Don't you just want to squeeze them!!!!!

Celebrations, Blessings & Parties!!

I love these two babies sooooo much!!! I hope they grow up to be good, humble, hard working empathetic people.

This weekend was packed with one event after another. We started the weekend by celebrating our wedding anniversary. Then on Sunday we blessed Beckham at church and then had all our local family over for dinner and to celebrate Sophia's birthday. Between all the chaos here are a few pictures we managed to take.Here is Sophia playing with her birthday present. She loves it!! Thanks to her Nana and Grumpy for the fake food and Aunt D for the adorable vacuum.

I can't believe she is two!!! Okay Sophia....No more growing!
Post blessing photo.
The happiest baby ever!

Happy Birthday Aaron

For Aaron's birthday we went to Texas Motor Speedway and both rode with a professional driver at 170 miles and hour and Aaron drove a Nascar at 150 miles an hour. Good times!

Baby Beckham!!

Two months old:
Weighs 11.5 pounds
Is smiling and cooing all day long
Projectile vomits on anyone within yards of his burping
Is sleeping from 10pm to 5am (most nights)
Is beginning to show signs of rolling over
Is incredibly patient with his older sister hugging, kissing, poking, feeding, attempting to change his diaper (alone), covering him in stickers, and squeezing him
Beckham's facial rash diagnosed as Seborrhea has mostly cleared up
Is a joy to have in our family. :)

Summer Fun!

Grandma and Grandpa Boyce were able to make the long journey to visit last week. We had a great time with them and were sad to see them go.
Never too young to start playing scrabble....
When you get hungry and no food is around...Sophia recommends eating your toes!
A family picture before church.
Aaron and Sophia playing at the splash park in Frisco.

Little Moments!

This morning as Sophia and I sat down to breakfast together, Sophia folded her arms and waited for me to initiate the prayer. This is normal behavior, in fact she will pray as many times as we will say them with her. However, this morning she did a first. Halfway through the meal I look over to see Sophia with her arms folded, head bowed, eyes peeking as she mumbled sounds aloud and then simply said "Amen". It was absolutely precious!!

Thank you Heavenly Father for moments like these. I think I can handle one more day of NO's. :)

NO! NO! NO!

Before having Beckham, I predicted that when compared to 20-month old Sophia, caring for the newborn, who requires a billion diaper changes and 7-10 feedings each day (all by me) that would be more challenging. Boy was that hypothesis wrong. Sophia has begun the phase of telling us "NO" to everything. She has never been more challenging. I had no idea how easy she was to raise until she began having her own opinion and that opinion is just about always the opposite of what we want her to do.

What do we do? Do we discipline her for it? Do we ignore it? How long does it last? Will I survive it?