Julian's Dedication

We went back to Baltimore to dedicate Julian. We loved doing it at home with the boys and one of our Pastors from our church, Erich.  It was a beautiful ceremony with two rambunctious brothers running around. I was actually a little embarrassed (and that takes a lot for me). But, Julian was wonderful! I did a horrible job with pictures but here are a few from the day!

                                                     Natalie holding a squirmy Jules

Uncle Pat and Lissa

                                    Little Charlotte. These two were both a bit overtired at this point

This is a horrible picture, I just wanted to show Andrew pouting about taking a picture. Hah

     God Bless you Julian! We are so blessed to be your parents and can't believe God entrusted another one of his children to us. We pray for you everyday. May you grow knowing your Heavenly Father loves you unconditionally, just as we do.

Go Ravens!

8 Months Old

Nothing but trouble I tell ya! This crazy EIGHT month old is growing up WAY to fast. In the last month he 

~cut his first tooth

~ began crawling (more of a pull/inchworm motion but he can get anywhere fast)

~started babbling (mamama, wawawa, baba, nana)

~is starting to pull himself up on anything he can

~can go from a lying to seated position on his own

~clapping with glee and excitement

~pulling toys/things out of boxes and putting them back in

~self feeding-he really doesn't want anything off a spoon these days

Where is my BABY going?!

He hasn't figured this one out yet though. I have pictures of the other two boys climbing up and over

And there are WAAAAY to many pictures here, but he is just so stinkin' cute I couldn't resist.

These pictures all make his hair look reddish but its really more blond these days

                                                       Look at that tooth!!

Green Meadows Farm

Ryan got to take  his first field trip!! He got to ride on a yellow school bus and was very excited. Green Meadows Farm is in Queens, NY and was an entire production. They have a ton of animals, pumpkins, hay rides and  pony rides. When we got there there was a guide for each group and there had to be 50 school buses. They took us from animal to animal and ride, etc. 

About half way through he told me he wasn't having fun and only wanted to do the hay ride and another pony ride. He said he didn't like any of the animals. He is so full of it!

                                   Little baby chicks

                                                    And bunnies

                                                    And piggies

                                   Loving the pony ride

Fuzzy white chickens

                                  Some classmates

And a tired boy on the bus home

I would love to head back here with Andrew too. But we are really getting limited on our weekends!! Ahhhhh

Natural History Museum

We got a few rainy days in the city and we spent the first heading over to the Natural History Museum. We haven't been in a while and were missing the open space. We also finally got to see the Frog Exhibit that we always skip over. It was really cool!

                    Lots of tiny little poisonous frogs