Spokane

Bennett Swinging

Water Park

Papa and Bennett at the water park

Swimming at the country club

Bennett poolside

New Dinosaur pj's

While John was climbing Mt. Rainier we headed to Spokane to spend the week with my parents. The weather was beautiful and we had FUN!

Mt. Rainier

For the past six months John has been training to climb Mt. Rainier. His adventure was this past weekend. I'm so proud of him and so glad that he is home.

Hudson and Bennett

I'm in absolutely in love with each and every one of these pictures. Thank you Jocelyn K Brown Photography!

9 Month Check Up

Length 29 inches (73rd percentile)

Weight 22 pounds 14.9 ounces (82nd percentile)

You can see Hudson at his 9 month check up here. He weighed 21 pounds 10 1/2 ounces (70th percentile) and was 29 1/4 inches long (85th percentile).

Fourth of July BBQ

Bennett Napping

Hot Tub Swimming

Olivia

Time to eat!

Hudson and Olivia

Bennett

Shane and John

After the parade we headed home for naps and time to prep food and repack the car. When the boys woke up we went to Shelbi and Dustin's house for the "Tiroux Family Fourth BBQ". The weather was perfect for fun in the backyard. The kids ran through the sprinkler, played in the pool, swam in the hot tub and had a a blast running around. We enjoyed time in the sun with a lot of yummy food, a few too many drinks and of course fireworks.

Fourth of July Parade

Bennett having a snack before the parade.

Mommy and Bennett

Hudson and Olivia

Mady and Olivia

My Boys

Mandy, Shelbi and I

Shane, Mady, John and Hudson

We started our Fourth of July at the Bothell kids parade. This is our third year going and by far the best. Hudson is at the perfect age where everything is exciting and new. He loves being in the parade, seeing his friends, watching the big parade, and most of playing with his buddies Mady and Olivia. Bennett did an amazing job. He sat in the wagon almost the whole time we were there and loved watching all the people. The parade has definitely become a family tradition.

Bennett & Hudson

Last week we had Bennett's nine month pictures done by Jocelyn Brown. She is AMAZING! I can't wait to see the rest of the pictures and I'm even more excited to have her do Bennett's one year pictures. We are going to do a cake smash!

Pool Time

Oh how I love summer and even more I love watching my kids enjoy it. When Hudson wakes up and sees the sun outside he always tells me all the things he wants to do. It usually sounds like "mommy it's sunny today, we can ride my bike, go to the park, have a picnic, play outside, put water in my water table and then take a nap" yes, he wants to do all of these things before 1:00. He loves being outside. Luckily Bennett like it too.

9 Months

Bennett is 9 months old and is one happy baby. He has 4 teeth coming in right now and it doesn't even seem to phase him. He is crawling all over the place and loves to get into Hudson's toys. Each night when I get him undressed he crawls right to the bathroom and waits for Hudson. He loves his bath time with Hudson. The past few days it has been warm enough for us to put out the baby pool. He loves this just as much. I want him to slow down, but he really just wants to be a big boy like his brother. I guess all I can do is sit back, try to relax and take it all in.

Things Bennett is doing now...

Crawling (army crawl) all over

Eating 3 (solid) meals a day

Loving rice cakes, peas and green beans

Getting 4 new teeth

Saying mama and dada

Still sleeping like a dream

Cousins

Emma holding Bennett

Bennett

Group Picture

Emma telling Ben how to hold Bennett

Yesterday we had a fun play date with our cousins. Tricia hadn't met Bennett yet and we had been talking about getting our kids together for a long time. After we left I couldn't believe that it took us so long to get together. The kids had a blast together. Hudson is so excited to spend three days with them at the Cowan family reunion at the end of the month.