A day at the gym

Something you never expect your child to say.

As we are walking to the child care inside the gym, with lots of people milling about, Holden is saying over and over, "mom let me pinch your chubby but", as he is trying to pinch my chubby but. So I'm shushing him and trying to dodge his little hands at the same time! Fun! Just a day at the gym.

Bailey's Baptism - Sept 5th

Here she is early in the morning. She was baptized in Lake Michigan. We had to be at the lake by 8:00am. So it was a crazy morning. But everyone was excited that we were finally able to see her get baptized. And no one was sick! We had Grandma and Grandpa Smith and lots of friends!

Always posing

Lake Michigan in the background

She's just been dunked. It was pretty cold. When she got up out of the water she skreeched and some said she's got the spirit with her now. It was funny at the time.

After the brunch at the church we had her pose for more pictures. It's she gorgeous!

First Day of School - August 27

First day of preschool for Holden. All the moms were walking their kids to the door and fussing and mines says, "I don't want you to walk me. You stay in the car. You don't get out da car." (we drop off at the door and an aid comes out to get them.) He's Mr. Independent.

Parker and Bailey's first day. Same thing! What can I say. I've raised confident, independent, and very cute kids!

Lessons from a 4 year old

I was just getting Holden dressed and he started singing a song that I think we all should sing every morning. It goes like this (to the tune of a song from Phineas and Pherb on the Disney channel), "I love myself, I love myself". Over and over again. With I love mom, I love dad, thrown in there every now and then.

Bailey's latest

Parker had a baseball game last night. There was a playground by the ball park (Northfield community center) and she and Holden were playing over there. She came back and told Brayden, "There are these boys that were 3 or 6 years old and they were telling me that they could beat me up because they know karate. And I told them, you don't know karate, I know karate and I could beat YOU up." (she took tae kwon doe in 1st grade) This tells me two things. My daughter doesn't know the difference between a 3 year old and a 6 year old and she can apparently defend herself! Good stuff.