"Superior" Pictures

Finally got the pictures from our weekend in Superior uploaded!  It was a great trip and lots of great memories were made!  Already looking forward to next year.  

Tommy and Mommy Susie snuggling in the morning sun

Early morning digging: pjs and underwear acceptable attire

Maggie and her best friend Lucy.  I don't encourage picking favorites among the cousins but Lucy is Maggie's absolute favorite.

The 3 littlest boys scheming...

Tommy loves trucks and sand

Hey guys!

Tommy crawled right into the water.  He loved it!

Fiona, Maggie and Luca

All 11 cousins, in no particular order..

Tommy sneaking a peek backwards

Grace, Evelyn, Tommy, Lucy, Ella, Lauren, Leyton, Cal, Luca, Maggie and Fiona

Tommy and Luca getting love from Grandma and Grandpa



Stir Fry

We all like to get a little wild and crazy on our birthdays and Tommy did just that on his 11 month birthday.  How do you top off a great day?  Stir fry sauce of course!  This little/big guy was pretty proud of himself!

This was the best face. 

 

 

Lake Superior Preview

Last weekend we headed up to Lake Superior/Bayfield area for our annual “big” family trip.  Everyone was able to make it this year and all the kids were so well-behaved.  It was hot and the water was cold—the perfect combination.  I was worried the water would be too cold for Tommy but he was right there in it with the rest of the kids.  Maggie loves the sand, in fact I think she was sitting or burying herself in the sand 95% of the time we were there.  It must be her way of letting us know that we are robbing her of her childhood by not getting her a sandbox…. :)    I actually brought the big camera for once but haven’t uploaded any pictures yet.  I will add more later but for now here is what I had on my phone.

 

Lake Superior

 

Tommy and Evelyn having matching PJ's from Becky when she worked at Land's end

Tommy loves to play in the sand

He also likes to eat sand

The 3 youngest boys--grandpa must have a magnetic field because they are all drawn to him

Tommy always wants in on whatever Cal and Luca are doing--he ended up going down the slide just like the big boys.

Tommy loved splashing in the water

The waves actually started to get pretty big at one point

Ella and Maggie dancing together

How do you end a dance?  With a hug of course.

Grandpa and Tommy

Tommy wanting to bust out of the house.  Notice who is right there next to him?  Luca.  Luca always takes care of Tommy. It is so cute.  He is always getting him toys, rubbing his back, etc. 

Sunday morning we went to Bayfield for lunch and little shopping

Tommy's first watermelon

Took him a little bit to figure out how to eat it

Luckily he's a quick learner

Maggie is an old pro

2 Week Wrap Up

We have had a busy past couple weeks between new house stuff and trying to squeeze every ounce out of the final weeks of summer.  This is the photo version of what has been happening:

Gymnastics has continued

 

She still loves it

Here she is sitting next to her best friend Mira, doing some stretches--these two are pretty silly together

 

Last day of soccer

She looks so big

Hard to see but she just scored a goal

Last team huddle

Last team cheer, Maggie loves saying "1,2,3...Soccer Shots!"

They received a water bottle on the last day

And someone was really excited about it

One afternoon I took the kids over to grandma's house to play--and lucky enough the Wiemert cousins were there too!

Luca really likes Tommy.  The little boys must have been told they couldn't play with the big girls

Maggie is still quite the Magna-Tile builder....

And Tommy is quite the Magna-Tile castle wrecker

Maggie builds something new nearly every night...

And Tommy attempts to destroy it every night.  Maggie will start screaming as soon as she sees him coming.  She knows there is no stopping him--he is like a bull in a china shop

We needed to make some returns at H&M, so the kids got to do a few rides at the mall again

We had an impromptu pool party at Aunt Kelly's house

Most of the bigger cousins

We tried to get them to jump at the same time--I would say their timing could use a little work

This group did much better

Tommy discovered how fun smashing his face against a glass door can be

We picked cousin Fiona up from daycare one day this week and met aunt Becky at Target for a giant shopping trip.  Now that Becky works at Target there is incentive to going shopping with her...

Tommy is a wild man in the bath.  Maggie doesn't even want to take a bath with him anymore.  He splashes violently the whole time.  When he needs to take a break from that he proceeds to stand up and sit down (fall down) over and over again...once again splashing Maggie in the face and giving mommies a heart attack.  He sure does love the water though.

Sometimes Maggie feels left out when we take Tommy's monthly photos--she is still our first love.

 

Meanwhile construction on the house has been progressing

Seems like it is going up so fast, obviously once it gets to the framing/interior things will slow down a bit.  We still have so many things decide on in the meantime.  At least 2-3 nights a week we have been meeting with various people to pick things out, this has resulted in some pretty long days for both kids at school.