Daddy and Five

Happy Daddy

Learning "Curb"

Rewind to 30 seconds earlier: Hey Honey, get a shot of this new thing I'm working on!

Quote, "It doesn't matter how it ends, just get a picture!"

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I got it!

Hey Honey, WHERE'S YOUR HELMET??!!!

(No BMXdaddy5's were injured in the making of this post...amazingly.)

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Matching Gaps

Younger Brother has had a loose front tooth for a couple of weeks now. And after gingerly avoiding it for about that long, he decided he had had enough and asked J to yank it out. Blech! I'm glad he's the tooth yanker! I can't do it. I thought Younger Brother would chicken out for sure, but he didn't!

Voila!

We realized after it was out that he is now missing the same tooth that Little Sis has missing. I thought, "What a cute picture opportunity!"

Well it doesn't always go as planned, does it?!

He's squishing my aaaaaaaaaarm!!!

She's screaming in my eeeeeeearrr!!!

There, that's better.

Very nice you two; your matching gaps are most endearing.

Storm Front

...incidentally, my favorite Billy Joel album in the late 1980's. :)

...but more immediately, the cause of some pretty darn cool clouds over our house last night!

Funny Girl

She has her Daddy's subtle sense of photographic humor.

Is it obvious?

3 Weeks in 60 seconds!

I'm here, I'm here! Aaaand, once again there is catching up to do. But I should probably just own that fact and stop mentioning it, huh? Here's the skinny...

As I mentioned previously, Princess A broke her arm with style!

Daddy was in the kitchen with his back turned when she decided to attempt to climb over the back of the couch that separates the living room from the kitchen, into the computer chair on the other side. But it rolled out from under her and she did a mini sky dive onto the kitchen floor, sticking out her hands to catch herself.

She suffered a double bone forearm break called a buckle fracture. But rest assured, it sounds worse (at least it did to me) than it is. Apparently buckle fractures are common in babies because their bones are still somewhat soft. So when a baby falls and braces for impact, the bone kind of accordians in on itself like squashing an empty pop can and that's what causes the break.

They heal very quickly and in fact she got her cast off today!

(Wow, I guess that proves it has been a while since I've updated the blog!)

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In other news...

Biggest Brother turned 10!!!

We rented out our local indoor skate park for the occasion.

The boys had a blast!

Oh, and the big boys might have had just a little bit of fun too!

I think Daddy

and his friends

were in BMX guy heaven!

Younger Brother tackles ramps that I don't think I would touch.

And yet, Princess A is the one in the cast??!

A couple of days later on Biggest Brother's actual birthday, I took him to the farm with me and he had a blast spending the morning exploring and swimming in the river.

I had more good sense than to take my camera with us for that though. So I had to settle for a pic from my toasty cell phone left sitting on the bank.

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After the weekend excitement was through, it was back to business as usual...sort of.

Princess A got her very first haircut!
She was such a good girl!

And the unlimited supply of pink lollipops that our long time hair stylist Miss N gave her didn't hurt either.
She was all about that!
And speaking of pink,

She also got a totally fabulous new pair of pink polkadot walking shoes to celebrate her new bipedal locomotion! The angle of her cast made crawling awfully tricky so she finally gave that the boot.

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And last but not least,

Biggest Brother, Younger Brother, Big Sis, Grandpa and I all packed up and went on a little family inspired road trip.

Can you guess where we went??

Yep, you guessed it!

(As if the blue sky, cows and corn weren't a dead giveaway.)

Although that probably deserves a post all its own once I sort through the 400 some photos I took while we were gone!

And there you have it,

3 weeks in 60 seconds!

:)