Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Butterflies at the Natural History Museum
We headed to the Natural History Museum this morning and lucked out because there was a live Butterfly Exhibit (Daniel's favorite next to planes). We walked in and Daniel kept pointing and saying "Butterfly". He was clearly fascinated by all the butterflies and wanted to see them all. He was very good about not touching them and actually listened when we said not to touch them :) Unfortunately a butterfly landed on the ground and Daniel spun around and stepped on it - one of the things they warned us to be careful about. The lady behind me saw the whole thing and later commented that a she saw a little boy step on one and I said yes that was my son. It was a total accident but Daniel did manage to make the butterfly kind of gimp away????
We saw some butterflies with such beautiful blue colors but it was hard to capture them b/c they keep their wings shut a lot when they have landed on something. On the way out we went through an exhibit on insects and they had some live samples - perfect for Daniel. The man running the exhibit tried to get Daniel to touch the grasshopper but he was not being gentle enough so I held it for him. Then the man asked me if I wanted to hold a cockroach. I told him the only way he got me to hold the grasshopper and deal with it crawling up my arm was for Daniel. As you notice there are not pictures of me with coachroach! He told me it was good that I did this so that Daniel will not be scared of insects :) I told Michael he is in charge of bug duty at our house.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Mother's Day Brunch
Happy Family - Uncle Eric, Aunt Valerie and Hayden
The best Mother's Day brunch with Daniel
Will decided to build a snowman
Look at that arm! Daniel thinks the spiky balls are fun.
Will and Daniel with all the balls - thank goodness they finally let us outside to play
Deep discussion or negotiation over the balls?
Jason finally gets his own ball
Mommy tickles Daniel and swings him around outside
These guys crack me up!
Mike, Will and Daniel playing hide and seek
This is my favorite picture from the day of Will
Aunt Holly finally gets to snuggle with Hayden and give him kisses
Holly and Tammy with cute cousins - Daniel and Hayden
Daniel laughing and snuggling with Mommy
Hayden wants to show off how big he is now
Jason wants you to know that he can hang with the bigger boys
Tammy making Hayden smile
Holly with Jason and Daniel - captured for a moment before they got on the move again
Hayden in his rainforest bouncer checking out the action with all the BOYS!
Jason is so cute and smiles all the time
Jason is almost walking at 11 months old
I love Butterflies! I think Hayden has some of my toys from when I was a baby :)
Mommy and her sweet pea at 20 1/2 months old
Daniel checking out cousin Hayden (16 weeks old)
We had a wonderful Mother's Day brunch at Valerie and Eric's. Cousin Tammy and Mike came down with Will (3 years old in June) and Jason (10 1/2 months old). So we had mass chaos while eating a delicious brunch with 4 boys under 3 years old - mostly thanks to Daniel who wanted a bagel with jelly that he decided to eat all by himself :)
Hayden was trying to figure out who all these people are in his normally quiet house. I enjoyed snuggling with and singing to my nephew!
Will and Daniel were chasing each other and playing hide and seek! Jason tried to get in on the action as well. Daniel just kept laughing the whole time.
I loved snuggling my sweet pea (even if he insists that he is a totally independent toddler now). Michael managed to get a few pictures of us together!
The boys really enjoyed finally getting outside to run around and play with the balls. It was a gorgeous May day for all. We look forward to many more visits with all four boys together.
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About Me
- Holly and Michael
- We first heard about Gladney Center for Adoption in January of 2005 when we met with Pastor Stephen and Paula. In March of 2005 we attended an orientation at Gladney in Fort Worth, Texas. We adopted Daniel on September 12, 2007! Now we are waiting for a special child to complete our family.