Christian and the Cupcake

Christian truly enjoyed his Birthday cupcake. After singing Happy Birthday, Thomas helped Christian by holding up the cupcake, but after that Christian had no problems.

Happy Mother's Day

Here you can see Noah with his Mother's Day sentiment...

Happy 1st Birthday Christian!

Today is Christian's first birthday. We had a not so busy day. We went to church, went for pictures-we got some family, a few of Christian (he was not to sure about sitting, so we had to bribe with goldfish crackers) and then some of Christian eating a cupcake (which he had no problem eating). We came home to nap, had a snack, played, sang to him, ate another cupcake, took a bath, opened a present and then went to bed. No more baby in this house.

Giddy Up Thomas

Thomas played yesterday with Savanna (8 yrs) and Abby (5 yrs), our two neighbor girls. First they played in the "creek" (the only place on the yard that holds water). Abby fell in and Thomas had mud from head to toe, but he was wearing his mud boots. Later on we look over to see Thomas up riding on one of their horses! He is working on talking our neighbor into riding lessons.

Gardening

Here the boys are helping Nate prepare the garden boxes for planting. We are using these to grow some of our own vegetables. Earlier we went to the plant nursery for seedlings and seeds. Christian is helping me out (finally leaving his shoes on) with filling planters with dirt for our geraniums on our deck.

Christian is walking!

Here is a video clip of Christian chasing Thomas in our kitchen. There was more to it, but I can only put so much on the video clip.

Christian

Here is a recent photo of Christian, who as of last week, walks everywhere and is exploring everything. Here he was carrying the plunger around. You can also see his haircut. After many times being told he was a beautiful girl, it was time for the haircut. Now that I know I can put video on I'll take some of Christian soon walking.

The Buffalo Farm

Upon our visit to the Buffalo farm, we saw skulls, pelts, a mounted head like above where Christian is exploring the horn. We also saw the newly born buffalo calf above in the picture. The mom was being very protective and was right by the electric fence which was turned off, but in reading the info that was given to us, they will charge or jump through so we thought it was best to step back some. I did not take a picture though of the mama buffalo trying to give birth in front of everyone.

Thomas and the Calf

On our stop to the dairy farm, Thomas enjoyed looking at the week old calves that were out to see. He reached in to pet one and it licked him. It took him by surprise.

Noah Singing Twinkle, Twinkle

Hope you enjoy this video clip of Noah singing one of his favorite songs. I just found out I had this ability all the time to post videos. This will be great.

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Over my Spring Break, Nate and I took a trip to Gatlinburg with Christian. We spent some time relaxing and going to the Smoky Mountain National Park. One day we drove to a little town in the mountains and another day we did a mile hike (uphill toting Christian on one side) to see a waterfall. In the end it was worth it and Christian was so tired from the hike up that he fell asleep on the way down.