June 2012

Celebrating Nathan's birthday!  Luke got him a box of "Funky Flames" to make the campfire turn colors on our upcoming camping trip.

Setting up our new tent in the backyard as a trial run.

Peek-a-Boo!  Playing in the boxes we cut up to make his drive-in car.

Playing Matt & Tara's Wii with the body sensor thing.

Luke helped me decorate Nathan's birthday cake.  The candles were from Phyllis.

Feeling confident at a friend's birthday pool party (they had a high school friend acting as life guard to help the non-swimmers).

Three months pregnant - this baby bump isn't messing around!

Drawing with chalk together outside - it's the peaceful times that melt my heart!  :)

Preschool field trip to the gibbon sanctuary.  Here's a video of Jonathan playing peek-a-boo after his bath.

Luke after his "birthday" celebration at school (early because he's a summer birthday).  And a video of Jonathan finally mastering how to drive the backyard car forward!

Eating dinner outside after playing in the wading pool.

Taking turns driving and riding the tractor with friends!

Grandma Hughes has helped Jonathan learn all his shapes - he can do this whole ball by himself!

Luke next to his finished drive-in car for a school movie day.

The special Father's Day things Luke make for Nathan at preschool.

The beginning of our goldfish experiment in the backyard fountain.  The boys loved this!

Father's Day 2012

Luke's graduation from Preschool!  Check out this video of his class singing part of their alphabet song.

Family picture.

Jonathan trying on Luke's cap.

Luke with his great teacher, Mrs. Kap!

Playing at the water party afterwards.

Luke helped me make strawberry freezer jam.  He pretended the strawberries were the bad guys as he was mashing them up.  :P

Jonathan trying out Luke's drive-in car.

Nice picture of our sweet little boy!

The best picture my camera got of a Hughes cousin photo shoot.

Meeting baby James for the first time!  Jonathan got a little jealous of me holding a smaller baby - he'd better get used to it!

Jonathan is 21 months old!

Christmas Prep & Friends

Decorating gingerbread cookies!  This is the first time doing something like this with Luke and it went much better than I even anticipated.  I'll definitely try to do this again - but probably with sugar cookies next time since Nathan likes those better.

Here's a video of Jonathan being entertained with his stuffed duck - a capture of his laugh!

Starting to decorate the tree!

Jonathan with his friend, Andrew.  It's fun to see Jonathan start to interact with other little kids his age.

Celebrating Tirzah's birthday!

You look beautiful, Jo!  Too bad Jonathan had recently bonked himself and has a bump on his eye, or this would be a perfect picture.  :)

One of Luke's Christmas crafts from school - I'm actually keeping this one in the Christmas decorations box because it's so cute.  It's a little paper snowglobe that has a snowman inside with Luke's school picture on the head.  :)  Since it's laminated, the glitter won't get all over the place, either.

Helping make cookies at Grandpa & Grandma's house.

Super fun riding the horse at the cousin's house!

Early October

We enjoyed celebrating Vijay & Vineetha's birthdays!

Jonathan thought it was more effective to use Daddy's finger to push the buttons on his book.  :)

Brothers kind of matching in their church clothes.

UPDATE: Here's a new video of Jonathan now that he's mastered crawling - too cute!

Wrestling!  Enjoy this video of it!

Backyard silliness.

Brothers and Friends

I believe this is probably the first time I found Jonathan sitting up by himself in his crib (end of August).  Note the first picture: Luke wanted to hold his hand through the crib bars - so sweet!

We hung out with Joanna and her kids later that day and they older ones played a form of ring-around-the-rosy and had a blast together!

Jonathan had fun smiling and standing at the couch!