Life

We've been so busy the past week, that I seriously don't know where the time has went. And we have very few pictures too...

Day care started last week. Both Meghan and Jase love their school. More on this in an upcoming post...

Joseph is finalizing some details and house projects before classes start at Purdue in one week.

I've been busy at work, with several projects and software and equipment development. Being at an University the fall brings change with new people arriving and some people leaving. There are several people that I have come to know over the past 2 years that are moving on in their careers. I have now made quite the network of people and have even received some employment offers.

We have worked on perfecting our morning routine...so far so good...

Millions of peaches, peaches for free

Well, not for free...
Last week Joe and the munchkins went and got us 1 bushel of peaches from Annie's Orchard. Yum. the 1 bushel of peaches ended up covering more than 4 cookie sheets.
Here are two sheets:

So over the course of 5 days we made: 2 fresh peach pies, one batch of jam, peach cobbler, and 35 cups of frozen peaches (all ready for cobbler, smoothies, and more jam). Here is one pie and the jam (I forgot to get a picture of the cobbler, but it was the best we've had.

Brought to you by the Letter M

Here is another letter...

The funny thing is when I finish one letter, Jase immediately wants another...silly boy!
Go check out I Made It Myself hosted by Christy.

Climbing

Meghan takes advantage of anything that she can use to climb up higher (will this be a trait carried on in life). Here she is using the new canning jars I bought (and just brought in the house not 2 minutes earlier) to climb onto the couch. She is fearless, which can be good and bad...

Pancakes

We love pancakes in our house, for breakfast, for dinner, anytime really. The kids love eating blueberry pancakes (well, us parents do too!). Jase likes blueberry pancakes because they get to eat naked.

Here is Jase showing off:

The many messy faces of Meghan eating... (Did you know that I prefer to feed my babies and toddlers so that there isn't a huge mess to clean up).

This is my favorite type of smile that Meghan gives - her teeth clenched together grin with her chunky cheeks - so cute and precious!

A day in the life of Meghan...

These days Meghan has become quite a handful. She is in that strange transitioning from infant to toddler phase where she isn't happy and content for very long. For instance she wants to be held, then 10 seconds later she wants down, 10 seconds later she wants held, and repeat 20 times.

She has also started copying what Jase does. For instance tonight Jase was flopping and crawling around on his small Cars couch and Meghan was doing the same thing right next to him. It was darn cute (I should have got some video, but I was just enjoying the sight of my kids playing well with each other (and tiring themselves out).

Meghan loves Jase's electronic dinosaur. She is so strong and will pick it up while standing in the middle of the room and look at it, play with it, and bang it around.

Done with the dinosaur, now where to?

How about a climb on the treadmill...

Now to the roll of butcher paper - should I tear it or eat it?

Wait Jase! I want to come too!

I wish I could move faster - I just can't keep up.

Faster, faster...

Where are you?

Purdue Fountain

This is one of our favorite places to go to let Jase (and Meghan) play in the water. Today was a great day, not too hot, slightly breezy, and no people! It is a rarity during the summer and on beautiful days, to have the fountain all for your family.

We went for a picnic in the park, but only one other family came, our great friends the South family. We had fun talking, the boys loved playing in the water, and Meghan really wanted to go all the way in to the middle.

Jase loved running all around, and darting back and forth and in between the shoots of water.

I really loved watching Dominic run up to the water, then run away. It took him a bit to get in the water, but then he was loving it, just like the big boys. Meghan loved kicking her feet and legs in the sprays of water. She really loves the water and wanted to do everything the big kids were doing.