Tunnel of Love

Sometimes You're Just that Tired

Scott sent me this picture from his phone while I was at work tonight.
Poor guy was TIRED! He even has snacks all around him he probably dropped before falling asleep.

10 months & Summer

My lovely William is 10 months already! The months are flying by, and soon I know he will no longer be a baby. But for now I will enjoy the moments.

Look at the cute gummy smile!

William now will stand by furniture, so I bought him a Walk n' Rider

Yes! That's finally a tooth popping through his gum. It's his lower left one! He has been amazingly good through out the process!

He has bruises all over his head. He loves to crawl and stand, which leads to many falls, or trying to crawl right into chairs.

In a crawling pose

Standing and playing with a toy

So some quick facts about entering month 10.

As you can see from the photos, William has mastered crawling, and even now pulls himself up on anything!

He wears a 6-9 or 9 month clothing. (he's a little guy)

He snugly fits into size 3 diapers, but has been transitioning into size 4

He eats a lot! He loves a variety of baby food, and baby cereal snacks

He still nurses throughout the day, and quite a few times at night

I often find him in his crib sitting up or standing up when he's ready to wake up

He's getting his first tooth! I put him to bed one night and noticed a slight fever. The next morning there was a hole in his gum and now a little tooth poking through!

He loves playing with balls, and anything that makes noise.

He's busy moving about the house and loves to get into the kitchen and attached bathroom. He likes to play with the boxes of pop cans, and anything else he can get his little hands on

If anyone has ice cream or a freeze pop, he's right at their side, begging for bites.


As summer is in full swing we try to go to the lake and swim, but recently we've had "cooler" days and lots of rain! So we spend the days inside.

This is Chayse playing on the computer, he is found here almost constantly throughout the day

Dayzy spends her time, if not on the computer, on the couch watching t.v.

4th of July

We had a great 4th of July full of fun and family!

William and I started our day by going to the Coralville parade with Grandma Jane. Doug (Scott's step brother) and Kathy met up with us and so did cousins Sidney and Laura. Scott had to work, but got off early just in time to catch the last few minutes of the parade.

William eating snacks from Grandma before the parade.

Sidney, Laura, and William waiting for the Parade.

This clown made me laugh, he never smiled!

Uncle Sean driving the Quailty Care Truck!
Grandpa Tom
Grandpa Tom had to work, but sadly he went to a parade also. Tom is the one in the flight nurse uniform on the left hand side. He flew to Bellevue to help with the tragedy there. Here's the story.

In the afternoon my parents headed up from Pella. They brought along my aunt Mary and Grandma from Michigan! The last time we saw them was in November at William's baptism. We had a small grill out at our house and we even got Grandma Jane to come over! It was a lot of fun catching up. William of course decided to be crabby because he had not napped. He didn't want to because he knew a lot was going on and he did not want to miss out on the action! So I spent awhile trying to get him to sleep with no success.

If you've noticed the kids have matching outfits! Grandma Janice and Grandpa Pearl bought them for the kids. They were so cute!

Dayzy and I found leftover Halloween make up and put the eyeshadow on before we went to the fireworks at night.

This is our sassy photo :)

We ended the night going to the Coralville fireworks. The rain stopped long enough for the festivities and started up again after we got home. William did well, but he was tired so he cuddled a lot. Surprisingly he did not cry once at the noise. We we're very close to where they lit them off, a few times fireballs happened and we could feel the heat! We sat with the Pearl clan and had fun. When we got back to Solon all three kids were asleep and could barely get out of the car they were so tired. haha.