The many expressions of Will

Karli took some more pictures of Will and these few highlight how expressive our little guy can be! We also got some pictures of him in the same outfit that we did Laurelea's first photo shoot in.When Laurelea was in my tummy we called her Sprout (hence the title of the blog). My Mom picked up this bean sprout costume and we saved it just for Will:)

As Will's world so far has been about baseball, we got some pictures of him appropriately attired

 Grumpy Will

 Pensive Will

 Working on a smile Will

A day at the beach

On Sunday we took the kids to the beach. We love going to Sandy Point State Park in MD. It's such a quick trip for us and the kids had a blast. I'm not certain what is in the sand, but the kids always take a taste. When Laurelea was little we could not stay long as she would eat it by the handfuls... Talan, who is always around sand and beaches took to it, although not quite at the same consumption rate as his cousin when she was little... 

These pictures are compliments of Karli again! She got some incredible shots of the kids!

 Love this one!

Talan is such a cutie and this one completely captures his full belly laugh!

 While the kids played Will and I chilled

 Cousin shots

Henry Turns One!

On Saturday September 21st we went to Henry's 1st birthday celebration! It's hard to believe that he is already one. This little guy has a very special place in my heart and Karli did an incredible job capturing the celebration! 

 George in the sandbox

 Lonna and the birthday boy- Henry

 Talan

 Avery!

 all the party people

 Lonna, Chris and Clay

 This is one excited birthday boy!

 Kisses for his mama

 Talan!

 Scary L face with chocolate icing

 even scarier :)

 Alister!

 Laurelea

Hansel's Visit

Tonya and her family came for a visit. Tonya and I served in Peace Corps together and then went to Tulane for grad school together. She is one of my dearest friends and it made us feel so good that they came to meet Will and traveled all the way from New Orleans! Mazzy (her daughter) and Iko (her son) played so well with Laurelea and Talan. It was a fun day, catching up and playing in the back yard with the kiddos. 

 Laurelea, Iko and Mazzy

 Iko

 Talan found the mud

 Laurelea took quite a spill off the bounce house. that is quite a shiner under her eye.