masterpiece

He loves the abcs. He enjoys playing in the tub with the letters, and wants to show me his masterpiece each time if I'm not in the bathroom with him. He'll tell me to go get the camera. And lately he likes looking at the back of the camera, at the video or photo, and calls that 'looking at the front side.'

more swimming

The last post was about swimming, and here is another one. I needed to post this though, because his swimming has taken off. He was jumping alone, and very horizontal in the water, using his arms and legs at the same time. Great job!

Swim clips

Today was the last day of Tues swim lessons for the summer. We are also taking lessons on Thurs. The first clip is of a blast off. You push off on your front or back and (try to) continue floating. With the intro of the blast off, he is way more comfortable on his back. The next clip is of jumping. I was trying to get him to do more tricks, but he just wanted to spin.

swim

fresh photos

Here are some fresh photos of the kids.

Brennan likes the alphabet; singing it, looking at books with letters and playing with his letters in the tub. Here is his masterpiece!

Quinn relaxing with dad. Some of the newborn things are so cute, I'm having a hard time giving this one up, so I let her feet stick out the bottom.

Life is rough being 6 weeks old.....

Playing under the baby einstein. Whenever it comes out, Brennan always has to jump under it. And he usually has a big truck that he wants to drive under it too. I'm glad that he loves his baby sister, but sometimes he's just not as gentle as we'd like him to be.

We met up with my friend Jackie. It's always fun to see people that don't have kids hold kids- they tend to want to give them back as soon as they make a peep. (I will not deny it, I too was one of those people that wouldn't touch a baby, and had to give it back right away)

update

Things are fine over here in Green Bay. Nothing new to report. I look at the different blogs on a regular basis, I just don't take the time to blog, or our life really just isn't that interesting currently, so why bother post. And I haven't been taking photos as often as I should, so I really don't have any good ones of Quinn. But here are a few.

Bath time, July 23 (she has had other baths, this wasn't her first....again, just forgetting the camera)

Grandma Linda was visiting recently, and we got hooked on storytime at the library. Brennan really likes Ms Sue and likes to be in the front for the stories. He's hit or miss on whether or not he wants to participate in the songs and craft.

He finally held his baby sister. Quinn was about a month old. This was taken on July 17. We didn't push him, each day he gets more excited about her. And finally he said he wanted to hold her, so pull out the camera.

She is slowly taking to the swing, and vibrating chair and pacifier. All of which were golden for Brennan. But we keep trying.

Beach time. July 11.

piggies with gg

We were down visiting with the Nawikas family the other weekend. Joe was in Milwaukee for a very short weekend for a wedding and wanted to see the baby. So he squeezed in a quick visit.