Independent little guy

Mark has decided that he doesn't really need us around anymore.   And just goes and does what he wants.  Probably good- but it was easier to watch him when he wanted to be within a few feet of me.

He picked up this stick and said that it was time to go home and have burger cheese.

And he left- headed back to the car
The car was not that close- but he was ready and had decided that it was time to go.
When you are teething at Grandma and Grandpa's house you get to have popsicles with sugar and food coloring.  We couldn't find anything else is the local grocery store.  Luckily neither seemed to have a huge effect on him- although in retrospect maybe that was why sleep was so elusive on vacation.
Not so elusive for Tim.  Taking a nice afternoon nap on the porch.  

Working and playing hard

Mark was a big help in building the deck at my folks house.  Here he is with his hammer.

Grandpa put a few nails in this board to let him pound on while we tried to get some work done.
Mark did ALOT of measuring.  Grandpa showed him a nail on the house to hold the tape measure on and he did.  Of course he then wanted to hold the tape measure there over and over all day- we had to get him his own to use.
Climbing in a tree at Bradbury.  Grandma helped him get up and then he said "momma, I'm so high".  He has been really into watching other kids climb up in trees too.  I think that he would be quite a climber (like is Auntie Lisa) if we lived a place that had more of them.  
Throwing rocks on our walk.  He only wanted the really big ones to throw in.  The ones that were almost to big for him to lift.  I think we were all surprised about his ability to pick up some pretty heavy ones.

Faces of Tim

Tim needed a head shot of his face for work.  Here are a few of our attempts.  

a few more

recent photos

Easter

He did like dying eggs.

Luckily this came right off in the tub.
Look how careful he is being. He is very against spilling. All drips had to be cleaned right up with the towel.

NOT excited about the easter egg hunt. Spent the whole time up on my shoulders. He was happy that I got some eggs for his basket and held on to it tight for about an hour after we were home.
"pick me back up- this is NOT fun"

My Parents visit

It was cold most of the visit, but we still managed to play outside.
Mark thought the underdogs from Grandma were great.
Every night I would go up to put Mark down and come back to Mom and Dad playing the Wii. We played a lot of bowling- but these photos are from baseball. Dad is pitching, mom is batting.

We had a blizzard this weekend.

Rocky Mountain National Park

"flying" Mark is talking so much, it is really fun when he says things like "flying" when in the swing. He also is counting down to the big pushes.

More flying
Getting ready to fly
Helping momma cook
We had really great weather this week. We are playing in our back yard here. You can see my belly is quickly growing. Soon I won't be able to zip this jacket.

Nana and Pop Pop visit us!

Nana and Pop Pop visited us this week.

We went to the Zoo. This is Mark leaning down to say "hello" to dada.

Looking at the lions.
Walking around in Nana's nightgown.
Playing pretend sleep. This is where we pull the covers up, say night night, and then sit up and say (very loudly) wake up. I find it funny that this is how Mark plays sleeping, since he is scared to have blankets on him while actually sleeping. (he is stir and then start screaming about being stuck)