Portrait photos

We had the boys' photos taken at Portrait Innovations in Loveland, and they turned out so adorable! They also let us take a CD home with all the pictures on it and said we could put them up on our blog, so here are a few (okay, more than a few) we didn't order! We'll be passing out the ones we got prints made of. Enjoy!

Eli's Spring music recital

On May 12, Eli's preschool class held their Spring music recital. First they performed a couple of songs as a hand bell choir, then they performed their musical. Eli was a rain cloud. It was super cute, and Eli did a great job!

Eli and his hand bell ringing. They did "Twinkle, twinkle little star" and "Ring around the rosy."

Here is Eli singing at the beginning of the show. The song they're singing is "The farmer plants the seeds." I missed getting it on video. The rest of the songs you can view using the video clips below. Some of them are quite comical!

"You are my sunshine"

"We're big rain clouds. We bring water for seeds to drink."



"If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops..." (At the end of this video, the kids threw bubble gum at the audience! After the show, we realized that Eli hadn't thrown his gum but had kept it to chew for himself! I'm pretty sure he swallowed it.)



"The plants begin to grow"



"It's Spring!"



This clip was actually before the show, I was trying out the video function on my camera on Silas, who didn't want to be recorded...



Eli and his music teacher, Cheryl Brown.

Silas wanted to join Eli on stage afterwards.

Eli and his spider hat he made in class before the show.

Silas and his cheesy grin.

Mother's Day

Mommy's little angels, sitting amongst the tulips.

On Mother's Day, we had a nice family day together. We went to church (where the boys were actually little devils) and then went out for a nice brunch at a restaurant in Wellington (probably the only one open on Sunday other than Subway and the gas station). The boys each made me amazing cards and gave me a box of dark chocolates. Bryan also gave me a meaningful card, yellow tulips, and promises to take me on a fun date for dinner and a play sometime this summer!

Now, I am not crazy about myself in ANY of these photos...but my boys (all 3 of them!) are so cute...I thought I would post them anyway. I so enjoy being their mommy!

It's a BOY!!!!

We had our ultrasound on Wednesday, and we saw a healthy, active, baby BOY!!!! During the ultrasound, he was at first sitting breech, with his bottom in my pelvis and his feet up straight above his head! (He is WAY more flexible than I ever was!) He moved around a lot and made the technician giggle with amusement several times. She almost thought he wasn't going to let us see his gender! He also thought it was fun to tap dance on my full bladder...I was feeling some sharp pains and getting quite uncomfortable, so the technician showed me why! What a stinker! Here are some pics of him...sorry the quality isn't that great. We are madly in love with him already, and can't wait to actually kiss that little face! The first two are profile shots.

He has his hand resting against his mouth with his thumb on his chin...like he's deciding what acrobatic trick to do next. (You can see the four tips of his finger bones and his thumb).

Here is the gender shot, it's looking up at the bottom with his legs spread, and you can see what's between them! :) Hopefully someday he'll forgive me for posting this so the world can see!

And here is mama, at 21 weeks, with a bit of blue in her hair to celebrate her third son!

the boys

Well, we've had a fun couple of weeks and have played a lot, inside and out! Here are some snapshots for your enjoyment!

We have recently discovered a web site for kids learning to read called www.starfall.com, and the boys love it! Eli has learned how to use the touch pad on the computer and asks almost every day if he can "do his letters." He gets this really intense look on his face and is learning so much! Silas likes to watch him do it and is learning all the sounds the letters make and how to spell words!

We went to ChuckECheese's with some families from our neighborhood, and the boys had a blast! They've been wanting to play games a lot at home now, and Bryan will give them tickets (just like at ChuckE's).

Here are Bryan and Silas sleeping after Silas climbed into our bed early one morning...I don't know how Silas thought this might be comfortable. Bryan apparently didn't mind it either.

Our friend Sheri across the street invited the boys and I over to make play dough! They had a great time dumping and stirring and finally playing outside with it!

The boys and I played outside a lot this week! One day they were particularly open to posing for the camera...so of course I took advantage of it!

Eli drawing an owl with sidewalk chalk.

Their neighbor friend Will, and Eli and Silas sitting in Will's pool (with no water) and putting football tees on their heads. Silly boys!

Sleepy Silas

Eli and his preschool teacher, Amber Hopkins.

Eli and Jenny Beath, his classroom aide.

Eli and his "favorite friend" Emma from school making silly faces. They play together every day at school!