Last week Beth started to say Thommy! She has only called him brother for the last 1 1/2 years! Now as an added bonus yesterday she said her name for the first time! It was amazing one of the best words I have ever hear said!

Now I just have to wait for 'I love you' and everything I hoped for at the begining of speech therapy will have been accomplished. She has the I and the you so I just need the middle word and I am sure it will be music to my ears, just like hearing her say her own name for the first time was :)

Birdshill park

Almost all the water gone from the lake, means alot more beach to play in

my kids cannot pass a bridge without laying down and checking out what lives in it, I think it is from all the times we have gotten the walking kit from clearlake for the bog trail.

my best group shot

we always have to take the dog Thomas tells me. However about 10min into any trip to the park the kids ditch the dog with me and go racing ahead.

My little monster, he is too cute for words!

We go to Birdshill park fairly often, its çlose, free and there is lots to do. Other then the beach we have not done the same path twice! However I believe the campground playground we will return to alot in the future.

Here are some pics around thanksgiving

Like every child Drew loves the 'office'. My parents bought this exersauser while I was pregnant with Thomas and the child can walk back and forth and it has a keyboard for the feet to play and lots of bells and wistles. It was nicknamed the 'office' 5 years ago and every child big and small that goes to their house loves it (the seat can be removed so toddlers can still use it)

We took the kids to a corn maze (Deer Meadows by birdshill park) for the first time this year. Thom enjoyed being king of the world! We had a very nice visit and I think we will have to make it an annual thing. We planned to go thanksgiving weekend then invited my Mom, sister, Jake and Ava which very fun and a great way to get the kids to run off some energy before thanksgiving dinner!

Andrew realized someone was in the bathtub with him during his first solo bath in the big tub
It was very funny because he kept sitting up looking'and babbling at the baby in the 'mirror. Now when ever I start the bath be it for the bigger 2 or him his legs start kicking and he starts lunging for the bath, loads of fun!

My little celery head getting eaten by her big brother :) They played with the celery for quiet sometime, who knew it could be used as a toy?

Drew's 1st taste of solids (@24weeks) which he absolutly loved. He wanted the bowl, spoon and a quicker hand feeding him. He had mashed up cantalop which he still alway loves. He also likes chicken so pureed it is more like soup and rice cereal but the other cereals he could pass on. He thinks that when people sit down he will be fed and if he isn't he gets frustrated! This is my first child that likes solids at such a young age the other 2 we had to encourage more, perhaps that is why Drew is such a chubber.