Video.

 

Gray is really into flying his airplanes around our living room. This is pretty hilarious. He doesn't know I'm filming him or he wouldn't have been talking so much. 

 

Super sweet. 

*Please ignore the spots on the mirror. haha. 

Happy Birthday Grandma!

This is my all time favorite picture of my Grandma!

So beautiful!

My Grandma and her 3 brothers.

My Mom and Grandma at my mom's first communion.

Doesn't get much sweeter than this!

Ha.

So serious.

Bows and Ruffles.

Listening to Gray sing.

Big brother Gray.

He loves her.

My Grandma Louise would have been 101 today. I think about her a lot, but much more now that we have little Louise. I truly believe that some part of my Grandma visits me through her. There have been many occasions I think about my Grandma when looking at Lou and Lou will smile at me for no reason. One night when she was less than two months old I was saying to Lou "I wonder what your Great Grandma would think about you having her name ," and she smiled and started cooing at me. It sent chills up my spine and brought tears to my eyes.  It may be nothing, but I'd like to believe that she is with us, watching over us. 

Because it is my Grandma's birthday, I thought no better outfit than this little dress Drew's Aunts Patty and Susan sent to Lou. It is so adorable!!!

Happy Birthday Grandma Louise!!!

5 days of celebrating.

Gray's first time with a water gun. He was pretty excited!

Sneaking up on Greta.  (yes, we feed him.)

Driveway picnic.

Galen and Lou

Drew and Lou

Ellie turned 10 on July 4th.

Happy girl.

Brotherly love.

Love this kiddo.

"You want to play some golfing?" I must hear that 20 times a day.

Look at that form!

Little golfer.

We had a nice long weekend celebrating the 4th. We had a few friends over on the 3rd because our neighborhood has a great firework show on the 3rd. Gray's first experience seeing the fireworks (that he has been aware/awake.) The first firework that went off scared him and he wanted to go back inside. Drew told him that they were like rockets going into space and for some reason, that calmed him down and then he was THRILLED. 

The rest of the weekend we took it easy and had some nice relaxing family time.

Hope you all had a great 4th!

red, white & blue.

 

While we were waiting for Lou to wake up, I got these shots of Gray.  He was being a total clown. The top picture makes me want to squeeze him tight and scream "DON'T GROW UP!" That is, until he has a tantrum and then I think it would be OK to grow up a bit.

The bottom picture is a total "Jim Bohn." 

That's what Drew and I call it when Gray makes a face that looks like my dad.

 

I think we went through 3 outfits on the 4th. I'm sure you can imagine why. I love this headband so had to take a few pictures. I never thought I would be a mom that put bows or headbands in her daughter's hair...until I had a daughter born with so much of it.

three.

I. Will. Not. Smile.

OK, maybe a little one.

Ta-dah!

Word jumble.

Catching up to Pumpkin Girl.

Tummy time.

 HAPPY 3 MONTHS LOUISE!!!

Miss Louise is growing up. 3 months old and still such a sweet, sweet baby. 

Lou is still an amazing sleeper, getting 13-14 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night. It's insane. 

She is a VERY smiley baby, but I made the mistake of taking the above pictures a little too close to a nap so she wasn't wanting to smile for me. 

Lou has this crazy hair that I don't know what to do with. It puffs up in the back looking like she just had a blow-out. Drew thinks it looks like a hairstyle from the 50's or 60's? I don't know about that but what I do know is she really needs something in her a hair...a headband, barrette or something or she gets confused for a boy. 

Lou has rolled over from tummy to back and can roll over from back to tummy (but can't figure out how to get her head over.)  It probably has something to do with her having a big head (97%, just like her brother.) And...speaking of her brother, she loves him as much as he loves her. When she sees him, her face lights up with a big smile. So sweet.