's camera and I found these from his birthday. With the help of a wonderful friend who was willing to watch all my kids plus her own three, I was able to go fishing with Rob. I haven't been fishing with Rob since last May. It wasn't a "real" trip, because the forecast called for rain and Savanna was still pretty reliant on me for nutrition so we went to a local stocked pond, called Catch 'Em Lake. You pay a flat fee for the specific lake you want to fish and you can fish all day if you so choose.

Rob caught a few but this was the only one really worth taking a picture of. He had a few smaller ones that would always kife his bait. Look how ominous the clouds appear. We only had a little mizzle, the whole time we were there.

My largest catch of the day. I thought we should get proof, that I at least caught something.






But then, I actually did catch one. I was pretty happy.


I really enjoy going fishing. It'll be fun when the kids are older and I can go for a "real" fishing trip and when they are even older and they can go with Rob. Kaelin has gone a couple times and loves it! We are waiting a little bit longer for Sean, he makes me nervous around water.