New Bath Photos for Dad

About a week ago when I finally updated my blog. (The life of a stay at home mom is very busy.) My dad commented on how old the photos of Duke were because he still had his umbilical cord attached. (I had been found out, that I am terrible at taking photos.) I told Josh and he agreed that I need to be better about documenting the events in our children's lives. Soooo, this one is for you dad I took them just the other day. Enjoy!

Camping

A few weeks ago we went camping up north. Josh's parents brought their fifth wheel, and let me tell you that is the way to camp. It was great to be able to sleep in a bed, take a shower, cook on a stove and go pee in a toilet! We had a great time. Jackson loved playing the dirt and being able to run around and explore the forest.

Here is a picture of him after he finished playing in the dirt one day.
Duke and I after we hiked down to the lake to go fishing. As a little side note, Duke has started pooping just once a week and when he poops it is a landslide. It just so happened that it had been a week since he had pooped. We got to the bottom of the hike by the water and...landslide! All the way up his back and all over his clothes. Nancy helped me clean him up and washed his clothes in the lake. The fish loved their little treat!
The family relaxing by the lake.
Jackson was sooo cute here. He kept walking up the trail and telling us while he waved his hands that he just had to leave because he had somewhere that he needed to be.
Paca playing in the lake.

"A whole new world has been opened up to you now that we are poor."

!!!WARNING!!!THE FOLLOWING POST MAY BE SHOCKING TO MANY!!!

Yesterday I took the kids to the library. I am embarrassed to say that I have not been to the library in about 8 years. I didn't even have a library card. I was shocked to find out that you can rent movies and Cd's. I spent 2 hours there walking around finding out all the amazing things the library offers. Jackson was in the stroller and I just gave him a few books and pushed him around while Duke was in the baby Bjorn. (I was even breastfeeding in the baby Bjorn with my hands free to keep looking for books.) It was great! In the past I have put quite a dent in our pocket book by buying books and now I can just go to the library. When I got home with a huge bag of loot, I was excited to tell Josh about my adventure. In usual Josh style after I enthusiastically told him about my new revelation he replied, "A whole new world has been opened up to you now that we are poor. Great!"

Jackson "holding" Duke

Father's Day

I was worried when Father's day was coming because I had recently had Duke but I wanted to make the day special for Josh. My grandma and I decided that we would take pictures of the boys doing the stuff that daddy likes. Here are some of the photos that we put in a frame for Josh to take to his new job in November. Josh loved them!!!

My Boys

The Story Continues...

This morning Duke went back to the hospital to get his jaundice checked after a night on his "billy blanket. Which by the way is as loud as a vacuum and lights up half the room bright blue at night. After an agonizing two hour wait we found out that his count went down to 16.8. The doctor said that the was "guardedly optimistic", and that it was good enough for him to stay home another day. So, tomorrow we will return again to test him. Every time he is tested they have to poke him in the heal and squeeze his heal for drips of blood to fill up a little vial. Poor guy has had this test everyday since he was born and his little heals are so bruised now there is no more clean areas to test him.
Here are some photos of Duke after he was born and some pictures of him on his "billy blanket".