Art

This isn't technically art, but when I first saw this I thought Avery had written, "everybody to be ice god" but then I realized that ice was really nice and god was supposed to be good.  I thought it was pretty funny anyway.

Harper drew this picture of Daryl.  Harper said that he was sad because he was hurt.

Another Harper picture.

Avery drew a computer for Daryl.

Avery drew a cat for me.

This is Avery's drawing of Luke.  With the red mouths Avery puts on everybody it makes the pictures look slightly demonic.

This is a sign Harper put up on her bedroom door.  It says people eating monsters keep out.

Harper proudly displaying her picture of pickles with faces.  Harper says they are talking pickles.

Memorial Day Weekend

  This Memorial Day weekend we went over to my Dad's hometown of Toppenish to lay peonies on the Layman's buried there including my grandfather who served in World War II and my dad's cousin Terry who served in Vietnam.  I was expecting the girls, especially Emery, to want to run around in the cemetery, but they were all very good.  They were pretty focused on their task of making sure all the Laymans there had enough peonies on their graves.  Emery was very sweet and tried so hard to make her flowers stand up.  

Baby Luke's first outing to Miner's.

Emery trying to stand up her peony.

We were trying to get a shot of Luke with my grandmother's headstone because they are birthday buddies when Avery and Harper jumped in.

My grandfather's headstone.

This is my Aunt Fayetta who died when she was a little girl.

My dad's school Garfield Elementary.

This is the house my dad grew up in.

Mother's Day Weekend

  We had a pretty low key Mother's Day weekend.  Sunday we went and had dinner at my Mom's house.  My niece Ashlyn flew in on Sunday, and is going to stay with us this summer.  She's going to help out with the kids for her summer job.  We are super excited she's here, and she finally got to meet Luke and Logan.  You can also see how Avery got a one of her My Little Pony combs stuck in Luke's hair.

I asked Harper why they put the little blanket on Luke, and she said it was because he was a super baby.  Also you can see Avery combing Luke's hair.  It looks cute right now.

It's not so cute now with the comb twirled into his hair.  It took me about a half hour to get it untangled.

Ashlyn meeting Logan for the first time.

I love the look on Logan's face.  Logan got to go to his first Mariner's game on Mother's Day.

Hey cousin how you doing?

We were trying to force the babies to interact.  

This is the best picture we could get of them looking at each other.

Luke is Six Months Old

  Here we are at half a year of Luke.  It just seems like yesterday I was endlessly waiting for him to come, and now bam it's been six months.  Luke continues to be a pretty happy little guy with only occasional bouts of grumpiness.  He has finally decided to roll over all the time now. He shows no signs of crawling at all, which is fine by me because I don't want him crawling before we move anyway.  Luke also has no teeth and it doesn't look like that is going to change any time soon.  After many reluctant tastes of rice cereal Luke decided that it wasn't that bad when mixed with peaches.  I've never had a baby so unenthusiastic about eating.  The girls always ate like they knew I had been hiding the good stuff from them.  Luke eats, but with a lot of insistent spoon work from me.  He's only fourteen pounds three ounces right now.  I don't know length because we haven't had his check up yet.  He now spends all night in his bedroom that he shares with Emery.  Luke and Emery can more or less fall asleep at the same time when we put them to bed together.  It feels really nice to have our room back.  Luke is such a sweet guy, and the whole family is just in love with this guy.

Finally most definitely bigger than the monkey.

Poor guy has leftover girl toys to play with.  He doesn't seem to mind though.

Luke playing with another girl bunny toy.

Emery wanted to make a monkey sandwich.

Here's some tongue.

Baby close up.

Harper is reading a book to Luke to help cheer him up.  She's also the one that gave him the bunny toy to play with.

Luke eating his lunch of peaches and rice cereal.

I just love this sweet face.

April Stuff

  April was a pretty exciting month.  My sister DeAnna and her husband Brad moved up to Portland form Phoenix, and we were all excited that they are closer now.  The week she moved up was spring break, so I took all the kids to see her because I couldn't stand it.  I didn't take any pictures of that.  She and Brad came up the next weekend to see everyone, and I got some cute pictures of Logan and Luke having man time together.  Then last week DeAnna came up for a couple days, and was able to see Avery's Kindergarten play Goldilock's and the Three Bears.  

Emery looks like she's going to take a bite out of Luke.

Avery in her Kindergarten play that she was so, so excited about.  She is in the pink shirt with the purple skirt with pink polka dots.

Harper put on the doll's jacket.

I've been trying to get Luke to eat real food with mixed success.

Logan and Luke side by side.  Logan is 17 pounds and Luke is 14 pounds.

Here's another picture of the boys together.  They are just too cute.

Avery cuddling with Brad and DeAnna's dog Lady.

Brad and DeAnna 

Luke rocking out.

Five Months Old

  Somehow five months has just flown by.  A couple weeks ago we just went ahead and bought a second pack and play to put in Emery's room.  Now Luke sleeps with Emery at night.  It seems to be working out well.  Emery has only woke up to Luke's crying once, and he has started to sleep until five and six in the morning.  He still naps in our bedroom though, so I don't have to try and coordinate napping with Emery.  Luke rolls over from tummy to back and back to tummy.  Until this morning though I have never seen him roll over.  I finally was able to witness it for myself.  He continues to be a sweet guy.  He is just barely growing out of his three month clothing, so he's still pretty shrimpy.  We all just love him to pieces.

Avery is supposed to read every night for her homework, and she is really happy to read to Luke.  She is reluctant to read to us, but just loves to read to Luke.

Hanging out in Mom and Dad's bed.

He spends a lot of time on his side, and that little cow toy is one of his favorite things to play with.

He's definitely taller than the monkey now.

Luke loves to stick out his tongue.

Avery really wanted to be in a picture with Luke.  She's waving hi.

Our Easter Weekend

  We did all the normal stuff this Easter weekend like hiding eggs and putting out baskets for the girls.  None of which I took any pictures of.  Avery and Harper were excited about hunting for eggs, and Emery was pretty indifferent even with help.  Emery did love eating Easter candy on the other hand.  She kept coming over and over again with a chocolate to unwrap.  She ate more than the other girls did.  After a pretty low key dinner we took the whole family on a walk to the temple to solve our serious wiggle problems.  It was a nice day.  Here are the few pictures I took that are Easter related, and the one picture that I took on Saturday.  Saturday is becoming the most dreaded day of the week with Daryl in class all day.  

This is what Saturday morning consisted of.  Everyone was eating Nutella, and it felt a little like The Lord of the Flies.

Avery made a picture of an egg to help decorate for Easter and wanted to be pictured with it.

Here's a close up of the egg that Harper drew.

Avery says she drew this picture of the Easter bunny all by herself.  That red mouth was a bold choice.