Overdue pictures

Brodey, deep in thought..

Whenever a camera is pulled out, little Lyla turns into a little ham. She struck all these poses on her own...

I think she may have learned this trick from this little ham...

Gross

All three of our children where in the bathroom giggling this morning. Obviously I was alarmed when I heard all the giggling so I ran in there to find Brodey and Brock BOTH peeing in the toilet (yes, at the same time) and Lyla... poor Lyla... WASHING HER HANDS in the "stream". Why do they think this is funny?????

11 Months!

I've not been a very good blogger latley. Summer is so busy! (or is it the 3 small kids??) Anyhow... Lyla is now 11 months old. I've taken many pictures but the camera is upstairs and I'm afraid if I leave the computer to go get it I will AGAIN forget what I was doing and it will be another week before I write this post. Pictures soon... I hope.
Lyla is growing so fast. She can now pull up to her feet and tries taking steps when you hold her hands. Her steps are very un-graceful and hilarious. We love it! She continues to only have 2 teeth... so weird. The boys both had 8-10 by this time. We of course love her toothless grin and she is having no trouble eating with them so everyone is happy! Oh and she loves having those two teeth brushed. Cute.
She loves playing with the boys and NO ONE can make her laugh harder than Brodey. He is such a good big brother.
Anyhow..... she has a birthday coming up! We are not doing a party... we haven't really with any of them... but we will DEFINITELY celebrate our sweet little Lyla!

Update on Brodey's swimming...

Brodey has improved SO MUCH this summer! I can't believe that it was only a few months ago we had to beg him to jump off the side of the pool with his life jacket on AND NOW he's jumping off the diving board and swimming to the side all by himself!!! With no life jacket!! We are so proud. He can also tread water and swim with his head up almost all the way across the pool. He has been so brave and has improved so much.... such a little fish!

Sorry for no picture.... I always forget my camera!

Just some silly things....

Jeff wouldn't share his chips with Brodey the other day so Brodey stomped his foot, gave Jeff and ugly look and said: "FINE. You stinky spank face!" We generally try to discourage name calling.... but some things are just too funny to not laugh at.

Yesterday I was outside with Brodey pulling weeds and it was REALLY hot. He ran inside for something and came back a few minutes later with a glass of water for me. He's such a sweet boy! And so proud of himself... wish I would have taken a picture of how cute he was holding the glass out to me. (he can't reach the cabinet we keep glasses in so he grabbed a dirty glass out of the dishwasher and filled it with water from the bathroom sink. No worries... I didn't let him know how gross I thought that was and drank the whole glass with a smile.) :)

Brock is officially over this monkey shirt phase. He now likes to wear 5-6 shirts at a time. And when he gets hot he takes them off one by one and leaves them around the house. Oh how I miss the monkey shirt phase.

Last T-ball practice

The boys had their last TBall practice of the season last night. Cooper and Brodey did great and seemed to have fun. Here they are playing catch before their coaches arrived.

During practice Lyla showed us her newest skill... pulling up to standing ALL BY HERSELF. She is also officially doing a "real" crawl... no more army crawl.
And Brock. Well... watch the video... (he dressed himself in the random 80's attire)

No children in this post

This past weekend Jeff and I headed to Reynolds Plantation with some really good friends to celebrate our friend Andy's birthday. WITHOUT KIDS! It was fantastic. I am a huge fan of Andy's birthday!! We stayed at the Ritz and us girls were able to take FULL advantage of the Spa while the guys played golf.

This is a picture of the pool looking out over the lake... it was so beautiful.