Miscellaneous June and July!

Matthan's #5 Diego Cupcake CakeMatthan doing the dino dig

Oh YEAH!
Dino footprints led his bday guests around to the Dino Cave!

July 4th at Uncle Josh's

Aunt Tammy with Westley & Aunt Paige with Gideon

A little light reading

Yes, that is a bucket on his head ... so cute

Sorry, these photos have been trapped in the computer!

Cup Day

Caitlyn & Westley

Matthan "take a picture of me and Westley and put it on the blog"My first cup (of water)

New spokesperson for Silk !

Whaddya mean I should drink it?
Mommy drinks it for me!

No really, it's FABULOUS...
just ask Mommy & Daddy and Matthan and Caitlyn!

The best part about the Silk experience this morning was that Westley was sitting without the bumbo and without me holding him up! He can sit for several seconds with pretty good balance and even sits on the floor for a couple of minutes. 5 months old!

Plus we tried out the cup today... he actually got a little water from it too. Milestones are zipping right by! He is trying to crawl on the floor when we have tummy time too. It all really goes too fast.

Grant's Farm a couple of weeks ago!

Mommy & BoysIsaiah, Kate, Jacob & Matthan

Matthan running through the mister

They look like brothers, but not exactly alike!

Westley looks real happy about being held up
even if it's only a water pistol (ha, ha)

Westley at Grant's Farm
in the new "Moby" Wrap

Jacob and Matthan

Mommy & Westley

While Caitlyn was in Kansas City, Paige took the boys to Grant's Farm with her friend Tracie and kids. It was a perfect sunny day, not too hot, very fun!

The two pics of the boys with swimsuits on is just one day we were playing outside in the water and Matthan was clowning around and wanted to hold Westley.

Lets talk catch up pics here...

Sir Westley reading a book (and sitting slightly assisted)

What a face!

Cherry tomatoes - my plant

Again, my plant

My first large tomato.... not quite ripe

Whatcha doin Mom?

Playing around (supposed to be sleeping!)

This is a gorgeous field(s) of Sunflowers on the way to Kansas City

Not sure I can pick which is best to paint...

I Love you Mommy!

Same field different angle

They just seemed to go on forever

"It is official... I have now tried rice cereal...

and I'm not too sure I want to ever try it again!"

Okay... I am just kidding around with that... He really loved the cereal. I just "caught" that pic in between smiling and opening for more. That was last night (by the way, it did not help him sleep any longer arrgh.) We tried giving him cereal again tonight, before a wonderful bath ... we will see if he sleeps longer. We HAVE to get him to go longer than 2.5 hours at night for our own sake of rest!

Looks more like Mommy really

This baby pic is of Paige!!

The bottom one is Westley!!!

Okay, for years I have said (okay complained) that my kids don't look anything like me. There are the obvious Anderson resemblances with Caitlyn, now more than ever, she looks like my mom. No ones even needs to mention that Matthan is a replica of Chris!

Now I have one that looks unmistakably like me... it is very cool to look at your child and see hints of your own baby pictures... with a bit of my big brother thrown in for good measure!

He has my nose (Praise God!), my mouth, my chin, my cheeks and maybe even my forehead (though hard to discern in this pic)... his head however is shaped like his Uncle Brad.

Let's all be quite clear... He has the Clausen Ears! and possibly the Clausen disposition (another huge Praise God here!)

Sorry about the lack of postings

We have had computer difficulties these past three weeks... First we cannot get photos to work on the imac... then the pc went down and had to be sent back and forth to dell twice... ugh. Now we are trying to get back on track with the dell and it seems to have some of the original problem still happening... but wouldn't you know it, the warranty ran out between the first two sendings and now i have to buy a new warranty before i can send it back... so... it may be a bit before you see the beautiful faces of our children online.

Today at dinner Westley (now 5 mos, can you believe it?!) tried to drink from Paige's water glass.... he got all excited as she was taking a drink and grabbed for it. So she let him grab it and he pulled it to his mouth and stuck his tongue into the mouth of the glass... she tipped it up and he had his first official drink of water! He is such a smiley happy baby all the time. We are all really enjoying him.

Brad's First Bath

The resemblance to Westley is uncanny. Sorry for the poor photo quality... we will get a better pic up soon. :) This is a pic from 45 years ago after all. Westley's nose is still looking like Paige's !!!

Good Night Snuggled Tight

This is the first time Westley has rolled off his stomach and stayed asleep. We came in to go to bed and found him like this... too cute all snuggly with his lovey.

Good Night Snuggled Tight

This is the first time Westley has rolled off his stomach and stayed asleep. We came in to go to bed and found him like this... too cute all snuggly with his lovey.

Westley in the Kitchen Sink!Matthan having pizza outside the HOP in KC!

I took these two pics with my cell phone. I just stuck Westley into the sink this morning just because. He was staring into the fixture because it is so shiny! I snapped the other one as Matthan was hanging out with Olivia Riddering in Kansas City while the teens were getting registered (which took three hours for us) and having a pizza dinner.

Kansas City was great. The drive home was peaceful and pretty. Though it was mostly dark we had great music. Matthan fell asleep playing Gameboy... it was hanging from his hands! He didn't do that until around 11 pm though, poor kid slept until almost 9 today. We didn't get home until midnight and it was so very hard to get up with Westley every two hours after that. The road trip has his schedule off a bit, we will try to remedy that tonight.

Still waiting

Well, we are still waiting on the buyer for this house! Prayerfully we will sell by the end of summer and be in our new home when it is time for the new school year.

It is a lovely muggy and partly cloudy Saturday, finding Chris out cutting the grass and Paige out playing in the flowers. (really, just weeding but among the flowers nonetheless!) The kids are just relaxing, it is about time to start packing Caitlyn for her Kansas City trip... we leave Monday to drop her off for two weeks. We are excited, she is a bit nervous too!

CRAZY BUSY

Sorry it has been so long since posting, but we have been so very busy around here. I almost need caffeine to keep up with myself. Last Saturday we had a fabulous birthday party for Matthan with plenty of little men taking over my backyard hunting for dinosaur bones... then we had some friends over for BBQ... then we cleaned up and prepped the house for cleanliness and possible showings on Sunday. (Finishing the shining of everything... all before we left for church that morning!) We spent Sunday afternoon going to a couple of open houses and then back for a 3p showing of our home. Whew. Monday & Tuesday the boys were both sick with runny noses and coughs. Wednesday morning brought two showings in the same day... one at 10:30 am (YIKES) and another at 5 pm. Talk about going crazy cleaning... that's me. Then last night we worked in the basement again, putting doorknobs on and cleaning up trimwork. Today it is relatively quiet around here... the boys are still sick (There is nothing more pitiful than a newborn coughing all night) Which brings me to sleep deprivation... I have not been able to catch more than 3 hours at a time, because poor little Westley keeps waking himself coughing. Matthan also was awakened by the thunder and lightning last night. 2:30-3 am seems to be some kind of regular awakening hour around here, sigh. I don't mean to complain, I don't mind the interruptions in sleep so much, just trying to make sense out of why this posting reads like one large run on sentence! I will post pictures sometime of the birthday bash... right now Westley and I are going to take a nap!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTHAN!

Happy Birthday Matthan!

Helping Mommy Ice the Cake!Cleaning the Spatula

Putting the Sprinkles OnFinishing Touches

Great Job, Cake looks Perfect

Blowing out my candlesMatthan's First Bike

Surprise!Very Excited about New Bike

Daddy Showing me how to ride
Note the new matching Go Diego Helmet

Riding like a pro

Gluten Free Mulberry Cobbler

Actual Birthday Over, Celebration with Friends to come on Saturday. Today was a fun day for Matthan. He got his very first big boy bike today. With Matching helmet and knee pads... very cool. He also got a Diego movie and a rescue heroes figure. We baked a marble cake with swirl icing and a gluten free mulberry cobbler for Caitlyn. whew! By the way, the Mulberries are compliments of St. Peters Parks... we went out on Monday and picked them (for free) off some of the various mulberry trees growing in our local parks... Thanks yes, we did sing the song. However, it is actually a stinking very tall tree, not so much a bush. It was lovely weather for berry picking and quite a fruitful effort... pun intended. :)

Happy 4 months old to Westley today!