Father's Day

Playing football, waiting for the church service at the park to start.

Caleb got a new book "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". I guess it's the latest thing.

Natalee put on a pair of the boys' shoes the other day. She's such a ham!

Joshua's Party

Today, we celebrated Joshua's birthday with his school friends. As his birthday is in the middle of summer holidays, most of his friends aren't able to make it. So this year, we decided to try to have it earlier. Four out of seven friends were able to come. Instead of playing soccer as planned, the boys went downstairs and played Lego for about 45 minutes. It was very hot and muggy, so they had fun spraying each other with water guns as they waited for supper.

And the ice cream cake! Joshua again requested a very easy to make ice-cream cake. Chocolate ice cream with cut up peanut butter cups! It was pretty yummy! I tried to spell "Happy Birthday" with Smarties on it, but it was rather crowded.
Wyatt...cute & tired.

Four year olds are fun

Of course, I love ALL my children, but lately, my afternoon's with Andrew have been very enjoyable. He is at such a fun stage and we are able to joke around and have conversations and I see him learning and trying out new things. I love his imagination and his sense of humor. He makes me laugh with quotes from movies and just being Andrew. I will miss him when he starts Nursery School in fall.

This is what he likes to make when he's alone in the afternoons...I'm not quite sure what it is, but he knows!

And hard at work, washing his car. :)

Water Day(s)

Finally, summer weather has arrived! Although the boys were still getting over colds, we have spent some time in the water the past four days. Spring was too long & too cold! Joshua was getting Andrew to help him build his motorboat, I think.

Natalee...surfer girl!

The four kids..."How long is this going to TAKE!?" (from the movie Madagascar)...for the water to warm up. You had to be there. :)

T R O U B L E !

Running & splashing!!

Sick

We've had a couple months of sickness here. Well, it feels like a couple of months. It started right around Mother's Day with Natalee having The Cold from Mexico (fever and cold). Then Andrew and Caleb got sick. Then Andrew got sick AGAIN. Last weekend, Wyatt was sick. Then Caleb got really sick again (fever, nightmares, and now he's getting over the cold part of it), and Joshua's also getting over a cold too. For all I know, it could be TCFM, and if it is, the WHO is never going to hear us complain about it. As much as I don't like sickness, it could be much worse.

The boys got a note home from school on Friday saying that anyone who is sick needs to stay home until they are completely better, so even though Caleb and Joshua have been acting completely *normal*, they're stuck at home with some coughing and some stuffy noses. So today seems like a long weekend.

Yesterday, we set up Joshua's tent in the backyard. It's already too hot to play in it, so we're inside, enjoying the air conditioned house! Yay! These pictures are from yesterday.

Wyatt seems to really like the "donut".

June

Natalee sitting in Wyatt's Bumbo...silly girl! :)

Joshua carrying his "little" brother! "Take the picture fast, Mom! He's heavy!"

Wyatt...learning some new tricks. He's starting to get more of his upper body up off the ground.
It looks like snow, but it's hail.

Caleb took this picture of a thundercloud. He wants to make a whole album of storm cloud pictures.

You've come a long way, Baby!

November 28, 2008...

Six months old, May 28, 2009...

Ready for a nap...
Rolling over from back to tummy!

Swinging at the park...

May Long Weekend

On Friday, we went to Applebee's to celebrate Andrew's birthday.

Joshua tried to teach Andrew how to hold up four fingers.

Enjoying their sundaes for dessert. We were disappointed that they didn't come to sing "Happy Birthday" for Andrew. So we made sure to sing it a few more times before the day was over.

Natalee and Caleb.

On Sunday, we skipped church because four out of five kids were still coughing significantly and we hit the park instead. We weren't in the best neighbourhood as you can tell by the houses in the background, but I did get some half decent pictures of the five children before Wyatt had his nap.

Natalee, Wyatt, & Andrew snuggled together on the couch.

Wyatt and Andrew were both at the Doctor's office today. Wyatt is 15 lbs. 15 oz. and 27" long. He has also started rolling from his back to his tummy over the last few days. Looking at Caleb and Joshua's height and weight at their four year appointments, Andrew is 2 lbs. heavier than Caleb was at 4 years old and an inch taller than both Caleb and Joshua were. I keep warning Caleb and Joshua to be nicer to Andrew because some day he's going to be bigger than they are! They don't believe me.

Back to the coughing...when we went out for brunch on Mother's Day, Natalee was coughing a lot and wasn't feeling that great. Caleb said, rather loudly, "Maybe she has that cold from Mexico!" I assured him she didn't and told him not to scare the other people in the restaurant. :)

Andrew's Birthday Party

We celebrated Andrew's 4th birthday yesterday with Grandma & Grandpa Bergman, Uncle David & Shayleen. Andrew got his favourite, Texas Potatoes, for supper. He requested a chocolate cake, and I decided to try a new recipe. Here's the birthday boy with his huge cake! He loved the sparkler but was scared of it at the same time. The middle is cream cheese, 2 cups cool whip, and 12 crushed oreo cookies.

Andrew got a toy coffee maker, and much coffee was made, shared, and consumed last night. All the kids wanted to get their hands on it.

Mike decided to package Wyatt as a present...there was some extra room in the bag.

Mother's Day

My most favourite thing about Mother's Day is the things the boys have made for me at school. Joshua made this card (one of two cards he made for me):

And Caleb made this book, "What my Mom does best."

Joshua's classmates each had to complete the sentence "I love my Mom because..." and you can see his at the top "She makes me food."

I also got a plant from Joshua, a geranium, I believe.

And Caleb made this flower holder with four beautiful tissue flowers.

Fortunately, the day was sunny enough for our annual Mother's Day picture. This was the best picture of the three Mike managed to take. The kids were awfully squirmy and not very cooperative.

On Thursday, Natalee spent most of the day sleeping. She is still getting over a bad cold, which Andrew has now too.
And Wyatt, showing off his baby blues.