CB 2013

Crested Butte, Colorado, June 15-21

We spent a wonderful week in Beautiful Colorado! We were joined by my parents', Nana and Grandaddy, and Aften and Greg. We rented a 4 bedroom cabin just a few miles south of Crested Butte, right on the river. The weather was beautiful and the memories were grand! Here is just a quick glimpse of our fun.

• Edward loved watching Max chase his fishing pole line. He laughed and laughed!!
• We fished at Irwin lake and managed to catch around 15 trout. Edward got to see a fish and immediately started doing the mouth puffer fish action and talking to the fish "Hi, hi" and waving to it. It was so cute!
• Ice cream!! On Main street in CB which then led to a SUGAR RUSH!! Which led to a crazy toddler running up and down the driveway non-stop.
• River swimming with Max, Edward loved to see Max get in and out of the river and then shake--wet dog!!

Looking forward to MANY more magical memories to be made in Colorado!

Bring on Summer....JUNE

These sweet boys of mine are just changing too fast. Please dear God, help me to remember all of the joyful and sweet moments we share together.

One of the sweet things they are doing right now (June, 2013) is talking to one another at the dinner table. Edward will start screaming playfully, Eli will look his direction, smile and then join right in on the conversation.

Here are a few other things Edward is currently doing:

• Edward's version of sharing is letting Eli play with the toy for a few short minutes/seconds then he will take the toy away and say "tank you" (thank you), the best part of this is that he says thank you to congratulate himself for sharing, it's soo funny!
• He remembers everything you say or tell him! A few of the more random items he is remembering is "Aften paint plate" because there is a plate hanging in our kitchen that she did indeed paint, and "paw" for Max's paw print on the concrete when his feet get wet.
• No French toast, but grapefruit????.....
• Recognizing some letters (d-dad) and colors (orange)
• "Watch this, watch this" repeated over and over one day while playing outside on the basketball goal.
• THE Coolest story this month was that of the 'Grasshopper and Jeep'. If you ask Edward about this story and listen very carefully he will depict exactly what happened. We were outside playing and I saw a grasshopper and quickly called Edward over to take and peek and of course Max came running as well. When the grasshopper jumped, Max chased. This occurred a couple of times when the grasshopper took a leap and landed in the back of Edward's Jeep--memorable moment of the month! Edward was completely delighted and excited beyond words! then of course, Max chased and the grasshopper jumped, but this story will hold itself in the Hall of Fame for some time....! "hopper" "jeep"

Eli is making some huge strides himself:

• He is observing everything, people, sounds, animals, and especially his hands and feet!
• He loves the remote control and my phone...
• He is rolling over from front to back and back to front, every once in a while...
• He doesn't seem to mind tummy time nearly as much as he even did at the beginning of June, and is moving around a little bit...I better get ready for TWO moving little people!!