Crazy Mikey

Mikey has learned a ton lately! He loves to crawl around on his hands and feet and looks really funny doing it. He loves to be outside and whenever the door is open he "runs" to it. He has learned to climb stairs, but he doesn't know how to go down. We are working on that right now he just tries to go head first and I have to go get him before he falls down. The biggest reason he doesn't really get the stair thing yet is because the only stairs we have are the two steps in from the garage, the two steps in from the back yard and the three steps in to the front door. Not a lot of practice.

Mikey also has learned to stand up on his own. He loves to just stand up in the middle of the room and gets so proud of himself. Yesterday he was just standing in the middle of the room and I thought "What a great time to get a picture."After I took the picture Mikey started being really silly. It was so cute. Usually he can stand for quite a while and is pretty stable, but I think he saw the camera on and decided to ham it up!

The funniest part was when I showed the video to everyone last night. James thought it was hilarious and started acting it out. Mikey thought it was the funniest thing he has ever seen and was just laughing and laughing at himself. These two boys are sure a lot of fun!

P.S. I almost forgot to put our big news on here! Mikey took his first steps yesterday! He took one step to me. Then a few minutes later he took two more. Yea, maybe he will learn to walk after all!

Blake's Birthday

Monday was Blake's 25th birthday. He came over and we had steak and potatoes, presents and cake! It was a lot of fun. We even set up a scavenger hunt because 1. he already knew what all his presents were, and 2. he used to always do scavenger hunts for our Mom and Dad. It was a really fun evening.

Summer Time! (At least some days)

Summer has finally come to Rexburg...some days. We have really nice weather followed by really bad weather. So we have been having a lot of fun outside when we can. Both of the boys love to be outside, and so do I.

James loves to play in this hole that Doug and Tim dug for a sand trap. He likes to "climb a hill" and if I can't find him, this is usually where he ends up.
Mikes loves to climb stairs. I put him out back and he immediately crawls to the stairs and climbs them (there are only 2). Then he can't get back down so I have to get him down. It gets pretty old getting him down the stairs every 30 seconds so I do everything I can to slow him down, put him in the sand box, on the other side of the yard, or in James' lawn chair...
The other day it was really nice so I loaded up the boys in the bike trailer and rode to the park. Doug and I do this a lot, but he is usually the one pulling the boys. I never realized how hard it is. The park is about 2 1/2 or 3 miles away from our house so needless to say I was exhausted. Then we got to the park and I changed the boys into their swim clothes to play in the splash park and James took off to the playground. So this is what we did instead...
I love when the weather gets warm enough to play outside.

On a side note, we found out today that James was approved for the Katie Beckett program which means we can get some therapies going for him. He already started speech (which we now wont have to pay for) and hopefully tomorrow I can get him signed up for occupational therapy.

James and Mikey

James and Michael are becoming such good friends. Mikey idolizes his brother and wants to do everything he does and loves any attention he gets. Playing magnets on the fridge:

Wearing matching shirts that Grammy bought them:

Playing puzzles at the table:
Watching Mickey Mouse together:
I just threw this picture in because we can now eat corn on the cob...it's James' favorite but he doesn't like to pick it up to eat it.
And we finally solved our 1 car issue. We bought this scooter for Doug to drive to work on Wednesday. On Friday Doug drove it to work for the first time and decided he made a mistake and now we are trying to sell it. The problem, it is a little to small for him to ride with his golf clubs and takes too long to get to work. But James will keep driving it until we sell it. He loves it!