Umbrellas

7.9.12

Asher rocking his crazy blue haired baby.  When Teagan is playing dolls, he will join in and take care of his own baby.  It's very cute when he tries to nurse his babies.

Teagan is always a very attentive Mommy.  Even when she hasn't yet had time to brush her own hair for the day :)

7.10.12

The kids recently got new umbrellas and were quite excited to try them out in the back yard during a little rain shower.

7.11.12

Trying out the new ear protection head phones that we got the kids to wear at the range.  Luckily, they seem to like them, so it's not too hard to get them to actually keep them on.

7.12.13

Asher is going to be so confused on his actual birthday.  Almost every day, Teagan tells him, "Asher, today is your birthday!"  And then she wraps him up presents, bakes a pretend cake, and plans a birthday party with party games for him.

7.13.12

 

 Asher enjoyed "milking" a cow at the Children's Museum.

 

Driving a bus at the "Magic Schoolbus" exhibit.  My kids haven't actually ever seen the Magic Schoolbus show, but they enjoyed the weather themed exhibit.



Teagan was pretty good at the cow milking also.



7.14.12

Asher likes the mosaic stepping stone that Teagan made with her Grandma for me.

Hanging out watching chicken cook in the smoker.  High entertainment.

7.15.12

With Asher, everything becomes a gun!  He likes to hang the place mats on the chairs as his targets.

Crazy, "don't take my picture" Teagan.

7.16.12

It's so hot out during the day, but we've been getting out in the evening some for bike riding.  Teagan is doing really well on her balance bike. 

7.17.12

Teagan and I have been working on learning the letter sounds.  Some days, when Asher is napping, we choose a letter, talk about the sound, and make a little letter card with the upper and lower case letter and a picture of a word that starts with it. 

Asher decided to help pick up dried beans that Teagan dumped all over the floor.  His method of picking them up one at a time wasn't so efficient.  And it was so much more fun for him to use a broom to further scatter them all over the floor.

7.18.12

Asher's chocolate ice cream face!

Teagan likes to tie up her babies in their swaddle blanket, like she saw the Mongolian family do in the Babies movie.

7.19.12

It all starts out nice enough.  A new package of markers and construction paper, but the next thing you know, it becomes body art.

Ba-et-ball

6.30.12

 

Teagan and I went out shopping together and got a surprise for Asher.  We found an inflatable sprinkler basketball hoop toy.  Asher loves "ba-et-ball".  When we attached the hose for the sprinkler, the kids didn't actually like that, so that part was short lived.  It works great floating in the pool though.



Teagan chose an inflatable toy for herself also.

 7.1.12

 

Little guy snuggling with his daddy.

 

 Teagan was dancing around singing a song about the "4th in July", as she always says.

7.2.12

Asher discovered one of Teagan's favorite books from when she was younger.  He really seemed to like looking at the babies.

I promise I'm a safe driver.  Really.  But for some reason Teagan seems to think it is fun to wear a helmet in the car.  I guess you can never be too careful.

7.3.12
 

Teagan and Asher were hard at work making play-doh cake pops.

7.4.12

Asher missed his normal nap time since we had family over on the 4th.  By about 4pm he just couldn't stay awake any longer.  He kept asking for "bed" so he got a nice late afternoon nap on the couch that got him through the evening fireworks.

Richardson launches the city fireworks from the park across the street from our neighborhood so we get to enjoy them from the comfort of our own yard.  It was the first time the kiddos had seen fireworks.  They enjoyed them, but I think they were getting tired by the end and we had to convince them to stick it out until the end.

7.5.12

My puppies.  Asher was even chewing on a bone from dinner.

7.6.12

Somehow eating yoghurt turned into body painting with yoghurt. It got out of hand pretty quickly.

Teagan picked out a piggy bank at the craft store and took her task of painting it very seriously.  Paul has been giving her $1 week as allowance.  We went shopping the previous weekend and I told Teagan that she could spend all her money on something small and her money would be all gone, or she could save her money for something bigger.  She decided she wanted to save her money, so we got a piggy bank.  Whenever I have mentioned something she could buy with her money, even the 25 cent honey stick at the Farmers Market, she tells me, "No, I want to save my money."

7.7.12

Just hanging out.

7.8.12

Crazy, fast truck driver.




Teagan was very proud of the target that she actually shot with Paul at the gun range today.

Always a birthday around here!

6.22.12

Ever since I discovered the most delicious way to make cream cheese frosting (cream cheese, butter, and maple syrup), I'm always up for any excuse to make it, and I've always got a volunteer ready to help transfer any excess frosting from the beater to their face.

6.23.12

Teagan "reading" to Asher.

6.24.12

Paul finally convinced me to do a family outing to the Terrell Rifle and Pistol club.  Asher brought along his make shift stick gun and happily shot at targets.

Teagan really liked it when Daddy taught her how to shoot a real gun.

And even Asher got a turn with Daddy's help.

6.25.12

Playing doll house together.

6.26.12

Cute little blonde kiddos.

6.27.12

Teagan looked at Asher very sweetly today and said, "Asher, I think we can become best friends." Then she explained that best friends love each other very much, and gave him a kiss.

Teagan is a master at baking birthday cakes.

Time to sing Happy Birthday and blow out the candles.

6.28.12

Of course play dough cakes with real candles are even more fun!

I think "Happy Birthday" is the most commonly heard song around this house.

6.29.12



Teagan can climb all the way to the top of the rock wall at the playground.  Asher can't make it very high on his own, but he definitely tries.  I can tell he's almost 2 because he is constantly telling me at the park, "All by self."  He wants to attempt everything on his own!