Tahl likes big beets and I cannot lie..

For some reason, I apparently just love taking pictures of my sons with beets all over their faces... I think it's the hot pink...

Maybe it's the cute smiles!

So far, Tahl seems to actually like beets. We will see if he keeps that up!

Some one asked me what a "mum mum" is. Here it is, a big rice cracker, that Tahl loves to chew on. Yum.

Harper Mae Glenn

Ari and I are so excited about our new niece, Harper Mae Glenn! She was born this Friday afternoon. She is beautiful. I already think she looks like Noah. Ari thinks I'm crazy and all babies look alike.

She has such pretty skin.

Here are Tova and Brad with the new baby! They are having their house invaded by about forty people less than a week after they had a baby for Thanksgiving.

I can't wait to see the baby, and for the boys to meet their newest cousin. Zev has been practicing her name, but he doesn't quite have it yet. Hopefully we will get lots more pictures of her next week.

7 months!

I can't believe Tahl is 7 months! He is growing so fast, and he is SO sweet. He is happy, funny, and adaptable. We are having lots of fun with him learning to sit and crawl.

He always wants to be on the move.

He loves Zev, and he loves to watch everything he does.

Zev loves him too, but he does not really like for him to touch his stuff. Zev can be a little on the bossy side...

Tahl still nurses about 4 times a day, and he is loving the baby food.

We also gave him so "mum mums" and this is how the felt! He loves them, but he can't really do small things like cheerios yet because he can't pick them up.

We are in love.

This weekend we went on a VERY short trip to Tyler to see everyone. Here is Tahl playing on the floor at Grandma's house.

Zev DOES NOT want to share his legos. These are going to be some growing months for Zev...

Here he is getting love from his Gram to make him feel better.

Hopefully next time we can stay in Tyler a little longer!

Wordless Wednesday

Memories!

When I was at my great grandmother's funeral on Saturday, my Aunt Julie reminded me that what I should take away from the day was the importance of recording my memories with these amazing little boys. Here we have just a few.

Here is Zev doing one of his favorite new things, a forward roll! We have to watch out that he doesn't hit anyone, anything, or any Tahl!

Some other big Zev moments this week:
1. He told me he saw bears in the back yard, when I said I didn't see anything, he told me, "IMAGINE bears"... with a very duh tone of voice.
2. The same afternoon Zev was pretending that his Rody horse was peeing into his dump truck. His play is getting very interesting...
3. About every third thing Zev says to Ari is "both boys!" He loves to talk about how they are both boys, but Tahl he could give or take.
4. Zev is having a rough time with Tahl's new desire to play with his stuff.


How is Tahl playing with all of Zev's stuff you ask?
He can sit!

He does still fall over quite a bit, but he is getting really good!

On an even more exciting note, he is crawling! He has been sort of scooting and lunging for a little while, but now he is really moving! He has skipped the army crawl and gone right to the big stuff! Let's hope he keeps going slow for a while now.

Please excuse my shoddy camera work, but Zev's cheering is pretty cute. He does like Tahl every once in a while. It is taking most of my patience to try to teach Zev to get along with Tahl, but hopefully it will pay off to make two guys who are good friends.

Mamaw

This past Thursday my great grandmother, Virginia Lee Thedford, passed away. Mamaw was 97, and she was an amazing woman. She had two kids, seven grandchildren, thirteen great grand children, and two great great grandsons (Zev and Tahl). She was married to my great grandfather for 65 years. I remember that she was a wonderful woman who was sweet, a great cook, and always spoke her mind. She never got to meet Tahl, but here she is with Zev.

She said he was "the most beautiful baby she ever saw"... I am told she said this about all of grand children.

I was lucky to have Mamaw in my life. I know my boys couldn't be luckier to have her daughter, their great grandmother, in their life either. My boys still have 1 great great grandmother, 10 great grand parents, and 6 grandparents. They are incredibly blessed.

Emily, Matt, and Grey visit...

When Emily was in town she took lots of pictures! I stole them so I can repost them on my blog.

Here is her arboretum picture.

Here are Grey and Tahl spending time together.

Matt and Tahl. They were fast friends.

Grey and Zev had fun playing in the kitchen.

Who doesn't want a good fuzzy ball?

More Tahl and Matt. I'm sure Matt got very drooled on for his troubles.

Zev and Grey shared a yummy lunch.

They also shared a big hug before Grey left.

Zev got very upset when he didn't get a "real" hug from Matt. Then he wanted two hugs.

Emily got a big hug from Zevi too, and I got one from Grey.

We had tons of fun playing together, and we can't wait to see Matt, Emily, and Grey again!

Happy Halloween!

This weekend we finally carved our pumpkin! Zev did NOT want to stick his hand in the pumpkin. He thought it was gross. I found a stencil to make a "Dora the Explorer" pumpkin, so we decided to try it.

Zev is getting a little better with those picture taking skills!

Not perfect though.

Zev was not happy that he didn't get to use the knife. We turned on "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," but he got very upset that our TV didn't record the ending.

Here is the finished pumpkin. We have it out in the front yard with Zev and Tahl's other pumpkins. We painted the Z and T pumpkins from the good idea Aunt Ray Ray sent us.

Here is Zev checking them out.

Today we went trick or treating. Zev had SO much fun. Here is my little dog with his vet.

Here is Tahl with the vet. He thinks his toy bone is delicious!

Two dogs and vet.

Family shot!

In case you hadn't noticed, Tahl is cute.

Here are our two puppies hanging out with their friends, two bumble bees, a parrot, a pirate, and Olivia the pig!

Trick or treating in action. Zev did a great job saying trick or treat at every door and thank you before he left the house.

Walking with dad.

While we were trick or treating, Zev turned to me and said, "I happy!" He did get really tired by the end, and he wanted me to carry him, but he loved it.

He got REALLY tired.

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!

Trick or treating at the Arboretum

Today we went trick or treating at the arboretum with Mimi, Emily, Wendy, Wayne, and Grey. We had a lot of fun and we even got a few good pictures.

I'm starting with this because it is the best picture I've gotten in MONTHS.

This is really when we got there. Here is a serious doggy Tahl.

We got one picture of both boys looking at the camera.

Then Tahl got grumpy, and Zev got silly.

Baby Grey was shark!

This was the best picture I got of all 5 of us. Tahl was ready to eat. This is the best picture I got, but Emily took a few more.

This goes with Zev's picture from the top. He was climbing and really excited about it.

Zev was pretty sure that every fence there needed to be torn down. Here he is working on this one.

Zev didn't knock those pumpkins down, but only because some other two year old probably already had...

"Cheese!"

This is the best picture I got of the three of us. Of course, no one is looking.

Tahl is too busy being interested in Zev.

Kisses!

I didn't get any cute ones of Mimi with both boys, but here she is with Tahl.

This started off fine.

But it ended with Tahl feeling sad again. I think Zev might have been choking him.

I'm sure you can tell, but Zev busted his lip really badly in the morning before we went to the arboretum. Right after this picture, he stood up, and he busted it again on the other side.

The arboretum was REALLY tiring...

We have lots more Halloween plans including carving our pumpkin, a Halloween birthday party, and actually going trick or treating. Be on the look out for more pictures!