Monday, March 12, 2012

Trying to catch up...

We have a lot of fun playing with Chase, Hank and Ruby around the house. Below are several pictures between January and the end of February of us just "hanging out."

Chase coloring
Daddy and Hank taking a nap
Chase singing "Row, Row, Row your boat" with Hank. He likes to hold his ends and rock back and forth.

Hank, Chase and Mama getting ready for bed
Chase getting ready to paint
Chase going "night-night" under his rug
Hank in his swing (about mid-February)

Chase with his big "mink-mink" that Peg-P gave him for Valentine's Day

We have a lot fun between bath and bed time. Chase and Hank take a bath together (Hank sits in his small bath tub in the big bath tub). Chase likes to help out with bathing Hank and is always very interested in pouring water on Hank. After the bath we usually split up with Daddy taking Hank and Mama taking Chase (Chase usually picks the teams b/c Mama lets him get away with more "stalling"). We put their PJ's on and then meet up in Chase's room. We usually let Chase get his last bit of energy out before we start to read and wind down. There are some nights when Chase wants to read "mo book" but is never satisfied with his selections. There are also nights when he will not calm down until Hank gets in bed next to him. Hank is usually just as involved looking at the books as Chase is. It's a lot of fun for us, and usually Chase will let us leave him in bed without much fight. We leave his light on because he continues to read his books to himself after we have left. Overall though, it is probably our favorite time of the day and we spend most of our time laughing!



Chase reading his book to Ruby before he got in bed




One night Chase discovered all of his shoes and began entertaining us before bath time had started. Thanks Uncle Hunter for the boots!

Hank on his play mat
Chase eating pudding outside one afternoon


Chase is in to horses (neigh-neighs) and he always wants to go on a ride. We were surprised that he was able to saddle up on Ruby...however, Ruby was not interested in taking him anywhere.


Hank and Chase in their matching brother shirts



Sunday, March 11, 2012

Zoo Fun

Daddy and Chase on a warm January afternoon
At the end of January, Peg-P went to the zoo with us

The first weekend in February, we picked up Gran and met Alex and Hunter at the zoo. We all had a lot of fun together.
Alex taking a picture of Chase on the tractor

Alex and Chase driving the tractor
Alex and Hunter on the carousel

Chase on the carousel
Alex helping Drew push the strollers. Chase was standing up enjoying the fun.
Chase and Gran


Hunter, Chase and Alex looking at the lions
buddies...

Hank's 2 months old

In January, Hank reached 2 months. Below are pictures with his big bear. With Chase we tried to get pictures with the bear at each month. It did not always happen. We're trying to do the same with Hank. We'll see if we're able to keep up with it...


As a comparison, here's a picture of Chase when he was 2 months old.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Family Time

In January there were many opportunities (some happy, some not) to gather with family

Chase and Karsyn playing piano at Nana's house before Miss Lola's funeral
Hank and Nana

Chase and Pops walking in to the church
Chase, Pops and Mama Zo walking in the church

We got to celebrate Wes's birthday. Wes also goes by "U-dub" but Chase calls him "Waa." When Ruby barks, we will ask Chase why is Ruby barking and Chase says, "Waa...Waa"

Hank and Waa
Hank and Pops

We celebrated Granny's birthday at Aunt Debra and Uncle Terry's house. They have a donkey named Midnight. Chase was very happy because he thought Midnight was a neigh-neigh. We had a lot of fun being together and celebrating Granny.

Clay and Chase fed Midnight a carrot




Chase and Hank
Mama Zo with Hank and Chase
Chase helping Granny with her gifts
Granny gave Chase a teddy bear. Chase has to sleep with "white bear" every night.
Mama Zo feeding Hank...Pops and Chase playing with George...