Daily Life–Adam

Adam.  Oh, Adam.  Full of life and energy.  When we lived in Utah, not a Sunday went by that someone from Primary didn’t tell me how much they loved him or how fun he was.  From the first week we got to Texas, I’ve heard the same thing.  He is funny and precocious, and just fun to be around!  He’s also super sweet.  Like borderline annoying and sappy except that he’s being completely genuine!

The biggest deal in Adam’s life right now, is soccer.  This is his first season playing and he’s loving it!

His team, The Cobras!
I thought it was so cute how all the little boys have the same hair color.  Adam is #4 on the end.

We’ve had beautiful weather the past few days and the kids love to go out in the back and play soccer together.

He loves playing with his little siblings!  He and Abby have their fair share of fighting, but when they do play nicely, they have a blast together!  And they think Caleb is absolutely hilarious!

Although we haven’t been doing formal reading lessons since we moved (I need to get on that, he loves it!), he’s been working on lessons from ReadingEggs.com and it’s all obviously working because HE CAN READ!!  Really well!  I’m amazed at least once a day about something he reads on TV, in a book, outside, etc.  I’ve only taught him the very basics and his little mind has just naturally grasped it and moved on without me! 

Here’s a video I took several weeks ago of him reading one of his books from Reading Eggs.  He read this once on his own and then called me over and asked me to film him.

Daily Life–Abby

Abby is a darn cute 3 year old!  I love her little voice and the funny things she says.  She’s funny and sweet one minute, and screaming the next.  Typical girl, I suppose!

She has started to really like to color and will spend a lot of time quietly focusing.

She loves to play with her baby brother!  A little too much sometimes.  I’m constantly telling her to be gentle with him!



Full House and (Potty Training)
The kids have discovered the joys of Full House.  They think Michelle is absolutely hilarious and if they aren’t watching it, they are playing it.  Abby is Michelle and Adam is Steve….naturally.  Steve is DJ’s boyfriend by the way.

She loves her stuffed animal friends!  Her entire bed used to be covered in them, with just a tiny space for her head, but we’ve now limited it to 5 at a time.  She loves to bring them down and set up a snuggle spot on the couch.

Play-doh is another favorite activity

 

Beautiful, spirited, funny Abigail!

Daily Life–Caleb

 

Caleb has been busy!  His days include:

Army crawling out of pants

Bonkin’ his head

Loving people food, lasagna in this case!
He started refusing baby food a few weeks ago and now, despite only having one tiny tooth, eats pretty much everything!

Standing, standing, and more standing!
He’s now a pro at walking along the couch and tries to pull himself up on anything he can!

Playing a little piano

Cookin’ some lunch



Practicing Houdini moves like his big brother and sister did.

Abby at 12 months

Adam at 9.5 months

I promise I don’t stage these….they have all managed to get their left arms out of their sleeves after a nap, somewhere between 9.5 and 12 months!

 

Caleb is my busy, fast, always-moving, baby boy.  He is not interested in crawling on his knees, and probably never will since he’s starting to get a hankering to walk.  Abby walked at 10.5 months and Adam at 11.5 months so he’s right here in the ballpark.  He is signing “milk” and sometimes he signs it when he sees me walk into the room!  He is so close to signing “more”, but most of the time just yells “mmm mmm”.  He loves playing peek-a-boo and “so big”.  His birthday is just over a month away and I just can’t believe how quickly his babyhood is leaving!  Slow down time!

Monster Jam 2013

For Valentine’s Day, Nat gave Adam tickets to see Monster Jam.  Adam loves monster trucks was counting down the days until the big show!



It was at Cowboys Stadium, which Nat was super excited about….mostly because of this:

They got the “Pit Pass” so they were able to check out the trucks up close.  Here is Adam in front of Nat’s favorite truck, Grave Digger.

And in front of his new favorite truck, Captain America.  Don’t let his stoic face fool you.  He was very excited!


Monster Mutt Dalmatian

Driving a Mini Sprint Car (whatever that is!)

They had a blast watching the Traxxas remote control car demos.  I LOVE his giggles and funny comments in the background!

Getting ready for the show!

Hootin’ and Hollerin’ for Captain America!

Grave Digger catching big air!

It was a late night for a little guy, but what a fun Daddy-Son date!  He’s already talking about going next year!