Bella, Gabe and Josiah

I have no idea how Josy is now two months old. That is just crazy... And to honor the milestone, he decided to roll over for the first time last night. I am definitely not ready for him to be a mobile baby. That is just unacceptable. Other than that, he’s a pretty happy little guy. He’s definitely discovered smiling and there is no shortage of people in this house to make funny faces at him to get him to smile. That said, the other day he was smiling and cooing at a stuffed monkey, so he doesn’t have very discerning tastes quite yet. He’s officially up to 11lbs 6oz. I just checked Gabe’s baby book and he was 11lbs 4oz at 2 months adjusted. As much as I keep saying that Josy is a chunk, he’s really almost exactly where Gabe was. That said, his 3 month clothes are almost too small and I know that Gabe was wearing 3 months clothes at 9 months (5 adjusted), so maybe he has a long torso? There’s no way he’ll fit these clothes for another 3 months. I’m tempted to pull out 6 month clothes

When I got up this morning, I was surprised to see that it was sunny out. Yesterday we didn’t leave the house, which was really nice after several crazy days in a row, so I wanted to take advantage of today’s sun. Bella and Grandma Jan already had plans to go blueberry picking, and it was a great day for that. They came home with great pictures and a pile of blueberries that will soon become blueberry muffins. They also brought back a blueberry branch so that Gabe can pick some, although I doubt any of those will end up  in the muffins... They boys and I decided to go out to the beach  for a picnic. I thought there would be more rock throwing and sand digging. Instead there was a lot of “laying on mom while we eat our picnic” and sleeping. Oh well. They’re only going to snuggle with me for a few short years, so I’m going to milk it for as long as I can...

Pat turns 40 this year. I’ve been thinking all year that I needed to do something big. I even thought about planning a big party with two other friends whose husbands also turn 40 this year, but that never happened. Well, last Sunday I realized that his birthday was going to be while we were on vacation and we were leaving soon, so if I was going to do something, it was going to be last weekend. Then Pat asked me at dinner if I was going to pull off the coffin cake and black balloons while we were on vacation. He then started talking about the party they threw for his dad’s 40th when he was 8, so I knew I had to do something. I spent all of last week working on this party. With the boys being so little, I couldn’t pull off more than one store a day without someone (realistically Josy...) losing it. I spent each day cleaning one little part of the house, since I couldn’t just attack it all at once. An extra bonus is that all the little piles of clutter are now dealt with... Anyway, on

I don’t really post much about Bella on here, mostly because she’s older and teenage drama isn’t really blog-able in the same way that toddler drama is. Also, she complains any time I try and take her picture, so my phone is full of the little boys, who don’t complain when I pull out my phone. But this week, my Aunt Jan took Bella out for the day. I’m not sure what all they did, but it involved going up the tram, cookies and chasing cool clouds. But Aunt Jan also got some really great pictures of Bella. And since that doesn’t happen often, I need to share them.

Every year, I make a photo book about the year. Pat thinks I put too many pictures in them and that no one will want to look at them, but I don’t really care. They’re our family photo albums and we’re the only ones who will read them. Bella loves to look through them and pulled out a couple yesterday to look at. Gabe found her looking at them and tried to join her, but he was distraught about why he wasn’t in some of the books that were from before he was born. He finally brought me the 2015 book and we looked through it together. Um, going through a photo book with Gabe is hilarious. G: Why am I sitting on Bella’s shoulder in a monkey suit? M: Um, that’s not you. That is an actual monkey. G: But he has a, that thing. M: A face? He found a picture of me and Uncle Nathan at Uncle Nathan and Auntie Cassie’s wedding. G: Why are you marrying with Uncle Nathan? G: Why is Auntie Laurie sitting on a crab? M: Look Gabe, this was your first helicopter trip because you

After dinner tonight I sent Gabe upstairs to pick out jammies for he and Josy. The came down with these, very excited that they match.

Josy is 6 weeks old already and is definitely no longer a newborn. His face is  round and he’s got a double chin andsome seriously chunky legs. If he’s still growing at the same rate, he’s probably up to 10lbs 14oz today, which is just crazy. I even pulled out the three month clothes yesterday. I was folding those clothes and I found a pair of overalls that Gabe use to wear. He saw them and asked if he could wear them. I told him they wouldn’t fit, but he could try. Um, he did get them on. I couldn’t snap all the snaps, but I did get the bottom ones snapled. I’m pretty sure that shouldn’t happen when you’re three and a half.... So I decided to put them on Josiah for a comparison. Oh boy... Simce my baby is no longer a tiny baby, I’d better post all of the pictures of the last few weeks I’ve forgotten to post...

I don’t have a lot to say about the 4th of July. The weather was amazing and this town never fails to celebrate the 4th well. Josiah wasn’t sure about the fireworks at first, but then he promptly fell asleep for the rest of them. Then he slept through the noise of the parade too, so clearly he found everything very exciting.