Last Day of School

Today at 1:00pm school was let out for the summer. What a bittersweet day for me! I can't believe I am going to have a 1st grader next year! Now the big question is what do I do with them all summer long! Tami called me today to let me know that she is counting down the day's until September and Ethan has not even been out of school for a week yet!! That will probably be me!!

That's all for tonight! I can hear the first tempertantram starting for the summer!!

Tyler is 4 months!

I can't believe my baby is already 4 months old! He had his check up today and weighed in at 16lbs 10oz (80%) and was 26 3/4 inch long (95%) . I started to spoon feed him his cereal and now he thinks he is such a big boy!

Updates

Emma and Annika's Table for the weekend!

Rileigh and Ethan at the park

The Curtis Family

Family picture at the zoo

Sorry it has been so long since my last post, last minute we decided to go to Wisconsin for Memorial day! We had a wonderful time even though it took us 3 hrs longer then we had planned to get there do to construction on the north side of Chicago. While stuck in traffic for hours on end the kids did amazingly well! Rileigh learned a great lesson in the power of prayer ( so did mom and dad) Rileigh started to go nuts after the first 2 hours of moving only a few miles so I suggested she pray and ask God if he could make the traffic start moving,and I kid you not we started to move!! Every time after that as soon as we would start to slow down she would pray and we would start moving again! What an answer to prayer! I was so cool to see Our Awesome God at work!

Pictures

Check out www.whitneyjillphotography.smugmug.com/ once you get that up click on galleries and you will find all the pictures she took Friday of our kids. She is amazing! I would recommend her to any of you guy who are looking for a photographer. She is also very reasonable compared to the $100 sitting fee some people charge ( Don't quote me on this but I think she is right around $30) Her phone number is 616-502-7837.

Weekend Update

Rileigh and Luke found a bunny nest this afternoon and decided that they need to save there lives b/c one of there siblings got run over with a lawn mower. The bunny that Rileigh is holding she named Rascal. We did make them put them back and we will have to see if the mom comes back for them. I had a hard time telling her that we need to leave them alone so there mother will come back for them, hopefully next time they find creatures they will just look and not touch. How hard is that for a couple 6 year olds!

Derick showing off for the girls! Check out those Abs!!!

I showed the girls how to do hand stands against the wall like her mom and Auntie did! Don't you just love the picture of me and my sisters! (I am on the left, Tami is on the right doing the head stand next to me and Melissa is just sitting there! )

Rileigh up to bat at her game on Saturday. She had a couple good hits and she even got a girl out at 3rd base!

Whitney's Blog

Make sure you check out Whitney's Blog soon! She just put on some of the pictures she took today on my kids. We were not planning on getting picture of Annika and Rileigh but they turned out so cute anyways and she did a great job hiding one of Annika's High School Musical shirts!

www. Meyersboy.blogspot.com

It happened to Me!

I hesitate to blog this but on the other hand if it can save just one person from going through what Tyler and I went through today it is worth it.

Today we went to our friend Whitney's house to take some pictures of Tyler and ended up staying for lunch. We were enjoying a " Pizza Picnic" on the deck when Tyler started to fuss so of course I take him out of the car seat and hold him. Whitney and I started to pick up so I set Tyler in his car seat and of course he was not to happy, so I went to grab the car seat and take him inside ( now mind you he is not buckled now) as I picked him up the handle it must not have been locked in place and he went tumbling out on to the deck!!!! By the grace of God he was not seriously hurt but of course both of us were shook en up!

This whole scenario almost happened with Annika when she was little but she was buckled up, so I knew better! But of course I was in a hurry and never thought twice about it. So the reason I post this is to remind everyone out there with babies PLEASE buckle them up before you move the carrier even a few feet or take your baby out. I would hate to have someone get seriously hurt.

I will post some of the pictures she took once I get the cd.