My mom and brother came to visit us this last week and met Silas for the first time. We have had a great time just hanging out and visiting. We are sad that they are leaving and will miss them very much. Plus I will have to go back to being a mom during the day with no helpers. Boohoo....





We went to Fritz's fountain play and fries.





Eli lining up things that need to be lined up...of course!



We had a little party for Eli's birthday with just my mom, Matt and Pat and Kristy. Uncle Pat brought Eli a bulldozer that he played with when he was a kid. Eli has been sleeping with it ever since.






We went a BBQ this weekend to celebrate our friends birthday. This is Eli and Jeff on a ride in the little boat.
Eli confiscating all the construction machines for himself. It was really funny to watch him take them one at a time away from the area where all the other were playing.




Eli playing with the kids that found his construction machines. Slightly disappointed that they found him and that they don't want to play how he is telling them too. But he seemed to manage.
Lining more things up...

So much has happened over the last few months it's hard to keep up. The latest thing that we have had to tackle is Eli having a potty protest. It started last Monday. He stopped telling up when he had to go to the bathroom. I mean complete acknowledgment of ALL movements. So I thought that it must be because Silas is wearing diapers or cause he is getting his 2 year molars...whatever. But just in the last few days things have been going back to normal. I was freaking out a bit. I think I changed more poopy diapers in last 8 days then I have changed his entire life. And that no exaggeration. Overall he is doing well though. Very busy with all his new trucks and cars that he got from the Kboys (http://4kboys.blogspot.com/). He has to take 6 or 7 with him every time he leaves the house. They are dropping all over the driveway, their all over the car. I think I might have to put some away for awhile to keep the balance.
Silas is still determined to crawl...even though he can't...he thinks he can if he just try's hard enough. He is rolling over, talking and laughing. He is a very funny kid. I can tell that he will be the one that will always have to keep the peace and try to make you laugh. He's taking 2-3 really long naps a day, one in the morning, one during Eli's nap and then a cat nap in the afternoon. The morning nap is great because we go to the pool around 10 am till 1pm almost every day and he sleeps over half the time we are there. This gives me time to spend with Eli and play in the water.

We started vacation with going to the pool before we left town. This was last Wednesday. We drove to Selah, Wa and stayed the night at our friends Dana and Dougs and there 4 boys, then the next afternoon hit the road for the rest of the drive.


Both kids fell asleep after we started driving. Notice that I took Silas's head impact out. He was so hot that I felt bad. He seemed to sleep better with it out.

Eli loved playing with the boys. For him it was like Disneyland. Unlimited amounts of truck, car and trains. Plus fours boys to follow around and play with.








It got really hot around ummm like 10 am so the boys broke out the snow cone machine.
I think Eli found the first great find. It was a scraper..ooohhhh...so cool. He didn't let it go the rest of the day.