My Failed Attempt at 6-Month Pictures

I tried to do our own 6-month pictures for Elias. It didn't go horribly but I wouldn't say it went well. These are the best shots (or at least funniest ones) of the bunch."Rocking" out.
Tasting.
This is actually part of a 3-part series. Elias tastes the ball.I don't think it tastes very good. Bleck!
Strike that: it tastes horrible!!If the lighting were better, this would be one of my favorite pictures. They are all genuinely smiling. Awesome!

And just for good measure, here's a video of Elias hiccuping and jumping in his jumper. Enjoy!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was fun (at times) this year. I had a wonderful breakfast of Trix and some beautiful flowers to look at.
Here is a closer look at the flowers the kids picked for me. I know I shouldn't encourage them to pick flowers from campus but they were so proud of themselves (and the flowers were so pretty). It was super sweet.
The rest of the day was a mixed bag. We had a wonderful picnic on campus. We picked up some Chipotle and enjoyed the gorgeous weather. The kids did fairly well and the meal was enjoyable to all. The rest of the day was tempered by tantrums and fits. I think I'll choose to just remember the peace and comfort of the picnic and block all the rest out. See, blocked. Perfect day.

SOUNDGARDEN!

July 16, 2011

7:30PM

UIC Pavilion, Chicago

Be there, We will.

Similarities

Elias is getting around lately. It's slow but he can get where he wants to go. The original intent of this video was to illustrate that fact. Instead I ended up with another "Wild Kingdom" video, much like the ones I got for both Asher and Addilyn. Observe.

Here's one of Asher from January of 2010.

And this last one is of Addilyn from January of 2008.
Enjoy!

Easter Fun

Time to decorate Easter eggs!!
Start with some drawing.
Then jump to the dunking/dyeing. Go, girls, go!
Eggs.
All the Easter eggs.
Daddy hid them all.
Where did they go?
Ooo...found one!
Here you go, Daddy.
There's another.
And another.
We found them all!
On an semi-related note, we celebrated Easter with the Habluetzel's and another couple. We had a potluck, of sorts. This is the smoked chicken we contributed. Doesn't it look pretty? Well done, Tyler.

Odds and Ends

This is Asher's dream. He has access to food whenever he wants but he isn't tied down to a chair. He worked this system up himself and I think we'll have to watch him closely so that he doesn't do it again. Stinker.
Addilyn and Asher enjoying a book together.
There's a story that goes with this but unfortunately I only know a little of it since I was out of the house when this happened. I know that they were swaddled and couldn't get out (and didn't seem too upset about that).
This is what I found when I got home. They are watching Sesame Street while all swaddled. They stayed that way for almost a half and hour. Crazies.
Grandpa and Grandma B brought Addilyn a tutu when they visited last month. It goes with almost anything.
This is the outfit that it was originally intended to go with. She's dancing with her camera.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on in this picture but it makes me happy.
It's official...none of my children like peas. We even tried them first with Elias and he still didn't like them. Neither Tyler or I really like peas so I guess it makes sense.
They were feeding each other cereal. Addilyn would feed him some from his pile and then Asher would feed her some from her's. It was pretty cute.
She has special powers when it comes to Asher. She can get him to eat when we can't (some of the time at least). She can also teach him words when he won't even try with us.
The End.

First Feeding

Elias had his first solid food recently. Actually it was on Asher's birthday. He did really well...much better than his brother and sister did on their first tries.
First taste.
"Hey, let me try that."
Success. Well done, little one.

A video of the first few bites. Enjoy!