Monday, April 14, 2014

Ryan: photo dump

Our sweet little baby.  
He is pure joy.  

He is full of happy smiles, giggles, adventure and curiosity.  He loves to crawl to the deck door or the front door and just watch.  His crawling legs take him to investigate every nook and cranny, then whatever he found goes into his mouth.  He has just the two bottom teeth but that doesn't stop him from eating everything.  There are three teeth on the top just waiting to pop! 

How do you not want to kiss those cheeks?!?!

He is eating mostly table food, has no interest in that mushy baby stuff anymore and likes drinking from a sippy cup.  


Ryan enjoys cruising in his walker more than being in one spot in his jumper.  





That smile!

He loves this ball popper!

He had a round of RSV this winter.  :-( But he was a trooper and sat well to have his breathing treatments.  It's an awful feeling as a parent when your kids are ill.  

But we just did a lot of snuggling and that helped.  

Typical Perry baby sleep position.  Tummy.  Arms under belly.  Butt in the air.  All three kids did this!  

This series of pictures within seconds of each other makes me laugh.  


This expression!  



Loving Daddy's entertainment from across the table.  

Ryan and Jack Rempt.  Buddies.  


Look at that talent!  A dog on the head?  Amazing.  


Trying out his new carseat… fresh out of the box in our living room. 
Don't worry, it's still rear facing!    
Doesn't it make him look older already?   


Enjoying a spring walk!



This was a couple months ago - loving his toes!

Now he would much rather do this.  At every.single.piece of furniture he can find.  

Who can resist baby suspenders?  
Look at the hair growing over his ears!  Maybe it's time for his first haircut.  

More standing.  More suspenders.  More baby love.  

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Birthday Boy

Happy Birthday to the world's best dad and husband! 

… with Lucas 12/13/2007

… with Hannah 1/06/2011

… with Ryan 6/25/2014

… on our honeymoon June 2003


Cheers to many more memories!



Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Hannah: photo dump

Hannah's latest happenings…
It seems that these days, Hannah loves everything.  One of her most used sayings is "that's my favowit"  {favorite}.  She's really had some maturing moments in the last few months.  Some of that has come with wisdom from this mama, too.  She wants to be independent, she wants to learn and she just loves to be busy.  So I'm trying to embrace it.  :-) A lot of mornings she is the first child awake in the house and when I greet her with "Good morning, Hannah," she replies with "where we going today, mama?"  And there is great disappointment if I say we are taking Lucas to school and coming home.  Hannah loves her daycare days and Wednesdays for Play & Pray; she's quite the social butterfly.  

Playing farm with Lucas.  

She does not love having her hair combed but we have a pretty good system in place now {Brent and I are still learning, too}.  And she's recently started requesting braids in her hair!

You can't beat the smiles.  


Every one's ready for the day!  Another one of her funny sayings at 6AM is very matter of factly stating "It's a nice day out."  
Perspective.  

Sofia the First and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood are her favorite shows.  She got to see her very first movie at the theatre in January - Frozen.  She is only three stickers away from earning the movie on her sticker chart, too!  I downloaded the soundtrack on iTunes a couple of months ago and we can just about sing every song in our sleep.  Daddy included.  

Sleeping beauty with Ducky.  

Writing "H"s on her Valentines.  So, so proud!!


Lucas isn't the only one who loves making Lego creations!


A little shirtless computer time.  

Throwback photo… I think she was just over one in this pic.  


Now it's shirtless cooking.  See a theme? 


On the go again, this time Bunny got to go for a ride.  


Noah and Hannah.  


Hannah and Campbell.  


She loves her baby brother… sometimes more than he cares for.  He's got some defensive moves, though.  He has now started to reach for her hair and she quickly leaves Ryan alone.  


She was so proud of the "bunk beds" that she built for her, Lucas and me.  They pester each other and get on each other's nerves like any siblings but at the end of the day, they are looking out for each other.  I love that.  

She loves her frilly skirts, her Cyclone t-shirts and her cowboy boots equally.  
Perfect. 

Monday, April 7, 2014

Lucas: photo dump

The latest on the six year old at our house -- 
He is sports obsessed, loves his brother and sister, plays well with his sister (even playing babies), always wants to hold Ryan (who always wants to wiggle away at this stage) and is a good student.  He loves school and we had a great parent teacher conference in February.  His favorite parts continue to be recess and PE; he's doing really well with reading and math.  

Big and little.  

Gramma Connie taught Lucas how to tie his shoes waaaay back in October.  
Hallelujah!  


Fuzzy hair about to be buzzed by faux hair stylist, mom.  

The elementary music teacher loves to tease the kids about the "hole in their head" when they lose a tooth.  Lucas has a double hole! 



Random old photo I found of Lucas at about 8 months old.  

He is a super big brother, a good helper, responsible and caring.  

Lucas and Ava.

Latest reading obsession - The Magic Tree House series with Jack and Annie.  

Celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday - Ava and Lucas as Thing 1 and Thing 2.  


A bit snowy :-) 

Drawing a fort with Jonah.  

Ava and Lucas at the spring music concert.  

For many years now, Lucas has talked about Ava being his girlfriend.  At Hannah's princess themed birthday party, Leslee asked Lucas if he treats Ava like a princess.  Without missing a beat, Lucas responded, "No, I treat her like a queen."  Woah!  Uncle Brian, take a lesson on how to treat Leslee from your nephew.  ;-)  

Belting the Star Spangled Banner at the spring concert.  

Enjoying the first day of spring 2014. 
I guess Ryan needs sunglasses, too! 


Basketball obsessed.  {Note the crooked wall hanging from wild rebounds.}  He is also football obsessed and I predict there will be some baseball obsession this summer, too.  Lucas knew all of the ISU men's basketball player names and numbers, often knew game statistics, knows all of the teams in the Big 12 and their school colors.  

Silly faces from Lucas and Owen.  

Way back last fall when we didn't get our deck furniture put away before it snowed, Brent had excellent help.  

Muscles.  

Friday, April 4, 2014

silly faces


Happy Birthday, Grandpa!