Bentley.

Bentley is now 28 1/2 months old. He loves to play in the pool, but unless it is a hot tub he is always "coed". This means he gets in and out of the water a lot. He also loves to go to his friends' houses to play and can now say all of his friends' names. He also likes to point out their mommies and daddies while we are at church.

He has started crawling out of his crib. This means that there have been many naptimes spent getting in and out, playing with toys, giving his brother toys to play with, etc. So not only is he skipping his nap, he plays with Gaige so that Gaige misses his nap too. This stresses their mommy out!

He and Gaige play together a lot. They like to wrestle, jump on the couch, play with their trains, talk underneath the door and play peek a boo.

Bentley loves pirates. He sees pirates and pirate ships every where we go. He also breaks into his own rendition of the pirate song too. "Yo ho pirates me! Arrrr!"

Height: 34 inches
Weight: 25 lbs

Gaige.

He is now 16 months old. Gaige loves to do whatever his brother is doing. Last night at dinner they were sitting across from each other at their little table and Bentley started shaking his head. Then Gaige followed and they sat there for several minutes shaking their heads back and forth giggling. My dad said that I have a 2 year old and a want to be 2 year old, that's hard! Gaige gets frustrated when he can't do all of the things his brother can, but he sure is trying hard. And he thinks every thing his brother does is great.

Gaige loves to run around naked. As soon as he gets out of the tub he tries to run. And to tell you the truth, I let him because he has to be the cutest naked baby ever! His legs and bottom are so plump it is adorable when he runs around!

Gaige has been very cuddly lately and will sit on my lap to watch a movie so he can cuddle with his blanky, monkey and suck his thumb. I'm sure he will soon grow out of his cuddly baby stage so I am trying to get as much of his loves while I possibly can.

Gaige's answer to almost everything is "Yaaaaaa!" It is too cute when he pairs it with his irresistable dimples. He will walk around saying "ah ah ah" if he wants his monkey. He is at the mischevious age where he knows what he is doing is naughty and smiles and runs away.

Height: 32 inches
Weight: 26 lbs

summer vacay part 2.

Back in July most of my family got together at my parents' house. My brothers Garic and Brick came with their families and with Trace and I close by with ours my parents had a full house. Matt went back to school, but I didn't want to miss out on anything so the boys and I stayed at my parents with everybody else. We went to Disneyland with Garic and his family one day, took they boys to a movie for the first time, and had lots of fun in the pool.
Where did all of these people sleep? It was like a giant sleepover. Gaige and Bentley slept in my parents' huge closet, the boys slept in the TV room, Allie slept in my room, and the rest of the bedrooms were packed too.

It was a lot of fun for the boys to play all day everyday with their cousins that spoil them to pieces. Kali and Bentley became good buddies and Bentley wanted her to ride in the car next to him everywhere we went. Bentley also had a ton of fun playing video games and legos with the big kids.

Garic took his family, Bentley, Gaige and I to see the movie Ice Age 3. I was surprised that Bentley loved the movie. He sat on Aunt Nici's lap the entire time eating popcorn and saying "Wow!" Gaige sat on my lap and mowed throught he popcorn for most of the movie. He only got restless for the last 20 minutes.

I love to see the boys play with all of their cousins who absolutely adore them. All of their cousins are such great examples, and definitely know how to have fun!

Ty Bebe Photography.

Here is Alexia's official photography website. All of her work is great, but I think the best ones are of my kids. I'm not partial are anything like that! Enjoy!

www.tybebe.com

www.tybebe.blogspot.com

photo shoot.

Our friend Bonnie's cute friend Alexia came and took pictures of the boys at the LA Temple. She did a great job and the boys had a ton of fun running around. If you want Alexia's info let me know. And next time you are on the temple grounds be sure you don't carry around a tiny skateboard. One of the security guards might tell you not to ride it!