Lazy Days

These are anything but lazy days. As we prepare for out big cruise vacation it's hard to sit still land enjoy the beginnings of summer. Pack this, clean that...it's all I can think about. Melissa is very excited and ready to go.. I just hope I don't get a big stress zit (which always seems to happen right before a big trip, looks great in all the many photos)
On Sunday, while Melissa was working, The boys and I went on a little walk down to the small town square. It's about 2 miles down hill the whole way. About half way down in the scorching heat I realized I had no bottle for Dylan and only one diaper. I forged ahead anyway. Austin was on his new razor scooter and was navigating the hill with some difficulty. He fell numerous times but never cried. Once we got the bottom we had a Jamba Juice and enjoyed the sun. About 3.5 hours later I realized that Melissa was going to have to pick us up after work, because I was not going to push a stroller up that hill. Both kids were troopers even if their Dad was unprepared.

Austin turns 4!!!

I cannot believe that Austin is 4.....You hear people say,"they grow up so quick". It all makes since now. It's good that he is older, he is really a little person now. He has truly unique views and an amazing imagination. Melissa told me that he just wiped poo on his shirt...That's interesting..He's full of surprises.

We had a little mini-party with just us yesterday. We will have another party on the cruise ship in a few weeks. He got lots of cool presents, and cards. He is such a joy and we are truly blesses to have him in our lives.

Mother's Day Fun at The Huntington Gardens

Happy Mother's Day!!! Today we all went to the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena. What a beautiful day for a stroll in the gardens. Everything was in bloom and lots of people were there. We had to park outside the gates because the lot was full. Melissa is still nursing her broken toe, so when the security came by with the golf cart we hopped in and got a free Ride to the gate. When we were leaving Austin said,"where is the guy with the cart?" We had to tell him that we were going to walk back to the car (1/2) mile....his response was something like ,"uuuuuuunnnnnghhh" But he toughed it out with no more complaints....good little man. Dylan is about to break 4 top teeth all at once....No wonder he has been "such a joy" for the past few days

Videos of Dylan

I posted some videos of Dylan doing some stuff. IT took me forever to figure out how to do it. I'll have to explain it to Melissa so she can do it too. Well tomorrow is Mother's Day. I heard that is it the 2nd most gift giving day after Christmas. This year Melissa is getting a home made gift, but I won't say too much because she will probably read this later...Hee hee. It is exactly 14 days from our big trip to the Caribbean...can hardly wait. We haven't been on a real vacation since our Cabo trip. That is waaaaaaay too long. Socal is beautiful right now...as long as it's not on fire :)

Let's start blogging!

This is really a gift for Martha because she said how much she enjoyed reading and watching videos about Davis and Sam (her other grandchildren, Mike and Amber's boys). She requested that we start one as well because we keep forgetting to send videos of our boys. I hope we'll do better at keeping this up to date.
Today we went to the shoe store to exchange shoes for Austin. While there, Austin started playing shoe salesman insisting, "that boy (Dylan) needs shoes for the airport and cruise". He brought every baby shoe over one by one and put them up to Dylan's foot to see if they fit. Needless to say, we were not going to buy a $50 pair of baby shoes! However, the shoe salesman was very informative, not to mention handsome! Austin loves playing different characters. Policeman, Fireman, Doctor, and my favorites, Steve Irwin(the Crocodile Hunter) and Jeff Corwin(another Animal Planet herpetologist) are just a few of his characters.
Dylan is Mr. Smiley Pants in the flesh! He always smiles when he makes eye contact with any of the three of us. His ticklish(sp?) spot is on his collar bone and just the threat of Daddy getting him makes him laugh! Dylan has been crawling for almost two months and he's been pulling himself up and cruising for a few weeks. He's had his two bottom teeth since he was 4 months and 1 week old however, he has not had any more grow in. Just a lot of drooling and chewing on anything he can find to stick in his mouth. This teething can make him quite fussy at times. But for the most part he's a very sweet and easy baby. We've truly been blessed with our two boys. I think my Mom had something to do with that.
That's about it for our first posting. I'll try and figure out how to put pics and videos on here. Nothing really exciting has happened today.....yet.