4 months too long

Henry had his 1st birthday party - polka dot theme :)

Henry's 1st Easter :)

it has been 4 months since my last post - so much has happened and my sweet baby boys are growing so quickly! if i think about it too much, it makes me scared that the time will go by too fast and they will be grown and won't let me snuggle and smell their hair anymore...makes me almost cry!

anyhoo, they can say and do the funniest things. jake told me today that a lady on tv was wearing a "tinkerchef", aka, handkerchief :) henry can now say mama, dada, jake, bubba, "ga" for ball, ka-ka (cracker), bye-bye, hello, and thank you. he loves to try to put on peoples clothes and shoes and sits for long periods putting on/taking off the lids of things.

we got a boat this summer, a suntracker deck boat which is really fun. the boys like it and we have been out about 4 times. we swam in the river yesterday and saw fireworks on it for the 4th of july. speaking of the 4th, henry went swimming for the first time and jake can now touch the bottom of the shallow end of the pool! henry loves the water and loves taking baths....jake DID NOT at that age :) henry still sleeps with me at night and we will try to get everybody back in their own beds once we get through the busy summer. the boys enjoy going to the patch every day and playing, picking blueberries, and eating the homemade ice cream that steve makes and we sell there. henry still drinks alot of bottles and i am not concerned with getting him weaned. i'll give him until xmas, like we did with jake. santa can take his bottle to a child who does not have one, like santa did with jake's.....kinda makes me sad again....if i think about it too much....with jake i knew that there would be another to go through everything with again.....with henry, i am not sure....."sigh"-

henry wears size 24 month clothes and size 5/6 shoe...jake wear size 6 and 12 shoe...jake weighs about 52 pounds and is 43 inches....not sure on henry untilwe go next month...he is probably 31 inches and 26 pounds....we went to busch gardens last week and jake was able to ride on roman rapids for the first time :) henry had a great time and was as good as gold - they were cute, side by side, in the double stroller that we rented for the day :)

jake turned 4 in april and had a monster truck party with an awesome cake that looked like a monster truck :) he started soccer and loved it, but had to end his season early. on april 30th, he was climbing out of henry's playpen and fell backwards back into it....broke his left elbow :( had a splint for 2 weeks, then a cast for 2, then a sling for 2...he is all better now and we hope he can play soccer in the fall since he missed so much of this season (only got to play in 1 game)-

jake ended his first year of preschool with good notes...on his last day, i cried like he was getting married....good golly....not a good sign of how i will be on graduation day! may was a good month, with a very successful strawberry season. henry won a contest in the vegetable growers magazine...we posed him in a veggie bushel basket last year, and he won 4th place with that photo :)

ok, this was a start on missing so much time -