Playing in the Rain

In all the rain today I decided it would be fun to let TJ run around and play. It wasn't lightning at all so I knew it would be safe. He had a blast. Just wanted to post some pictures. Yeah there are a bunch of pictures but he was just having so much fun.

Excited

Cool rain

Tasting the rain

Found a hole in the driveway

Sweet feet

"huh?"

oh no, the rain is going to get him

This kid is crazy

oh wait...this looks fun

They had a blast and it was fun watching them play. Now I fear that every time it rains that he'll beg to go play in the rain.

Sunglasses and Hats

Since TJ was a baby we have tried to get him to wear sunglasses. He wore some a little bit when he was only a few months old but once he could pull them off he wouldn’t wear them. This is pretty much the same when it came to hats. He wouldn’t wear them after he realized he could take them off.

I pointed out to him that if he wore sunglasses the sun wouldn’t be so bright in his eyes. AHHHH….now he wants to wear sunglasses.

Now with hats, we have tried to tell him “Daddy has a hat on. Do you want to wear a hat like daddy or like Papa?” Nothing would work, until he saw that baseball players wear hats. He tells us he wants his beeball hat.

At least he is willing to wear my sunglasses or Tim’s sunglasses if we forget to grab his on the way out the door. I try to keep an extra pair in the car but that doesn’t always work.

But the funny this is he thinks in order to adjust the glasses on his face that he needs to use his entire hand on the lenses to fix them. This leaves his little hand print and smudges all over the lenses. When he wants to look at something closely like a car or animal he removes the glasses (puts them on top of his head) to see it better. 

Anna is 6 Months Old

Anna is now crawling… backwards and army crawling forwards. She is a little slow at it and doesn’t really show that she knows what she is doing yet but she can move right along. She sits up great now. I don’t leave her there by herself yet because she will tumble over after a while. She can also move forward but it isn’t crawling. The movement consists of her lifting her body up to the crawling position and then falls back down but falls forward. She inches herself closer and closer to the toy she is reaching for.

We had to switch her to oatmeal instead of rice cereal. The rice cereal wasn’t sitting well in her tummy. She is eating all of her veggies and she eats those for dinner. She is half way through all the fruits and eats those at breakfast and lunch. I only give her a half a jar. She just doesn’t eat much and I want her to have more milk then fruit and veggies.

We did get her to stop sucking on her thumb between feedings. We were thinking that she was using her thumb to help swallow instead of working on swallowing herself.

This is her schedule at home. The schedule at my mom’s house varies a bit in the morning. She wakes up at around 8 and then eats oatmeal with fruit and milk, stays up and plays till 11:45 and starts eating then lays down at noon, sleeps till 2 to 3, eats again, stays up and plays till 4:30ish, sleeps till 6ish, up for veggie and milk, around 7:30 we start baths and she is eating and in bed by 8:30. 

At my mom’s house she wakes up between 7 and 7:30 has a bottle and then lays back down for an hour and half then eats her oatmeal then the schedule is the same as at home.

This is my 2nd favorite picture. It captures her personality but you can't see her beautiful eyes

Pretty girl

Sweet little feet

precious Anna