Max Rides a Two Wheeler

April 28

Jon took Max's training wheels off and he picked it up really quickly. This was the first attempt as trying to teach him to ride a two wheeler.  Max was pretty nervous though.

Zac riding along for moral support

Even with his previous success.  He was afraid to fall. I found his helmet and pads and he is much more comfortable now. He still doesn't know how to start out on his own confidently.  And would rather ride his scooter than his bike. ...I probably should work on it with him....

Instagram pic from Jon

Love this pic of Enzo!

Max and Other

April 18-27

One morning while I was on my bed feeding Enzo, Max came in the back door crying. You, know the somethings wrong cry and when he came in with his pinky in his mouth I thought, "oh, great. What happened?" When he took his finger out of his mouth there was blood all over. The urgency hit me then. We went to clean it up and I discovered that his pinky had been cut through the nail. As I was frantically running around, while trying not to freak Max out, calling around for a sitter for the other boys or deciding to take them with me to the ER, looking for max's shoes, and gathering all the stuff I'd need for the baby. My neighbor came home and took care of that and Jon started to head home while I took Max to the hospital. I put a bandaid on it because I didn't want blood to get all over or for Max to move the skin around too much by holding it.

The kind ER nurses informed me that there was a walk-in clinic on the other side of the building that could do stitches. So they saved me a huge copay! At that point the story started to get clearer of what had happened. Max was trying to get a rock out of the dirt in the garden. But Zac wanted to get it out with the shovel. Zac kept telling Max to move his hand. But stubborn Max wouldn't, so Zac decided he'd try and get the rock with the shovel anyway. Zac ended up hitting Max's pinky and cutting through the nail.

We got an x-ray to make sure there was no broken bone. There wasn't. And the dr just glued it shut. I'm glad everything turned out so good!

It was nursery rhyme day at Max's preschool and the students were asked to dress up as their favorite nursery rhyme. I recited a couple for Max, and he decided he liked "Little Miss Muffet" the best. I found some tutorials online and made this easy spider costume for him so wear. He loved it!

Cute little Enzo

I saw this idea on pinterest and thought it would be great for my brother Jacob! And his birthday just happened to be a month later! I got 30, $1.00 bills and sewed them end to end with a zigzag stitch, rolled them up and put them in a box with a slit on top. When he opened the gift bag to see money sticking out he pulled....and pulled....and pulled....it was fun to hear his laugh as he kept pulling and realizing there's more money!

As you may have noticed, Zac is pretty absent from a lot of these pictures. I think its because he's at school all day, or out playing after school. Growing up! I am hoping to take more note of what he is doing, some the documentation is more complete.

Soccer with Max too!

April 17

This was Max's first year to play sports! It was kind of fun to have them both playing.

Their jerseys

All ready before the first game.

It was fun to watch them play. Max is so cute to watch run around the field with his shoulders up and arms swing quickly back and forth in front of his chest. Haha! :)

After Zac, we've learned to break things up a bit. Instead of trying to get Max to score a goal, its awesome if he gets to kick the ball!

Enzo: One Month

April 15

Starting to thicken up! :) My first cubby baby!! I love it!!

Unfortunately, I didn't have enough foresight to decide how I wanted to take pics each month of Enzo, so the first two months he is just in his carseat. I think mostly because I had the picture of him coming home from the hospital all tiny in the carseat.

Easter

April 6

I'm amazed we actually dyed eggs this year.  It was pretty boring me. I'd rather have just held the baby and watched, which is what I pretty much did.

Max picking a color. As you may notice he got an owie on his nose. He skinned it on the trampoline at gymnastics.

Proof I was there

Creativity at work

The Easter Loot-What do you all do for Easter baskets? There's been an evolution at our house and I just don't know what to leave it at. One year we did church clothes, sometimes I want to get the boys a big gift (but Jon doesn't like that since it takes the focus from the meaning of the holiday-I have come to agree with that.), and I don't want to have that much candy! Now that the boys are allergic to nuts, fruity chewy candies are what we eat, but those are worse for your teeth than chocolates. My mom always did knick knacky things which Jon hates having around the house. And I hate having to decide every year what to do.  I want to simplify! But Im not sure how to go about doing that with my boys and the ages they are at.

Being that I was so overwhelmed it wasn't until last min that I decided I wanted the boys to have something to wear to church, but not to buy a whole new suit. I decided I do new springy ties. But I didn't have time or means to drive to "the city" and shop around, plus they were probably sold out of that stuff I'd like (note to self for next year: COSTCO!!)

Luckily I have a friend who makes cute little boys ties and sells them on easy. Her shop is called Buttered Toast. I was able to work with her to find ties that would go together and fit my boys and they got here the day before! Thank you Jesi!

I love this little orange gingham bow tie!

An attempt at Easter pictures while Jon was at church meetings.

My skinny stage that lasts from about 3-8 weeks postpartum.

We had Dave, Emily and her friend come up for dinner. It was nice. And Costco sells the BEST ham!!

Enzo: 2-3 weeks

March 26-29


Blue steel! Haha :)

We weren't able to tell who Enzo looked like more, Zac or Max. But after going through Zac's baby pictures, we decided he definitely looks more like Zac.

This is Enzo

This is Zac

Man look how skinny those legs are!!

I love these little jeans! Carters sells them and they are so soft and cozy!

(See the container of cotton balls there?)

Jon's 31st!

March 25

We celebrated Jon's Birthday a day early, since his mom was still here. (She her flight was a couple days before, but I was sooo not ready to do things on my own that I changed her flight to later, hoping I'd be more ready. And it was much better timing that way.)

I wish that I could've done more for Jon's birthday, but considering everything going on it was lucky this happened. Maryanne made the carrot cake, dinner and went to pick up Emily and Dave to join us.

The boys each got Daddy a tie. They are pretty nice, I must say. How come more stores don't sell skinny ties? (He needed some new ties. I personally think most of his are ugly...and they have pretty much been around since before his mission.)

And I bought Jon a car! Well not really, I paid off the Acura (my car technically) and presented him with the title. But hey, no more car payments?! What is a better gift than that?! Thank you Dave Ramsey-haha!

Caaaarrrrooootttt CAKE!!

Devouring the goods