I’m really late getting these edited and posted, but he was 8 weeks when I actually took these!
He’s smiling now, which is so much fun!
He has some snazzy new initials decorating his room.
I just love this one. The plain wall makes such a nice undistracting backdrop.
He got hungry while I was there, and I snapped a few pictures of him crying while he was waiting to be fed.
He does a nice slow yawn for me every time I see him!
I love baby blue eyes so much.
Specifically, that would be Zoe. Joshua and Lisey ride their bikes now with no training wheels, and Sonia is going at a pretty good clip with her training wheels. I think she might be able to ride without them by the end of the summer.
Zoe has a small bike, but she cannot seem to get the hang of pedaling it. So most of the time she rides her little tricycle.
She’s much happier on this than on the bike.
But my goodness! Those little wheels make for a slow ride.
I walk alongside, watching her cute little legs push her small pedals round and round and listening to her sweet small voice. “I’m going faster and faster, Mommy! See dis? Can I ride to da stop sign, Mommy? I wanna do it again!”
While I’m sometimes anxious for the day when she can ride a real bike all on her own, I know that a few years down the road when she goes zooming by me on her two-wheeler, I’ll look back and miss these days. So, I’m savoring this…I don’t want to be so busy yearning for the future that I miss these moments.
Yesterday we did something uncharacteric for our frugal family…all six of us went to the theater to see the movie “Up”. We did go to a matinee showing, but it was still pretty pricy. We had something to celebrate, though (my husband got a new job), so we decided to splurge a bit.
The light in the movie theater was, um, less than delightful, so like my Fourth of July pictures, these are on the grainy end of things.
This was the first time Zoe had been to a theater.
Actually, it was Sonia’s first time too!
Lisey’s last trip to a theater was in 2002.
I think Joshua’s last one might have been slightly more recent.
Oh, hey…I was there too! The last time I darkened the door of a theater was in December of 2005. Quite obviously my husband was there too…he took this picture. And you can see a very blurry version of him behind Joshua in the photo above. I would have taken an actual picture of him but he is awfully camera shy. So, he hides in the bokeh. 
We went over to my sister’s house today so I could take some more photos of my nephew, and while we were there, Zoe decided to try on the Batman mask that belongs to my nephew’s older brothers.
Somehow, it doesn’t quite go with her braids and pink shirt.
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Yesterday was the 4th of July, so we set off some fireworks for the kids.
True to form, I mostly took pictures of the kids. Fireworks don’t inspire me that much. Fireworks + a kid = inspiration, however.
Or a sparkler and a kid.
Sonia enjoyed planting her sparklers in the ground.
Sparklers actually give off enough light to take a no-flash picture. A grainy picture, but a picture nonetheless.
It was interesting to try to take pictures with such non-ideal light.
I’m pretty happy with this one, though.
I did take a few pictures of the actual fireworks. Ground-based fireworks are tricky, though, because the smoke gets so intermingled with the lights.
This one is pretty strange.
And for some reason, I think this picture is super cute.
