2 Months Old

Coleman is 2 months old today. These pictures are from the last few weeks.

He was 7 weeks old for this one.

Coleman kept smiling when Jackson would kiss his head. It was pretty cute.

We went on a walk on Sunday and all the other kids wanted to ride in a stroller so I carried Coleman in the baby carrier. He really liked it and was happy the whole time. It was his first time being in it for that long. I kept feeling like he was going to fall out backwards though. It didn't seem to hold him close enough to me.

The rest of the pictures are from tonight.

We love our little Coleman so much.
He still likes sleeping a lot.
He sleep pretty good at night.
He likes to be held, but is okay laying by himself for a little while too.
He's starting to be content being in his carseat when he's awake.
He's starting to smile at us more.
He's a good boy.
He's also a cute boy.

Wild Waves

My sister was kind enough to invite us to go to Wild Waves with her yesterday and let us use her free ticket coupons. We loved it and are tempted to get season passes sometime in the future. I didn't know how well the kids would do, especially with Kenzie not getting her nap, but they were all happy and had a great time.

Kenzie by the wave pool. We spent the first half in the water. Most of the time we were at the wave pool. Jackson liked to go in a play around with his cousins while Jordan and Mackenzie liked staying by me and only going in the water with Ashlee or me.

We also went to the kiddie pool area. This is Jordan going down a clam shell slide. Kimber is next to him trying to convince Kenzie to come down too.

Kimber did convince her, but as you can tell by her face, didn't really like it.

Jack and Sam looking up at the water slides.

Kenzie saw the towels on the ground and knew what to do: lay out to get tan :)

After eating lunch in the car (because you can't bring food in) we rode rides. They loved this airplane ride. Jackson was turning around talking to Jordan mid-flight. I was a little nervous he was going to fall out by doing that :)

Coleman slept a lot.

Jack riding in the caboose on the train ride.

Some of the kid rides they couldn't ride by themselves because they were too little. I took them on a couple, but Ashlee was very nice and rode on this roller coaster once with each of the boys (and then again with her daughter). She had to hold on good to the boys so they wouldn't fly out. I was grateful she did. Jackson was worried his glassed would fly off and so he held them tight.

Jordan and Ashlee. I noticed that Ashlee sat in different spots of the roller coaster each time she rode it. With Jack they were in the middle, with Jordan they were in the front, and with Alli they were in the back. I never asked her which was the best place to be though.

This is 6 of the 8 kids we brought with us.

Jack, Jordan, Alli in the boat ride. They're very serious drivers.

Kenzie could have went on this ride by herself. But she said she wanted to watch.

After watching though, she said she did want to ride on it. She was happy sitting in it until it started. Then she got a little scared. But Alli comforted her and she made it through the ride without crying the whole time. This was Kenzie's first time going on a ride. And it was the only ride she went on.

Some Pictures

Doug was trying out a new hair style...

Jordan and his puppy.

Jackson

I don't think Jackson wanted his picture taken. I don't know where he got that glare from...

Mackenzie

She loves me.

I think this picture says a lot about Mackenzie. She gets what she wants. I very rarely let the boys eat anywhere but at the table. But Mackenzie likes to walk around to eat and when I tell her to go to the table she says "no!" After I insist sometimes, instead of actually going to the table she'll find somewhere else to sit down, like a chair in the middle of the living room. So she's still getting crumbs all over the place. And did you notice the color of her legs? She really likes to color. Just not on paper. All the markers have been put up high, out of all children's reach since the boys aren't very good about putting them away after using them and Kenzie would get a hold of them. But Kenzie still found a marker somehow upstairs and while I thought her and Jordan were playing nicely together, she was coloring all over herself, the wall, the carpet a little, some toys, her doggie, the bathroom floor, the tub, and the toilet. Yeah, she's trouble. But she's cute and she knows it so she gets mostly whatever she wants.

Matching Kiddos

Coleman wore a tie on Sunday for the first time. Apparently he didn't love it.

The big boys have the same tie and Kenzie has a skirt and shirt that match so they all wore them. I though they all looked pretty cute.

I think Kenzie is so adorable in this picture.

This one is my favorite of them all.

I like this one too.

Coleman is smiling! If only Jordan were looking at the camera (and smiling) this picture would be pretty much perfect.

Silly faces. Isn't Kenzie's so funny? I love it.

Just the boys. Jordan actually wanted to hold the baby. That's the first time he's wanted to. The desired lasted about 10 seconds though.

The boys again.

Park Trip

We went to the park last week. It was cloudy and not very warm so Coleman had to wear his warm clothes. He slept well with the hood covering his eyes :).

There was only one other family there and the boys started playing freeze tag with them. The other boy ran onto the play thing to get away from Jack who was 'it'. Jack ran after him and slipped and cut his lip. He got up crying, but I didn't think it would be that bad since he's kind of dramatic any time he falls down. But when he came over to me his hand and mouth were covered in blood. I wiped it up with the towel I had grabbed out of the car to dry the slides off with. I was a little worried that he might have to get stitches or something since it was bleeding a lot. But it did get better pretty quickly after putting ice and pressure on it. He had a fat lip though for a couple days. Here's what it looked like:

It's on the upper left part of his lip.

Kenzie had fun though riding in this car. She wouldn't ride on froggy because she thought it looked "scary."

Coleman's Blessing Day

Doug blessed Coleman at church on August 7th. Coleman cried through most of it but stopped when Doug finished and held him up so everyone could see his cuteness. Grandpa Riding, Uncle Konrad, and Grandpa Crabtree, all stood in the circle with Doug.

Coleman in his blessing outfit. It's the same onsie Jackson wore when he was blessed.

The kids weren't very cooperative for the family picture. Kenzie was crying in most of the pictures and Jackson didn't smile in any of them. Jordan did pretty good though and there was even a couple with him smiling.

Grandma Dance came up for the blessing. We loved having her here and wish she could have stayed longer!

You'd think they'd be looking at cute baby Coleman right? But they're actually watching something on Doug's phone.