Summer fun...

Treigh and Rich go to the golf course almost every morning, as well as each evening. Each night I get the whole report of how Treigh did and since Treigh has been hitting the ball in the air consistently, I thought I should go get it on tape. Here is a pic of Treigh standing next to his clubs. He informed me at dinner the other night that he, "hit it good," that night. I said oh really, and he replied with, "yah, I hit it like Tiger Woods."

Some of his latest saying include...(and again, this is babybook info and may not mean anything)
*everything is not "all of the time," it is "all the way time."
*he informs us if we are being funny that we "are a piece of work"
*when he asks for things he always needs "a couple," not one or two, but just "a couple." He said last night he needed "a couple five or six balls from Rich's golf bag."
*He has been incorporating "probably" and "actually" into his daily speech and he favorite thing to say to us when we ask him something is "I DON"T KNOW!!!"

Sibling love...most of the time...lol!

Birkley in her high chair...just another place to hang out and play...as well as eat of course...her favorite thing to do. We went to the dr. yesterday. She weighs 17 1/2 pounds and is 25 1/1 inches. He height and head were in the 80-85 percentile, but her weight was in the 99 percentile. I told the dr. that she really doesn't even eat a lot. She still will only take six ounces of formula at a time and she only get cereal once a day. The dr. said that I had nothing to worry about...she was healthy and that was all that mattered.

She is really talking quite a bit lately and has started to repeat things when we laugh at her...including the raspberries she blows at dinner time...yes, Treigh and Daddy think it it is hilarious because her cereal goes all over me.

Carson's B-day

Sunday afternoon after we returned from Chicago were daddy was in a wedding, we went to Carson's Demo-Derby birthday party. Carson's mom, Krissi teaches right next door to me. The party was so much fun. The kids got to take rides in a demo car, paint their own matchbox demo cars, eat cake (which was very cool looking), and watch two demo trucks have a mini demo...how fun!

Girls Weekend

I went on a trip to Chicago last weekend with my bunko friends...one of the girls used to be in our group when she lived in Terre Haute, but now we go visit her and make weekends out of it each summer. We went to the spa, out to dinner, to see a comedy show called "The Second City" which was absolutely hilarious, and wrapped the weekend up with a bike tour and lunch. The tour was great too...we got to see the first Playboy Mansion, one of Oprah's homes, and several others great places.

Yes, helmets were required!!!

I was very excited to see the kids when I got home saturday evening...even though I was only gone one night.

Great Grandparents

We went to visit my grandparents and family on my dad's side this past week. This is the first time they had all seem Birkley. We got to see two of the three of my dad's siblings and a couple of my cousins.

Aunt Jane, Uncle Lauro, Christopher and Mark

Aunt Mary and Uncle Peter

Birkey-Blue

Birkley is changing every day. She is really starting to evolve into her own little self. She is rolling over both ways now and has even starting sitting by herself for a little bit at a time. She still thinks Treigh is the absolute funniest thing ever and laughs at him all of the time.
She goes to the doctor tomorrow and I will post her new stats...also a couple of Treigh's latest saying...

This picture is exactly why we call her "Birkey-Blue." Rich called her that one time just a few days after she was born...and it stuck!

Big smiles!!!

Trying to get out of her bouncy seat.

Loves playing with her feet and toes.

First time cooking with mommy!

Myrtle Beach

We took a trip to Myrtle Beach. We drove...and will never drive on any vacation ever again. The kids were actually good, but if felt like all we did was drive.



Treigh and Birkley chillaxin' in the beach chair.





Rich and Treigh showing off their sand creation.

Treigh's favorite thing to do was run into the waves from the beach.

First time in the ocean for both.

Happy 4th!

We spent the day...INSIDE! It rained absolutely all day here. We did venture out to the McMullen's for a combo 4th/wedding reception for Keely and her husband Brenton. Keely is my best friend Brianne's younger sister...who was also in my wedding. The whole McMullen clan are very close family friends. Brogan, who is "Baby Leyton's" dad, is Brianne's brother, and was also in our wedding. There is a fourth McMullen girl, Kieran. She graduated this year and will be off to Purdue this fall. Keely and her husband Brenton got married two weeks ago in Hilton Head in a small ceremony. So, CONGRATS to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor. We joked with her today about having a baby...she is next in line. We all have a nice pattern going right now...Treigh, six months later came Killian, a year later came Leyton, six months later came Birkley, and Brianne is pregnant right now and the baby will be six months younger than Birkley. We told Keely and Kieran that they need to be factored into this equation sooner or later bc Brianne and I are not having babies forever...lol!
We plan to cook out tomorrow with my mom and hopefully set off some fireworks...we;ll see???

How Cute

Okay, I just had to show off this adorable outfit. If you look close, you will see that the shoes match the sweater and jeans as well.

Cereal

Birkley had cereal for the first time this past week. She did really well the first day, but the next day she ate every last spoonful...and might I add that she became very frustrated with me when I had to pause for a minute from feeding her to help Treigh with something. Obviously, just by looking at her you can tell she doesn't miss any meals...I'm sure the cereal will just add a few more roles. I joked with a friend the other day by saying I wish that the leg roles were cute on everyone...I would be a babe!

Zoo

Birkley only Zoo shot...(sorry, she just wasn't into the animals this year...lol!)

Touching the sharks.

Showing mommy something...

I know, nice view uhh!

Daddy showing Treigh the new bears in the bear exhibit!