My baby eats leaves and he's got a tooth!

I decided to take a few fall photos of the baby in our front yard.  And I just have to share a few fun ones.

"And here you see a leaf..."

"...and then it's gone..."

Love those blue eyes!

And here's the first tooth peaking out of the bottom jaw.  Eight months old and got a tooth!  I got my first tooth around nine months but my four siblings didn't get their's until they were around a year old.  SM and all his siblings also got their first tooth around a year old so I was sure L would wait until he was a year.  Nope!  Decided to be different and got it at eight months.  In fact, it was Sunday at church when someone said to me that they saw his first tooth.  I dismissed them and said that he wasn't teething.  Went home that afternoon and saw the tooth, it had just broken through the surface of his gum.  Yikes!

Fun with Dad

SM had a faculty kickball game and afterwards another law professor took these photos of SM and L.

Love my boys!

When there is silence, there is trouble

So, I'm just throwing this photo into this blog post because it is so cute!  I love how Kung Fu Panda and Baby L are enjoying the bottle together and how the colors go together.  Plus, this photo shows off the hair that L is growing.  What an adorable baby!

Most of the time L fusses when I put him in the exersaucer.  I was really excited when I put him in it recently and he was quiet and playing, until I realized he was too quiet.  In this photo you can see the pile of leaves on the ground.  L was unable to get full leaves but he did give my plant quite the haircut on one side. Little Turkey!

"Yep, Mama caught you my little one!"

A couple weeks later, L was playing in the library when I noticed that it was too quiet, and then I heard a thud and shout.  L had army crawled over to the fire place and pulled at a branch of a plant and pulled the whole plant onto himself.

Yep, he's keeping his mouth shut because he already has a leaf in there.  He wasn't hurt, but not excited that he had been found out.

Right below his ear he had a pile of dirt, which you can kind of see in this photo.  He also had dirt in his hair and down his shirt.  What a fun experience...and the plants I keep around here are very hearty so I'm not worried about them.  Love this little one!

Front yard fun!

We have a very large yard and so when I grabbed the camera, the baby looked so far away.  He wasn't too sure he liked me walking away from him but look at that cutie enjoying being outside and chewing on leaves and sticks.

The weather was hot and humid and after just ten minutes outside, we were both sweating and hot.  We hope that the fall comes soon so that we can enjoy more outside time.  The mosquitoes have stopped being so aggressive and haven't chased us into the house.  We love our awesome front yard!

When there is silence...there is trouble

The other day I was very surprised that the baby was enjoying his exersaucer so much.  Usually he will play in it for about five minutes before he starts whining and yelling because he wants to get out.  After about fifteen minutes or so I realized that he was very quiet.  If you look on the ground under his exersaucer you will notice pieces of leaves.  Yep, he found the plant and decided it needed a trimming.

Look at how cute that plant trimmer is?  He was happy when he realized I was taking his picture.

Watermelon fun

Check out that large pile of rubber bands in front of those watermelons.  On the 4th of July we had our annual waterslide and then we gathered for a fun contest.  We had four different teams and they took rubber bands and put them around the middle of the watermelon and the winner of the contest was the watermelon that split/burst open first.

Watermelon will stain and so a few garbage bags were worn by those that didn't want watermelon stains on their clothes. 

Here's our first team...the grown up ladies.

Our second team was the grown up men!

The third team was the young boys.

And our final team was the young girls.

Those boys used a lot of teamwork to get their rubber bands on the middle of that watermelon.  I loved walking around and listening to all the teams talk to their teammates and the other teams as they rapidly put rubber bands on their watermelon.

Only a few of us didn't participate but we all had good reasons...except for that cute girl on the air mattress!

And the winner was the young boys!  What a surprise for everyone!  The top flew off and hit one of the nephews in the stomach.  He wasn't hurt, just surprised and had a great story to tell for the rest of the day.

It was a fun game to play and then later we made watermelon sorbet out of the watermelon.

Family Reunion last June

Cute family photo at the family reunion.  The baby was five months old exactly on this day.  My favorite part of the reunion this year was the 5K and fun run/walk at the beginning of the day.  Thanks to my sister-in-laws that let me run with them...especially since I slowed them down when I got a few side-aches. 

My family is so awesome and cute!  Check out these fun couples!

My fun nephew was jumping into the back of a lot of photos...I think it's called "photo bombing" and I laugh when I notice him in the background of my photos.

I had to show off the baby in this fun photo!

Grandpa took a quick catnap during the talking part of the reunion.

And here is baby R, the cousin closest in age to my baby.  I know that when they get a little older, they are going to have so much fun together.