Oh Baby!

Charlie is five months old, and we just need him in our family! He gets more kisses than anyone I know! He loves Anna and Max a lot and gives them lots of smiles.

Dance, dance.

Anna is taking dance classes and she just can't stop dancing. This was while we were bowling and she was waiting for her turn.

Strike!

Bowling is a big favorite of ours right now, so a couple weeks ago when we had Grandma and Grandpa Davis stay over, we took the chance to show them our skills. Max beat us all in a not so close game. It was lots of fun to be together.

Family Dinner

We have lots of fun every month at family dinner at my grandparents house. These are pictures of a game we like to play called "Colored Eggs". It involves a big bad wolf, colored eggs that run, and some that get flushed down the toilet and it is lots of fun. I'm glad we have a new generation to carry on the colored egg tradition.

We Love the Zoo!

We met Taylor at the zoo on Friday afternoon since he had meetings in Salt Lake. We were too excited to take naps before we left so everyone was a little tired, but we held it together for the most part. Max wanted to get in with every animal. I think he took Taylor's joke about putting him in with the monkeys so that he could swing around with them seriously, and it looked like a lot of fun to him to get closer to the animals. Anna, on the other hand, was afraid of almost all the animals except for the penguins, and asked me what each animal ate--just to make sure that they weren't thinking she looked yummy. We brought a picnic, which I was very proud of, and had a great time.

We stopped on our way home and visited the Thompsons who are very special to me. It was the first time they had seen Charlie. I wish I had taken a picture of Grandpa Thompson holding Charlie because they have almost the same name. Charlie is Charles Robert and Grandpa Thompson is Robert Charles! We also got some more grape starts since our first ones died a slow and tragic death and, speaking of death, Taylor got some gruesome tips from Grandpa Thompson about how to exterminate gophers. We were very grateful.

Things Max says . . .

Max can be sort of philisophical in a two-year old way sometimes. Today when I was feeding Charlie, he was sitting by me and thinking deep thoughts. First he said "Babies don't kick down people." then he said "People can put cool things in their pockets." and then he told me "People can buy candy when they are hungry." I think he's figuring life out.

He likes to start phrases with "I won't ever never . . . ." when he is in trouble . Like "I won't ever never hit Anna again"

Max also asks me a lot "Can I break this up?" and "Can this go in the water?" He loves grown up stuff like keys, magnets, calculators, colanders, etc. He asks me every time he sees me putting on my make up if he can have it--I'm pretty sure he's not wanting it to wear it, but just to figure out what it is and probably make a huge mess in the process.

One of Max's favorite things is toast and the other day Max was sitting at the kitchen table looking bored and I asked him what he was doing. He said "Just waiting for my toast to pop up." (so then I put some bread in the toaster).

I also think it's really nice that Max tells everyone who leaves our house "Bye! Me love you! Don't touch the flowers!!"

Iona

We spent Memorial Day weekend in Idaho Falls and had a great time. On Sunday we drove out to Iona, a little area near Idaho Falls where Taylor's grandpa and great grandparents were from. It was really inspiring to me to hear about their lives and their trials and what amazing people they were. I am grateful to be connected to this family through Taylor.

Sunny Days . . .

When we were in Idaho Falls over Memorial Day we got to go play at this playground we love by Grandma Sonja and Grandpa Kent's house! (Be prepared for lots of pictures)