Blog Babies

The 4th of July with the Gettings

You talkin’ to me?

Little Cinderella

DCC picnic

Bath-time fun

Messy boy

Swimming with friends

Alice’s secret hiding place

Sweet Matoes family time

Fun at “Donalds”

(A note from Mommy: We decided we need more room now that there are going to be 5 in our family, so we are getting our house ready to put on the market. Bye bye 2 bedrooms, hello more space.)

New clothes.

My own park.

Fun with adding machine tape.

Stacey’s 30th Birthday.

Fun at Dinner.

Daddy made chocolate sauce.

My knitting “pat-rens” (any paper that has writing on it are my patterns, serious business).

We discovered that my little princess doll’s pants make a wistle and the rest look best standing up in straight lines.

Fun with packing paper.

Cyrano’s best friend.

Liam’s 1st Birthday Party.

(A note from Mommy: OK I feel like I’ve been such a slacker since there were no posts between April and when Amelia was born! I hope to keep things a little more updated now.)

Post by Liam:

1. Alice spent the night at Gram and Poppy’s and wore chopsticks in her hair.

2. Gram, Stacey, Grandma Sue and Mommy taught knitting at MOPS.

3. I took a bath and was so cute.

4. Nanny and Grandpa Tom sent a gift basket and Alice helped open it.

5. I fell asleep in the car and we went to “sweet matoes.”

6. Alice got a towel on her head like Mommy.

7. We went to the zoo with friends.

8. I like playing with toys in the bucket.

9. I can also scoot really fast with Alice!

10. Gram showed Alice a bracelet with animals on it.

11. I learned how to crawl up the stairs.

12. We fed some ducks on a walk with Mommy and Gram.

13. Alice was really diggin’ the end of a jar of Nutella.

14. We planted new flowers outside our house. Alice wanted to plant a peanut butter and jelly tree.

15. Mommy and Daddy went to Alice’s school for parent’s day.

15 1/2. Alice and Daddy danced with the stars!

16. We celebrated Mother’s day in the park.

17. Alice had field day at school

18. Alice played outside in the sand and found some candy in the pantry at Gram’s house.

19. We drove a long, long way in the car and got to eat junk food. Mommy said she never would have let Alice do that when she wasn’t even 1 yet.

20. We got to see Alyssa and Alex in Kansas City and had fun playing with them.

21. Aunt Stacey came with us too and we got to hang out with her and play.

22. We went to MO and got to see Nanny and Grandpa Tom.

23. We went back to Kansas City and played some more with Alyssa and Alex.

24. We went to the children’s museum.

25. We went to the homestead farm.

26. Alice and Alyssa went swimming in a freezing cold little pool.

27. I joined in the fun.

Then we went home in the car a long, long way again. We had fun and that brings us to the end of May.

Mommy and Daddy brought home a new baby sister for me. She isn’t much fun. She won’t wrestle with me like Alice. The other day she was lying on the floor so I thought I might share some of my toys with her.

She didn’t seem too interested in any of them so I tried to put them in her hand to show her how fun they are. She wouldn’t even hold any of them. Mommy and Daddy say I have to wait until she get older to play with her. In the meantime I will just borrow her toys when she isn’t using them.

Mommy, Daddy, Stacey, Gram, Nanny, Uncle Ryan and his friend Andrea, and Grandma Sue have been working hard knitting mitered squares for my baby brother Liam’s blankie. They are almost done with all the squares. When Mommy was home with me last week we laid all the squares out on the table in little piles to see what they look like.

Then we laid out the almost 80 little squares on the table to see what the blanket will look like when Mommy sews it all together. You can see Cyrano laying in the sun. I love to pet Cyrano and give him hugs and kisses, even though he doesn’t really love it as much as I do.

Here is a close-up of the squares. This blanket is going to be so cute and cozy for Liam.

Later that day, after my nap, I got to play in my new pool. Its a “little one.” The water in it was still cold, so I didn’t really get a chance to sit in it and play, but I had fun anyway. I got to wear my new swimming suit and dip the little elephant watering can into the pool to water the patio.

Even though I kept saying, “Ooh, cold,” I didn’t want to come inside when it was time. I love to “play it!”