Clowning Around

Tristan gives new meaning to the term "neighborhood watch". He was fascinated with the neighbor mowing his grass. The boys also love to try to walk around in mine or Don's shoes. Tristan at my laptop lasted for about a whole 2 seconds but I thought it was cute. You can see from his face that he knows he's into something he shouldn't be into.

Reading and Playing with Dad

Both boys like to read and look at books. Tristan is becoming more interested in books now than he has in the past. I think it's because over the past 1-2 months, he's started saying more words and so he's interested in books as it helps him learn words.

I think he was about 16 and 1/2 months when he got his first haircut. The above pictures are pre-haircut when his hair on top was getting pretty long and wild (although kinda fun to watch when he would run or play).

Bike Riding in Cooler Weather

Wow, it seems so long ago that we had to dress them that warm to go outside. This would have been in the winter, soon after we moved to Pleasant Hill in December 2011. Cold weather would be a welcome change now that we are enduring a super hot summer of many days of 100+ degree weather with no rain!

Tiny Tots Basketball

We got Jordon into Tiny Tots basketball this year, which was in Feb-March. He enjoyed learning about basketball (although not a big fan of the defensive slide). He learned how to dribble and a little bit about shooting. I think many of the kids enjoyed the running drill at the end the best. Jordon got a T-shirt and a medal for participating. Tristan was a handful in the bleachers, as he didn't have much interest in watching brother, but wanted to go up and down the steps each time we were there.

Playing Around

Here we are playing with Remote Control Mater (thanks Uncle Jon), playing with money from our piggy banks from Grandpa Don and Joyce, and hanging out with cousin Karli. All is fun playing with the piggy banks until Tristan tries to eat the money. The shot of Jordon and I is after eating blueberries.

Updates since Winter

It's been a long time since I posted much, and I don't think we've posted any new pictures this year! It's been a very busy time at our place. Don's work schedule now is all over the place, and mostly evenings, so that leaves me with single parent duties usually 5 nights a week, including both weekend days from 2:30 pm on. So it has been very busy just taking care of the boys and trying to keep up with work duties and household chores. Anyway, here I am at the last day of vacation this week, hoping to get pictures and a few updates posted. I'll be going back to around Jan. this year or so with some of the pictures. Hopefully next time we won't have such a long space in between postings, but who knows? That's life I guess with 2 very active young boys!

Sweet Jordon

I was lying next to Jordon one night after reading books and he said "Mamo, I love you." Of course, my response was "I love you too Buddy". Then he waited a few minutes and said "Mamo, I love you soooo much".

Yesterday we were outside and he found some small purple flowers under the stairs to the deck, and he gave me one. He ended up giving me several more since Tristan took the first one, one blew away, etc. Later that evening during their baths he said "I showed you I love you when I gave you that flower". And then he went on to say, "I'm gonna give you a whole bunch of flowers". How sweet is that??