Brotherly Love

Big J enjoys playing with his little brother.

Lately he has enjoyed putting him inside of things.

This morning it was the hamper.

Of course Little J thinks this is really neat.

Last week it was the tote with cars.

Little J loved throwing the cars out 

and watching his big brother pick them up. 

South Carolina - Random

While we were in South Carolina, my dad and his wife were able to come and visit.  

They just live a few hours away in North Carolina.  So, we enjoyed a nice day at the park with them.

Purple Girl enjoyed making some

chocolate chip cookies with Grammie.

She enjoyed eating them too!

See the picture above and Pepsi - my mom 

is a Pepsi drinker and has given Purple Girl

random sips here and there.  (very small sips).

So, now whenever Purple Girl sees a Pepsi machine

she will ask "Mom, can we grab a Pepsi? I am thirsty"

Finally, we went grocery shopping with my sister to make

her some meals she could freeze.

(I am sure she appreciates me putting this picture on the blog)!

But she is a FUN aunt and our children love her so much.

We were blessed to go visit and hope they can come to Iowa soon.

We miss them already!

We once again want to give all glory to God

for a safe trip.  All our connections were on time with

no complications flying and my family back at home 

were kept safe and healthy while we were gone.

We know our Lord once again provided for us

and watched over us!

South Carolina - Little J and Cousin C

Little J was excited to meet his new cousins.  

He especially enjoyed trying to play with his five month old Cousin C! 

He tried to play with her walker while she was in it; 

however this did not go over well.  Little J tends

to scream with JOY when he gets excited and 

I think he scared her.

They went to the park together and enjoyed the nice weather.

After a few days of being together, they warmed up to one

another and finally did enjoy "talking" together.  Cousin C 

just found her voice and can "talk" with the best of the baby world.

So, they would go back and forth "talking" rather loudly.

Trip to South Carolina - Outside!!

While we were in South Carolina the weather was absolutely gorgeous every day - 70's and sun every day.  So, we of course had to get outside.  This was Purple Girl's and Little J's first time outside in nice weather this year, so they were more than overjoyed!!

Purple Girl wanted to swing and swing and swing!

She also discovered that she can go up and down the 

pole all by herself.

Little J was so sweet.  He was scared of the swing,

so he cuddled right in.

Although he wasn't a fan of swinging,

he LOVED picking up the wood chips and

throwing them over this bar. 

(And of course he had to try a taste of one the 

wood chips too)

It was so much fun being outside!!!

Trip to South Carolina - The Animals

Although Purple Girl was SO excited to meet her new cousins, if I am honest, I believe she was the most excited to see her Uncle and Aunt's pets.  They have 1 BIG dog (A Newfoundland) and a 2 cats.

Little J was very intrigued by the animals as well. 

He wasn't afraid to get close to Bear (the dog).

The picture above is funny.  After Little J reached Bear, 

who is a very gentle sweet dog, Bear then went to give Little J a "kiss." 

This scared Little J and he started to cry.

One of the days we took a trip to the Dog Park to let Bear

run around. (It was GORGEOUS weather while we were there-

in the 70's every day).

At the Dog Park:

Purple Girl's favorite part 

of being at the dog park was watching

a different dog run up and

jump on her Uncle.  She loved petting all the different dogs.

Unfortunately I do not have any pictures of Purple Girl with the kitties.

They are very nice cats, however, not cats for Purple Girl to hold.

She was able to pet them and LOVED constantly walking and

checking on them.  

She is an animal girl and has hopes of having a kitty of her own one day.

Trip to South Carolina - The Cousins

As shown previously on the Blog, my sister and her husband have been 

blessed with two new precious baby's in the past 5 months.  

A little girl born on October 3rd and a little boy born on February 13th.  

I enjoyed having Baby Girl in my carrier and baby boy 

sleeping next to me while my Little J was taking a nap.

Purple Girl enjoyed both of the babies, 

but she really warmed up to Baby Boy.  

He is only 3 weeks old, so I think

she enjoyed how small, quiet and gentle he is still.

Picture of the mom's with the children.

Picture of Grammie with four of her ten grandbabies.

Trip to South Carolina

I was blessed to go visit my sister and her new babies in South Carolina this past weekend.  Due to flying, I was only able to take two children with me - Purple Girl and Little J.  Grammie is out in South Carolina right now helping my sister, so we were able to see her too.

Our flight out was early in the morning, but Purple Girl 

was so excited to get up and go. She enjoys flying.

Little J did a wonderful job flying as well.  On both trip there and trip home, he slept the majority of the time on the longer flight.  He also  made several friends with the passengers around us.

More pictures to come from our trip.