Followed by: "Mommy, could you go take a nap pr read your Bible so I could be alone with the babies?"
I could only imagine what she would do to them in that time as she already had out a pile of her princess clothes, poor boys!
He is quite the adventurer, on his own terms. If you swing or make him fly he kind of freaks out, but when he is in charge he knows no fear. He has been mobile for a while, officially crawling for two weeks and is already pulling up. He scares me and reminds me I better get to super-duper-baby-proofing. Here he is reaching so far out that his toes were extended on the side of his chair.
Yet, how can you get mad at him when he gives you that mischevious little grin, like after he crawled to Ashton's desk and bit a piece off of her drawing. Already, I have fished out of his mouth paper pictured below, a price tag and plastic play money. At least all of that is better than the lady bugs his big brother always ate at this age-yuck!
Be careful who you name kids after. While Will is named for 3 of his great-grandfathers, Wilmont comes from my paternal grandfather, Bill. Bill found nothing funnier than making innocent little children shoot birds, nice huh? I actually had the sad thought that since the twins never got to meet him, they will never have the bird-shooting picture that was kind of a family tradition! Well, Will decided to carry the tradition on and apparently doesn't need anyone to help him hold up the proper finger- Bill would be so proud!
My sweet Will, no one can help but love him. With his strong personality, it's going to be quite the adventure to see what amazing person he turns out to be!
His first table food, green beans. He gets SO excited when you put food down in front of him- again, Little Jon.
This is his new trick- clapping. He is SO proud of himself for accomplishing this! Look how blond he looks in this picture!
Now, he gets the reputation of being all sweet, but don't let him fool you. He can be pretty naughty too but in a really sneaky way! Here he is strong arming, make that legging, his poor smaller brother!
Look at that sweet, innocent look- as he tries to steal Will's bottle!
Wesley is also quite the daredevil. For their first experience swinging, Will freaked out and Wesley laughed. Wesley also dove out of his duckie bathtub into the full tub of water and loved it. That's what I love about discovering my boys, just when you think you have them pegged they change on you. I love how different they are in every possible way because I worry about people always lumping them together. There's no danger of me doing that. It's amazing how differently I love them. Will's smile makes me want to make him laugh and squeeze his cheeks. Wesley's smile makes me want to kiss the top of his head and get him to say "Mama" in his sweet deep little voice.
We like to keep tabs of how many layouts we complete on the giant abacus. Amy and I both did one layout more than last year so that's progress! I did 18 double page spreads! The beads in the middle are from that show off Ashley who did the most despite leaving early.
My girls sadly getting ready to leave Sunday afternoon.
I'm looking really rough because I didn't want to waste scrapbooking time to do hair and make-up- priorities people!
So, here are some of my favorites. When I came home to show my family the kids really kept track of how many pages I did of each of them, so here's one page of each of them:
This page is a sampling of who Ashton is right now: ballerina, model, candy nut and art fanatic!
I love this page because #1: I love these sweet pics of Will and #2 I did all the stamping on the page and loved how it turned out.
I also love this page of Wesley. Great pictures, some of my all-time favs, love the inking on the edge, and especially the chipboard letters overlapping the picture. You can't read the hanging tag, but it says "similarities and differences" and is perfect for documenting my boys' individual characteristics.
Oh, how wonderful! I can't wait until I get to spend such a perfect weekend again!
