O.L.P. and more

Good week so far.

Swingin' with cousins and Granny, 

who made our week by coming down on a WEEKDAY!

Daniel is wary.

And, Alistair got his Own Little Potty!

It's just hangin' out in the blue bathroom.

Hi, O.L.P.

We love spring in Minnesota.

Seriously?

Sunny Day

Pretty nice around here today!

Mini-, er, Bautista.

Looks like he'll bat right.

Playtime with Jack!

These two play like crazy, resulting in a 4 hr nap.

Tubby buddies

Favorite Things

Mother's Day

We look forward to it ALL year - 

the buffet at the MARSH.

This year was especially exciting because it was
Daniel's first trip to the Marsh, and because Auntie Amy came,
even though she'll have a new baby on Tuesday!

Attempt at photo of the 4 big kids:

Charley, Annie, Alistair, and Grace 

Cousins!

Flashback to Al's first brunch at the Marsh, when he was 6 days old.

Attempt at Family Photo - oops! 

We have so few pics of the boys together - they're hard to catch.

Granny and Danny

This is how we roll - in the car southbound

Finally! A little spring in Minnesota.

TWO and Drummin'

Alistair is two!

A big week here, including a return to school, a birthday, crazy playtimes with buddies Jack and the Coylewrights, a no-hitter, and a drum session at the library. Whew!  

Al is a trooper and seems really happy to be back with buddies at school, and Daniel is doing great hangin' with the infants.

Our proud 2 yr old shows Dada how to put together the trike...

Then offers to help.

Pics of riding with yellow bug helmet coming soon...

Saturday morning World Drum concert at the library -

Alistair was completely entranced.

Taking a lesson from the 4th-grade drum team. 

This was a GREAT event.

Chubby

One more pic from yesterday...

We think this captures Daniel pretty well.

As of last week, he weighed 14.92 lbs.

That's right, readers, he has doubled in weight in 12 weeks!

Handsome and Talented

Killer good looks

Mad horsemanship skills

Look out, world!

Alistair in favorite racecar PJs

 and Mama's garden boots - sweet.

And, just so no one thinks it's a blast here ALL the time...

Visit from McKies + Funny Faces

The McKies visited!

Al gave them some new names:

Poppa (as opposed to Boppa, other Grandpa) and Mimi.

We had a great time with them, and were having too much fun to take many pics.

These are from Dada's iPhone

Making a silly face

And, did we mention that Daniel is a GREAT smiler?

We even think he's given a few laughs this week.

And still lookin' like Dada.