Monday, May 18, 2009

Fun in May

As long as I was posting, I wanted to include these! We had an unbelievable garden of irises in our new backyard this spring so I tried to do a photo shoot with Tommy in front of them. Of course getting him to pose or stay still for that matter is a challenge, but here are a couple cute ones! Below those, you can see a couple pictures with Gram and Uncle Ryan. We had my parents in town the first weekend in May and my brother made a surprise appearance (well, a surprise to my parents anyway) on Sunday for a short visit after a reunion at Southern Illinois with his college friends. Tommy has always loved Uncle Ryan and his facial hair but he was a little more tentative this time. Of course now that Ryan has left, Tommy looks at his picture and says Ryan and smiles but when he was here, we could hardly get him to give him a hug! It was a great bonus since we rarely get to see him.




A visit from Gilbert

In late April, our friends from Chicago came down to visit. They have a son, Gilbert, who is only 6 weeks older than Tommy. We were with them on Halloween, too, but the boys have changed so much since then and it was fun to see how much they've changed. Tommy is of course, heftier than Gil, and their personalities are so different. But they had lots of fun playing together. Again, Tommy wasn't so keen on the whole sharing idea but we worked through it. I am disappointed at my lack of pictures here...we had an eventful weekend at the park and the zoo but really the only time I broke out the camera was playing in the playroom.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Tommy & Darcy

The week after Easter, Tommy's godmother Carissa and her daughter (and my goddaughter) Darcy came to visit. If you've been following our blog for a while, you'll remember her pics from a visit when Tommy was only 2 months old, and then again this summer in Northern Cal. Anyway, Carissa and Darcy came for a short visit and it was so fun to see the 2 kids together. They are exactly 7 months apart, but they are the same height and surprise.....Tommy is bigger and weighs more! They really interacted this time and had fun together, except of course when Darcy was playing with one of Tommy's toys. The age difference between them seems to lessen each time we see eachother which is so fun! We will be visiting them this summer at their new home in Tucson AZ for a week!
















































Of course no visit would be complete without bathtub pictures. The kids were pretty pumped about their soapy soiree until a fight broke out over a rubber duck and both kids had a complete meltdown which brought the fun to a screeching hault. We got a good laugh out of it, but the kids did not. We didn't have our wits about us to get a picture of the meltdowns and really, that would have been cruel, right? So you'll just have to enjoy the pre pics!

More Easter Egg Hunting!

As a practice round the day before Easter, we went over to our friends house and the kids had an Easter egg hunt. Tommy's friends Claire, Abby & Michael were there. You can see from the pictures that Tommy wasn't the biggest threat in the backyard. He started off strong, running ahead of the other kids and then ended up either putting eggs in Michael's basket or getting distracted by the balls in the yard! Then Tommy proceeded to make a mess "blowing bubbles" which really consists of him dipping the stick, getting the soap all over himself and then trying to put the soapy stick in his mouth. It was great to get together with our close friends, though, and so fun to see them all together. It was the first time our old "dinner group" has been together since we've been back in town and the kids are playing so well together. Our nights of dinner, drinks and relaxation have turned into chaotic days full of fun and smiles. Life sure has changed!!!