Jude - March

We had such a great month enjoying the beautiful spring weather, celebrating Easter, and starting soccer!!

-One afternoon when he was going down for a nap he decided he wanted to sleep in his Superman cape.  He wasn't really wanting to go down and said, "I'm a super hero and super heroes don't take naps."

-He had his first real dentist appointment and LOVED it.  He even had some xrays done and the dentist showed him all of his teeth.  When we were going to the car after having his teeth cleaned, he started looking at his teeth in the window and excitedly said, "My teeth aren't black anymore!" I was so confused and then realized that he thought they were black because of the xray!!! I just went along with it and said, nope that's why we get our teeth cleaned!

-We have been talking a lot about strangers to try to really get him to understand.  He always asks what a stranger looks like and we tell him anyone that you do not know their name. So we were leaving Costco one day and he pointed to a lady and very loudly started yelling "stranger, she's a stranger!" I guess next we will need to work on stranger manners! 

-After bath one night Jude asked me, "Mommy, what are all those red things on your face?" I told him zits.  "Why?" I told him that unfortunately mommy's get them on their face, and he asked, "Do I have them?" I told him he didn't, and he said, "Well, why do you then?" I just agreed and said I wish I knew!!! 

Blue bonnets 

Easter egg hunt with Tripp & Mia

Biking and Bagels 

Trying out his new cleats 

Swords with Pops 

Helping Dad blow out his candles 

Playing Super heroes with Grady 

This is blurry, but cracks me up!

Safety first!!!

Jude takes his birthday cupcakes seriously 

Egg hunt at church 

He didn't seem to get the memo that this wasn't a personal pizza! 

My loves 

Transformers with Tripp 

No cavities!!

Best buds 

First soccer game with Happy Feet! Its an hour long of laughing...seriously the cutest! 

Quinn - 11 months

Seriously....seriously, we are only one month away from my baby being ONE???? I guess this mamma better come to terms with that because its coming whether I like it or not! This little girl has learned all sorts of new things this month! She LOVES to be outside and eat ANYTHING that she finds on the ground (that's fun!). Her favorite is leaves! She has even started to try to run away from us if we are coming after her to get something out of her mouth, then as soon as we get there she spits it out!  If one of us is playing with Jude outside we'll put her on the trampoline with the net with some toys and she'll just play in there forever! She is not only pulling up on everything, but has even stood on her own a few times. She still seems to prefer crawling, and tends to restore to the bear crawl a lot to save her poor little knees.  She is definitely still a mamma's girl, but she has been even  more obsessed with her daddy lately! She gets so excited when he comes home, and is the first thing she asks and looks for in the morning - da-da! She also loves playing with Jude.  She is one tough cookie though because he'll start "wrestling" with her and all she does is laugh and try to climb on him; I'm just thinking, "girl you are crazy"!! She also loves to just sit and watch him play.  If he is outside, she will just stand at the backdoor to watch all that he is doing and yell at him! She can't wait to be out there running around with him. I could seriously snuggle with this girl all day, but not sure she would let me.  She is getting a bit more busy and wants to explore on the floor.  She is pretty independent and content the majority of the time just doing her own thing. She has been a bit more clingy though due to her top two teeth making their way out.  They make her look so much older though! Here are a few pics from our adventures this month.

Daddy weekend

When mommy is away, who needs clothes!

He finally got me dressed in my basketball outfit!

Bath baby

Got a sock and some toilet paper, that's all I need

Just relaxing 

Making new friends (yes she is eating a role of film)

Here she comes!!!

Baby massage train

She loves blowing raspberries 

And making herself crack up

Its a hard life!

Happy Easter

Mommy and pretty Quinn 

Just doing her thing

Her teething face, poor baby

-She is eating like a champ and still likes most things that we give to her.  She is also doing so well with finger foods, and she even likes the meats that we are introducing. Up next up, using a spoon and sippy cup!

-Her favorite things to play with are any of brother’s toys, things that she can shake and socks.  That’s right, she always has someone’s sock in her hand taking it everywhere she goes.  I don’t even know how she finds them half of the time!

-She has started this funny sliding move when she is crawling towards something she wants.  You know she is after something because she'll start breathing hard and crawling fast, and then right before she gets there she reaches out and slides to the object!

-There is no guessing when Quinn is done eating.  Especially when she is done with a bottle she gets it in her hands and just tosses it.  And don’t try to put it back in, she’ll just swat it away.  A girl that knows what she wants!

-She is doing really well with her baby sign language.  It cracks us up though because when she is eating, she pretty much keeps her hands in a constant state of “more”!

-I think Quinn might have a future in leg wrestling! If you are trying to dress her, change her diaper, tickle her, or just when she gets excited she’ll lift both of her legs up and slam them down.  She’s strong too!

-She loves to give kisses, and especially to other babies.  She needs work on her technique though, because she goes right at them and usually ends up head-butting them!

-She now has four teeth, two on the top and two on the bottom.  Wears size 4 diapers and 9 and 12 month clothes.

Jude - Feb

I am very delayed in this post, but better late than never!

- One night Jude had been asleep for a few hours when we heard knocking coming from his wall.  We looked on his monitor to see that he was definitely knocking, so I went upstairs to see if he had been awake that whole time. He was dead asleep, so I gently asked him if he was ok and why he was knocking and he said, "because I was asleep." Ok, then!
-Jude's newest obsessions are swords and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Sam has shown him a few of the episodes from the 80's and he has decided that he is Leonardo!
-The only "juice" that we give Jude is some water with emerg-c vitamins sprinkled in for some flavor. He calls this his "golden juice" and says he wants it "spicy" (aka: he wants a lot of it in there)!
-We were over at his friend Riley's house one evening and she asked him if he was getting ready for Easter.  Jude replied, "No, I'm just getting ready for soccer!" Well at least we know what's on his mind!
-One day when it had been raining a lot we were driving in the car and I splashed through a puddle.  He asked me what that was and I told him that it was just water.  He sat there thinking for a bit and then said, "I sure wish I could jump in that puddle!"
- One evening Sam was late getting home because he got stuck in traffic.  Now any time there are a few cars around Jude says that we are "in traffic"and gets super concerned.

Valentine's party at MDO

#hunk

Taking treats to a nursing home with friends

We do a lot of this, riding his bike, and strolling a lot these days

Having fun at the "glasses store"

Playing swords

Trampoline fun 

Jude's class presenting the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 at MDO

(he is the far right)

First kite experience 

Not much wind, but he was at least getting it in the air 

Sister loving brother pushing her 

Grass, grass, and more grass

Where's Jude????

Visiting the horses with Ethan 

When mom's away, the boys will play (or eat sugary donuts!)