Summer 2013 Fun!

Some of these pics go all the way back to May 2013 . . . but they are SOOO worth it. :) Love making memories with this family! :)

BGA - watching a movie on the plane - it's not a transatlantic flight any more boys!

Aunt Pam reads to AGB

Gavin gets "tossed" by dad!

Then Aidan!

Aidan was a little bit of a dare devil . . .

AAAAANNNND we called Gavin . . ..

. .  . SUPERSOAKER! Any questions as to why???

mmmmmmm . . . pizza. G just too tired from swimming to sit up while eating :)

A&G were jumping buddies

Aidan, moments after he saw me do a cannon ball!

Brady made his big jump! He looks like a frog!

Gavin using the outdoor potty. :)

Aidan LOVED Sadie.

Well, they all did, in truth. HOw can you not?! ABG

Watermelon at new friend Jude's 6th bday! BAG

Aunt Pam's errand car is DIRTY! BAG

Grandma V taking the boys on a scavenger hunt for shells GBA

Brady fits PERFECTLY!

We will MISS YOU grandma and grandpa V! BAG

Last day of preschool at Grant Wood - they picked their shirts themselves! BGA

A&B snuggle

ABG on their way to learn to ride bikes! We love our y-bikes!

We are PEDDLE BIKE RIDERS! BAG

Three Monkey's in our Tree (GAB)

Where Curt found Gavin after nap one day :) So sweet. He can't fit under his bed any more :(

Ostrich eggs at Blank park zoo (ABG)

A&G on the train ride!

Brady and Grandma K!

Yup. that's about what it felt like being pregnant with all three the last few weeks. . . AGB

Here we come Canada!

Toronto Blue Jays are . . . ICE CREAM! G

Check out the killer face paint! It was what we needed to keep them occupied . ..  Aidan

Brady shows off his cute cheek with mom!

Aidan and dad take in the game!

We ran the bases on the field! GBA with Williams' boys (tyler, reid, graham)

Gavin wanted to have his picture taken in this VERY BADLY.

A REAL TRAIN?!?!?!?! in downtown Toronto

All mesmerized by a movie (GGATB)

On our way home - Lake Michigan inSt. Joseph's. Yes, the water was COLD! ABG

The dunes of lake michigan BAG

Me and B and an old carousel in St. Joe's

Dad and G take a spin

Our very own super heroes - G

Even Brady wasn't quite tall enough for it

Aidan hanging on for dear life

a CORN DOG! BGA

making the climb in St. Joe's BAG

Aidan chills for dinner

Gavin likes wearing dad's sunglasses

I think we told them to make their mean faces BAG

Exploring Chicago - at the Bean ABG

They loved it! GBA

nothing is as fun as watching a cartoon upside down

A & Dad have a moment

Running the lines at Millennium Park (G&B)

I love how they are facing opposite directions in this one . .. 

ABG

Playing in the Crown Fountain - Gavin was an animal in that COLD water!

It's always more fun to splash dad - AGB

Check out the fountain - it is spitting! BGA Gorgeous day in Chicago

That is one LOUD train! mom and BGA

Slabas helps people get ready for bed! GAB

Baby Marcus! and Gavin's sad face (sigh) GBA

Child Insults and Other Hilarities

So while we try to make sure the boys all have their own water before we go anywhere, sometimes it escapes us. and them. so of course, sharing is caring blahblahblah . ..  One day when we were coming back from who knows where and the boys did not have their own water, but had decided to drink out of MY water bottle I had asked them to pass around and share. At one point Brady tries to drink out of it, looks over at Aidan and says, "REALLY, Aidan?" with THE. MOST. DISGUSTED. look on his face. Aidan had, of course, drunk all of the water in the bottle. I was dying.

Not too long after this, Aidan goes into the bathroom and yells, "Gavin, do you want to come and share the toilet with us?" I hear this and am immediately alarmed. Gavin (who normally prefers to sit when doing ANY kind of business) RUSHES into the bathroom. I peek in to see A&B standing next to the open toilet, peeing away. Next I hear: Aidan: "REALLY GAVIN? Did you REALLY just pee on my hand? REALLY Gavin! And all over the toilet! Now I'm going to have to clean it up!"  Again, dying. The good news is, Aidan REALLY did clean it up, though from my perch, Gavin probably should have been the cleaner since he was the "miss-er". I'm thinking we must say "REALLY?" a lot . . .

So not too long after that Larry had come into town to help out with our menagerie of house items we need to do but can't seem to 1) find the time 2) the intestinal fortitude or 3) the ability to complete. The boys had been trying to hang out with Curt and Larry in the basement, to get them to watch them do (whatever), to "help". And by help, i mean pick up some random tool and swing it around/hit someone with it/nearly impale themselves with it. Finally, Curt had had enough. I am in the kitchen and I hear him say, "THAT'S IT! Up stairs. All of you. NOW." So all three come trouping upstairs. ON the stairs I hear Gavin say clear as day, "(uugggh!) I'm TIRED of those guys!" Awesome.:)

Now, since my last post I have been a VERY bad blogger. But it has been summer, and I started a new job (which is GREAT, BTW), we have done some traveling and just enjoying being together. I am getting back on the horse though - we have lots of fun, funny and oh-my-lord-did-he-just-do-that? moment to remember! More pics to come . . .

BGA on a "Corn dog" in St. Joseph's, MI on our way back from Canada

First Bike Riding - this is so overdue . . .

I have been meaning to get these up here FOREVER. . . the boys learned to ride their bikes Memorial Day Weekend (last weekend in May 2013) . . . And they were SOOOO cute about riding their bikes then . .now they are MACHINES!

ABG - on their y-bikes on the way to learn how to ride pedal bikes!

We are PEDAL BIKE RIDERS! (BAG)