4th of July - Plus a Few Extra

We started off our 4th of July by going to the Denton parade at the square in the middle of town.

In the afternoon we went to a barbecue at our friend's house.  Eli and I finished the night by going to the fireworks at UNT with some friends.  Jake stayed home with an exhausted, sleeping Adam.  Eli was SO excited for the fireworks because we had been showing him videos of fireworks on YouTube.  However, when the live fireworks started right across the street from us, he got so scared.  He laid his head in my lap and fell asleep from the stress of it all right in the middle of the show.

Here are a few bonus pictures from within the last week.  I can't resist pictures of babies sleeping in their cribs snuggled in all comfy.

Dance Party at the Farnsworths

These are kind of long, so don't think we expect anyone to watch them all.  Having said that, the top one captures Adam best and the bottom one captures Eli's dancing best.

Moustaches

For Family Home Evening we have been working with Eli on having a conversation with people instead of shying away from them.  His common interaction right now is for someone to say, "Hey Eli!" and he responds by hiding behind our legs and pretending to be a dog.    So...for FHE we got out one of Jake's mission ties and some fake mustaches that I made and role-played with Eli as a missionary.  We decided to take a video of Adam since he couldn't stop trying to eat the mustaches.

June was the Month of Forts

Happy 1-Year Birthday, Adam!

Adam Riding His Bike (2 months ago)

Favorite May Pictures

April Happenings

Eli at preschool.

  

Grandma came for a visit.

Hanging out.

Making Adam Excited

Elijah's 3 Year Old Pictures

Spring Break Zoo Trip

Jake had Spring Break, so we took a family day away from his dissertation writing to go to the zoo together. The weather was perfect. Since all the other school districts besides Denton had their Spring Break the previous week, it was quiet even though it was a half price day.

A vanilla wafer cookie will instantly calm a fussing Adam.
The Fort Worth Zoo has a cool parakeet enclosure. You can buy sticks with bird seed stuck to them and the birds come right up to you and eat from the sticks.
Adam, that birdseed is not for you.
All tuckered out.
In this picture Jake is saying that Eli doesn't want Jake to touch him. As we've heard a lot lately, "I'm a big boy. I can do it all by myself."

Potty Training Successes

Eli has officially mastered peeing on the toilet. To celebrate, we went to Going Bonkers as a family.

Preschool Buddies and Another Friend

Here are two of Eli's three preschool buddies. Eli and I made paddles out of paper plates and craft sticks for them to pop the bubbles.

They are having fun exploring ramps at the science center.

And here is a happy Adam.

Here is Eli and his new friend Tristan making pretzels together. I let them form their own dough, and they decided to add lots and lots of flour to them. Yum, brick pretzels.

Some March Pictures

Adam munching on some cornbread.

Eli practicing writing letters. I wrote the yellow letter "A" and then he copied it next to me in orange. This was the first time he wrote a letter (besides "O") that actually looks like the real letter.

While I run on the tredmill, Adam gets to play in the playpen by the glass door.

A nice Sunday afternoon walk with the whole family.