Just a couple of pictures of our cutie pie.
I made a chocolate cake for Big Brother’s birthday today, and gave Baby his first-ever beater.
Think he approved?
He’s very popular with his brothers.
Nathan
Another Musical Baby!
Every one of our children has loved singing and music, and it looks as though this baby is no exception! One of the children found a CD they hadn’t listened to in awhile, yesterday, and put it in the CD player. It was Eduard Klassen, playing hymns on the Paraguayan folk harp, which is very beautiful music. Baby loved it–see his reaction below!
Random Photos
This one turned three! Here he is with the gifts his siblings gave him.
The annual Dead Boring Bike Hike–ready to take off!
I followed the bikers in the van; I never saw the oldest two boys till the end. I passed these two a number of times.
I also passed Esther and her friend a number of times.
The chicks in the house are growing–when they started doing this trick we had to put a screen over their home!
Elijah got the idea to build this house from skewers and modeling clay. James helped out.
And look who can climb up on top of things already!
This one (Mr. Sweetie) found his daddy’s gum boots one afternoon!
Someone gave the chicks a perch, and they like to sleep on it. It’s rather comical–they try to sleep with their head tucked under their wing, but when they fall asleep their head falls down!
Pretty daring!
Muddy boy!
Somebody wants to go outside!
Now this is a cheesy grin (literally)!
Flower Boy
A big brother tossed the dandelions to the baby, and of course he had to figure out how they tasted! I hear that dandelions are quite nutritious….
He’s Crawling
Baby is crawling already! He’s been getting around for a few weeks already, pulling himself along on his tummy by his arms, but today he’s nearly given that up in favor of crawling the normal way. This is the earliest we’ve had one crawling–he is 5 months and 22 days, about 3 days earlier than our previous earliest. Looks like a busy life ahead, if this is any indication.
Slow Down!
I’m not ready for this–my baby is starting to get around already! A couple of days ago he started getting up on his knees and lunging forward to grab things that he wants. In my opinion, four months is too early for this–but he doesn’t care what I think.
He’s a Distraction!
No, I haven’t been on here much lately. For one thing, there hasn’t been anything real exciting happening–just daily life. For another, we have a major distraction–this was yesterday during school:
Such cuteness is hard to ignore.
He loves his walker–he can investigate all sorts of things!
Yum! Pajamas!
You caught me!
Sometimes it seems like he’s all mouth.
Busy Baby! (pictures from this week)
“I like my tongue!”
Can I get up now?
This is blurred because he was running towards me at top speed! He goes all over the kitchen in that walker.
A friend sent him this kiwi and he was investigating it tonight.
The second-youngest often falls asleep during Worship!
Baby is Talking!
Our baby is really trying to communicate now. He turned three months old last week, and is getting more fun every day. His coos are more of a growl right now. The other morning I got a video of him, and tonight I actually found time to share it here! So glad for the occasional Sunday that we come home from church before 5:00!
Fossil Hunting
Yesterday at our homeschool writing group meeting, a man showed us a powerpoint presentation about fossils. He has been collecting fossils for several years and has an impressive collection from the local area. My boys badly wanted to go to Gore Bay and search for fossils along the cliffs there, so, since it was sunny and warm today, we went right after lunch. When we arrived, the tide was high, with waves hitting the cliffs, so we sat on top and read some of our books for school before we went down. The tide was still so high that we couldn’t get to the best places, but the boys climbed up some of the less-vertical cliffs anyway. We never found anything that we were sure was a fossil today, but had fun exploring anyway. One unusual thing we saw was an oystercatcher (bird) with a missing foot! I could tell something was strange about it, and when I was able to see its tracks, it had one normal footprint and one that was just a round peg. Poor thing.
The tide when we arrived.
Reading stories.
This one quickly got bored with the stories and found something more interesting!
Climbing the cliff to hunt for fossils
After they gave up on fossils, they cut a few branches of lupine bushes.
Driftwood makes a great boat.
The tide when we left–quite a ways farther out, and notice the shadows. Short days right now.
And these two pictures are just because they’re cute! The first one was this morning when 2-year-old needed something to do during school and I assigned him to “read” to baby.
This one was after we got home this afternoon. I set baby on the couch while I went to do something else, and when I came back he was staring, fascinated, at his booties! They kept wiggling!