Saturday, April 24, 2010

Florida Family Tour

We just got back from a FANTASTIC trip to Florida with my entire family - Mom, Dad, Sister and her family, and brother. It was so amazing to spend time with everyone in sunny Siesta Key, the very same place we all vacationed when we were kids. Such great past memories and now wonderful new ones. My mom was the designated photographer, and when the trip was over, she had 469 pictures in her Shutterfly album. 469! "Why didn't you delete some? "I asked. "I DID!" she replied! Can you tell we are a photo-obsessed family?
Here are a few shots...ok more than a few, but when you are starting with 469, this number isn't so bad.

We LOVED bonding with my sister, her husband Dan, and their 4 1/2 month old, Kellan!

The "grandparents" babysat while all the "kids" went out to dinner. Thanks BB and Papa!

We watched beautiful sunsets on the beach.

We dined on local fish and seafood.



We continued to practice our walking skills. Yeah Austin!


We had a few "photo shoots"...






We played at the beach.


















We swam at the pool. Caroline started to learn to swim!






BB and Papa and all their grandbabies!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Clayton

It is amazing how one child can frustrate you to no end, and then at the same time, charm every inch of you into absolutely adoring him!
Clayton Matthew. My middle son. So adorably quirkly in so many ways.
He is obsessed with vacuums, brooms, and water towers. I don't mean likes. I don't mean loves. I mean OBSESSED with. He talks about them all day and in any context. He builds them with legos, food, household items. When drawing, he asks you to draw vacuums and water towers. He sings about them. He asks other people about their brooms and vacuums. He can tell you which water towers we pass on our way to different places we frequent. We're hoping this means he's going to be an engineer and not a janitor, but only God knows...
So quirky. And man do I love him. I could do with out the tantrums and whiny phases he falls into...usually about pacifiers. (I know, we NEED to get rid of them. I just need to wait until it gets consistently warm out. I don't think I could endure the transition to no-paci land while being confined to the house with him for all hours. It's going to be a ROUGH transition and I am dreading it. A simple "paci-fairy" or "let's send them to a baby who needs them" and then he's fine with it is SO not going to happen.)
But man, isn't he CUTE?????