Whatcha Doing Down There?

The boys were checking out the world from Eva's veiw point. Ben it extremely interested in babies and loves to baby talk and rub their backs and entertain them. Nick, well, for the most part he observed Eva's presence, but otherwise ignored her, except for the short time when I took these pictures. He also did not like it when I was holding her.

 Nick going in for a duckie lips kiss!

Cousin Eva

The boys got to hang out with Cousin Eva. We haven't seen her in a while and boy has she grown! She got her exercise bouncing outside this weekend. She loves the jumper - far more than Ben or Nick did. Grandma Lee got her the cute grape hat.

After You Play, You Clean Up

After playing in the leaves, Ben helped Dziadziu clean up the leaves. He drove the tractor around the back yard to suck up the leaves. 

Leaves, Leaves and More Leaves!

Sunday we headed to Milan to hang out with the Wolny crew. Grandma and Dziadziu have a lot of trees that are in the process of loosing their leaves, and our trees haven't really started to lose leaves yet, so we took advantage before they got sucked up. We played in the leaves for quite a bit - throwing them, getting buried in them, plowing them, and filling dump trucks with them. The boys had a great time playing! Now we just need our leaves to fall so we can jump in the giant pile!

Mommy and Me

Ben and I had a little photo shoot Friday afternoon while Nick took a nap. Ben was very into it because he got to press the remote button. Unfortunately, the focus wasn't fabulous, but oh well, learnings for next time.

 

Then Monster joined us

 

Little Boo @ The Zoo

Official pictures (minus Nick, Avery and Matthew who were all in the strollers and not coming out)

Jake and Cinderella

Scooby, Jake and Cinderella

And We Can't Forget the Animals - Little Boo @ The Zoo

We can't forget the animals. They were pretty active yesterday. I have never seen the snow lepord moving around or the lions laying in a place where you can see them. The cheetah was a little freaky - she was looking directly at me like I was dinner.

I'd like to note, this is the spot that Ben decided he had to have a picture. Too bad he forgot to pick his sword back up and left it there. I didn't realize the sword was missing until we had gotten back to Nature's Neighborhood. Luckily, it was right where he had left it when we went back to find it.