Wordless Wednesday--just another day to play

Happy Half-Birthday

Our little man is 6 months old and starting to roll and scoot all over. He is looking pretty determined to crawl, but we'll see!


Briella loves to give hugs and kisses, sometimes she gets a little (or a lot) aggressive. In the last week, we've both caught her giving Gideon zerberts (tummy kisses) when we set him down. Today I couldn't resist asking her for a repeat performance for you to enjoy :)

Picture This (because I don't have a picture of this)

Recently, Gideon has been lifting up his head and chest higher and more frequently. When he wakes up and I walk into his room I often see his forehead and sometimes his eyes peeking over the top of the crib. Once he sees me, he smiles and buries his head in the sheet and then looks up again. It is so fun to see that he is excited to see me :)

Stephan usually calls on his way home from work and then I tell Briella daddy is coming home. We used to go by the window and watch for him, wave when he drove up, etc. Well, today she took her favorite 'baby' over to the window, held the dolls head up to the window and says "see daddy, daddy, see daddy, yea, daddy home, see daddy." He wasn't there, but it sure was cute to see!

At least a month ago, Briella and Gideon were playing in the toy room and I was around the house doing other things. It was quiet for awhile and I was starting to think I better check on them (for Gideon's safety) and as I start heading to the toy room I hear "mommy, mommy, mommy" in a rather cheerful, accomplished tone. Looking around the corner, Briella's proud moment left Gideon's outfit unsnapped from head to toe and one tab of his diaper loosened . . . we could have been moments away from a urine emergency, but mommy to the rescue and no emergency, phew.

Wordless Wednesday

She's TWO!!!

Our little girl is two years old! She is so much fun to have around. I love the way she says "wuv you" and gives Gideon kisses. It warms my heart to hear her say "Hi buddy, Hi Giddya" and see her make him smile. She is the best mommy to her dolls and is generous with her hugs.
We hope to get some printed and sent out soon, but thought I'd post a few outtakes of our 2 year picture session!

5 months and counting . . .

All 7 grandkids on the P. side :) I snapped at least 10 shots and this is the only one with all 7 faces visible and no fingers in one boy's nose . . .



Gideon is 5 months and 16 pounds. He is rolling over and enjoying cereal, too. He still smiles when he sees Briella even though she is not always so gentle with him.

Big Star Lake

We recently spent a long weekend up at a cottage on the lake with Stephan's sister and brother and their families. We didn't have the greatest weather, but the one nice day (Monday) we did get the suits out and Briella had a ton of fun with Addy in the sand. Addy taught her to make sand cookies :)
Briella also bonded with their dog Sammy. Saturday afternoon she was bonding with his tail and he took her for a ride. Her forehead met the corner of the end table, it wasn't pretty. She got quite a bruise, but it healed quickly . . .

BOYS

Brian and Caleb, Stephan and Gideon (B&S are 17 months apart, their sons are 6 weeks apart). It was so fun to meet Caleb and have the boys 'play' together.

(I'm noticing this snake and realizing that in the future there could be a lot of trouble with these two. . . I wonder if they'll play tricks on their sister(s?) and cousins with snakes . . . we'll see

PS:To the anonymous impatient family member, our computer has been down and we have been busy with family in town, sorry for the delay. If all goes well I might be able to post again tonight :) Do you think it's funny that your initials are PS (+ W), but the PS part is what is funny to me write now . . . oh my a lame MrHoekema joke, I better stop!