Musical Playtime

Chloe isn't quite sure what to make of Timber's howling!

Little piano master! 

Looking at her brother.

Girlfriend is loving standing.  We're in trouble!  

Watching big brother play.

Roller Coaster Fun!

It was a last minute decision (literally decided last night around 9/10pm) but we had a playdate with Xavier and Julie today!  'Auntie' Julie brought down X's swivel car and his awesome Step 2 roller coaster and the boys had a blast!  Julie set up the roller coaster in front of the van, which I had parked at the top of the driveway to keep the boys from getting too close to the road, and the boys took turns going down on the coaster bike and they absolutely loved it!   The boys also decided on their own it would be super cool to go down backwards on the coaster!  Talk about heart attack for us mommas, but of course they had it under control and no accidents or flip overs occurred!   The both shared pretty well and there was very minimal fighting about whose turn it was - so proud of them!  As a special treat - we ordered lunch from the local pizza shop and had it delivered so the boys could get more play time in.  After lunch, there was a hugfest between X and AJ - really it was more like 'let me pretend I'm hugging you, but I'm then gonna tackle you down on the couch'.  Boys will be boys... oh boy!!   Thank you 'Auntie' Julie and Xavier for coming down - we had such an awesome time!

 

 

Time for a snack!

 

Drink pit stop! 

AJ totally twirls his hair when he's tired and/or when he's drinking from his cup.  

He totally get this trait from this mother!  

Timber enjoyed some outside time with us! 

Next stop to get burn more energy: our backyard!

See those dates.. that's our kiddos!

Running back! 

Inside for some take out lunch! 

And then the hugfest started...

Next up was tv time.  

But back to the hugging they went!

Chloe wanted to join in on the picture fun!

These two are silly!

There are those handsome smiles!

Xavier trying to go in for a hug!

Girls Can Play with Trucks, Too!

Chloe is digging the new truck AJ got for his birthday... 

Look at that hair!! 

Enough of the truck already, it's time for big brother to read to me!

She adores him.

Jeeps, T-Ball and Chalk, Oh My!

It was a beautiful day out and I couldn't resist taking the kiddos outside to get some fresh air.  We broke out the jeeps, the t-ball set, the exersaucer for Miss Chloe and the big purple ball.  We even did a little bit of drawing with sidewalk chalk on the driveway!  AJ absolutely loved learning how to hit the ball and see how far it would go on the driveway/yard.  He also enjoyed having an audience of his little sister and Mommy cheering him on!

[I love the continuous shutter on my iPhone - it makes for great action shots!  So expect to be inundated with lots of 'ready, set, go' pics of AJ learning how to play t-ball!]

Setting it up

Good hit buddy!

He's so strong he hits the base and makes it fall over! 

Winding up...

 

..and almost contact...

...he did it!

 

A different angle.

He hits....

He scores!

Woohoo Bud!  

Look at that wind-up!

..and the follow-through...

I think we might have a professional t-ball player on our hands!

There's nothing special about this picture, but I just love it.  My little guy...

Back at it!

'Mom, stop taking so many pictures!'

'I told you to stop!' 

Taking a bathroom break inside..with the cheese head, of course!  

Chloe enjoyed watching her big brother. 

He hits, he scores!

Play time for our little girl!

'Oh wow, look at that hit!'

Back to my playtime though...

'Hi Mom!'

Can you tell AJ wasn't into taking a picture with Mommy?!

Enjoying the view of my kiddos and the beautiful day.

I love the look on Chloe's face.. 'Wait a minute big bro, that's my seat!'

'Ahh, nevermind, back to playing!'

I even let Timber outside on the porch off the leash 

so he could partake in the outside time.

Loving life.

Fun with bouncing the purple ball. 

Our handsome furry first born.

I think someone was a bit tired from all of his outside fun.