Because No One Likes an Angry Grandma

Amy and I can't have a conversation with our Moms about anything without them mentioning that we need to update our blog and post pictures. So here we are. Updating the blog. And posting pictures.

Summer is nearly over...school officially starts tomorrow. So consider this the end of the summer wrap up. The big summer happening was the family trip to Bear Lake. And by "family" trip I mean Amy and the kids. My participation was limited to driving them 12 hours to Bear Lake, dropping them off, driving 3 hours to Salt Lake, catching a plane, flying back to Portland, working all week, flying back to Salt Lake, driving 3 hours back to Bear Lake, loading the car and then driving Amy and the kids 12 hours back to Portland (with a flat tire one hour before the end of the road trip. On a Sunday afternoon.) So I told Amy she had to write that blog post.

Here is what I've got. Lila is a giant baby. She is no longer a peanut. She spends most of her days talking really loud, chewing on her fingers and being attacked by her brothers. They like to read to her. Sometimes less effectively:
And sometimes they do a slightly better job:
She is getting pretty good at hanging out in her Bumpo, or Bumbo, or Bonnobo or Bobejo or whatever that thing is called.
As a side note, every time you see one of those aren't you KICKING yourself that you didn't invent that? How hard was that? And that lady is a bajillionaire now.

Lila has also enjoyed passing her time being dressed in fabulous fashions. You have already seen legwarmers, which she still wears frequently, but now that the north-western weather is cooling off a bit, sometimes she needs to rock some leggings and boots. Very Fall 2009.

Also in this fall: being really bald. Which Lila still is. (I am too, in case you are wondering.) The hair nubbins she has are still red, so we like that. We just wish they would grow a bit.

Jonah and Noel had some fun summer camps where they "learned to play sports." Really what they did was exasperate the lady who teaches ALL of the youth sports camps in Hillsboro, even though she seems perpetually annoyed by kids and has no concept of what they are or are not capable of. Noel had fun...but seemed like he would rather be playing video games:
Jonah has what I believe what you sports people refer to as "good hustle." He's pretty good, but he is super focused and dedicated. I think that will take him far. Here is some good baseball hustle (he'd make a great outfielder. He got every ball that was hit - if my Dad knows how to find and read this blog he just fell over that I know what an outfielder is and what they do.)
And some great Tennis hustle

Jonah also lost his first tooth. He started complaining about it hurting while I was brushing it one night and true to form, I told him to quit complaining before noticing that it was in fact, loose. He nursed if for a couple of weeks and on the last night in Bear Lake when I arrived for the pick up, it was hanging by a thread. So I brushed extra vigorously that night and it popped out.

We waited until we got home to put it under the pillow. Then we forgot about it. Amy woke up like a bolt at about 6:30am and said "Did we put money under Jonah's pillow?!" (SPOILER ALERT: The tooth fairy isn't real.) She got up, gathered up some change, went to put it under Jonah's pillow, and the tooth was missing. So we left the money...hoping we would find the tooth before Jonah. Which we didn't. He found it a few days later...I guess the tooth fairy dropped it!!

My mom really wanted to see a picture of toothless Jonah, which we tried to get...but trying to get him to smile like a normal person, as previously discussed in this blog, is tricky. So this is the best we got.

Coming soon: Bear Lake photos! First day of School photos! Other mildly amusing blogs! STAY TUNED!