Day 274: Lunch Time

Day 273: School

Sorry it's blurry, but it's the only picture I took today.  We drove past the elementary school I attended and I had to take a quick picture.  I remember helping to paint the mural on the wall.

Day 272: Hospital

This was taken in my grandfather's hospital room.  We arrived at 7:15 and he passed at 7:38 pm.  I'll miss you Grandad!

Day 271: Smiles

Joseph is now smiling on a regular basis, and I'm loving it.

Day 270: The Hiding Place

This month's book for book club.  I couldn't put it down and read it in a day.

Day 269: Blocks

Clara has been building cities with blocks lately.

Day 268: Playing

I love it when Jeremy and Clara play together.

Day 267: Cousins

My niece Kaycee is always wanting to hold Joe.

Day 266: Crutches

We had to buy these today.....  See my normal blog for the story.

Day 265: Unicorn

Clara made a unicorn out of Legos all by herself.

Day 264: Puzzles

Clara and I spent a couple of hours doing every puzzle in the toy room.  It was some great one on one time.

Day 263: Little Boy

Joseph is finally fitting into some of his 0-3 month clothes (even though he'll be 3 months in 2 weeks...)  This is one of those 0-3 month outfits...

Day 262: Princess Castle

We got this from a neighbor years ago and Clara uses it whenever she plays.

Day 261: Chair

Jeremy has been sleeping in this recliner due to his shoulder surgery.  But last night he was able to sleep in his bed, so I took a picture of the empty chair to celebrate this joyous occasion!

Day 260: Poofy Dress

Clara loves sitting on the air conditioning vents with a dress on.  She loves that not only is it cold, but it also makes her dresses poofy!

Day 259: Car

We had my nieces and nephews over on Saturday.  Since it was Jeremy's birthday, my sister offered to let Jeremy and I go out for ice cream while she helped the kids clean up.  When I walked into the toy room and saw this, I laughed.  If you are going to crash your car, it better not be into an oven where you can get cooked!

Day 258: Cool Dude

Clara put these on him while I was feeding him, and then laughed and laughed.

Day 257: Fun With Friends

I had the opportunity to watch some kids Thursday night.  Clara LOVED playing with the little boy.

Day 256: My kiddos

Day 255: Tomato Picking

Clara and her cousin were playing outside.  They ran in the house and excitedly informed me that there were some red tomatoes and begged me to allow them to pick them.  Of course you can do my work for me!

Day 254: Excited

I told Clara that we were going to take a family picture.  She miss understood and was so excited I was going to take a picture of just her.

Day 253: Sleepy?

Joseph was so tired, but kept screaming when I put him in his bed.  I laid him down on the floor to change his diaper and he immediately fell asleep.  Crazy boy!

Day 252: Hand Raised

Joseph often sleeps with one hand raised in the air.  I wonder how good of a sleep he's getting if he's not relaxed enough to let that hand fall.

Day 251: Big and Small

My dear friend came to visit us on Friday with her little family.  Her twin boys were born premature in December for the same reason Joe was premature.  She's been such a big help to me these last 2 months.  And look how big her 8 month old boy looks compared to my 2 month old!

Day 250: School

In stead of putting Clara in preschool this year, I've decided to try to teach her how to read.  On Tuesday of this week we started and she's still going strong.  She's been begging me to teach her for quite a while now, so we'll see how it goes.

Day 249: Legos

Clara's new favorite toys.

Day 248: Jeffrey's Birthday

Today was my nephew's 11th birthday.

Day 247: Fountain

The kids getting their hands and arms wet in the fountain as we stood in line for 2 hours in the hot sun waiting to get inside the temple.

Day 246: Cousin Time

Once a month(ish) we go over to Jeremy's brother's house and play games until late.  Clara loves getting to spend some cousin time with Caden.

Day 245: Kiddos

Even though you can't see Joe, he's in his bed.  There is something about seeing both my kids asleep in the same room that melts my heart.