Gage is Talking!

I'm so proud of my little boy, he can already talk. We're considering enrolling him in Toastmasters or a public speaking course at OU. Can you guess what he said first?

Father Daughter Dance

Sophie and Mike went to the first annual Moore Father-Daughter Dance. Sophie got to dance with her daddy and her friends, and Mike got to wear an Hawaiian shirt and pretend that he was back in California!

Sarah, Sophie, Emma and Hannah

Mike said Sophie danced more than he'd ever seen her! It must be all the "So You Think You Can Dance" episodes that I watch with her!

Once Elsie turns 4, Mike will have 2 dance partners to take with him! What a lucky daddy!

Colorado

A couple of weeks ago we got to take a little trip out to Colorado. The kids and I drove out with my parents and then Mike flew out and drove back with us! The cousins had fun together, as usual, and we also got to meet the newest addition to our family, baby Sam!

It was nice to cuddle with a little baby again, and Sam sure is a cuddler!!! We're pretty sure that he went one whole day without being laid down because we held him the whole day! But that's what Aunts and Grandmas are for!

Elsie and fingerpaints are a scary combination!

Gage looks so big compared to Sam!

Not sure what was going on here....Elsie probably told Caleb to do it!

Watching morning cartoons at Grandma and Grandpa's place

Mike LOVED running in Denver! Here he is from the balcony of my parents' new place after one of his runs. There is a Japanese sculpture of a man down in the courtyard outside...the man in the sculpture is supposed to be lying face down on ice, representing something-or-other (it was too deep for me to grasp). It's a common thing to see people walking by stop to pat his buttocks, so Mike had to participate as well!

We went to Elitches one day (an amusement park in Denver). It was really fun...I have so many memories of going there as a kid. The kids had a great time too, and other than losing Elsie for a brief time (we found her and she doesn't seem traumatized by it, although Grandma and Grandpa might still be), everything went amazingly smoothly, considering we had 6 kids with us!

Micah and Sophie rode a rollercoaster together...they didn't seem to enjoy it while it was going on, but afterwards they said they had fun.

Katie spilled powdered sugar from a funnel cake all over baby Sam's head! The poor little guy had no idea!

Going up in the miniature Tower of Terror...

and coming down!

Since Gage will only sleep on his tummy, we brought the wagon for him. He did great!

This is a sculpture of a huge broom and dustpan outside of the art museum. It is dusting up our dirty children!