Sweet Summer

We have had a fun summer full of play school, yard work, swimming, swimming and more swimming! We ended our last few days together with a trip to New Albany last Friday to the fabulous splash pad there. John and Elizabeth LOVED the water slide!

Sunday we celebrated with Uncle Matt for his birthday. Here is a hilarious game of Duck, Duck, Goose that he led. Elizabeth had bed head at its finest after her nap!

John and Elizabeth took a little cruise around the Baker's back yard in Sarah's jeep.

We spent our last day of summer together just hanging out and having fun. John got Hi Ho Cheeri-O for his birthday, and loves it!

Jason and I start back to school tomorrow and look forward to having our "other children" join us in our classrooms soon. It's going to be a great year!

My Loves

I had a wonderful day celebrating with my loves (including Jason, who was our photographer.) They make a birthday special! :)

Three Years Old

We can't believe our sweet boy is three! He is such a blessing to us and keeps us laughing constantly. He has come SO far with speech in just one year-that has definitely been our biggest growth area, and it has been amazing to watch. He is about 90% potty trained, which we are so happy about! We had boot camp a few weeks ago for him and Elizabeth, and it worked! He loves his baby sister (E Girl) and is always ready to give out a hug or sugar. John is becoming such a sweet, funny boy with a giving heart. He knows his ABCs, colors, shapes, numbers, and can count to 20 (sometimes higher.) He sleeps really well in his tent or toddler bed, and is hooked on mac and cheese right now. He weighs 37 lbs. and is super tall-41 in. Our sweet boy is growing up!

John's Third Birthday Party

We had a great time celebrating with family and friends at John's third birthday party last Saturday! His three wishes-a train track cake, a red bike and a red helmet-all came true! What a fun day for a sweet little boy.

John is Three!

We had a wonderful time last Friday celebrating John's third birthday. The day began with doughnuts for breakfast. We also told John he was going to ride on Thomas the Train (tickets were our present) in September, but of course that meant little to him. It will be a blast in September, though!

Mrs. Jean came later that morning for one final speech session. We have been so blessed by her this past year, and will miss her so!

Next we went to Jump to play with friends. We had a little celebration with cupcakes from Mrs. Kathryn. Such sweet friends!

We went to Boss's house for lunch and to open presents there. John loves his new train!

After long nap, we went to Chuck E. Cheese to play and eat supper. Boss, Leigh, La La and Jim Jim were all there for the fun! We had a great time and the birthday boy was sad to leave. :( But we had a fun time the next day at his train party!