Backpack, Backpack

Little T. recently got a fetish with having a backpack. All his brothers have a backpack for school so he was asking for one. Now he takes his backpack (regular size one that is as big as he is) everywhere. He keeps his cars and trains in it and the other day I saw him putting a pamphlet in it as he was saying "Need my Homework". Also, twice now he has gotten his backpack and put it on while the kids were heading out the door for the bus and turned to me and said "Bye Mom" as he headed for the door to try to catch the bus with his brothers. He is in such a cute stage!

The cutest kids

Every child has several great sleeping pictures. This is the latest great one of Little T. He had skipped his nap that day and was watching cartoons when he fell asleep with his feet tucked under him in a seated/kneeling position.

It reminded me of this good picture of Big T. last summer when he was 6 during our trip to the Redwoods. My favorite part about this one was that he woke up and said that he was never asleep but we had stopped the van, unloaded our stuff, taken the picture and then tried to wake him up. He was most definately asleep.

Cutest Little T.

Little T. is just so cute. He is 22 months old now and he is so fun right now. This morning as the boys were getting ready to head out the door, he grabbed his oldest brothers lunch box and turned to me and said "bye mom" and went out the door with two of his brothers. He was in his pj's still and in bare feet but he was going as fast as he could (he knew I'd be after him shortly). He made it all the way to the corner going just as fast as his little legs would carry him in hopes of being able to get on the bus with his older brothers. A few minutes after we got back to the house, he started trying to find out where Daddy is. He's been doing this for a couple weeks now. He goes around the house saying "Daddy work, Daddy work, Daddy work" until he is satisfied that he really is gone to work. Finally he'll go to the door to the garage and say again "Daddy work" before moving on with the rest of his day. We sure do have cute kids!

Daddy's little helper

Little T. has been crazy about his Daddy lately. He has especially taken an interest in helping cook. Here are some adorable pictures of him helping Dad cook. Here is is making granola. By the way if you want a great granola recipe talk to my sister. We love making her granola as a snack or as cereal.

All my kids have gone through mommy stages and daddy stages. Right now is this little kids time to be in a daddy stage. Thanks honey for being such a great dad to all of our boys.

The Bus

All three of the older boys are now in school all day long. I thought Little T. would have a hard time not having his brothers to play with during the day but surprisingly enough he has done very well and even seems to enjoy having the time to play by himself with various things. He's been fine for a month but the last few days he has had a problem with letting the boys go out the door to the bus. He cries and tries to push his way out the door saying "bus, bus" to go with them. Yesterday the older boys were gathering their lunches and Little T. went to get a bag with a handle and carried it around with him. Again today, he wanted a lunch bag like his older brothers so I gave him one with a couple snacks in it. Fortunately I seem to have resolved the crying when the boys go out the door. We've walked to the bus stop the last couple days and Little T. loves to see the bus. We wave "bye bus" after the boys get on and then he watches the bus drive away. After that he is totally fine. Hmmm, maybe it's not that he doesn't want his older brothers to leave, maybe it's just that he wants so badly to see the "bus".

Poor Baby

A few weeks ago Little T. was having a rough few days. He had been knocked down by his brother, fallen off of the stool in the kitchen, and then he fell in the living room towards one of his toys. Although it didn't seem like much of a fall, he hit his head just right on the edge of the toy and ended up with a cut above his eye. (He was obviously eating when I took this picture. His cute face is underneath the food).
Within the same couple of days he got his finger slammed in the heavy sliding glass door. Within minutes it had turned purple. Then it was swollen, black and purple for several days. I'll spare you the gory details and end with saying that his entire fingernail fell off after a couple weeks.

He Can Open Doors

I know it sounds like a Sunday School lesson but I'm talking about Little T. Yesterday I put him down to sleep in his bed and closed the door. About a minute later he came proudly walking down the hall. I wasn't sure if I should be excited about this new discovering of opening doors or upset for him coming out of bed or overwhelmed at the new stage that this opens up. Actually I felt all those feelings all at once. The older boys enjoy closing the door and playing a board game in their room knowing Little T. can't get in. Now we will have to adjust things again to accommodate this new stage.

Little T.

Little T. meets a baby goat.

More camping fun

Just a cute video from our camping trip back in June.

Summer Rainstorm

In June we had a fun rainstorm. We usually have one or two a year where we can have stick races down the gutters and play in the downpour. Little T. got in on the action and had fun getting soaking wet and splashing barefoot in the puddles. I sure do love a good rainstorm . . . and the smell of fresh rain is great.

My cute sleepyhead

Little T. had a couple weeks of falling asleep in his highchair very often. We got a few cute pictures. Babies are just so adorable when they are sleeping, and even more adorable when they are sleeping in funny positions with food all over their face.