Girls

Mikelle makes me laugh all the time. She has the attitude and emotions of a teenager; which makes me wonder if I'm getting a glimpse of what she will be like, or if it will be much worse. This morning I had several errands to run, so I told the kids we needed to start getting ready. Mikelle usually likes to pick out her own clothes; in fact, I am only allowed to pick out her clothes on Sunday because I told her she has to at least match for church. I asked her if she wanted me to get an outfit out for her and she said she wanted to pick it out and went into her closet. I then got myself ready, changed and feed Jonah and Tyrel, got them both dressed, got the diaper bag ready, got all the lists and papers ready for our errands, got all the shoes and sippy cups, and told Mikelle to come out and get her shoes on. All this took about 30 minutes. She came out of her room and was STILL in her pajamas. She proudly said "Mom, I picked out what I wanted to wear, but I'm still deciding on what underwear. Do you think I should wear Fancy Nancy or Tinkerbell?" What a funny girl. It takes her this long to make clothes decisions.

One more thing.

Mikelle told me she was hungry so I said "What do you want to eat, some vegetables?" (sort of joking) and she laughed at me and said "oh mom, vegetables, of course not."

4th of July Weekend

Mikelle

Jonah

Tyrel - his first 4th of July

On July 3rd, we had a huge pancake breakfast, here is Mikelle and I in the kitchen getting everything ready.

Eating pancakes on the deck

Tyrel LOVES playing out there

Sal, Sam, and Matt going on a scooter ride

The kids running up and down the sidewalk

going "fishing" in the muddy water

some quiet time

Then sparklers!

Tyrel's first sparkler!

Boston and Mikelle making "O's"

Then on July 4th, after church, nap time

Then we headed over to the Gamez's house for a BBQ, ice cream, and fireworks.

The cute Gamez girls

throwing the poppy things

The kids LOVED the fireworks. It was pretty nice for most of the fireworks, then it started pouring rain. We still got all the fireworks to light except one. Then we went inside and played games for awhile. The kids had a blast staying up SO late.

Other random pictures

Mikelle with her award ribbon from her coloring contest

Tyrel, you can see his fingers look a lot better in this picture

just because...

A new blog post, just because.....

....Tyrel can stand now!

...Tyrel managed to get his cast off so we took him to the surgeon's office and she said that his fingers looked great and he could keep his cast off. ONE WEEK EARLY!

...he loves having his cast off.

...Tyrel has a new front tooth coming in.

...I know Jonah will LOVE these pictures when he is older.

...there's a new "game" at our house, climb through the kitchen.

9 months/10 months & other stuff

I never did Tyrel's 9 month update. Things have been a little busy. I have been to doctors/hospitals 5 times this month and already have 4 visits scheduled for next month (not me, for kid stuff). Here are some 9 month pictures of Tyrel:

Today, Tyrel officially is 10 months old. I can't believe how fast it has gone by. He is just an awesome little guy. He is starting to try and stand all by himself and he can do it for about 1 second. He loves Mickey Mouse clubhouse (which is very convenient for those days he wakes up at 5 am), he LOVES to eat (as you can probably guess), and he eats all big people food, he won't eat baby food anymore. His favorites are noodles/pasta stuff, soup and really I guess he eats everything...he is not picky; which is a really nice change from the other kids. He loves going on walks and watching the other kids; they can really get him laughing. He loves bath time and being held. I've noticed since his cast has been on, that he has been a little more clingy and wanting to be held. We went to the park yesterday and he was crawling on the grass and he got about 15 feet away and was playing by Mikelle and Jonah, then all the sudden he looked around and starting crying...I guess he hadn't seen me for a couple minutes and got worried. He is quite the momma's boy and I love it. He is getting on a pretty good schedule, but I could definitely have him sleep a little better through the night...and in his crib. Anyway, here is Tyrel at 10 months.

Here are random other pictures from recently. Mikelle and Jonah were watching The Grinch and apparently it was a little too scary. I looked over and saw Jonah covering his eyes (somewhat) as you can see he is still watching.

Tyrel and Grandma

Daddy and the kids

Strawberry pina coladas with Aunt Chuls...yum!

fun on the air mattress

sleeping under a tree

This picture is from my brother, Mike, mission president's blog. Mike (or Elder Stewart) is second in on the top left.

Here is a picture I took at the surgeon's office with my cell phone. Tyrel's fingers are still quite swollen as you can see. The black is where the stitches are.

Tyrel with his new cast on. It is smaller than his first one.

You can tell it is a lot smaller than the first one in this picture.