Two smiling faces

This week Hads stood for a few seconds on her own - without holding on.  This is her last week as a little baby - before her big 1st birthday next week.  I'm sad this little butterball is growing up so quickly but I'm loving every minute with her.  She's obsessed with this chair lately and will get in and out of it over and over when we play in Miles' room in the evenings.



Extreme garage sale-ing continues!  Miles loves it as much as I do.  He scored a new Radio Flyer tricycle and a free monster truck this weekend. 



He's been riding his Hot Wheels bike for awhile but mostly shuffles his feet on the ground to move it.  I unloaded this bike from the car and then went inside to grab Hadley's bottle.  When I came outside a minute later he was pedaling around as if he's been riding bikes for years.  Bike riding is his new obsession.

Best garage sale find of the week though goes to this new fun item - a Little Tikes climber and slide for $1! 

Miles says the funniest things:  "Oh my gosh!  I'm holding a naked puppy in my hand."  (He was showing us an imaginary dog.)  "Hadley wants to talk."  (He says this often as he rips the pacifier out of her mouth and throws it across the room.)  "Daddy didn't go to church and isn't a good boy so he doesn't get a donut."  (This said after he got a donut from grandma and grandpa after church today.)

Biking and running are his two preferred sports lately.  He flexes his muscles in a new way too - by always wanting to pick up and carry Hadley around.  The result of this is Hads being picked up by the neck and dragged a few inches before being plopped roughly down.

Is it rhubarb or a new horn?  Miles loves to bake and helped me make 2 kinds of rhubarb muffins this weekend.

The weather was rainy this weekend so we hung out a lot as a family.  One of my favorite moments was when Mike and I were flipping our mattress.  We put our memory foam pad on the floor and the kids thought this was the greatest thing.  They jumped and rolled around on it and giggled together. 

Pure joy!

After the memory foam pad was back on the bed they played in Hadley's crib for awhile.

Hey, wait a minute - that's my monkey!

Miles had his puppy and Thomas the Train backpack packed and ready for church this morning. 

Besides turning 1 this coming week, Hadley also has surgery scheduled on Friday to get tubes in her ears.  Please say prayers for our little one that everything goes well.