Building Towers

After buying 16 boxes of tissues at Target (the 8 packs are always cheaper, and this particular day they were on sale AND when you bought two you got a $5 Target gift card.  Love those deals!) we decided to bust some out and have fun with them.  

1.  Stack them.

2.  Boxes start falling.

3.  Look at mom and scream!  :)

1.  Four boxes stacked.

2.  Carefully placing the fifth.

3.  Slowly back away without touching anything...

4.  Success!  He backed away really far and started clapping when it didn't fall over.  Too funny. Unfortunately he scooted backed so far that I couldn't get both him and the tower in the frame, so you'll just have to believe me that the tower is just out of the frame and perfectly in tact.  :)

His reaction after a tower fell down.  You can see here that we also tried stacking packages of toilet paper. Much more challenging!  

Lots of fun building the towers out of boxes, but then of course sometimes he just likes to throw them.  :)

Hanging out with cousins and Grandma Dee

While Daniel and Natalie were at their appointment West and I went to hang out with Grandma and the boys.  We had a lot of fun exploring the trails in the gorgeous weather.  Only things missing were cousin Titus and Papa Johnie!

Silas and Atticus crack me up in this picture.  No denying that they're twins!

Watching Mace hunt for sticks.

 Four out of the five cousins.  Just about everyone who passed us asked if West, Silas, and Atticus were triplets!  Can't blame them!

 West and Mace have always had the coolest bond - it is always so fun to watch!  Here West was giving Mace lots of hugs while laying on top of him, but Atticus didn't like that very much since Mace is his brother, so he and West proceeded to fight over Mace!

All four of them doing their own thing.  :)

Project 365... Week 4

Wow, I've made it almost a whole month!  I can't believe I haven't missed a day yet, though I'm sure it will happen sooner or later.  It has definitely been a lot of work - picking my favorites each day, editing, and trying to keep my hard drive cleaned up and organized - but I really enjoy it.  Not sure if I can see any progress in my photography, but it can't hurt, right?  ;)

Day 22:  See anything here that just doesn't belong?  How about that ginormous TV?  Yep, we won that 70+ inch behemoth at our small group Christmas party and it doesn't even fit in the cut out hole above our fireplace!  I told Brad we could leave it there until the Super Bowl, but after that it will probably get moved downstairs to the family room.  :) 

Day 23:  Our little escape artist learned how to climb out of his crib.  He was so proud of himself!

 Day 24:  Lunch with Dad at Chili's - a special treat!

Day 25:  Four houses are being built in our neighborhood right now and crews were out working on all of them this day.  It's noisy, but at least it provides West some entertainment.

Day 26:  Date night celebrating Brad's birthday!  Dinner at Jazz and then browsing at Barnes & Noble.  (You can read more about it here.)

Day 27:  Hanging out on a lazy Sunday afternoon.  

Day 28:  Hanging out with cousins and Grandma Dee during Daniel and Natalie's appointment.  I don't know why, but I really love this picture.  Each boy is just doing his own thing while Grandma is nearby watching over them.  :)