What's happening everybody?! Katelyn and Kairi are here to say enjoy this update! I've been wanting to update the blog for a very very long time now and boy howdy it gets hard to get around to stuff like that these days. Well here it is folks! (p.s. we have some videos coming your way too.)
As an anniversary gift I got a new camera, one that has sound to the video! My other one was a little old fashioned, but Wesley still likes to play with it. Here is Wesley looking through the hole of a tunnel as I played around with my new camera.
I was trying to get a shot were Wesley's feet were popping out at the screen but you could still see his face. Oh well. This was my closest attempt.
We went on a walk to see Lake Mendota. Amy took some pictures of ducks, I got some of us. Here is one where Wesley is throwing rocks into the water. Don't worry Von the world now knows you were there too.
Here is Wesley sitting in front of the lake and making a face.
This picture I was very excited about and got sad when it got lost sometime when Wesley pounded on the keyboard. The kids and I were just sitting around the apartment like we do from time to time and it started raining. Then it started hailing! I had to show off my penny sized hail.
But wait, it got even bigger! Wesley had fun collecting the "ice" off the balcony and watching it melt inside. He kept asking to find more of it the next two days after that, and I had to tell him that it wasn't raining or hailing so no ice would appear. We all thought it was pretty cool.
Another cool thing is us starting our very first garden! We got a plot of land behind Epic this year and are growing peas, carrots and garden beans. It's been quite the challenge to find time to get out and water the place at least once a week, so I hope things will grow and not die in this heat.
Wesley had the most fun trying to push the wheelbarrow. He liked the hose too as long as it wasn't getting him wet. :)
Hey keep those heads up! Here we have Kairi and Katelyn entertaining each other while doing some exercise. They're personalities are really starting to come through these days. Kairi wants to stand and walk already and get into everything and see everyone. Katelyn would much rather learn to sit up on her own and observe all the commotion. They both LOVE to smile and chat away.
The first birthday we had over here was Amy's. She is now somewhere between the ages of 18 and 25. I got her this umbrella and the rose.
Next we had my birthday! Who ever said I could turn older? I love this shot Amy got because it shows how typical a day is. We'll have Wesley into stuff while the twins take turns sitting and standing and then whining. Those kiddos know how to keep you busy.
As part of my birthday presents Chris got me a box of hair dye. We had talked about it a little before, but then I forgot and once I had the box, well there was no turning back. I must admit that we are novices at dying hair and so redid this three times before we actually figured it out correctly. I still think we missed a few spots, but oh well. Lucky for me Chris did not decide that I should become a green head. Just a red head. It took a little while to get used to it, but now I like it, and the color is still close to my original color so there was nothing for me to freak out about.
See I told you that the kids can't sit still. This little one wanted out of the activity center to get a closer look at...my new shirt! It's a delorean and a tardis crashing into each other. Really it just came out of nowhere!
Here is a view of my birthday dinner that I requested. I wanted sub sandwiches, and chips and also received jello and strawberry lemonade. I had other presents too that I got and I like them all. Thanks people!
Some recent Saturday we took a trip to the splash pad and also ended up going to Mendota, but the other side of it. Wesley was being a goof and not wanting to get wet.
We tried to encourage him with peer pressure. Just kidding. We were just letting his sisters get their feet wet. They didn't like it either.
Wesley found some fun making his first sand castle. We had to recreate it for this shot, because he also had fun squishing it.
Next up we had Wesley's birthday. The big boy has turned 2! As part of this we decided to get him a toddler bed. Now we can steal, um use, his crib for his sisters who are starting to roll and kick each other at night. They haven't woken each other up with this just yet, but they will any night now.
The first night in Wesley's new bed he did really really well. He just went onto the bed and went to sleep. In the morning he did fall out of bed when he woke up. He has only fallen out of bed once more since then, but he was able to go back to sleep when I told him it was still night time.
As part of Wesley's birthday we went to Milwaukee. First we went to a Discovery Museum and then to the children's museum. This picture is from the latter where Kate enjoyed playing with a three headed dragon puppet. The sign was saying how play acting was good for kids and that you should try telling some jokes. I came up with this one: What did one dragon head say to the other? You're drag-on me down! At least Kate liked it.
This was one of Wesley's favorite parts from the Discovery Museum. We got to learn how Milwaukee got it's water for it's public water fountains and other drinking water things. As you can tell playing in the water is a big hit with kids.
Here is Chris as he rides in a hamster machine where he was trying to turn on the lights above his head. That thing was stiffer than you would think. We both only just got a small glow.
Wesley had fun looking at himself in the mirrors on the wall.
He also likes cars, trains, trucks, things that move. This steering wheel of a life size model ship was quite the attraction for him.
This is a random thing where you lay down and they raise pokey nails up from under you. They left some prick marks on Chris for a little while. I chickened out from trying it.
Here is a picture of the aquarium inside the museum. I liked that you also got to walk above the fish so you could look down on them.
Oh look, some proof that make use of our twin stroller.
Jellyfish! I love jellyfish ever since I saw a ton of them at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium in CA.
We got a ghost in the picture isn't it awesome! Well the fish tunnel was awesome. They swam under and over and beside us at the same time!
At the Children's Museum we told Wesley that he would see a train. As soon as he spotted it before we had even paid he shouted, "There it is! I see it! A green train!" Oh yes, he speaks in sentences now.
Here he got to push a small wheelbarrow just his size.
We got to play in a pre-walking area. Kairi loved the spot for her.
The green thing is a twisty ramp that Wesley had fun putting balls down.
He had a fish theme birthday so we had fish cup cakes. They turned out very well.
We even decided to borrow a good idea. :)
Here are some random pictures that we took. This one if from a park that we just happened to discover on a walk close to the Zoo.
Oh and Wesley is so talented that he can walk on the ceiling.
This shows some personalities. Yup. Kairi wants to be in front to see what the camera is. Kate just smiles at her mostly, and Wesley well he drinks from this sippy cup!
Whew, almost done. Here is family photo for all of you to enjoy. Our next update we are hoping to put up the videos that we took. It's hard to do so when our internet is way slow at night, but they are coming, and there are some good ones!
As Wesley now says at parting with a wave, "later!"
