The boys (Justin above, Nathan below) both at the same age. While I see the similarities, I think that as Nathan gets older he is looking a little less like Justin and a bit like Evan especially in the mouth and smile.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Comparisons
The boys (Justin above, Nathan below) both at the same age. While I see the similarities, I think that as Nathan gets older he is looking a little less like Justin and a bit like Evan especially in the mouth and smile.
Vacation with Family
The boys really liked the hotel room. We really got our money's worth out of the free hot breakfast in the mornings. I have never seen Justin and Evan eat so much food. There was an indoor pool too, we were too busy with family for alot of swimming but while G packed the car to leave the boys and I squeezed in some pool fun.
A giant game of baseball in the backyard.
The lake is perfect for Nathan, very shallow for many yards out, so he could run around in the water!
Evan playing football at the beach.
Evan and Caleb racing in the water.
Nathan enjoying a swim.
A giant game of baseball in the backyard.
The lake is perfect for Nathan, very shallow for many yards out, so he could run around in the water!
Nathan was rocked to Auntie Lori, who has the "touch". He napped for nearly 2 hours like this on the beach.
Evan playing football at the beach.
Evan and Caleb racing in the water.
Nathan enjoying a swim.
We spent the long weekend with G's entire family in Vermont - all four brothers and their kids together with G's parents. What fun! We spent a beautiful day at the lake, the weather was absolutely perfect and the kids all had so much fun together. What a great time!!! We left wishing that we all lived closer to make these get togethers more frequent!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Biking
This is a HUGE milestone for Evan! With his disability it is extremely hard for him to pedal/steer a bike because of the muscle tone and coordination involved in biking. Evan made it around the culdesac for the first time EVER this past weekend all by himself. We are so proud of those little leg muscles of his and his determination! WAY TO GO EVAN!
Andrew and Evan
Team Andrew and Evan managed to build quite the structure, before deciding it was MORE fun to tear it down. I love how Andrew starts punching the blocks out. So fun!!!
Indoor Play
I brought the boys to a local indoor playspace with my cousin Scott and his son Andrew for some energy burn-off. The kids all had a blast. Nathan might have had the most fun of all. Here are a couple videos of him in the playspace easily scaling the obstacles unlike any 19 month old I've seen! Until he hit one he was too short for, then you get to see Nathan's temper tantrum, which by tantrum standards isnt so bad, its almost cute. Almost.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Happy Summer!!!
We have been living it up this summer, leaving very little time for lengthy blog posts. I am keeping up with my daily picture posts though, which will give you a peek into our fun-filled summer...
We made our annual family vacation to Martha's Vineyard at the beginning of July. The boys swimming lessons really paid off in the ocean! Both were little fish and felt really confident in the water. We really enjoyed our vacation this year, it probably was one of the best years in memory. The older boys are at such a wonderful age for doing activities. Nathan is such an easy going baby, he happily gets dragged around with the older boys. This year the boys' cousin Andrew spent the majority of vacation with them. This was wonderful for the boys to have a friend to share their vacation with.
The boys have attended a few camps already this summer. Evan really loved soccer camp last week. Justin is currently attending Lego camp and likes it so far. Today they proudly showed off their motorized trucks they worked on! Quite impressive. Justin has baseball camp and a dance camp yet to come before the end of the summer!
Evan has been keeping up with occupational and physical therapy as well as swim therapy so we stay quite busy with those three times a week throughout the summer. The plan is to continue his services through the end of the year this year and then have a school/team meeting to discuss his progress, strengths and weaknesses and a plan to address each. The progress he has been making since March is amazing, he is such a hard worker and wonderful boy.
The majority of our days though have been spent outdoors in our wonderful yard. We have had lots of playdates to share our beautiful playspace with our friends. Swinging on the swingset, bouncing in our new bounce house, playing in the slip and slides and sprinklers...its all good!
It really has been such a wonderful summer for us all. I never want to see the fun end. I got a glance at some back to school ads in the paper and cringed. Im not ready!!!! We still have lots of fun yet to be had.......
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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