Dancing and Drumming

The other day Rexford was unusually outgoing for the camera. He was in an extra silly mood dancing and laughing for quite a while. Then he started playing with the drums and Austin wanted in on the action too. Here's some of our music fun!

Rain

It was raining on the way home from church on Sunday and here is my conversation with Rexford.



Rexford: Why is it raining?

Me: The plants and trees and grass get thirsty so they need the rain. Just like you get thirsty.

Rexford: I'm thirsty, I need some water too.

Me: Well, I don't have any right now but we're going home and we'll get you a little cup of milk for naptime.

Rexford: It doesn't rain milk!

Day at the Beach

Grandma Ursic was stayed at the beach for a couple of days last week and invited us over for the day. Austin had never been to the beach before and of course had to taste the sand. He liked the water and would laugh when the little waves washed over his feet. Rexford had fun playing with his bucket in the sand and water. He also enjoyed having a sand/water fight with me, playing with Uncle Jason, and building castles with Ian and Daddy. At the end of our fun day, we gave the kids baths and dressed them in their pajamas and they both slept the whole way home.

It was pretty hot so we were glad Grandma had an umbrella :)

Austin exploring

He actually just played with it for awhile

but then he had to try and eat it...

Rexford loved running to the water to fill up his bucket

He had lots of fun in the sand

I don't know if you can tell or not but Rexford is laughing in this picture - he was having so much fun playing with Uncle Jason

Austin with sand all over him!

Austin having fun playing in the water

Rexford and Ian

building castles with Daddy

Pajama Pals

The other day we picked up some new pajamas at the store. Rexford likes it when Austin dresses like him and the only ones hanging on the rack were the right sizes so we bought them. Here are my cute little boys all ready for bed.

Bubble Bath

Rexford loves to have bubbles in his bath every night. One thing he loves is for me to scoop up the bubbles in my hand and then blow them all over the place. He thinks it's so funny and he laughs so hard. He wanted me to take some pictures of the bubbles on his head the other night. After we are done playing, the "Brian" in him comes out and he cleans all the bubbles off the wall :)

Austin's First Haircut

Brian has been bugging me for weeks about cutting Austin's hair. It was long around the ears and the back but I was nervous about Brian doing it thought he was too young :) Sunday morning Brian finally convinced me to let him trim it before church. I held him in the bathtub and Brian cut. Austin kept moving his head to try and get the scissors so we had to hold him still. It does look much better but now he looks so grown up.

Before the cut

Getting ready...

After the cut

Getting ready for church with my new haircut

After church and after a nap :)

Doctor Visits

We went to the doctor on Friday for Rexford's 3 year appt. and Austin's 9 month check-up. Rexford was so cute with the vision test. He said he thought the plus sign was an airplane which is pretty good because he doesn't know what a plus sign is yet. Austin did very well with his shot and only cried for a few seconds. Rexford is still off the charts for both height and weight at 41 inches tall and 43 lbs. Austin weighed in at 22 lbs. 12 oz. (80%) and 28 3/4 inches (75%). So they are both healthy and doing well and the doctor reassured Brian that Austin wouldn't be short as he fears :) They are both growing and changing-Rexford asks a million questions a day (no joke) and each answer is followed by another question, and Austin is cruising around holding on to things and wants to be standing all the time. We love our boys!

Birthday Fun!

Rexford had three days of birthday fun! Thanks everyone for the gifts and parties and fun!

Sunday, July 12th
Today we went to Grandpa and Grandma Ursic's house for a party for Rexford and his cousin Ian. They each got their own cake and candles to blow out. Grandpa and Grandma bought a Wii for their house for the kids to play with. Rexford needs to practice a little but he wants to try it and I think he'll love it once he gets the hang of it.

Saturday, July 11th

In the morning I took Rexford to his cousin Ian's birthday party and Rexford had a lot of fun. They had little bowling lanes and mini bowling balls for the kids. Aunt Amy was nice and let Rexford blow out some candles on a cake and included him in the birthday song since it was his birthday too. After naps, Brian and I took Rexford to Chuck E Cheese for some play time. He liked the games but got scared once giant Chuck came out so we left. Rexford and Daddy then rode on the train in the parking lot and then we headed to Papa's house for cake and presents. He enjoyed the evening and had lots of fun!

Friday, July 10th

We went to the science center with Grandma Rich and then Caleb and Alyson joined us for pizza and birthday cupcakes. Rexford had so much fun!

Rexford is 3!!

Rexford turned three yesterday and we can't believe he's so big now. He's so smart and sweet and funny and we love him so much. Here he is three years ago.

Elmo

Austin likes to play with Rexford's Tickle Me Elmo and always smiles at it. Here he is watching Elmo on tv and sitting in Rexford's Elmo chair. He was only interested for a couple of minutes but I got a few smiles.

Little Helper

Rexford is becoming quite the helper lately. He wants to help me wash, fold, and put away laundry. He helps feed Austin, get baths ready, and clean things. He often goes around with his tools "fixing" things. He is getting so grown up. He wants to make phone calls (to Aunt Shannon to ask to come over) and he likes to "write notes" to people. The other day he came to us with his pliers (I guess he thought they looked like Daddy's hedge trimmers) and his shoes on and said that he needed to go outside and trim the bushes. So Brian took him outside and let him pretend. Last night he came to me with all of his tools on his belt and was working on fixing something. Here are some pictures of our big boy helping out.

Trimming the plants

Mr. Fix-it

Happy 4th of July

On Saturday we celebrated the 4th with lots of swimming, eating, and fireworks of course.

Here are the boys hanging out that morning together wearing their patriotic shirts

My little Austin

Rexford


Austin doesn't want to wear a hat anymore so I put sunscreen on his head and styled it a bit

Austin enjoying the pool


Floating around with Daddy

Rexford swimming around

He wanted to try the tube today

If it weren't for the jacket he would have fallen through

Austin wasn't too sure about the raft

I think he kind of liked it although he looks scared in all of the pictures

Christina and Austin

Jamie and Rexford hanging out in the deep end

Austin took two naps in the pool and slept pretty well. He would have slept longer if the pool competitions hadn't made so many waves.

Wayne wanted to add more water and Rexford loved playing with the hose. He also enjoyed squirting people with it during the competitions Shannon made up.

Matthew in his patriotic gear - so cute :)

Rexford all ready to go watch Grandpa Ursic's fireworks display

We washed all of the sunscreen off and here is Austin all cleaned up

Jillian and Shaelyn

The kids loved the fireworks but Shaelyn covered her ears and Rexford wanted to be held.

Happy 4th!