May 2011

May stated off with a wonderful Mother's Day. We spent the whole weekend at my sister, Katie's, house. My Mom was there for the weekend as well so my sisters and I were able to take her out shopping and to lunch on Saturday. It was fun to spend a weekend with my favorite mothers. On Sunday,after church, all the dads fixed dinner and dessert for us. I love being a mother and I feel so blessed to have each of my children.


Now that Jack is 8, he has started Cub Scouts and loves it. He is always carrying around his Cub book and wants to work on the projects and pass them off. Rob took Jack camping with my brother-in-law and nephew and it was a great opportunity to work on some scouting goals.
He was able to help start a fire and planned and helped cook their dinner.

The boys also biked on trail stayed up late playing many rounds of capture the flag.

At the end of May, Nola turned 9 months old. She weighs 17lbs 10oz and is 27" long. She is pulling herself up on everything and loves to stand up and test her limits. She tries climbing now too. She does her own version of a wave to say hi and goodbye and just started clapping her hands. She has added yogurt melts and cruchies to her finger food diet and loves to eat! She is still soooooo curious and is always into something. Her favorite game is to throw things and have you pick them up so she can throw it again and wants to do this over and over. Nola also really likes music...anytime Jack practices piano she stops whatever she is doing and crawls as fast as she can to the piano and watches him play, she also is always silent during the singing and music in church and as soon as it is done goes back to being restless or fussy, and only seems to look and be interested in the TV if she hears music or singing.