Spring!!

Happy Spring! Here are some photos from our adventures in April and May.

Jack going for a stroller ride all dressed up in winter gear. The cool shades are from when Ashley was a baby.

Jackapoo lookin' so handsome.


Ashley taking a cruise on her bike. We went on a ride up to the park and Ashley rode her bike the whole way! Notice blankey with tags even gets to ride in her basket.

Jack's first bike ride.

Yay, we finally get to celebrate our little princess' fourth birthday! (Recall Jack was in the hospital over Ashley's birthday 3/11/11) Ashley's birthday party was princess themed and all the little girls received princess party favors. They had so much fun.

Starting on the left: Ayla, Stella, Ashley, Maddy, Elsa, Allie, Lila, Violet

The birthday girl.

Four years old...unbelievable.

Jack with Great Grandma Marianne who was also all decked out in princess accessories. Other exciting news from Jack - on April 11th, he slept from 7:30pm to 6:15am when I woke him up! Could this be the start of him sleeping through the night??!!

Ashley received a set of wands, crowns, earrings and other princess accessories from Stella. Ashley decided "Bark Bark Roof Roof" would look beautiful all dressed up.

Where's Ashley? Look close! Do all kids love stuffed animals as much as Ashley?

Cousin Jessica, Grandma Sue and Ashley decorating sugar cookies for Easter. If you look close, you will see pink hanging out of Ashley's shirt. Let me tell you this one - I hear Ashley making struggling noises in her room. I went in and she is getting dressed and trying to put her shirt on over her nightgown. I say "AJ, you still have your nightgown on...do you want to take it off?" Ashely replies: "No mom, just help me get my shirt on over my nightgown because I don't want to have to put it on again at night time." Oh how I love that little girl!

April was still a yucky month for Jack. We continued with nebs to help with the respiratory crud.

Jack - 9 months old (4/24/11). Jack can now clap too!

Happy Easter! The Easter Bunny hid both Ashley & Jack's Easter baskets and left eggs filled with candy around the house.

Ashley all dolled up and ready to go to Grandma & Grandpa's house for Easter!

The Johnson cousins! (Jessica 13, Alex 1.5 , Jack 9 mo, Ashley 4)

Jack's first time in the outdoor swing. He loved it! Jack popped through two more bottom teeth on 4/29 and slept through the night almost every day the week of 4/24!

Jack is quickly outgrowing his infant car seat. The seat and Jack together must way 45lbs! I'm not kidding. HEAVY. On May 1st Jack can now go from laying down to sitting and he's started to scoot on the floor. It won't be long and this little guy will be crawling!

Awwww, so cute! Both Matt & Ashley got glasses! They are both farsighted - in fact, they have the exact same prescription. The eye doc is hopeful that the glasses will strengthen Ashley's wandering eye as well as improving her sight. On May 3rd, Ashley had surgery to put tubes in her ears again after we discovered at a doctors appt that she had a collapsed ear drum. After numerous hearing tests at the ENT, the ENT doc told me she was hearing as if she had ear plugs in and ear muffs over that. So, not hearing good at all!! That helped explain why she had started talking or should I say yelling when she would talk. After her surgery she said she could hear so good and that everything was so loud. She covered her ears at the restaurant and was startled by the noise of the toilets flushing.

Other news- 5/6-Ashley can now draw rainbows and butterflies! 5/12- Matt turns 35 and Jack is officially sleeping through the night! 5/16-Jack started pulling himself up into a standing position.

$20.00 craigslist score- a swing set for Ashley!

On 5/15 we celebrated Mother's Day with the Johnson's. We went on our annual trip to the nursery for flowers and stuff for the veggie garden. Ashley, Alex and Jack hopped in the cart for a ride.

We usually celebrate Matt's birthday on Mother's Day. Look at the marvelous cake Sue made for Matt's birthday. Yummy!

Ashley got to ride home with daddy in the Nesconset NY firetruck. Daddy then left that afternoon to deliver the firetruck to NY.

Washington D.C.! I was lucky enough to hitch a ride in Jim's plane (Matt's boss) to Washington DC where I met up with Matt for a weekend away. What a blast we had in a short weekend get away. We walked and walked and walked around DC in attempt to see all we could in 1.5 days. Thanks to G&G J and G-ma T and G-pa R for watching the kids while we were gone! Thanks to the Brooks' for watching Ruby. :)

The Lincoln Memorial.

Jack - 10 months old! He got another 4 teeth over memorial weekend (that's a total of 8 teeth now) AND on 5/28 - he started crawling!!! He's also started eating little cracker chunks and drinking out of a sippy cup.

Our first boat ride of the season.

AJ lovin' life!

Jack lovin' life.