Archive for July, 2009
Had another good weekend with the monkeys. Problem is, the weekend was such a blur cause it went so fast I almost forgot what we did. Some errands saturday and a long walk sunday. Weekend over
Nice weekend. Weather was great, and the kids loved being the center of attention by pretty much the whole town all weekend
took a few more pictures of the festivities, even got to take the monkeys to the park today. they LOVE swings!
We entered the kids in a baby contest today at the towns fest. Kids did awesome. 1st and 3rd in their division. Such cute little hams. Bubs ate up the attention, Hailey was a bit more laid back, throwing dirty looks to the judges and all ha.
All the kids got participation awards and the ones that placed got ribbons. They even got a trophy!!!!
Tyler gets to walk (well, ride in a float) in the town parade tomorrow. Pretty cool. Now we have to flip a coin to see who gets to ride with him.
Too bad it’ll be smack dab in the middle of naptime, so he’ll probably sleep the whole parade, or be cranky that he cant fall asleep with all the commotion, but, it’ll be a cool experience regardless.
Jen did an awesome job getting them ready. Cool little outfits, I think that was the winner!
Here’s just a few pics of the fun http://mikecompton.com/pics/thumbnails.php?album=61
Took the kids out for a walk today. 80 degrees. had to be near 100% humidity. It was THICK, so much so there was fog for a while.
Jen entered the kids in a baby competition. Judged on looks, character, attitude or something weird like that. I think we’ll be ok. We got 2 cute smilers!
We got a different car since we couldnt fit the kids AND their stuff in there at the same time. A Chevy Uplander. Not a bad ride. I’m not a fan of mini-vans, but it has decent styling, rides nice, has some pickup, and it suits whats we needed it for, SPACE. Jen loves it, which is good since its now her daily driver.
Other than that we’re just trying to beat the heat. Trying to mix in outdoors time with the kids, but sometimes its just so hot. Jen being the awesome mom she is, took the kids to the park this week and put them on the kiddie swings, they loved them!
Well back to parenting we go!
As of last week, the kids are both crawling now. Well, a modified version of crawling I suppose. Both are doing the army crawl where they more pull themselves w/ their arms than actual full out crawl using their knees. But it works, and they can really get around now.
Tyler is up to 8 teeth, Hailey still at 2 and holding. They never really bothered Tyler, but at night they seem to be bugging Hailey and she has some trouble sleeping.
It’s nice for Jen that she’s been getting to spend more home time w/ the kids, whereas I was there more up until pretty recently. But now the weather is nice (see: HOT) and we’ve been outside w/ them. The got their first pool experience last week and they loved it. They thought it was a big tub and just splashed around like mad. We even brought them in the big soaker tub this week so they could splash all they wanted w/o wrecking the hardwood floors!
Next thing you know, they’ll be 1 yr old! Not far away. 2 1/2 months to go. Good thing Jen started planning MONTHS ago, so we’ll be ready!
