poppies

i've always loved poppies, but not the plant - the flowers last a week, sometimes two, and the rest of the year you have a scruffy-looking plant that takes up a significant amount of space.

i planted red poppies in a corner of our yard when i was pregnant with evyn. the site worked out well - sandwiched between other plantings, so when the flowers are spent, it's not particularly visible.

when evyn was 2 years old, she saw the poppies blooming and went nuts for them. she would run out into the yard every day to count the blooms.

every year since, it's kind of been "our thing" to see how many poppy flowers appeared. this year's count: 18. almost double that of last year.

memorial day

memorial day at grandma & grandpa's on mill creek. evyn stayed home (with her daddy) with a belly ache. andrew got to hang out with his cousins, aunt lori & uncle larry, aunt lani & uncle ryan, great-grandpa b, and of course, grandma and grandpa.

pancakes and planes 2009

Following our family tradition, Evyn and I attended the annual pancake breakfast & Fly-In at the Lancaster Airport. This was Evyn's 5th year at the event, and Andrew's 1st!
Click here to see our pictures from the 2008 Fly-In.



Evyn was particularly smitten with this WWII era bomber:











We stopped at Stauffer's for slushies afterward to cool off!

10 weeks old - recap

Sigh. Despite my best intentions, I find myself more than a week behind on sorting pictures. Not just for our family blog, but for our home collection.

Part of it is that our picture file has exploded in size, now that Evyn has become a prolific photographer. A couple times a week I have to sit down and sort through a hundred or so pictures & movies that she's taken. OK, I don't have to, but I'd miss out on some real gems if I didn't!

So, let's backtrack to last week. Andrew, at 10 weeks & 14.5 pounds:



It's been a big week for him. He's now playing for longer periods of time - up to 2 hours full of babbling, reaching out for toys and trying to manipulate them, touching our faces, and even a few belly laughs!

Other developments that, admittedly, are probably are of little interest to you but are big news here -
He's graduated to size 2 diapers, and outgrown some of his 3-6 month sleepers.
We're down to one or two bowel movements per day (from 3-4 daily just a week ago). This is great for us, his diaper-changers!


No explanation needed for the next few:



A new development for Evyn, too. Up until now, she has pretty consistently slept from 9:30 pm to 8:30 am. The last week, though, she has been waking around 7:30. This is good news, if we are lucky enough to get a.m. kindergarten.

A few times a week I have to wake her to get our mornings started. Her favorite way to wake is to have her brother join her for a snuggle. The following pictures capture their relationship perfectly!







On Saturday we went to Alex' 1st birthday party at Buchmiller Park, where Andrew got to meet his Grandpa Reed:





He also spent some quality time with his Great Grandma Reed:




Before the party was over, little Alex was crashed on the lawn, while the other kids were blowing bubbles and playing frisbee.