Florida Visit Day One

Our day was complete with a trip to the park by the lake. Grace spent plenty of time on the slides and in the swing and actually managed to wade in the water. I could barely get her into the pool while in Phoenix but she seemed to have no problems in the lake along with the sand, lily pads, and minnows. A new adventure!

Travel Diaries

We are on our way to Orlando today and are currently in St Louis for our layover. This trip is turning out to be rather stress-free. Perfect layover timing and a cooperative Grace makes for a thorough nap time and happy toddler for the second leg. We found a new and deserted wing to the airport complete with relaxing music for sleeping and feeding Samuel. We are all eagerly awaiting the 80 degree weather ahead of us and can't wait to post pics from Disney!

Salsa!

You know this girl is part Hesseltine when she starts dipping her goldfish in salsa. Did she learn this from PaPa?

Outfitting Samuel

It is so easy to put my little man in footed pajamas everyday. Which is pretty much all he ever wears. However, today he's wearing a cute outfit with a hoodie and I couldn't help but capturing it. I need to start putting him these outfits more. We are heading down to Olympia for the day to spend time with friends.

Go Wild - Timber!!!

Yet another installment in our "Go Wild" series.  Grace has decided she enjoys falling flat on her face - literally.  Strangely enough, this has become part of the bedtime routine.  Don't worry about her hitting her head with some random flop on the floor, she already knows she's only allowed to flop on the bed, and only AFTER the "pillow of safety" has been properly positioned. 

Sibling Differences

It's amazing how different your infant experiences can be when you have multiple children. Grace is such a blessing and joy in our life but she was not an easy baby. And to be honest, still is quite the challenge, just in different ways. As an infant she was colicky, difficult to soothe and a finicky sleeper. Samuel on the other hand is my dream baby. He gets fussy from time to time and can occasionally be difficult to get to sleep but nothing more than the average baby. Overall he whimpers instead of cries. I have yet to hear this little man really test out his lungs. The worst so far would have to be his grunting as he shifts in and out of sleep, which is worse in the wee hours of the morning while I'm still trying to catch some Z's. But if this is the worst of it...I'll take it. Scott keeps trying to remind me that Grace was good up until this point and then got colicky, arguing that we are not in the clear yet. Let's just say our memory of events usually don't coincide. We'll see how the the coming weeks and months pan out, but I think Samuel overall is gonna be much more even tempered than his older sis. He'll soon be 8 weeks old, and is growing at record speed, weighing in at just over 11 lbs this week. Here are a few new photos.

The Sky is Falling

Yesterday was a strange day.  Late in the afternoon we had a hail storm pass through.  Sarah caught a bit on video.




Later, in an unrelated(?) incident, or because she thought the sky was falling, Grace had a go-wild.  We only caught about 1/3 of if on tape.  As you can tell from the tape, I was only adding fuel to the fire, as usual.