the past couple weeks...

Just a few highlights of things we've done in the past couple weeks...

daycare picnic - a HOT day but nice to get out for a bit with both the boys, even though Cole talked about going on the pony all morning when it came time it was a no go... maybe next year!... his favourites - a balloon dog and cotton candy

a suprise visit from my Aunt Margaret and Uncle Fred who were in the area... Cole was napping but Nash was happily handed off for an hour or so!

Nash's 1st swim! - a neighbour who's home on mat leave with her 6 mth old, Keagan, invited us along to swim in her parents salt water pool... Nash loved it and it was the perfect way to spend yet another hot weekday afternoon

visiting friends - this past saturday we got to spend the day in London with Joey, Kimmy and their sons, Lukas and Liam... it was busy with all the boys but great to catch up once again!

A few other quick notes...

Nash has continuously slept through the past 6 nights (yay!) at the expense of barely napping at all during any of the days (not so yay). His least favourite thing is long car rides and most seems to love... kisses, the song "row, row your boat", little airplane rides and leg massages.

Cole is busy learning his alphabet and loves to sing songs all the time now, his favourites being "wheels on the bus" and "twinkle, twinkle". I love it that when Cole gets home from his school you can now ask him who he played with and what the played, whether they sang songs and what songs, etc... it's so great to know about his day from him personally, not just reading about it on his daily report.

first roll-over!

Nash rolled from his back to front today for the first time. We tried to get him to do it again but I don't think he was too happy about being placed back on his tummy after all his work to get onto back:) Oh well, lots more days to practice ahead.

happy 4mths Nash!!

Hard to believe my little man is 4 months already! Pictures from the past week above. Below, pictures of visitors from last weekend.

A few quick notes about Nash. He is about as close to an angel baby as you could hope to get. Although I'm sure memories of Cole's colic make him seem a little extra "angelic"! Nash is a talker and always has alot of smiles. Like Cole he's not the hugest fan of tummy time, but I guess that's a given when you're so chunky! Nash is usually up once a night to feed the odd time twice but we don't mind since he always goes right back to sleep in his crib after... no walking the floors at night with this guy:) The drool which started at a couple months old has yet to amount to any teeth coming in but we're not complaining.

Cole and Hailey

Ellen, Hailey and Mike

Alison and the boys

Happy Canada Day!

to blog or not to blog??

I was one click away from deleting this blog today. There just isn't much for extra time these days... (if the past year of my not posting anything didn't tell you that!) Really it's just one more thing that I feel like I SHOULD be doing. But, what good are these moments if unremembered?... they will of course subconsciously shape us but it's so nice to dig out a book and take a walk down memory lane. Already we have enjoyed looking back on our first blog book numerous times. So, if this ends up just being the occasional post of pictures with a few words here and there I've decided I'm OK with that! So here's a few picture that will begin to sum up the past year... family picture, this past week spent up north at a cottage near Owen Sound

belly pic- the day before Nash arrived- March 8th!
baby Nash- ultrasound at 20 weeks

xmas pic- 2010

Family Pics

After such a great photo session with Cole we decided to go back the following week and have family potraits done by the same girl. She really works with whatevers happening in the moment and once again we ended up with some GREAT shots.

Potraits

After our first potrait session with Cole at Superstore by a not so enthusiastic photographer we were skeptical to try another. I'm glad we did though... we ended up with so many great shots. We did this one at Walmart, and the girl Andrea there did a fantastic job shooting Cole. I can't even pick a favourite so here's a little collection to view...