father's day weekend

 friday night we had a family movie night. we have had movie nights before, but we changed it up this time. we got the idea from my friend melissa. we blew up the air mattress and watched a movie "in bed". it was so much fun and jack was so excited about it!! we watched cars 2.

 saturday johnny was on call so jack and i washed our car while charlie took his morning nap. i brought charlie's little pool to the front yard for jack to play in while i washed most of the car. he looks like a giant next to it :)

 on father's day we went to botanical gardens for a picnic. charlie has a cold so we didn't want to leave him in the nursery at church so we skipped. 

johnny is the best daddy for my boys! one of jack's answers on the about dad question sheet that i did he answered i am happy when my dad hugs me :) how sweet is that?!

 charlie's cough woke him up from his nap yesterday after only sleeping for like 10 minutes so he was exhausted by 5:30. he fell asleep nursing and i put him down on the blankets so i could get dinner started. he slept through us going in and out of the door, chopping, and talking.

 jack and charlie got to play in the big pool together. i don't have a pic of both of them in there.

 we grilled steaks and corn...we haven't grilled a steak in years. it was yummy!

our biggest tomato...we have another one next to this one and one more up top...maybe more today!

photoshoot wth charlie

 i took a bunch of pictures of charlie for his invitations...these are my favorites.

(this one was the runner up)

 this one was the winner :)

i had fun, but was sweating like a dog at the botanical gardens trying to get him to smile at me or jack and not eat the grass :)

jack did soooo good trying to get charlie to smile at the camera. he is such a good big brother and helper!

charlie's 2nd haircut

 i put pete on the couch during naptime because he will bark at cars if i don't and wake up the boys. i came in from taking a shower and i found him like this :)

 jack made a marshmallow snowman 

 andrea took a picture of joseph eating so i decided to take one of charlie. he LOVES his food. and he is really loving to nurse lately now that he is sleeping better. last night was the 5th night of me letting him "cry it out", but he never cried from 8:00-5:00! i fed him at 5:00 and then he went back to sleep until 7:00. yay charlie! anyway, now that i have taken away the 2-3 night feedings he has been nursing really well during the day. he even somewhat says hungry..."hu hu"

 jack's garden! we have one tomato on the plant :)

 charlie's new haircut

 the back of his haircut and he has figured out how to open the cabinet. he also has figured out how to play in the toilet!!! yuck! jack never did that as a baby.

 we did a little photo shoot at botanical gardens today to try to get a picture to put on charlie's invitations. i know he isn't smiling in this picture but i think he looks like a little angel!

 jack's reward for being such a good boy during charlie's photo shoot

jack still twirls his hair...this makes me smile :)

past few days

 charlie got to ride in the car cart for the first time 2 days ago :) it was fun while it lasted, but i ended up holding him for half of the trip because big brother couldn't stop hugging him...y'all it is a problem that i love...i love the fact that jack wants to hug his baby brother so much, but charlie just doesn't like it after the 50th time!

 jack has been building a tent and he got his and charlie's glow worms and matched up the songs with eachother

 yesterday morning jack built an awesome train track, a tent, and a underwater garbage truck out of legos...charlie watched!

jack got sick yesterday evening though :( yesterday morning we went to ijump and as jack was going up one of the slides for the 100th time he stopped on the stairs and came back down...i knew something was up. i thought maybe he was hungry, but that wasn't it. so we left and came home to nap. i checked his temp when we got home and sure enough he had a fever. when i asked him what he felt like at i jump (trying to figure out what was wrong he said "i feel like humpty dumpty") at 6:00 he got sick, but my big boy threw up into the trashcan that i had next to him. sorry if this is TMI. anyway, he hasn't had a fever at all today, but we are taking it easy.

 jack made a paint roller with a paper towel roll

 we made paper bag puppets

 charlie loved on pete some more

any time i see charlie by the train set i think of godzilla :)

zoo days

 we went to the zoo on friday and had a wonderful time together. jack is really turning into a wonderful little boy who is really trying hard to obey us and listen to our directions which makes my life a lot easier when we are out somewhere. 

anyway, we looked at the reptiles...we hardly ever go in there, but he LOVED it.

 of course we had to splash in the water!

random pics:

 jack loves to mow the grass with his daddy

 and he loves to pick the purple flowers for his momma

zoo day #2:

 jack loved the reptiles so much that he wanted to bring johnny back to see the yucky anaconda

 charlie LOVES the kangaroos...i said he loved them because their big ears remind him of pete's ears

 we are excited about the new giraffe encounter. it is not officially open but you can walk through it

 johnny and jack rode the camel together :)

 the lion cubs were wrestling and pouncing

 johnny and i wish that we could sleep while jack and charlie play together :)

he loved watching the lions too :)