More Easter pictures

I told Thor to "Smile" and this is what he gave me. At least he was looking at me/camera.

Easter pics

On Easter Sunday I took the boys out in the yard to take some pics. I took so many, I couldn't pick my favorite ones.
Gunner decided he wanted to get in the pictures too.

The River Beach

Last Saturday, after doing some outside work around the house, we decided to continue the Spring Break and get the boat out on the river, find a sand bar, and let Thor do some swimming. The river is still pretty high so it took us a few minutes of a boat ride to find a sand bar to get out on. We stayed for about 30 minutes. The water was FREEZING! But of course he loved it. We plan on making this our "beach" for the summer.

Kitties!

Friday evening, when we got back from the cave, we went to see Nanny's new kittens. Hali had 5 kittens earlier that day, so they were less then 12 hours old! They are now just over a week old and have grown so much! Thor loves to pick them up and hold them. As some of you may remember, it was around last Easter when we had gotten our first kitten. The day we came home from the hospital with Trig, my mom had to take the cat to the vet and have it put to sleep. While we were gone, something happened to it. The vet said its hip was broken and had several broken toes. So, we are still working on picking which one we want to bring home.

Marianna Caverns

We packed up camp Friday morning, dropped off Curry's truck and camper at the house, hopped in my car and drove to Marianna to tour the cave before they sold out. Some people camping next to us told us they had gone the day before and the tours were sold out for the day by 1:00! Thor thought the cave was really cool! The tour was a little long for his attention span and all the stopping and listening to the tour guide had him really anxious to keep moving. We weren't allowed to carry Trig in the back pack carrier so Curry and I took turns carrying him. He got very tired of being held and wanted down so bad. He wore us both out! The top picture is of a bat that we saw while in the cave. When we got out of the cave, Thor saw all the mud on his shoes and pants. He was very excited to tell everyone that he had cave mud on his pants!

More camp pics

We have a camping hammock that Curry always likes to put up when we go camping. After our hike Thursday morning, we went back to camp and had lunch then Curry and Trig took a nice nap. When Curry wasn't in the hammock, Thor wanted his turn.

I took this little pool with us because I knew it would probably get pretty warm in the afternoons while we were camping and because I knew Thor would love playing in the water. The first night we were there, cousin Zac came to visit and got in the pool with him. They had fun pouring the FREEZING cold water on each other.

Camping During Sprink Break

Over this past week, Spring Break, Curry and I made several adventures with the boys. The first day of Spring Break, last Saturday, we went to the Jr. Museum. A few months ago we bought a family year pass to the Jr. Museum in Tally and have used it 3 times now I think. I took my camera but left the memory card at the house so I don't have any pics of that day. Curry ended up getting Wednesday and Thursday off so we decided to take the boys camping. We borrowed John and Chaille's camper and went to Torreya State park, which is here in Liberty county. Very beautiful up there! We stayed Wednesday through Friday. While we were there we went on several hikes. One of the trails started at the little park area so we let the boys play on the playground before we headed off into the woods. They both love the swings! This particular trail went to an old stone bridge that went over a creek.

Trig took a little cat nap on the ride there!
We were driving back to the campsite from the hike and we had to stop and wait for this snake to cross the road. Once it crossed and we pulled up next to it, I zoomed in with the camera to get a closer look at it. Thor was so excited to see it, from the truck of course!

Egg Hunt

We had our egg hunt for church this past Wednesday. Thor was so excited to open all the eggs and get the candy. I think he ate all the candy by bedtime that night!
Trig had fun hanging out and riding around in the stroller. Thor shared an egg with him, of course candy already eaten!

Train table project

Last year Thor started getting into Thomas the train stuff. At Christmas we bought him his first track kit. Ever since then we have been wanting to get him a train table. Well I looked at them on line and on Craig's List and they were just too expensive and of course too small. So Curry decided he could build one a lot bigger and cheaper. A few weeks ago him and John got all the supplies and painted it. Then last weekend they put it all together while I cleaned off the front screened in porch. Thor was helping daddy spread the glue for the 'grass' carpet. Then he helped screw in the screws.

As you can tell, Thor loved helping his daddy and loves his new train table.
After it was completely finished they started putting the track together. I think they stayed out there on the porch until almost 10:00 that night! Curry and I figured out that Thor's train is more than twice the size as store bought ones and it cost us a fourth of the price!

PULLING UP !?!?

I was cooking dinner tonight. Thor was playing outside and Trig was playing in the living room. I went to check on Trig and this is what I saw. Him standing at Thor's stool!! He has only been crawling for a week and he is already pulling up!! What am I going to do with this boy??!! He goes to the doctor on Wednesday, St. Patty's Day, for his 6 month check up which he will be 6 1/2 months already but that is when they could get us in. I'll update in a few days with all his stats. Here is a few: he can still wear some 3 month clothes! A tooth finally broke through a couple of days ago so he has some white showing. He has still had this awful cough and runny nose. We took him back to the doctor last week and they think it is lingering from the RSV from January and he may have some allergies so they put him on Claritin. We'll see if it works.

My Little Dish Washer!

Thor decided he was going to wash dishes one night! Get 'em clean buddy!

Crawling

I took these pics of him getting up and trying to crawl on Wednesday. He was 6 months and 1 day old. I got to thinking about it and Thor crawled the week he turned 7 months and walked at 11 months. So trig is a month ahead of Thor. I wonder if he will keep it up and walk at 10 months??!!!

As I create this post, it's Sunday, and just a few hours ago Trig was slowly making his way around the living room. Even made it under coffee table.

6 months

Doing better on posting for this month, he hasn't been 6 months for a week yet. ;) Some changes this past month: a few weeks ago I cut his hair. Trimmed up the front- it was hanging in his eyes, trimmed it up around the ears and on back. Two weeks ago at church, he got up on his knees for the first time. Ever since then he has been hard at work trying to figure out this crawling thing. He has also gotten a lot better at sitting up on his own for longer periods of time.

Brother Thor tickling him in the high chair!

Looks like I need to do some more trimming on the hair, looking a little long in this picture! But I thought his face was precious!