Family Fun

Patrick and Jackson are growing, growing. Both are talking quite a bit and smiling all the time. Patrick has even begun to giggle a little. We always try to get them to interact with each other, but they are far more interested in looking at adult faces! At three and a half months, we haven't gotten much more than 4 1/2 hours of sleep at a time out of them. All of their friends who are about the same age (Grady, Carson, Jack and Karly) are sleeping quite a bit longer. We remind the boys of their friend's sleeping habits, but this hasn't seemed to help! Nor has pleading with them....

Dominic is becoming more and more helpful every day. He often asks to "hol' one, hol' one." Of course, he loses interest in them in about 15 seconds.

Here Dominic is playing one of his favorite games--"Nigh, nigh" He tugs on Mom and dad to get them to lay on the floor next to him with lots of pillows and blankets and pretend to snore.


Here we are trying to get them to talk to each other a bit--to no avail. If you look carefully, you can see a bit of a scar on Patrick's head (he's the one on the right). When a few of our friends were talking to Patrick, Dominic got protective and covered Patrick's face. Unfortunately, he was a little over zealous and scratched Patrick's forehead.

Luke and my neice recently turned 1. We were able to spend a lot of time outdoors celebrating her birthday. Dad enjoyed holding Patrick while he slept.

This is our neice, Jessica. In a few years all the kids will love playing together.

Dominic ran around the yard with this flower for a while. He LOVES being outside--no matter cold, hot, sunny, or rainy!

I could never get Dominic and Jessica to sit still long enough to take a picture together. This was the closest I could get! Neither know how to share, yet, so it was entertaining to watch them push each other away from toys or take toys out of each other's hands.