Sean is 4!

As much as the days drag on sometimes, the years sure are flying by. Can you believe Sean is already 4? 4! Wow! Not a baby, not a toddler, but a real live little boy!

He got as many presents as a whole family should get for Christmas - I'd say he is loved.



Happy birthday Sean! We love you!

Easter / April

Great Aunt Karen crocheted this cute bunny ears hat for Teresa for Easter. She cried when I put it on, but then I managed to get a half smile out of her. :)

Sean was very excited to find the Easter eggs we had hidden around the house first thing on Easter morning. He had been practicing hiding and finding a basket at Grandma Hogan's house for a few days prior to that.

All dressed up for church.

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Around the house..... Sean watches the coffee pot in action. He can explain to you exactly how it works.

Sean and Teresa playing together nicely in the family room.




Miss Smiley.

We found an old video camera at Grandma Hogan's house, so of course Sean claimed it and brought it home to put on his tripod. He "took pictures" all day one day with it.

Next post, Sean's birthday..... but now I must go take care of Miss Smiley, who at night is known as The Screaming Insomniac....

Visit

G&G Spoon came to visit for a few days. I think I only saw Sean for brief intervals of mealtimes, otherwise he was outside with Gramps S. the whole time!

Here he is hooking a bungee cord up to his bike. (Despite numerous warnings, he lost all of his bungees down the hose hole in our deck, but was very willing to spend $1.06 at the dollar store to buy a new package when presented with the alternative, which was to crawl under the deck and retrieve the dropped bungees among the mud and cobwebs.)

The money tree. Ah, if only the money actually grew on the tree... good attempt!

Teresa has been trying new foods. I wouldn't say she really enjoys most of them, but she's a good sport. So far her favorites are pears and mango, her least favorites are carrots and sweet potatoes. Everything else (black beans, oatmeal, rice cereal, apples....) is somewhere in between. I am looking forward to her being able to handle things that are a little more chunky, so I don't have to puree everything (no, I do not buy baby food. I make all my own.) and I can start feeding her some stuff that I am already cooking for everyone else. In this picture, those pieces of melon are pretty much for playing. She could sort of eat them but was having a hard time getting them down without some crazy faces which made me nervous.

It's hard to get a really good picture of both of them together.

My cuties.

Bows

March

Yep, a little behind here. Little Miss T Spoon has not been giving me as much free time at night. Hopefully I can get a post in here before she calls for me again....

After our trip to California, actually the day after, we drove to South Bend so Jeff could give a talk for the Film Department. We stayed at EB's house. Here is Sean with a bag of chips and one of her necklaces - is anyone surprised that by the end of the weekend, the necklace was broken?

Little Teresa sitting up so nicely and playing. And proof that she is growing well - those aren't supposed to be capri pants!

We went to the Studebaker museum, which Sean really enjoyed. Teresa napped in the carrier as usual.

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When we got home, things returned to as normal as they get around here. Teresa found her toes just delightful to suck on.

My car, which I bought 9.5 years ago, hit a milestone last month:

I don't think it will make it to 200,000 under my ownership, but it still has some life left in it.

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We took Sean ice skating for the first time. He loved it!

Teresa, as usual, in the carrier. (She's close to getting out more - nearly crawling!)

Look how big my little boy is!

Not off to a good start. ;)

That's better!

This was the highlight of the day for Sean: