Soccer

Saturday was Madeline’s first Mighty Ball Soccer game and practice. They do 30 minutes of practice and then a 30 minute game. We have a fabulous coach. He is named Paul and is the chaplain at Scott AFB. That is not his real hair in the pictures. It is a crazy hat he wore so the kids could find him. Madeline loved the practice and then came the rain so no game the first week. The kids decided they were going to be called the Smurf’s because of their light blue team color. Nothing like watching some 3 year olds run around chasing the ball!

Madeline and Nick walking out to the fields.

First team huddle. (There are really 3 boys and 3 girls on her team a few were running late.)

Talking about our game plan.

Follow the leader for warm-up.

Champion of following the leader.

A very serious conversation right before the rain began.

A sign of a true athlete = hands in the pocket.

After we got back to the car she asked Nick and I if she could wear her uniform all day. She was very proud of her outfit and can’t wait for next Saturday.

Meeting coach

Yep, this is what Madeline picked out to go meet her soccer coach. I think he is going to be worried.




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Peek A Boo

Will loves to play Peek A Boo with the curtains. Ignore the last 5 seconds of this video. Will gets so excited that he throws up. Let’s all pray he grows out of that! Hopefully one of these days I will learn how to edit my videos.

Peek A Boo

9 Months Old

Here is Mr. Will at 9 months old.

Here are some facts about our little man.

He is almost 25 pounds.

He is sleeping from 7:45-7:00am (Sometimes he wakes up earlier and has a LONG LOUD conversation with himself and falls back to sleep.) He also takes two naps a day!

He wants to crawl very bad and somehow gets from place to place but mostly just hops on his bottom everywhere.

He hasn’t found a food he doesn’t like.

He is still nursing every 4 hours.

He can say DaDa and MaMa.

Clapping is a favorite past-time.

He is loves the pool and bath time.

He is the happiest guy and so easy to make laugh.

He is all boy and loves to make anything a drum.

Here is a little video I took this morning while folding laundry.

Will at 9 months

 

I bet you wondered why the video was missing Madeline…she was gone to Build and Grow with Nick! (My favorite Saturday of the month)

I think she might have been the only child at build and grow with a tutu on. Isn’t her project so cute. It has 4 little holders to hold pictures!

Every time

Every time I start to video the kids stop doing what they were doing! This is still pretty cute but Will usually laughs and laughs when Madeline bounces him in his bed. (This is the 5-7 minutes I hurry and fold a load of laundry.) It is amazing how much faster laundry folding goes without 4 extra hands.

Jumping

Sippy Cups Are Funny

With each new thing we introduce to Will he laughs and laughs. Now he thinks his Sippy cup is very funny

Funny Sippy Cup

Still funny…

Picture Time

We (mostly Me) decided it was time to get the kids pictures taken again. You can’t beat Portrait Innovations $9.95 deal!

Here is our big sister Madeline Grace. She has a huge vocabulary and loves to use it all day long. She is a big fan of the telephone and is dying to be able to text somebody. Most of her pretend play include Woody and Jesse from Toy Story, her baby dolls, and teaching school. She is still not a huge fan of change and sometime still cries when we drop her off at Sunday School. She loves her big brother and can make him laugh the fastest. She loves to ask lots of questions and now knows her phone number, address, and how to spell her last name.  She carries the ipod all over the house singing all the VBS songs. She has loved the pool this summer and is getting very brave in the deep end with her puddle jumper. She is becoming a great helper and is starting to be able to put most of her clothes away, put away the silverware, set the table, and water the plants outside.

Favorite Maddie stories

(Nick sometimes refers to other drivers as idiots) We were stopped at stop sign and Madeline piped up from the backseat and asked Daddy, is it a stop sign or an idiot. Oh please let her not say that in Sunday School!

She also got in trouble one day and next day she was so good. I asked her what the deal was with the day before and she just put her hands on hips and told me she was sorry but it was her short term memory loss.

 

Here is our little Man, William Steven. What a joy. He is so easily entertained and loves to smile and cuddle. He is starting to stand a wee bit on his own but still has conquered crawling. (I think it is the big head.) He talks all the time and is quite loud. His Sunday School teachers have commented that he is the happiest baby they have every had and also the loudest. He just moved out of the bed babies. He is also the messiest eater but loves everything. He keeps our laundry machine running, between his diapers, bibs, and all those outfits!

I think these two are pretty cute, if I do say so myself.