Fun Pictures Today

We are still in recovery mode from being at the lake this past weekend. I have a big blog post coming with lots of lake-time fun, but her are some fun pictures I took today to tide you over until then!

Hello Brother

Getting so Strong!

Reading with Daddy

Reese is busy busy growing up!

Reese has been working on trying to sit up alone:

He still needs pillows for support

Oh, tippy turtle!

But still so cute!

And a nice opportunity to capture those adorable little feet

He also seems to be thinking about crawling! When on his tummy he often gets up on his knees and elbows and tries to push forward. Maybe he will be a little ahead of his brother and not wait 3 more months to go somewhere!

He had been having quite the conversation with Clifford here!

It's hard to capture his pre-crawl attempts on film!

Also, something I haven't blogged about him yet is his first foods! I gave him some rice cereal for the first time on June 21st, but he didn't really seem ready (like none of it was swallowed, all spit out!) so I waited to try again for about another week. The second attempt was slightly more successful and he has been eating a little baby rice pretty much every night since then. He has also had some bananas, either mashed with a fork and mixed in his baby oatmeal or a chunk of banana in a mesh feeder bag and he can just suck it through the mesh. It's so messy but he is basically making his own baby food! He has also had some pureed pears that I made for him. I think some of the problem at first is that I was mixing the cereal too thin; he seems to prefer a much thicker texture right now.

Here is his very first try with cereal and a spoon from June 21st:

Another evening at the Branz farm last weekend and some excellent photo opportunities! Darrel's Aunt Cindy, Uncle Karl and cousin Clay came for a visit

An awesome picture of Clayton earlier in the day

Reese having fun with his Great Grandma Branz

Clayton in his cool new shades

Darrel's cousin Clay reading a book to Clayton

Unfortunately there are no other pictures of Clayton with the other family members since Clayton seems to be more than a little shy of our "stranger" family members (as in we don't see them very often, I won't speak here of there potential strangeness). Uncle Karl offered his fist to Clayton for some "knuckles" which Clayton was more than willing to do, but after a couple of seconds he realized he had no idea who that was and started bawling! There was still a fun time to be had though!

During Breakfast

So during breakfast I have this habit of turning on the radio for a chance of hearing a little snippet of the news so I can feel more connected to the outside world (but it usually turns out to be things like 2 year olds being run over by cars, so maybe not such a good idea) but usually they play good music and I dance and sing which Clayton thinks is funny and tries to dance and sing along too!

Happy Clayton eating his oatmeal

Reese on the other hand just looks at me like I'm moron!

Oh well!


And here is just a random funny picture of Clayton and Chloe this morning:

Our Little Monster. . .

He speaks monster . . .

Last Weekend's Pool Fun

From last weekend when we were at my parent's house so we could go to a wedding. . .

Reese thought playing in this little pool was fun, but Clayton didn't know what to make of it really. Especially when Grandpa kept spraying him with water every time he went too close! It was fun though!!

He is getting close to sitting up alone!

Visit to the Farm

We all went out to Great Grandpa Fred and Great Grandma Pat Branz's farm this afternoon after nap time so Daddy could get a little work done and show Clayton all the fun farm things, and spend time with family too!

Great Grandpa enjoyed a little Reese time!

Great Grandma did too, but we didn't take a picture - hopefully we can grab one next time!

Daddy and Clayton went to go see the tractors and the wheels:

We ate supper out there, and then before we went home Clayton got to drive the 4 wheeler around a little bit!

Reese was so interested in all of that, and maybe a little jealous of big brother!!

Sitting with Great Grandpa, watching Clayton drive the 4-wheeler

"When will it be my turn?!"