Flower child...

My little helper, watering my flowers...until you hear me freak out in the end when she decided to bring the hose, running, into the house - not that she could ever do anything wrong :-)

No your not a dog!

Willa and Lucy share a special bond...she often cuddles up to Lucy and Lucy never minds. I was baby-sitting one day and couldn't find Willa, here is where I found her!

Fletcher would never stand for this, he heads to the other side of the room when Willa comes near him. Lucy doesn't even raise an eyebrow!

Then last week I was watching Willa in her pool, she just loves playing in the water, but again caught her imitating Lucy! (watch both videos...)

And, just one video from Father's Day...Dan has been loading up on vehicles for the kids - finding lots of good stuff at garage sales for his darling grandchildren ;-) Peyton already has a hummer!!

Sarah crawled in to give Willa a ride in her new Barbie car, don't know when Willa will be able to reach the pedals herself, meanwhile, there were plenty of offers from family to take her on rides!

Fun times!

Memorial Day Weekend!

Hi all!  Went to church this morning with James, Sarah & Willa.  It was such a great service, one where we celebrated the true meaning of Memorial Day!  We had past serviceman that told us what it was really like at war and we celebrated all of the servicemen in the church as we all waved flags, it was truly a fun and rewarding service!

Everyone wore red, white & blue to celebrate the weekend - what a great idea!

Willa was into it with her stars and stripes dress that matched Mommy's shirt.  Can't wait for July 4th when baby boy will were his stars and stripes as well, all picked out by Grandpa Dan at a recent art show.

Willa entertaining everyone outside of church!

Whoa Mama - you are ready to BUST!!    :-)

Baby Boy was flippin and jumpin in church...too funny, Sarah's belly was moving all over the place...

Have a great day all!

Peace!

Lynne

Happy Mothers Day!

We had a great day - started off with church and then Aaron took us out to breakfast (don't know why Dan gets in on this deal...) and then off to Sarah and James' later in the day for dinner!  James barbecued - and what a great job he did!! Steak and crab legs - delic!!  It was such a nice day, watched the Red Wings win and to top it off a trip to the custard shop for ice cream!!  YUM!  Willa was her usual entertaining self...and I also grabbed a couple 9 monthers of Sarah!

Look at our little walker...she totally gave up crawling when she figured out she could be vertical all the time!

So, this is her new thing...as soon as I pointed the camera at her, she would make her funny face...we soon figured out she thinks she is smiling for the camera...funny what kids learn from us!  She must see us smile when the camera is pointed at us, so she is trying to do the same thing!

Goofy girl, look at all those teeth coming in!!

Mama, 2 more weeks to go!!  Can't wait!!!!

There's that smile again!  I had to really try to catch her before she made the 'funny face'!

What will she sit on once Mommy's belly bump is gone...better yet, how is she gonna handle that little treasure when he comes home?  She's pretty jealous if Sarah gives any other kids (babies) attention!

The guys, chillin after dinner...watching the Wings game!  GO WINGS!!!

Bath time!  She LOVES her bath!!!

Smiling again!  So funny!

A better look at all those teeth  ;-)

Giving directions I think...

Look what I can do Grandpa!

It was a great Mothers Day...can't every day be Mothers Day????

Better late than never...

Easter started out to be a very fun day for Willa!  We went to church and while Willa took her nap, Sarah and I hid eggs outside for Willa's Easter egg hunt.  After lunch we decided to go down and see the animals at the farm next door before we did the Easter egg hunt. Well, as you all know, Willa no sooner got in the barn when she was bit by a goat.  See Sarah's blog post 'Ate by a goat' for all the details!

This is heading into the barn with neighbor friend Aurora at the wheel!  Willa's 1st ride in a John Deere - many more to come with Great-Grandpa I'm sure :-)

Willa was so excited to see the animals!

This is after our trip to the ER...you can see that it took it's toll on Willa AND Mommy!

Finally, we get to the Easter egg hunt!

Checking out her basket!

I can't reach them, I have a sore hand!

Getting into it now...

Basketfull of eggs!

Still looking a bit sorrowful...

Stickers on her legs from the ER.

Her bunny ears, playing with all her new toys in Great-Grandma's livingroom...

Aurora, playing with Willa and all her new toys...Willa still looks wiped out!

We all had a beautiful Easter dinner together...thank God that Willa's hand is healing well and it wasn't any worse than it was!

SPRING - really??

When will spring come to Michigan???  We are trying...but the weather is not cooperating!  We have our boat in and last weekend Dan set up the fountain...but then the snow came and it got colder than it already was!!!  Ugh!

This is a picture of our fountain this morning...Dan just keeps it running, I guess he figures it will warm up one of these days!

We are praying for SPRING!!!