Guitars and gear

Anders LOVES his Daddy, and I think he already wants to grow up and be just like him!  For awhile now Anders has loved playing with the guitar, but now he loves playing with Todd's gear too.  

Also I have to mention that this week Anders was VERY clingy with Todd.  Anders reached for Todd and clung to him whenever I tried to take him away.  One time he even pushed my face away and tightly wrapped his arms around Todd -- which slightly broke my heart, but also made me laugh.  I LOVE seeing Anders and Todd together, and I am so thankful that Todd is such a great father!

Last attempt to get Anders & Paisley together

So getting our two babies to sit still, look at the camera, and be happy was IMPOSSIBLE, and unfortunately never happened.  But here was our last minute, final attempt before running out the door to take Beth and Paisley to the airport...

It was sad to see them leave and WE MISS THEM -- wish they'd move back to Nashville!

Sweet Paisley girl

Paisley in her pretty paisley dress.... 

Beth & Paisley are HERE!

So Beth and Paisley arrived on Wednesday evening and we have had a great few days with them shopping, eating, swimming, playing and more shopping. There has been lots of the two babies riding in the back seat together...

Paisley and Anders posing for a little photo shoot -- she is all smiles but Anders is thinking "why is she touching me?"...

 

Sweet Paisley girl eating naked...

Beth bought us some fresh homemade mud masks at Bathos in downtown Franklin, so last night we smeared it on and watched "Glee"...

Last night we decided to go for an evening swim.  We had the babies all suited up and ready to go, but when we were walking down the hill to the pool, dark stormy clouds came rolling in.  So we headed back to the house and decided it would be best to go swimming in the morning...

After a morning swim down at the pool, they had bath time together.

Off to eat and shop more this afternoon, so thankful that we still have several more days with Beth and Paisley to keep eating and shopping :)

TONS of pictures from our family picnic!

One evening this week we decided to go have a picnic at Centennial Park.  The day had been SO HOT, so I thought we would melt while eating dinner.   But instead it was a BEAUTIFUL evening.  We all ate our sandwiches from WhichWich and had so much fun!  

Anders pushing the carrot back into his mouth...

Bella had so much fun too!

Crawling away...

Blowing kisses...

Swinging with Daddy...

Anders loves playing with his ball popper...

Earlier this week I had one of my more brilliant ideas -- to take our dining room bench and cubes to create a play pen for Anders.  Before when I was giving him full reign of the kitchen, dining room and family room, I felt that he just continually explored one thing to the next.  So now that he is contained in the smaller play area, he plays and entertains himself FOREVER!  

  

Here the air from the ball popper is blowing in his face...

He's not sure he likes it...

We need to work on our manners :)

Anders likes to put his foot up on the table, for now we just think it's funny -- I guess we will eventually need to start teaching him proper table manners...