Will at 6 Months

Well, dude, you're now closer to full year age tabulations than you ever have been. But that will not stop us from remembering just what you're capable of these days.

You smile incessantly, amazingly. You play with our faces a lot, mostly when we get you out of bed (which mostly is the swing). You giggle sometimes when we play with your tummy or get your sugars, which is pretty awesome.

You eat. And eat. And eat. 9 oz of solids in one sitting sometimes! Sweet potatoes, bananas, butternut squash, these are a few of your favorite things. Blueberries, not so much. Applesauce: ok, maybe, if mixed with something else.

You sit up on your own. You want to crawl, badly. If you had your choice, though, you'd just walk. We aren't sure we're opposed.

You have a real skill: taking off clothes. You eagerly pull your arms out of shirts when we try to take them off. How nice! You aren't 100% at putting those arms back in your shirts when its time to put them on, but damn if you aren't pretty good at that too.

You are just so happy, you little booger, and we couldn't be luckier to have you in the family. You might have thrown up everywhere today, but you brighten our day with your electric smile.

Happy Six Months, Will Harrison!

 love the hand hold-had to include

Professional Photos

A good friend of mine from college was in the area visiting her husband's family. We've been communicating for the last year or so around if/when she was in the area next to take family pictures for us. Sara did an incredible job! If you are in the Portland area she is definitely  someone to look up. We also hope to do pictures with her again next time she is out this way. These turned out so well and she really did a great job of capturing our kids. It was perfectly timed as the shoot was just a few days before Laurelea's 4th birthday!  Check out her work at www.saravandepas.com

Valentine's Day with the Bergs

We had such a fun Valentine's weekend. We had the Bergs over for a slumber party. Korey, Esther, and JJ slept in the basement and Avery and L were in her room on the trundle. The didn't sleep all that much, but they had so much fun!

Here is a pic that Cory took that morning

 Henry and G came over with their folks for a play session

 Dinner!

 George!

 Wonder Woman and Super Girl

 JJ, Esther, Cory, and Will

 Avery and L got matching jammies for Valentines

 Bedtime stories

 After the kids went down, Esther and I made a fancy dinner of filet's and crab cakes for the guys. It was so wonderful to have a nice meal with great company that wasn't rushed.

The next morning I got some cute shots of the kids playing- JJ

 Will

 little dudes hanging

 tummy time

 He was so proud of himself that he figured out how to push himself backwards

 JJ getting cranky

 Then this happened. Cory put Will on JJ and Will grabbed his face. JJ cried for a long time... it was pretty rough.