Our Little Walker!

Well...it's definitely official...Joshua is a walker now! He prefers walking over crawling and has figured out how to stand up from sitting. (without holding onto anything) It's crazy how fast he went from walking to running!!! He sure is fast!! Now I think I'll be working off quite a few calories everyday trying to keep up with him...which is probably not a terrible thing! Lol!

Happy 4th Of July!!

We all had a great Fourth of July weekend! Since the 4th fell on a Sunday this year most of the city's events happened on the 3rd. So early that morning we went down to watch the parade, which the kids loved!! Then after the parade we walked over to the park where they had a bunch of blowup jumping things for the kids to play in! Emma usually loves those things, but on her first jump a bigger kid landed on top of her...needless to say she was done after that. So Emma, Josh, My mom and I decided to go and get some shopping done while Jamie and Zach stayed and played for a while since he was still loving it all! The next day (4th) we went back to my parent's house for a barbecue and to tye-dye shirts for an upcoming family reunion. It was so fun to help the kids pick out their colors and to help them create something! We had an awesome fourth of July weekend with family and are sad to get back to the regular work week. Why can't holidays just stay around a little longer?!

Happy Fourth Of July!

Too loud for Zachie!

Watching the Cool Cars!

Zachie feeding a tortoise.

Emma feeding a tortoise.

Emma's First Tooth Fairy Experience!

Emma has had a loose tooth for quite a while now and it finally fell out! I've been giving her ideas of how to make it more and more loose. I've had her bite into corn on the cob...I told her that if she bites really hard on it then the corn will splash into her mouth...I know...I'm terrible! But it worked pretty well at making it even more loose. This last time though she bit into an apple and had forgotten all about her tooth! It was SOOO close and I guess she just couldn't keep her tongue away from it! She came running upstairs with it in her hand and said that her tongue pushed it out! She was so excited!! It's kinda sad though...cause now the cute little smile that I adored is different!! I guess it's ok though...it's just going to take some getting used to. You should have seen the look on her face when she woke up the next morning to find that the tooth fairy had come and left her a whole dollar!! Priceless!! It's also pretty funny though too...she now has a slight lisp from the huge new hole in her mouth! Lol!