On our way to the "Motherland"

The boys and I are headed north today! We are excited to go and see all of the family but certainly don't like leaving Sean behind. I bet he'll be pretty busy for the next few days however because our new TV is arriving this morning (now that is good timing!). We had a busy weekend, we got to go do some swimming, watched some fireworks from our porch & headed to Enid, OK to meet my crazy parents. Sean came home early yesterday so we could go to Pelican Bay again and swim and it was the perfect day for it as it is over 90 every day now and I hear it is just as hot in Iowa! The boys are doing well - the first picture is Linc sleeping in the jumper last week (he fell asleep in there two times last week and as I type I think he's drifting off on my lap) it is a lot of work being 8 months you know. He now has 5 teeth that he's testing out on everything and everyone - except Carter, he hasn't nipped Carter yet but I'm awaiting that one. He's got some puppy in him I think - he's been eating any crumb he can find on the floor (good incentive to clean the floor more often) and has taken to chewing shoes which is just gross!
The 2nd picture is Linc being Carter's catcher. Carter is still crazy about baseball - he started wearing his baseball cap only after we called it a baseball cap & after he decided that he would no longer wear his bucket hat because it made him look silly (his words certainly not mine).
The last picture is Carter at the pond for the 4th - he was up from 7-10 that day without a nap and wasn't as tired as I anticipated. His latest thing to say is "I don't want to go anywhere" which really means - I want to stay home and watch TV all day (not that we let him!). He also told Linc yesterday - "don't do that, you'll spike yourself" - never a dull moment in our house! We will write from the Motherland!