July Photo A Day

 Day 1: self portrait

Day 2: busy

Bath Time!

Sean loves bath time!  Every time I asked him, "Do you love your mama?", he'd grin and laugh!  

Julia's First Haircut

Sean Ryan - 3 Months

Our Sean Ryan is growing so fast!  I'm estimating he's about 18 lbs, and well over 25 in. long.  He's also getting really good about holding his head up and looking around.  He loves it when Julia comes over to talk with him and play with him, and is just a super happy baby in general.  In the last month he's also started sleeping through the night!  In the rare night that he wakes up to nurse, I have him right beside our bed so I usually just bring him into bed with him and never fully wake up anyway.  Tom and I are looking forward to when he's old enough to really play with Julia, but at the same time are trying to cherish this time when he's so little!

Fathers Day Photo

Photo of the kids I took for a Fathers Day project we did for Tom!  I framed this and on the matting put the quote, "Some men wear suits...Our Dad wears boots."  Tom was quite suprised because I did this while he was at work, and just used his old pair of boots and a set of his uniform pants and stuffed them with newspaper :).  

Feeding Geese

Chasing us down...
Tom trying to shoo them away

Attack!

Julia helping :)

Our family was going through a particularly stressful time about the beginning of December, so we decided we needed a little joy in our lives. We went to the next town over to feed the geese, but didn't realize how aggressive they are! They were literally following our car through the parking lot, and then ran us down as soon as we got out of the car. Since I had the camera, and Tom had all the bread, they left me alone, but surrounded Tom and Julia. Tom was focused on getting rid of the bread as fast as he could, Julia was panicking, and I was cracking up laughing! It's a miracle any of the photos turned out, since I was laughing so hard, but we all needed just those few minutes of fun. We've been back once since then, but just threw bread out the car window so Julia wouldn't get as upset.

Thanksgiving

Tom carving the deep fried turkey
Julia having fun with Gramps!

Visiting the St. Louis Arch

At the top of the Arch

Saying goodbye to Patrick and Jordan at the airport

For Thanksgiving, Tom's family was able to come out and spend a few days with us. We mostly relaxed at home, watched the civil war game (unfortunately the Beavers lost!!), and were able to tour the St. Louis Arch.