Picture update

I unloaded the cameras today and realized how much blogging I have to catch up on. Not that there has been much of significance going on, but we have pictures of our day to day, and so we blog....

Rachel has been on a pirate kick off and on lately, and got a bandanna from Grandpa night to wear when she was being a pirate. She let Ryan borrow it:

He looks like a baby terrorist.

Bubbles!

Annie got a special treat from Daddy when he gave blood (since all the post-donation snacks had gluten he brought them home to share since he couldn't eat them).

Annie showing some love to Ryan. He's a pretty good sport and puts up with her love pretty well most of the time.

Ryan had this reverse male-pattern-baldness going on. Most of his baby hair along the sides has fallen out and is growing in light blond, and the roots of his mohawk are coming in blond, but it looked really funny with the tips being so much darker than the rest of his hair, so we decided a 2nd haircut was in order when he was 4 months old.

Post haircut:

 

Showing off his yoga skillz with a downward dog.

Monsoon season has been pretty great this year with some good storms blowing through, though we've been missing them the last few days. The best one yet was a week or two ago and it rained so hard we had a stream in our front yard, and a river running in the street. The water in the street was almost up to the top of the curbs. We had some great puddle jumping afterwards, and had a nice picnic in our garage to watch enjoy the much cooler air post-rain.

We got to go to the temple a couple of Saturdays ago for the first time since Ryan was born. He took a bottle just fine the week before, but apparently he decided to give bottles up after that. Maybe because he threw up from eating the formula. He has a hypoallergenic formula now that doesn't seem to give him any problems, though we haven't been able to get him to drink a bottle of it, but when he eats it mixed in with his rice cereal and is fine after. Anyway, we went to the temple and my parents were nice enough to watch the kids for us (and clean our house, for an extra bonus--blessings for attending the temple?). They ended up feeding Ryan lots of rice cereal loaded with formula and he survived the 7 hours we were gone without starving or crying the whole time despite refusing a bottle. The girls had a great time and got some new books and stickers, which Annie was nice enough to share with me all over my face the next day.

Whenever Ryan is fussy and nothing else will calm him down we take him outside and he calms right down. He is content to just sit outside and look around for a good long while. Annie is getting more clingy with me lately, so when I go somewhere she wants to come with. If I sit in the hammock/swing with Ryan, she wants to be in my lap, too. (Notice the jungle grass--apparently when the monsoons come, it makes grass grow. I guess that means we need to cut the grass. For the second time this summer.)

And will wrap up this edition of blog update with a picture of Annie in her teeth brushing position: feet in the sink, sucking the toothpaste off the brush.