James my love

Isn't that a nice picture I took of him?

Oliver

happy mother's day to me!

We're washing our feet

They got muddy feet outside, so I told them to go wash their feet. So they did.

mystery

These are all three of Wesley's pairs of shoes. The boys can be at a park together, in a field together, or in a parking lot together, and Wesley comes away dirty. The blue shoes? He was playing in a pile of vomit in a parking lot. The black ones? A mud puddle. The blue ones? Daddy was in charge for that episode, so I'm not even going to ask.

Max in the backyard

Wesley and Max before church

Oliver playing baseball on the deck

Wesley's favorite things: bear and train

birthday card we made for their aunt Jessica

It's good to be big

Parents often say, "How quickly they grow!", but sometimes kids see it themselves. Oliver stared at his body yesterday and said, "Mommy, my feet are getting big. My legs too. My legs are big now."

He also loves to call himself a big boy, in contrast to Maxie, the little boy. Max, of course, responds by finding babies in strollers and saying "baby! baby!" very loudly.

A turning point in parenting: Oliver and Max wrestled yesterday, with great laughter. Oliver looked to me and said, "Oliver _likes_ Maxie!" That's the first good word about Max we've heard from Oliver since, well, since Max was born.

boys at grantham park creek