Caleb was... pretty good at sharing. But sometimes he was a little rough with Rock.
Rock was...a punk.
Baby Addy was by far the best behaved kid on our trip.
I'll pause in posting on our vacation to put up a quick HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY ROCK post. We started his big day (the 18th) with his favorite breakfast. Served to him in bed. With candles. And a parent-led rendition of the Happy Birthday song.
And if you think I'd actually let him eat that thing in bed, you are crazy. Can't believe my baby boy is TWO YEARS OLD! How the time flies!
On our trip to the beach, Fix and I agreed that Rock is an excellent driving companion...
Armed with little more than his feet and a few cars, he kept himself entertained (or asleep) for most of the trip.
We were so excited to be invited to Linus's birthday party - even though Linus was a little apprehensive that Rock might try to steal his gifts. If you wanna see what I made him, click here.
After Linus opened gifts, we all gathered in the dining room, anxiously awaiting the cake.
It was worth the wait. Not only did Nancy make a cake with the birthday-boy-requested-blue-tractor -- it tasted yummy too!
She also made Lynn's favorite yummy dessert Lemon Ice Cream Pie for Lynn (who shares Linus's birthday) and all the other adults. Perhaps it is a good thing my camera is now broken as I seem to only take the worst shots with it -- Sorry that this is so blurry Lynn!
Although the day was all about Linus, my favorite moment is brought to you by Violet. She avoided the extra step of making individual 'bites' of cake to eat, stabbed her piece with her fork, and ate the thing icing end first. Good work girl.
I found Rock's phone in our phone holder/charger and thought that Fix had put him up to it. But apparently Rock did it all by himself. The batteries have been running low, but somehow I don't think this will provide the solution he's looking for.
I am so sorry I have not been blogging more regularly folks. First I got pregnant and my energy and appetite were gone which made for little motivation to do anything. Then we were on vacation (and I broke my camera AGAIN!!!), then Fix had a birthday, then Rock had a birthday and well, you see what happened. I disappeared. But I'm back and determined to catch up! Get ready for a long string of posts from the crazy woman pictured above.
And geese...
And a compare-the-boys shot of Clip and Rock. A lot has changed in the past two years but these boys are still pretty cute!
Rock also posed with Aiden and Sophie. For the rest of the day, we were far too busy playing and cleaning up messes and doing the other things that you do when you have four crazy kids in one house so we didn't take any other pictures.
That is until dinner when Sophie and Aiden showed me just how thrilled they were that I watched them all day long.
At this point Clip was only wearing his pull-ups because he had chosen the moment before dinner was served to climb into the kiddie pool fully clothed. We stripped him down and ate our meal while it was hot.
Thanks Hathaways for a day of fun - especially the part where you kiddies taught Rock that cottage cheese is his friend.
