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A few more weekend pics

Uncle Leonard is a science teacher and loved seeing all the critters around here. There are gobs of these caterpillars, and I've been curious about what they become....maybe the dragon fly below???

Tim visiting the horse after church.

Sample of the great fireworks we watched over the weekend

'Auntie' Sarah

Joshua pushing Titus

Visitors

Tuckered Caleb couldn't wait for bed

Aunt Janet, cousins Alyssa and Daniel with Titus and Joshua, and Uncle Leonard. The kids loved Uncle Leonard who was always drawing with them or giving them attention.
We were all hiking together here.

Like father like son :)

Sarah and Jared with Caleb

The boys' second cousin Joshua

The boys' second cousin Titus

Seth and Jen at Jen's photography studio open house (above) and Heather and Halle at the same event below.

Telltale #2 face

On Friday we had dinner with some friends, and here are the boys with our hostess.

Tim LOVED jumping on the trampoline.

More of Tim's back and Caleb's smile

Gotcha!

Splashing water

Zoo...special treat to see this

Friend Dean :)

Look at that swan. It's taller than you Timmy!

Pushing Dean

Sam brought these wildflowers back for me from his bike ride. :)

Sippy cup

I forgot to get a picture of Laura, and this was as close as I came. Dean is on his backpack leash. Tim has one too, but we mostly use it at the grocery store.

Remember Wilson on that show 'Home Improvement'? I feel like that's what it's like taking pictures of Timothy lately. Here he is smelling my flowers.

A New Ham

Here is Tim turning away from the camera, the little goober. He was being so cute trying to get the Bjorn on and getting the bear in there, but he wanted nothing to do with the camera.

Caleb was having fun when Tim was pushing him in circles, but here is Tim hiding from the camera again.

As Tim is suddenly camera shy, Caleb seems to be turning into a ham.

I love Caleb's expression here. Once again, I dressed the boys in matching outfits, and Tim wanted to 'hode' Caleb. Of course he hid his face when he saw the camera.

Our friends Sarah and Alex visited this week, and the boys all kept each other entertained.

Father's Day picnic

Mmmm...Avocado

Happy Father's Day!

This is Caleb after I combed all of his hair upward in the bath. It's all fuzzed out. He got that upper right incisor today too.

Tim kept looking away from the camera, but I caught him. :)

Timothy always says, "Hello," when we are on the phone and wants to talk, or at least to listen. Sometimes he will talk or 'pretend' talk. He clearly enunciates his pretend words in his conversations, like he is doing above. Below is a rare smile for the camera.

Pics from the week and Quick Swankster Update

The Swanksters pulled out at about 3PM on Friday and just passed over into Canada about 1PM today with hopes of reaching Calgary soon.

Rainbow during sunset yesterday

A project of Sam's so that I could have this quilt in the family room

Moving Day....sad to see our friends go so far away, but happy for them.

Tim 'helping' load the bikes...Yes, it was a chilly June day.

Another picture of the rainbow

Laura and family, thought you might like this one of Matthew

The boys saying, "Alaska!"

Hasta Luego....mucho luego!

Brothers farewell

Audrey saying, "Alaska!"

"Hode"....Tim asking to hold his brother.

Tori's parents ready to drive the Uhaul

The pictures above and below are of the boys and Louise on the boys' first outing on a train. Tim wasn't so sure about it at first but really liked it by the return trip. We were all tuckered by the end of the day.

Saying Goodbye to our Friends soon

Joshua and Timothy

Joshua, Jonathan, Avery, Caleb, Tori and Audrey
(Lanie, Anasten, Jen and Sadie were also there but probably would not like the pictures I snapped to be on our blog. :>)

Not-so-fun First for Timmy

I think it was just the other day that I was thinking we'd never had stitches with Timothy, which sort of surprised me given his level of activity and how gutsy he is. Well today was the day for that 'first.' Around dinner time Timothy picked up a knife off the counter (which he knows he was not supposed to do) and started to bring it to me rather than putting it back on the counter as I told him. When he brought it to me, he would not give it to me, so I pried it out. As I was pulling it away, he grabbed again and caught the blade. After some panicky moments, Sam stepped in to help me apply pressure, elevate it, etc. Our nurse friend Sarah was on her way over anyway and was able to assess it for us. She thought it would likely need sutures, so Sam & I and left Caleb with Louise and headed to the clinic. We went to a clinic that was still open for awhile where Timothy got three stitches in his right middle finger and four on his ring finger. The worst part, aside from the injury itself, was getting the shots in his fingers. If we kept him distracted with our faces, Signing Time!, snacks, and his stuffed bear, he did OK. Blogger isn't uploading pictures now, but I'll try to post one soon of his bandaged fingers.