July Birthdays

I know I am really behind on my posts, it is almost September, and I am doing July birthdays. How does life get so busy?

My Aunt Brenda celebrated her 50th birthday this year. We wanted to do something really special, so we had a big family get together. The theme was disco. I even found some neon die for the cake frosting.


I spent a lot of time gathering, sorting, and scanning pictures for this wonderful photo album that I was going to make for her. My siblings and my mom helped a lot, watching the kids so I could work, and going through all the pictures with me, but still I only got 8 years done, when I had originally planned to do like 30. I know, that was a pretty novel ambition, but I am still working on it, so hopefully by next year at her birthday I will be able to present her with some more pages. All in all it was a really fun party, and I was really happy that so many family members could drive into town for the occasion.


We had Joseph's birthday party the following weekend. I can't believe he is already 2. I did not have much time to work on a cake or any of that stuff but I got a dog on there (he loves to point at dogs and say the word, but he is not a big fan of dogs getting to close to him). He was not very happy at the beginning of the party. I think he was a little confused since we had to wake him up from a late nap after church. Here he is looking less then thrilled about everything.




He did warm up as he started to open the gifts, and he was really happy when he got to eat cake and ice cream. He insisted on playing with his new toys while eating. Not something I usually go for, but since it was his birthday, I let him.



I think his favorite toy was to large bag of blocks he got. Or at least they are the toy that is the most fought over. Here he is building a large tower. He loves to make a tower run over to me and say "big tower." After I look at it and smile he promptly kicks it and takes all the pieces apart and then builds a different tower.

Today

We got a really good thunderstorm and plenty of rain last night, so I had late night visitor to my bed. Jacob hates thunder, lightning, and rain if it is dark outside. Rob and Jacob spent the night taking turns hitting me in the face as they both fought for more space on the bed in there sleep. Needless to say, I did not sleep very well. I am not a fan of children sleeping in the bed with us, but for those rare middle of the night thunderstorms I make an exception for Jacob. Once the sun was up I could not keep the boys at the table to eat there breakfast because they wanted to go outside and play in the puddles. It was drizzling off and on, but it was warm outside, and the boys were ok getting wet, so I conceded to let them go and splash in the puddles. London went out for a little while, but she didn't like the boys getting her wet so she came back in.


Inside Guinevere was very proud of herself for learning how to sit up. Isn't she just so cute.


After all that sitting she thought she would wage war with another baby over a toy. She lost, and then spit up in protest. Apparently she is a sore loser.

That's my morning so far. It should prove to be an eventful day.

Fourth of July

We woke up early as usual of the 4th of July. We decided since it was so darn hot out that we would take the kids to the pool in the morning. Would you believe we were the only ones at the pool at 8am. It was really nice to have the pool all to ourselves, and the water was already plenty warm, I don't think I would have wanted to be out there any later in the day.

Here is Joseph, London, and Jacob waiting to get in the pool. They all insist on having there floaties on and having a noodle. Joseph refuses to get in the water, but he needs floaties and a noodle on just so he can look cool or something.


Here is Guinevere and Rob enjoying the water. This was her first time in the swimming pool. She loved it.

London


Jacob


Later in the day we had my mom and Aunt over for some fryed chicken and biscutes. They took London and Jacob to see the fireworks. This was the first time that either of them had been to see fireworks. London absolutly loved it. By the third firwork Jacob was screaming his head off. My mom tried to calm him down and keep him quiet, she even tried stuffing food in his mouth. Nothing worked. Then about half way through the show London turned to him and said "Jacob aren't the fireworks beautiful?" That did it, he imidieatly stoped screaming and started chating away about how wonderfull the fireworks were. He said to my mom "Nana there are no monsters in the fireworks, they are in the woods." Maybe this is why he has a hard time sleeping while we are camping. They did not get home till a little after midnight, but they all seemed to have a lot of fun. Hopefully next year we can skip the screaming incident.

Hair Cuts

The boys all needed hair cuts, and I figured since I had out the clippers we could go ahead and cut Guinevere's hair to. I have had a few people tell me that if you shave a babies hair that it will come back in thicker. Since Guinevere only really had hair on the top of her head, and it was pretty thin I figured what can it hurt. Since Rob and I were both needed (one to hold and one to cut) we passed the camera off to London who actually got some pretty good pictures of Guinevere's first haircut.

Here we are right at the start, that is Josephs big head in the picture with us. He found the whole hair cutting process very interesting.

London got a bit bored only taking pictures of Guinevere, so she ventured out and got pictures of other interesting things.

Joseph did just fine getting his hair cut, Jacob started out ok, but by the time I was half way done he started screaming. Afterwards he was fine posing for a picture for London.



Here is Guinevere with her freshly shaved head. Doesn't she have a beautiful head!


Here is Jacob, Joseph, and Guinevere showing off there new hair do's