Saturday, September 27, 2008

Trying the blogging thing again!

Hey all! It is Saturday morning and I am having my morning coffee while the kids play in the living room. The kiddos have been battling terrible colds for a week now, and myself a horrible sore throat. It is that season! With all the activities we go to outside of the house, it's just to be expected. All you can do is be prepared with the Kleenexes, occasional meds and pray that they get through it quickly and come out with more immunity! We've really been lucky as far as illnesses go though. Nothing serious yet!
Alex will be 3 in less than 2 months. I cannot even fathom that I will be the proud Mom to a 3 year old. She already acts like one! I will be happy to be out of the terrible twos (that's how it works, right??? ;) ) Alex loves playing with the kids in our MOPS group, going to the library and story hour and ADORES the park! She is quite the chatterbox and comes up with the funniest things. I love recounting stories to Daddy when he comes home and calling up Grandmas and telling them what Alex just said. She is hilarious. Still has dark blond crazy curly hair!

Ryan is almost 10 months old. It has gone so quickly. He has the biggest dark brown eyes that he is always getting complimented on. He definitely has a different personality than Alex! Very adventurous, strong-willed and quite the handful! He is still not sleeping through the night, but I think that is just him. He's been crawling since 7 months, and standing up on things since 8 months and is just starting to let go and stand and took a short little walk holding onto Alex's shopping cart! He is just all over the place and hates to sit still! (And he has 7 teeth fully in and the 8th and 9th are about to pop through, crazy little teether!)




I finally found the kids some functional and nice sunglasses at Wal-mart! They are looking pretty cool!


Last month Alex had a fun day with us at the Museum and then we went out for ice-cream at McDonald's! This was our first visit to the Museum (it was free during Kool-Aid Days) and she loved it.

Looking at the rattlesnake with Daddy, all the Hastings kids remember this right?



Digging for fossils...



The Kool-Aid Stand! She had fun with this.



Icecream!