Nick has a tooth!!

I wondered why I have been sore for the past few days and now I know.... Nick got his first tooth in today and it looks like the second one will be through by tomorrow. They are the bottom front teeth. He'd better learn quickly not to bite!!

We're going to WA!!

For those of you in Washington, we should be driving up at the end of next week to visit for a few weeks. We'd love to see you all!!!

Lexie, the 2 year old monster....

Ok, so Lexie has definitely hit the "terrible twos". She has been able to climb on things for a really long time, but I guess I've just been lucky that she hasn't done it much in the past. This past week she has been into EVERYTHING!!! This morning before church, she got into the fish bowl (at least she didn't tip it over like she did earlier this week!) Anyway, I had to get another church dress on her and then while I was wiping up the fish, she got into our bathroom and started squeezing out all of the toothpaste onto the walls and into the sink. I then cleaned that up (and changed my pants since I got toothpaste all over myself). While I was doing that, she got into the office and started squeezing out all of the glitter glue. I was about to pull my hair out by the time we left for church :) What a handful she has become.

Ellie and Nick

Isn't he getting so big?? Ellie was holding him for awhile today while I was trying to get some things done. She just loves being a big sister :)

Here is one more of Ellie yesterday - she had so much fun!

Kate had a little too much fun with the cotton candy. Thank God for baby wipes :) I don't know what moms did before they invented them. Spit, I guess. It would have taken everything my salivary glands could make to have cleaned her up!

By the way, her T-shirt says My Mom Rocks (I just noticed that in this picture it looks like it could be My Mom Sucks!) Depends on the day I guess....

Ellie joined the Army

Ellie was feeling very patriotic on Independence Day and she signed her life away to the Army :) She made her dad so proud! After the 4th of July parade yesterday, they had a "Living History Day" in Monterey. Ellie was recruited along with these other kids and they got to practice drilling with their weapons. When they were done, they were paid a gold coin.