Happy 3rd Birthday My Baby Boy!

At 5:49 am, 3 years ago today, I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy.

And now, he's turned into the most amazing, most inquisitive, most stubborn, most determined little boy. He is smart, and fit, and funny, and he is a happy happy boy. I am so grateful.

We celebrated his birthday yesterday, even though it is actually today, by going bowling.

Ten frames seemed a little to much for his attention span, but he did enjoy it at the beginning. We had lots of friends and family there and fun was had by all.

Raleigh always enjoys playing with Adam, and he’s seen him on three different days this week!

After bowling, we went back to our place for ice cream cake and presents which I’ll post pictures of later this week.

Thanksgiving Day

Lots of great food from the host Erika and from everyone else who brought food. Seriously, we were all holding our bellies and wondering why we ate so much food afterwards. It was that delicious. In the picture below, my FIL laid down on the floor groaning after he filled his belly. And then Adam and Raleigh promptly jumped on him. And then Raleigh and Adam jumped on each other.

 

Gus did a great job cleaning up Leah after her meal.

Overall, we had a blast at  Erika and Joel’s place. Lots of food, lots of great people, and plenty to be thankful for.

MMM...Ham is done! Hopefully ham will heal Raleigh's bump on the head. Falling down the stairs prob not something he'll want to do again. <-Shyla>

A day of thanks

Here are two people I am most thankful for having in my life.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope that it is full of family, food, and fun!

Clean vs. Normal

This is clean.

 

This is normal.

Happy Birthday Big Bro!

My brother, David, turns 31 today, which means I turn 29 in a few weeks. Yikes! We’re getting so old :)

When I asked Raleigh to sign David’s birthday card he said, “No, I have letters for him.”  Turns out he wanted to give David these lego letters that he built.

My little sweet pea eating peas

  

Dance Party!

I’m not a huge fan of this song, but it sure gets the kids dancing!

Back up and running

The new hard drive arrived today and, while I was at work, Josh reinstalled Windows 7. When I got home, I installed all of the other applications that I need, including Windows Live Writer, which is what I use write and publish my blogger blog entries.

The picture above is to prove that I can dress Leah up nice and pretty like a little girl. The head band was a gift from my Aunt Pam, and the outfit was a gift from my coworker Leslie. 

The outfit is a 12 month outfit and it pretty much fits her already. Sigh…My little girl is almost 1.

Still no funtional computer. So, i am experimenting with mobile blogging. <-Shyla>

Hard drive down :(

We may be a little slow in posting for the next few days. Our computer's hard drive crashed on Saturday, so we are sans computer for at least a week.

And don't worry, we didn't lose any data thanks to our handy Windows Home Server that backs up our computer for us.

We'll post as soon as we can :)

My expressive little boy

Yesterday, when I came home from work, one of the first things Raleigh said to me was “Mommy, I put my shirt on all myself.” And of course it was on backwards so I had to take pictures. I asked Raleigh to show me his back…

and his frong….

And then he got camera shy and said, “No, I don’t want a picture.”

And then I tackled him to the ground and tickled him to make him smile and then he still covered his face.

Purple knit outfit by Grandma Deb

Last night we dressed up to go see my BIL playing in his new Jazz band trio at Dunn Bros. Coffee. Yes, you read that correctly, we dressed up to go to a coffee shop. We don’t get out much.

We put Leah in this hand knit sweater dress and booties that her  Grandma Deb made for her. And before we left, we took some snapshots of Josh with the kids and Leah with me. (Raleigh didn’t want to sit for another picture)

Raking leaves

Our neighbors have leaf blowers/vacuums to get their leaves off their grass. We have one rambunctious little kid who likes to jump in the pile and throw leaves out of the pile, and run through the pile.  It’s amazing how quick he was able to destroy a pile that we raked up.  But he had so much fun.

Leah got to watch from her stroller. Not sure why her arms are so tucked in this picture.

  

A few days ago we attempted to take some more Raleigh/Leah pictures. These are the best I got.

Handyman in training

Scene:

Raleigh’s in his bedroom pounding the floor with a toy.

Josh - “Raleigh, that’s not the right way to fix that. It’s out of batteries.”

Raleigh -“I want some batteries.”

Josh - “We don’t have any.”

Raleigh - “I want a screwdriver.”

Josh - “What kind of screwdriver do you want?”

Raleigh - “Um…a green one”

One smart cookie!

She knows where the food that she drops while she’s eating in her high chair goes and the minute that I let her down from her chair, she goes hunting for it.

 

Happy 30th Birthday Josh!

Here’s a football pic of Josh from college. He’s the one in the middle.

Chilly park visit

Last week, we headed to a near by park and we dressed up for the cold weather.

Well, everyone except Josh dressed up for the cold weather. He said he was warm enough when I suggested he put a jacket on.

  

Leah got to swing with both Mom and Dad.

 

 

She rode, all bundled up, in her stroller on the way there and back.

Raleigh actually jumped from the ledge that he’s standing at in the picture below. It was a good 7 feet up. He just landed on his feet and said something like, “Oh, I’m ok, I’m ok”.

One thing that I think will never get old for Raleigh is trying to go up the slide the wrong way.