Sunday, January 27, 2008

Lucy ... 7 months old!

Beautiful Lulu...happy baby.

Hanging out with Big Bro Riley...(still in his PJ's and with a carpet burn on his forehead. He likes to be a bulldozer sometimes! Really!)

Riley "babysitting" Lucy while I take a quick shower! Yes, they just watch a favorite movie...training her early, I guess!

Lucy has the perfect tummy for "zer-berts" (how do you spell those?) She did smile and laugh a lot, almost as much as Michael did!

7 months and still smiling!

Iowa Caucus



As residents of Iowa, we were able to take part in the Republican caucus held the beginning of January. It started with everyone saying the Pledge of Allegiance together and so we felt rather patriotic while fulfilling our civic duty and caucusing for our favorite candidate! We met in the media center of Sophie's Elementary school. She thought that was cool! The kids had a lot of fun...(they watched a movie on the DVD player!)...and we learned a lot about the whole process. Our candidate won in our precinct, too bad the whole state didn't follow our example! When we got home, we were sad to find that our Mitt Romney lawn sign had been swiped! Grrr.

Friday, January 25, 2008

John Deere...T R A C T O R S!

All the guys in our group gathered for a "manly" picture. All the dads are Ortho residents together spending precious time with their families.

Sophie felt left out and got her own pose with Daddy.


Lucy enjoying her ride at the indoor playground

Riley poses by an antique tractor...typical Riley pose (cheese)!


Riley telling me that this is a "wild ride"

We took advantage of the Monday holiday (for Sophie and Michael) and drove to Moline, IL to meet some friends at the John Deere tractor museum. There were lots of tractors displayed and almost all could be sat on/in. The kids had a great time imagining they were driving. And they especially loved the big combine that looks like "Frank" from the Disney movie "Cars". They spent a lot of time "racing" that one! It snowed quite a bit that day. We were happy to get home before everything started to freeze on the roads!

Friday, January 11, 2008

Lucy loves cereal

Open wide!

Bullseye! It goes in!


Ew! Not sure what to think.


And finally a smile!

(but it's debatable if the smile is because she liked the cereal, or if it's because she's got daddy's full attention!)