A quick August post

With August being almost gone, I thought I'd share a few pictures:



The big news of the month, J started preschool!!

The first day all by himself:)

The OFFICIAL first day of school picture!

Driving the boat at Dillion

Everyone can do it!!

We finished the summer at the activity pools:) Nice hair J!

It's been a summer of living, blogging not so much:)

We've hiked and biked, eating our weights in Popsicles and mowed. We even tried a pickle on a stick!!

Seth and I at a restaurant in Santa Fe celebrating our 10 year anniversary, seriously who woulda thought:)
Haley Boys "root, root, rooting" for the home team, on one of our VERY hot CO days!

Fourth of July bike parade with some of our besties, James and Mal!
This is a regular occurrence in the Haley house after nap, good times!

June

Mowing with Grandpa, tractor races and rides are a regular thing here, yep, that's a John Deere, for both of them!

The Boys and I hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, no daddy, quite a day, as J is showing us:)

At the Boulder Creek Festival clearly loving the post haircut lollipop, way more than the picture...

And the pickle on a stick, though I don't see the stick! Big hit with the little boys.

And Crestone's last employee, seriously this kid LOVES anything about mowers!


This summer has been quite the roller coaster of emotions, and I've never quite gotten a handle on it. J starts preschool in 3 weeks (!) and hopefully the force of having to be places will help... Maybe:)

Yin and Yang

How is it possible for two children to have the same parents and be SO completely different?

Seriously these two could not be more different:

J is shy, sometime painfully so until he really knows the person; C runs through public places yelling HI, until people start talking to him.

J is right handed, C left.

J was never a good sleeper and still only sleeps through the night on random nights; while C sleeps good overall and only has rough patches occasionally.

Clearly J has straight hair and C curls make me swoon:)

J is tall and skinny, and C is tall and less skinny

On playgrounds J likes the swings and C the slides

And yet, these two clearly DO have the same parents because they look like brothers, they both say they're sorry and please all the time, and they wrestle each other hourly just to make sure they can still Take Down the other guy. Boy oh Boy do they make me smile:)

Well Big Kid Check Ups!

We took both boys in today for their 3 year and 18 month check ups. Though C isn't actually 18 months until next month we have an appointment with his cardiologist in case anything changes is 27 days. Plus it's easier:)

John:
40 inches (between 90 and 95%)
33.8 pounds (between 50 and 75)
This is the last time they'll give us % unless there's a problem:) It really was a big boy visit and not like a baby visit at all. Stood on the scale and everything!

Colin:
34.5 inches (above the 95)
25.83 pounds (between 50 and 75)
49.5 cm (between 75 and 90)
So it looks like we have super tall, but averaged weighted babies:)

Everyone here is doing well. We're happy to welcome the first great grand daughter on my side! Lucky number 7 for Great Great!

Happy Birthday John!!

Yesterday we celebrated John Michael's 3rd birthday! We were joined by many friends and family to kick off what will hopefully be another wonderful year! The party was construction themed and the highlight of the party was definitly the nail table Seth made! I'm sure everyone really enjoyed it when John pulled his pants down leaned back and "watered" the bush too:) John was a bit over whelmed while more than 50 people sang to him, but he truly had a wonderful time, as did we!

Here is the super cool nail table with many little guys hard at work! John's in the blue.

Thank you, Thank you to all of our wonderful friends that helped make John's party oh so special. And thanks to the weather for being so nice in spite of what the reports said it was going to be! Happy birthday little man!!

There goes the neighborhood..

We THOUGHT we were buying in the "good" part of town, but alas even good 'hoods have problems. There is a new one near the casa de haley:

A Biker Gang!



Good thing they're cute, or we might really have a problem:)




I know they're not wearing helments and before anyone goes crazy, they do own them. This was just very impromtu and we didn't grab them. Usually we're really good, I promise!

Haircuts

Colin's needed one for a while, and we finally did it!
BEFORE:

AFTER:

The Big Brother's after:):

Colin's during:



He did great and we are so proud of him, and we LOVE looking at the baby blues all day now!