Happy Father's Day!

Patience, kindness, a sense of humor, flexibility, and most of all love make John a great dad. He is also fanatically organized and completely reliable - our kids will always be able to count on him. I am so proud of him and the relationship our kids have with him. Our kids are so lucky! We love you Daddy!

We were fortunate to be able to travel to Minnesota for a week long family-cation, so we got to celebrate Father's Day with two of the best Grandpa's also!

On Father's Day, I tried to let John sleep in. However, Amelia had other plans and John ended up getting up with William. I was able to send him back to bed for a short while...but not what I had planned! Sorry Daddy! We were able to keep the ruckus contained enough to not wake Grandpa too early...
Giving Daddy his card. William and Mama made some special home made cards together. William is starting to be interested in actually coloring and making pictures with crayons instead of dumping them out and driving cars over them.
Giving Grandpa his card
Grandpa and his grandkids

Daddy and his kiddos. Please note that my parents are doing some major renovation and the wall behind John does not always appear this way. Not to worry, both Amelia and William managed to get their days old new carpet dirty within the first 24 hours of our visit. Amelia with her prolific spit and William with chocolate from birthday cake. We are great visitors!

We took Grandpa Heidt to the park and then out to lunch to celebrate
Daddy and his big boy
It also happened to be Great Grandpa Budd's birthday, Aunt Kaye's birthday, and [close] to Daddy's birthday. So, we had a special dinner and presents! William loves presents! And birthday cake!
William is wearing the Big Brother shirt, Amelia is sporting her little sister shirt!
Little sister onesie - a big thanks to John's cousin for this one!
Aunt Kaye doing a birthday dance with Amelia
Reading the card with some help
Daddy opening his presents with some help

Daddy admiring his gift while William tries to figure out how to RainX his eyes.

Sleeping with Mama

Sometimes you just to crash for a few minutes....

Even if there is chaos all around!

11 Weeks +One Day

Mama has been falling down on the job the last few weeks in getting pictures taken of Amelia. But this week she was determined to get the job done. She took over 300 pictures of Amelia and they were perfect and beautiful....but there wasn't a card in the camera so we can't share any of those with you. And she didn't figure this out until after everyone was in bed. Mama is still heartbroken over the lost pictures - but she did her best to redo her shoot with Ms Mia. As always, there would be some stellar shots here if I had the time/energy/patience for editing. But, I don't. Maybe in another 20 years.

Note that I had to correct her age sign with the +1 day at the bottom corner.

At the end, William woke up from his nap, so we got some pictures of the two of them too...

Mama's boys

And finally, look what Amelia started doing the day she turned 11 weeks old!

New Tricks over the Weekend

We're all working hard around here to learn new things. Mama is working on running a house with two kids, Daddy is working on getting to bed earlier, William is working on learning to pedal the trike, and Amelia is learning how much fun hands can be.

Look! Hands can grab things that you can put in your mouth! Although I'm not very happy when I pull things over my eyes!
She almost always has one hand pulling on her clothes.

When I put her down, she was in the middle of the play mat...what happened?

Rolling to the side is lots of fun! I don't think it will be long before she can roll from back to front.

She is really pushing up during tummy time now! It seems like overnight she has gone from laying on her belly and just hanging out to this! Amazing!

William and Amelia do tummy time together! Whenever William sees Amelia on her tummy, he usually drops what he is doing and comes running to join her in some belly fun.

Amelia is working working working at figuring out those hands. She alternates eating them and grabbing her clothing. In the video she also demonstrates one of my favorite things: smiling with her whole body!

He hasn't had any practice this spring with Amelia's arrival. He has been working SO hard the last week at figuring out how to pedal like the neighbor kid. Watch him go!

Here is Amelia making herself cross eyed while checking out her hands!

This Just in

Breaking News this evening:

Further evidence:

Now, I'm sure I will hear about this for at least the next ten years if the Grandma breaking a diaper is any indication!