Birthday Week in Photos: Part 3

 Titus and Andrew did really well playing together!  They played with the music table...

 ... and the ball Mrs. Marla/Mr. Tim/Marlie/Reed gave Andrew...

 ... and cars!

Jenn and I took the boys on a walk around the local park (after swinging on the swings).

Uncle George was on 'baby duty' while Aunt Jenn and I packed the car to drive downtown...

... to the Children's Museum!  Here are the boys playing dress-up and fixing a bike at the bike shop!  We thought of you, Poppy!

In the News Room they have cameras, teleprompters, and video monitors!  Andrew and I did the weather report (about the severe weather in eastern Texas... apparently a storm of orange goo is on it's way...)

 "There will be heavy flooding of orange goo in the Houston and San Antonio areas..."

Then it was up to the Tots Room to play with lots of fun, developmentally-appropriate toys :)  (It took about 45 min for the grown ups to make the way up there since we kept getting distracted by other awesome stuff!)

 Andrew practiced climbing stairs...

 Titus played with this tea pot for about an hour! (And both boys go "It's my first visit!" stickers :)

 The spinning colored flowers were a big hit :)  The petals overlap so you can see what colors result from combining other colors!

We had cousin bath time, too!  The boys had a great time splashing and playing!

( Get a good look at that hair...)


Uncle George helped (ok, who am I kidding?  he did it - I was the helper) install the new baby gate between the living room and kitchen.  Neither baby was excited to see it when they got up the next morning.

Friday we went swimming at a friend's community pool.  

 Montana t-shirts!

 Chloe let us borrow her floaty seat thing.  Andrew LOVED it!

Sunday evening I cut Andrew's hair.  I'm not sure how I like it.  Actually, I really like it... I just miss the wispy baby hair, too! But I'm SO GLAD the crazy long part over his ears is trimmed... it was starting to drive me nuts :-p

 Now he looks like a real boy!  Who can count his age in YEARS!  (Well, year... singular...)  Happy birthday, baby!

Birthday Week in Photos: Part 2

 After the cupcake experience (he crammed the whole thing in his mouth at the same time, followed shortly by Uncle George doing the same with the full-sized cupcake... it was fun to watch...) it was time for presents!

 Grammy sent him a car bag made out of fabric with roads on it!  The mat folds up into a bag with handles and is held together with magnets.  There are a few little pockets on the inside to hold the cars!

 Sweet little monkey blanket/stuffed animal from Aunt Cathi

 Foam letter puzzle blocks from Poppy (Marlie was a great helper for opening the gifts!  Unfortunately the photos of Andrew opening her gift -a cool ball that eats other balls -didn't come out so I won't post them :( )

 Amish Puzzle Ball from Momma

 Two great books from Aunt Grace

 AWESOME beanbag from Uncle George, Aunt Jenn, and Titus!  He LOVES climbing up on it and being set in it and sitting in/on it and even is happy to sit in it when otherwise nothing will do except being held by Momma... I think I may like it even more than he does :-D

 Fun ball pit play time with Hannah, Titus, and Evie :)

 Poppy and the grandsons!

 Lovin' the bean bag!

 Uncle George gives GREAT snuggles!


Then on Monday instead of Music Class we had a birthday play party...

 It was a rough morning for the birthday boy, but the bean bag and some goldfish seemed to ease the pain :)

 Picnic lunch in the back yard!  Cupcake #2... funfetti this time :)

 And then the cheese ball... the doctor thinks this is the origin of the hives that totally covered his body about 16 hours later.  Praise God for baby Benadryll!

 Birthday Buddy Titus!

My, oh my, these boys have grown.  I love them!

(PS - mad props to Marla for dressing Marlie in an outfit covered in balls ;)

I'll post again soon... lots more cute photos of the cousins from the rest of the week!