Family Pictures

My sister-in-law, Becky, just sent me some family pictures that were taken during our reunion this summer. I love how they turned out so I wanted to share them.

Becky got some great candid shots of these two playing around in a field after taking the family picture.

Little House on the Prairie, anyone?

Just like kissing your sister...

While we were in Colorado, we spent a morning at Garden of the Gods. It turned out to be a great backdrop for the family photo. Thanks again, Becky!

Por Favor!!!!

You'll have to forgive me for this video clip. It's mostly just for me and probably won't interest most of the readers of this blog, but I want to remember how this little girl started out saying por favor, because it won't be long now and she will be saying it clear as a bell and I'll miss the Scooby-Doo sounding please that she uses now. If you do listen, do so with a little bit of an imagination-----she says por favor two times in the video, both right after I ask her to.

We are still working on saying por favor with a more humble spirit. Right now she barks it at us as if to say give it to me now!

At least she's saying it, right?

Enjoy Ryan's noises in the background--he was trying to get her to make her angry fist face for the camera.

Name that Tune

Here's a clip of Isaac singing his most recent favorite. He especially loves to sing in the car and will sometimes belt it out at the top of his lungs 3 or 4 times in a row. It cracks me up every time!

Notice how he barely misses a beat even while taking a tumble...

Warning...

Don't mess with this girl. When she doesn't get what she wants, she squeezes her fists at you so tightly that she starts to tremble all over, while simultaneously screaming at you.

She did it to Ryan tonight when he failed to feed her strawberries fast enough at dinner.

I'm not sure when or how it happened, but sometime in the last couple of months, my sweet little innocent baby has turned into little miss feisty, sassy pants! She walks around the house like she owns the place and squawks and anyone who gets in her way. I always said that she was the easiest little baby from the day she was born and that one day she would probably give us a run for our money.

Just didn't think I would be right so soon.

'Tis the Season

Corn on the cob has a new fan. It doesn't get much tastier (or messier) than this.