First Camping "Trip"

Richard took Brooks "camping" last weekend in the backyard - so cute.  First, Brooks said that it was too dark and that he "wanted to go camping when the sun comes up."  Then he got a flashlight and loved his big sleeping bag.  I thought they would make it about an hour before coming inside, but they made it almost the whole night.  When I asked Brooks the next day why they came inside at 5am, he said, "because daddy kept seeing my eyes."  love it!

the first of many camping trips to come...

8 months

happy 2/3 birthday to baby kate last week.  she is getting so big and so cute!

highlights from the last month:

• kate weighs about 18 pounds and still has all the chub you could dream of!
• she got her first two bottom teeth. 
• we took our first trip as a family of four to dallas and loved seeing family and friends.
• while in dallas, kate got her first virus (roseola) and had a fever followed by a rash the whole time we were there.
• kate is adding new foods to her diet all the time but still loves sweet stuff the best and can't get enough mum mums!
• she is "talking" all the time and brooks says that she is saying "da da" - lucky for richard.
• kate spent her first extended time in the nursery at church away from mom during our first MOPS meeting of the year.  while she didn't nap like at home, she did find a sweet woman to rock her for two hours!

end of summer

just a few pics of our end of summer days.  brooks started his 2 day a week parents day out last week and also enjoyed doing some painting at home.  he is really into airplanes right now and we painted some foam ones together.  kate just hangs out happily while her big brother is so active!