So.......it's been too long since I have updated this. Obviously the kids have gotten pretty big!
Mia is 5 1/2 months old now! I know!
*She is about 20 lbs
*she wears mostly 12 month clothes
*she has almost mastered sitting alone
*she eats veggies everyday
*we can see her little two bottom teeth through her gums...not through yet, but won't be long
*she is developing great eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills.....grabbing and playing with toys and our faces
*everything she can get her little pudgy fingers on, goes in her mouth
*we brought her up to children's hospital to see a respiratory specialist b/c she had a cough for about 4 1/2 months (pretty much all her life) and they did a swallow study and upper GI test on her and figured out that when she drinks formula, it is too thin of a liquid and some goes back into her airways causing a chronic cough. So, we are now adding cereal to all her bottles to make sure it is thick enough to go down the right tube. So wonderful that she is finally got some answers and she is feeling better and not irritated by this cough. She is a really good girl
*she loves to scream......which then gavin seems to think he needs to scream too causing our house to be pretty loud and crazy
*she sleeps in her crib in her and Gavin's room
*when she is on her tummy, she can push herself up so her arms are straight and holding herself up but when she tries to tuck her knees, her knees go up and her arms fall
* she got her toes painted for the first time last week
*now, loves to watch gavin and loves when he gets really close and in her face. He makes her laugh and smile all the time
GAVIN GAVIN the terrible (but wonderful) TWO's
*favorite food now I think is spaghetti
*weighs 30 lbs
*he really loves MIA! Wants to do whatever she is doing like sitting up on a blanket, or laying on the floor. He lays next to her and says "cheese" cause he wants me to take their picture
*he asks "what you doin" all the time and when I answer him, he says "me too" and wants to do whatever I am doing
*He loves to wear sunglasses
*my favorite thing that he is doing now is using his imagination. He pretends to be a puppy and will get down on the ground, pant, bark and crawl around. It is soooo cute!
*He is starting to get into more movies......he loves to watch "cars"....."home on the range"......chicken little"........"brother bear"........"open season"......
*He still makes his "eeeeeerrrrrrr" sound to put himself to sleep-he has done it since he was about 6 months old.......it seems like it puts Mia to sleep too :)
*He is in a real loving books stage again, he even wants to sleep with them
*favorite thing to do is still to go on a tractor ride and play outside
Looking forward to summer vacation and seeing family and friends!! We are also in the process of getting our house on the market! BIG STEP :)

just trying on daddy's boots..........he must think he is gonna be in the army some day or something

playing with
mia's toy together and watching mickey mouse clubhouse

Mia is pulling
gavin's hair. He just sat there until she let go

being silly


mia is learning to sit up by herself

this was a picture taken while auntie
arianne was babysitting.......yeah, she's fired! :)
awww.....
gavin loves to help hold
mia's nebulizer mask

Gavin's family birthday party
sittin with
bumpa
daddy and
mia hanging out

Mickey Mouse cake

3 of my
sisters trying to share Mia

help from uncle
ryan
very excited about the gift of balls from Great grandpa dean and great grandma
cindy
sharing some snack with our dog Hunter and the dog we were babysitting, Hunter #2
chillin out eating a snack

loves to swing

pretty sober

Gavin's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse birthday party with friends...........

mmmmm.....cupcake

mickey mouse cupcakes
whoooooa

blowing out his cupcake


our friend
joe and
tasheena with
thier two daughters,
Laila and Paisley
Laila, Gavin and Evan sitting in his new sandbox

MIA!!!!!!!!!!
gavin and his
bff evan
Mickey Mouse headbands.....
yay!

Mickey and Minnie
greeted our guests as they got to our house

what a cutie cowboy........looks an awful lot like his dad

new bike from mom and dad

The night before Gavin's birthday, Jason and I blew up a bunch of balloons and put them on the floor of his room while he was sleeping. When he woke up, he was sooooo excited to see all the balloons and then he understood that "today was his birthday". Dad put him in his crib and filled the balloons in there so he could hit them all out


still has that just woke up look
Night out in Eua Clarie with Alissa


all alissa's girlfriends out for a night with me!
Welcome home JOE!!!

Kate, me and Tara (joes wife)

Having a shot for Joe's safe return from his second tour in Iraq. His first tour was with Jason and our other friends in this picutre Jeff and Kate too
Winterfest.....this was our recruiters week-end up in Brainered in March....

saturday night ball

Friday night disco night........Lori, Katherine and Me

J and his enormous fro....it's prety much the entire back0round of this picture


bath time. Mia is big enough to sit in the chair so bath time has become easier when you can have them both in the tub at one time :)

while we went for a walk, gavin helped hold mia's bottle for her......such a good helper again!

sweet......always doing the same things

mia is gaining on gavin for size

happy girl! This is a picture from mid April

mommy and mia

snuggling with dad

Gavin is really in to blocks.......i think he looks like he is 4 years old here


spoon feeding for the first time- April
EASTER

both gavin and cousin wyatt wanted to ride this tractor
such a sweet picture with great grandma Pat


baby's first Easter

Gavin was a pretty cool dude with his new sunglasses from the Easter bunny

family pic at my dad's church

Mia was so tired that she fell asleep while burping

Mid-March

cute towel from unlce trent

her cheeks are so big that when she smiles, it pushes her eyes shut :)

mmmmmm....spagetti face

cheese!

She looks like dad here....zzzzzzzzz


gavin is such a ham