Flashback June-July

Warning-this is a long one

Manny using some amazing soccer/dance skills

Marcel playing in the car. His favorite game is to push the automatic door button. I now have to make sure I disable them if he is on the loose

Sweet brothers reading

This is in our entertainment center (and obviously I don't clean the glass often enough). Marcel would stack the movies in a particular way, on the side, to leave just enough space for him to fit. And then he would close the door. We tried to discourage this, but it didn't work very well. He is very persistent. Below you can see one failed attempt to tie the door closed. he somehow managed to unwrap/tie it enough for him to squeeze through the door

This is after we went to another carnival/festival. Manny and I got our face painted. He chose spiderman (of course). I told her to choose whatever she wanted. This is what I ended up with-a seahorse/dragon? Weird

More super heroes

4th of July!

Nice photo bomb-courtesy of Kai

Luis grew a ponytail. Okay, not really. I had this really great idea to donate my hair to locks of love. 4 years ago. I just found this hair in a box that I had apparently been carrying around through 4 moves. Interesting.

We moved to a new apartment with no carpet in the dining room! Yay! And we still like to dress up

Coloring at the table. Marcel is actually a great colorer. He colors in the faces, circles the feet, etc. Manny's great, too, but can't be bothered to stay inside the lines. He's too artistic.

I'm pretty sure this is a pirate face. From inside a pirate ship

And we still love to ride this firetruck car

We went to the beach! And had the most amazing donuts. I will go back just for them

Our beach friends-Brad and Emily

And handsome baby Thomas

Marcel and Thomas fighting over who will sit in Thomas' chair

Although Thomas was winning in the previous picture Marcel somehow won and now just looks bored with life

Marcel eating sand. Somehow I didn't get very good pictures at the beach this year. It was probably the donuts. Very distracting.

My handsome boys ready for church. We were ready early (for the one time in our lives).

Marcel-my little guitar player

Super hero adventures

Marcel thought swinging this tennis racket was just hilarious (until I took it away because it was too dangerous)

I walked into the living room to find this

Marcel was just chilling reading books, in a chair on the couch, with one shoe on

I also walked into the kitchen to find this...He is very independent. It doesn't help that the cupboard doesn't have a door on it yet. Don't worry-he doesn't know how to use the opener, he just tries REALLY hard. 

Flashback April-May 2013

So here are a bunch of random pictures starting from April. 

We went to a spring festival. There is always something going on around here and we try to go to some of them.

For some reason Manny likes to pretend to be a dancing dead guy. Here is his impression.

These were some fun singers/musicians that were traveling around the festival. Manny was so excited to get his picture taken with them. Can you tell?

Riding around the apartment

Manny packed a backpacks for his brother and himself to "save time when it's time to go to Iowa. So I'll be ready"   It was May and we were leaving in August. But way to be prepared.

Superheroes.

Spiderman impressions

This is after he just jumped off the arm of the couch. Pretty good impression though huh?

Pretending to sleep.

Playing hide and seek

And chase

Manny took swimming lessons. Which was not as successful as I thought it would be. Lots of crying, no face putting in the water, and after all of it he tells me he already knows how to swim and he never wants to take swim lessons again. All of our real swimming success has come from going to the pool as much as we can and hanging out with other kids who know how to swim.

We went strawberry picking

Manny graduated from preschool! And he's going back to the same school next year. He barely makes the cutoff for kindergarten, but we decided another year of preschool won't hurt him.