Happy Birthday Drake!

Happy 3rd birthday to my favorite little mister! It's hard to believe that our little guy has grown from this

to this:

here's a video of the big boy on his birthday (party video and pics to come):

 Love you mister!

Letter to my 3 year old

Drake,

Wow, how are you already 3 years old?  It really doesn't seem like it could be 3 years ago that you came into our lives and officially made us a family.  You have grown from a baby, to a toddler and now an amazing little boy.  In just a few short weeks you will be starting preschool.  It's only 2 days a week but it seems like such a big deal to me!  I am so happy that I started staying home with you a year ago so that we could spend time together, it is something that I will always cherish. You are so smart, you know all of your alphabet (and have for about a year and a half-incredible!)  and you can count to 30.  You are the best big brother ever to your little sister, you are never jealous of her and are always loving.  You have to be the first one in her room when she wakes up in the morning.  The friendship that I see developing between the two of you melts my heart.  You are a daddy's boy now (daddy is more fun), but you still love to snuggle with me.  I love seeing the world through your eyes as you are fascinated with everything.  You are so funny (and you know it) and love to crack us up.
Drake, your daddy and I are so lucky that we are your parents.  I thank God every.single.day that he brought you into my life.  You are my first born-the one that made me a mommy and I can't thank you enough for that. 
Daddy and I love you with all of our hearts.
Love,
Mommy

Allie's first food

Allie finally tried her first food-rice cereal. Since she wasn't a big eater the doc said that we could delay it for awhile. Lately she's been watching us like a hawk when we eat and trying to grab our food so we decided it was about time. She LOVED it.

Drake helped us video the event :)

And the real video:

Sooo Big!

Allie loves her exersaucer (and her Pokes gear-Go Pokes!) and Drake looks like he's 7 years old-aside from the bib. David jokes that he'll be the only kid in Kindergarten with a bib someday and I'm fine with that :)

5 months old!

Technically she was 3 days shy of 5 months when this was taken but I couldn't resist this picture of her in her precious 4th of July outfit-although she was kind of over the whole picture thing.

She rolled from her back to her belly on June 28th and it has disrupted her sleep a little bit. I remember that happened to Drake (and verified with some mommy friends that it was normal) so I know that it won't last long.  Aside from the sleep disruption I LOVE this age.  She is so full of personality!  She's starting to laugh all of the time and squeal and smile at her brother (who she is OBSESSED with).  So much fun!

4th of July weekend

I hope that everyone had a wonderful 4th of July holiday.  We certainly did!  We went up to Edmond, OK to see family.  We had so much fun with everyone, I'll just let the pictures prove it :)

Drake, Gage, and Allie with Pops and ZaZa

Drake swimming with Pops

Drake and ZaZa

Allie's first pool experience

Nana and Allie

Drake LOVED the parade

and Allie loved sleeping through the parade

Attempt at a family pic :)

Allie's 4th of July outfit

Daddy's shadow

David has a little shadow who wants to be just like his daddy...

LOVE IT.