The past week or so...

Calvin loves to sleep on us, spoiled little guy!

He LOVES his playmat and talks to it and coos at it and smiles at it all the time. :)

chubby bubby!

Jennifer made these for our playgroup's Halloween party, aren't they cute?

Noah is a construction worker this year

Calvin charming an older woman

Calvin is getting so smiley! I love it! He actually laughed yesterday!!! It was awesome!!!

Reading with Daddy

I forgot to post about Calvin's 2 month check up. He is doing great, he is in the 75% in weight and height and the 40% in head circumference. He gained about 3 inches in length, nuts!!

Sorry so long since the last post...

We all got sick! Ugh! All of us had a temp of at least 102 in the last couple of weeks! It hasn't been fun. I think we are all on the mend pretty much. We just have to figure out why I am still feeling icky. Allergy medicine seems to be helping somewhat! 2 weeks ago we went to Wichita, here are some pics from the trip...

Cal and Great Grandma Dieker

Noah n Uncle Kurt

Great Grandma Doan and Great Uncle Dave with Calvin

Calvin was smiling like crazy at Great Grandma Doan, this isn't a great pic but you can kind of tell he's smiling!

Sleeping on Aunt Courtney

Noah n Uncle Neal

Now here are some pics of the last few weeks since we've been back

Calvin is constantly sticking out his tongue...and now if we help him grab something he'll hang on for a really long time!

I left Noah alone at breakfast to run and change my shirt that had been spit-up on and came back to this....I guess he likes salt as much as his Pops

Can't you tell he was sick? Poor kid!

Here is a 1 month pic of Calvin

2 months! This was several hours before we loaded him up and took him to Children's Mercy because of a high fever which ended up being the flu.

This is Calvin staring at the Red Sox jersey on the wall. He has great head control, but pretty much refuses to do anything but just lay there on tummy time. He probably won't roll over 'till he's 6 months, lol. He'll do it when he's ready!

Still staring at the jersey

Brothers!

Calvin seems to love this playmat as much as Noah did!

Haircut (ugh) and perhaps a glimpse of Noah's future.

This is how most of the haircut went...until Ryan busted out the clippers, then no more happy Noah...he "pulled a come-apart"

I love this pic! Ryan says it "isn't flattering" but I love all the chub and lines and wrinkles!

Calvin hopped in the bath with Noah last night. We got several cute and modest pics of the boys, but this is the only one I'll post after that couple got their kids taken away from them a little while ago for getting pictures of their daughters playing (and not showing anything!) in the bathtub developed.

I guess the mobile is still fascinating for 2 year olds, it was a brotherly bonding thing.

Noah finally held Calvin!!! And I had my camera!! Which is good b/c it lasted about 10 seconds and then Noah pushed him off his lap, good think I was close!

Well Noah pushed him off after trying to suction his nose, lol.

Pumpkin Patch!!!

Calvin's first pumpkin patch

"I like this one"

Engineer Carter

Noah thought this train was very cool but refused to get on it.

The only train Noah would "ride"

Noah's love of trains extends to railroad crossings.

We couldn't get Noah out of this corn bin with the construction vehicles. He keeps asking to go back to the pumpkin patch just so that he can play with them again.

The 3 amigos...someday...

Turns out it's really hard to get a good picture of 3 kids 2 and under...

I love how Noah needs to stick his tongue out to help him carry the pumpkins. Click HERE to see pictures of last year's trip to the pumpkin patch and how much Noah has changed!