A Day at the Beach

We were able to spend a day in Ludington, Michigan at the beautiful beach they have there last weekend. My parents, Lara, Janet and all of us all went together. We were able to walk out a pier to a lighthouse and then some of us swam in the lake for awhile. Jensen and Grandpa made sandcastles, (or grandpa made them and Jensen destroyed them). It was a really nice time together as a family.

Here are some Pics!

Peyton

Bathtub Fun

Jensen and I have been doing some crafts together lately and one that we really had fun with was tub paints! They were really easy to make and lots of fun to play with! You just mix 1/2 c. clear handsoap with 1tsp cornstarch and then put into seperate containers and add food coloring! They can paint all over the tub and it comes off really easy since it is made with soap. It also makes bathtime more fun. Here are some pictures of Jensen enjoying his tub paints:

Trying new things

Peyton is 5 months old today and is doing new things everyday. He rolled over all the way for the first time about a month ago but he only does that when he feels like it. He also is very attentive now and has to know what is going on especially with his brother. Jensen can make him laugh harder than anyone and he doesn't even have to be doing anything special. Peyton just gets a kick out of him.

We brought up the highchair we used for Jensen and put him in that for the first time today. He did pretty well but he still did not want anything to do with the baby cereal I tried to give him. He is cutting a tooth now also it started to poke through this week and that is about 2 months earlier than it was for Jensen.



Since Peyton has been wanting to look around so much lately and he is holding his head up pretty well we decided to get the exersaucer out for him to enjoy. He seems to like it pretty well. Here he is in the one at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Fourth of July

This year we decided to spend the Fourth of July up at an outdoor resort where Brian's Aunt Norma and Uncle Ralph were camping in Standish, Michigan. It is really a beautiful resort and we had a variety of different things to do there. It was a gorgeous day we couldn't have asked for better weather. We went with my parents and also Brian's mom.

One of the activities they had there was miniature golfing. They had just made a new 9 hole course there this year and it was really nice. We all really like to putt putt so we decided to let Jensen try it out for the first time and see what he thought of it.



He did a really good job. He tried really hard to get it in the hole everytime. He seems to be lefthanded at this point so it was kind of difficult to help him hold the club right but he had fun.





Another thing that we did while we were there was to take a hayride around the park. It was a pretty long ride but we all enjoyed it.



After we left we went back to my parents house for a little while where we spent a little time out on their new deck. Jensen played with sparklers for the first time (video below). And here is a picture of Peyton with Grandma Mowat that day also.

Sparklers

Jensen had a chance to use sparklers for the first time this fourth of July. We weren't sure if we wanted him to play with them at first but he did a really good job and was very careful.