Vacation Here We Come!

Here are a few reasons why we are so excited to head west tomorrow morning!

These are all pictures from our trip last summer. Can't wait to see what this summer brings!

First Time At The Pool

The Outfit (Thanks Aunt Kara!)

The First Hour

The Friend

Jake and Aubrey Tyrrell were born 4 days apart and are already great buddies!

The Next 10 Minutes

Aubrey likes to give Jake this look whenever he cries. She is slightly amused by him, can you tell?

The Last 2 Hours

I think overall Jake enjoyed himself! He liked the water and enjoyed his time in the shade. Another fish in the making!

Jake is 4 Months Old!

This is one of my favorite things that Jake does! He lays on the floor and whoever puts their face closest, gets grabbed and kissed! So cute. I love it.

He has also started sucking on his toes! The older kids think this is so hilarious. I bought him a little jumper with toys so he could sit up and play. But he is happiest on the floor rolling around and sucking on his toes!

The Answer

While camping over Memorial Day Weekend, we had this great game that involved throwing rope with a golf ball tied to each end at a target. One of the ropes got stuck in a tree and so Aaron and Rob Tyrrell got pretty creative in their attempts to retrieve it. They did finally get it down after all the acrobatic moves! Way to go guys.

Any guesses?

What is your interpretation of this picture?

Too much time in the carseat???

Can you see the imprint, "flo", on the back of Jake's head? This is from his carseat...I have a little bit of mommy guilt over this one. Sorry Jake!

Allowable Speech Impediments

I love how kids turn everyday words into something so much more creative. For example, for years Noah and Grace called breakfast "breafakst." and Noah called fruit snacks "noot nacks". Grace still has a hard time with the word "regular" as she says "reglear." Or a few of my personal favorites "ciderpickle" for motorcycle (nephew Ty) and "schlocate" for chocolate (niece Olivia).
Lucy has recently added to this fun list as she calls an elevator "the alligator". But today's speech impediment may be the best yet! Here is how the conversation went:

Lucy: Mom, will you hand me the hannah montizer?
Me: The what??
Lucy: The hannah montizer!
Me: The what???
Lucy: THE HANNAH MONTIZER!
Me: I don't know what that is.
Lucy: You know, the stuff to clean your hands?!?!
Me: Oh! The hand sanitizer?
Lucy: Yeah! The hannah montizer.

Love it. I have banned Noah and Grace from telling her the real word. From now on at our house hand sanitizer will be referred to as hannah montizer.