Friday, June 21, 2013

Picture That!

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.  After years of having my large blue photo album that contained my baby, toddler, and early life pictures, I thought I had some good images to remember and reflect about.  It was only after I visited my brother and stumbled upon his 'THREE' rather large photo albums that I quickly realized, it's true, second children don't get the same photograph attention as the first born children.  It's likely because having a first child is a new adventure, and the excitement requires us to snap away at everything, not know what is important and what is probably just another picture taking up space on a page or taking up memory in the computer.
 
Well, I have to admit that we are probably going not buck that norm.  For the volume of pictures that we took of Sydney, it would actually be a little difficult to actually exceed that with Corwin.  Having said that, we have always been very aware of this issue and always made a conscious effort to get great photos of Corwin's young years.  So, even if he does not have the same quantity (not always the best thing), he would have some great quality to look back on, as we will too, as parents.  And in this digital age of snap away and delete the ones you don't like, he will have no shortage of memories himself.
 
Corwin has had three professional session, and the pictures in this post are taken by Rebecca Brethauer, a friend with a great eye :)
 
In other news, Corwin is on the verge of crawling.  He's been rolling around the house for a while now, but he's so close to making forward and not sideways progress.  He loves to stand, so I almost wouldn't be surprised if he skipped crawling and went straight to walking, or even running.
 Have a great weekend!!!

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'!

A few things have happened in the last couple of weeks.  Nana from Montana made a visit for Memorial Day weekend. It was great having her and she got to see how far Corwin has come since Christmas. Sydney got to spend a girls day out with her too, getting pedicures and shopping.

We also got to go enjoy the local Highland Games in Ferndale this year. Joe always has to have some haggis, it is an important ritual. Sydney enjoyed watching the bagpipers and the dancers, in fact she wants to do some Scottish dancing, but we'll see where that takes us!

Syd started swim class again, she is now in the intermediate level, so hopefully this will mean that she can actually swim a bit soon. But she is slowly getting better and more confident.

And lastly, Corwin is now rolling to get places! Sydney never discovered that skill, she went straight to army crawling, so this is different, but he will roll all over the living room to try to get to this and that. It is very cute. I think by the end of June he will probably figure out how to move forward, then watch out! Also, he is very into yelling at his toys and making noise. If we were at all worried about him being able to make his presence known while Sydney is around, well, nothing to fear there!

That is it for now! Sorry it wasn't more entertaining, Joe decided to "let" me write one for once. (Maybe this will encourage him to get back on the bandwagon, hehe.