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MUD 2

Always Daddy's helpers

Always at Daddy's side helping out... this time to water in the yard. Have to say this is reminiscent of the "vacations" we took to Branson to visit the grandparents-- we got lots of these chores as well... I remembering watering all of Grandpa's trees through his fancy 5 gallon bucket devices...

Photography professional and rookie

Our friend who has a nice camera took pictures of Aidan and Caleb and I at a picnic we went to...

You can guess which 3 year old took the last two!

Catching up

Aidan helping daddy paint when we were staging the house...

Caleb the cheesebeard pirate!

Aidan loves ladybugs-- sometimes he "ruins" them...

Ladybugs on parade

Catching up from the last months

Playing with the hose-- you can imagine how dry we all stay

Splish splash in the clean bird bath

Caleb wants the helmet on when he sees it -- ah yes, Chaser present just in case some pretzel gets on the floor

The bouncers...

May days

Aidan the big gardener helping daddy plant some tomatoes and herbs (nothing of the quantity of our farm family...)

Caleb saying "no" to getting his picture taken

Aidan making mommy blueberry pancakes for breakfast

We made some fancy smoothies today on Mother's day!

Random April pictures

Caleb playing in the rain

Aidan riding a pony at his school's Fun Day... this morning he said that we were on our way to people church and the ponies were on their way to pony church

New sunglasses... Andy thought about leaving the tags on and making them signs...

Caleb eating guacamole out of the bowl... yum~

Always in the bird bath to get wet!

Some pictures-- a lot more to come (at some point)

Boys with Grandma at the aquarium-- Caleb's first time...

Smith family at Easter

Caleb likes the chocolate, foil and all

Aidan's bag of goodies

Our family at church on Easter Sunday

Still figuring out how to "blog" with our new MAC... I am missing Picasa but am sure that there is an easy way to do it through this computer...

Computer on the fritz

Sorry about the lack of pictures and updates-- our computer has been on its last leg...

Looks like will likely be staying in Atlanta!

Fun in MKG!

Silly Aidan making faces at Bubba's camera

My parent's neighbor of 34 years, Sandy, holding baby Mason in the sunroom
How a typical day looks for Andy, literally and figuratively

A visit to MKG would not be complete without Bubba time!

Photo shoot with the new cousin!

Baby Mason looking like a little man

Practicing to be dual big brothers.... the laying on of hands!
Awwww... what our family will look like in a few months!

Caleb being sweet to baby Mason

Derivation of the Caleb words

Caleb is in the stage where he picks up a lot of words, and remarkably, most are quite understandable (in context of course!).

He still has a few funny ones that we have to translate. For whatever reason, he calls his milk "eee-yaw". Have no idea where that came from!

His other funny word is that the word for thank you is "cookie". I think this is our fault for confusing him. When he would get a cookie, we would have him say thank you, so now he thinks that is the word for thank you!!

He also will have the same lisp with the s's that Aidan does-- it is most pronounced when he says the words "juice", "nice" and "toots" (I am sure you can't imagine how he learned the word "toots"--- 3 year old brother, maybe!!).