The boys put this bucket on Benjamin's head which he thought was pretty funny. We are loving our little four-month-old with his copious smiles, babbling and grabby hands. He is very interested in pulling on toys and hair. His special talents right now include blowing spit bubbles and raspberries. Really, we're not sure how he produces the amount of saliva that comes out of his mouth everyday. We call him "slimer". Are there people with dysfunctional salivary glands that need saliva donors? Benjamin would like to volunteer his services.
Here is David John wearing his "Ba-Bob Builder" hat and doing what he calls his silly trick. It really is pretty complicated. First, he puts the hat on the couch and then he has to carefully aim in order to get his head to land in it appropriately when he slides backwards off the arm rest. The angle of his neck doesn't look particularly comfortable, but we're starting to think maybe David John doesn't have any bones, so it's not a problem.
Elijah is a pro at these "Where's Waldo" books. It really is amazing how often he can find that tiny hidden figure. Sometimes, however, even he gets stumped. He was looking at this Hollywood "Where's Waldo" when he asked for my help finding Waldo on a particularly hard page. I sat next to him and started looking. After a while he asked, "Mom, do you know where Waldo is?" "No," I said, "I can't find him." "Oh." There was a brief pause. "I think Waldo went to the bathroom." Of course! If we can't find Waldo he must be taking a bathroom break. Eventually Waldo must have come back from the bathroom because we found him near the bottom of the left page.
Gabriel loves to climb anything and everything but lately he is especially interested in climbing trees. In this picture he is perched in my mom's mimosa tree. His interest in trees is so great, that he even offered free "tree lessons" to anyone who would listen. He would only take one student at a time since they were held in the tree house in my mom's backyard. During the lesson Gabe would hold a piece of scrap wood about the same length and width as a yardstick which he alternately used to point to trees, slap his palm like he was about to deliver some corporeal punishment or place behind his back like a drill sergeant doing an inspection. The lesson consisted of the following information: 1. Trees have branches, sticks, leaves and sometimes nuts. 2. Branches, sticks, leaves and nuts can come off during a storm. 3. Big people and little people like to play with branches. 4. Little people should not use branches to poke other people.
Later, Gabe also used his yardstick like a machete to hack down my poor mother's surprise lilies. Surprise! Your lilies are gone! At first Gabe was proud of his destructive handiwork, but after a time out and talking to Grandma he realized it was not a good choice. While picking up the pieces of stalks and petals to put in the compost pile he said, "I really am sorry, Grandma. I didn't know you didn't want your flowers cut down."
Finally, here are all four boys at Young's Dairy. We had a good time petting and feeding the goats, eating and playing miniature golf. The boys, as it turns out, are still a little young to get the golfing concept. David John always got a hole in one by walking up to the hole and dropping his ball in. He seemed to think the rest of us were crazy for doing things the hard way and trying to hit it in with our putters. Elijah was the best, although he too would give up after a while and just drop it in. Gabe would take no advice so he used his putter backwards the entire time resulting in erratic swings that frequently missed the ball entirely. Gabe kept asking "When do we get to swim in the blue water?" (There were fountains and ponds on the course.) He was not happy that the answer was "never".
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