Porter's 2nd Birthday 1/31/2012

After a birthday dinner and birthday hair cut, we sat down for our "special" cupcakes from the cupcake shop. Everyone dove into the cupcake of their choice. Porter did not grasp what was going on, he did smile when we were singing to him and he did not question what was going on while he was mowing down on his cupcake. (as you can see Calvin slept through the celebration) (the quote of the night came from Emma when she took her second bite of her cupcake and found a surprise of more chocolate, with excitement she said: "oh!! there is chocolate in here.")

Who does he look like how 1/29/2012





At three months Calvin is becoming more vocal. The part that we like is he that he is finally starting to smile, the only problem is every time we get the camera out he suddenly becomes so serious and is almost impossible to get to smile, we had multiple attempts on different days and these are the closest we came to pictures of him smiling.

Light Parade at the Portland Zoo in December 12/29/2011

After a full day of rain and walking around the zoo, we took a couple hour break and then returned after dark for the light show at the Portland Zoo. The rain continued but so did the fun, we took the time to walk the zoo and before we called it a night we rode the train which had gave a dry place for at least 15 minutes. (some of you might be thinking "I thought they had four kids" well Calvin went with us he just stayed in the stroller bundled and covered to keep him dry)

Portland Zoo in December 12/29/2011

As part of our Christmas celebration we had the opportunity to go to the Portland Zoo. A special thanks goes to Nichole and Brian who allowed us to invade their house and took the time to show us the ropes at the zoo and while in Portland. The humidity during the day at the zoo was 110% related to the continuous rain. Despite the rain we were able to go and have fun. The only scare was when a sheep was laying close to a fence and Porter did not see it until it turned its head and there Porter was face to face with the sheep, Porter did not waste anytime jumping up and with a scream and real tears ran for the protective legs of his mother. The sheep was fine it was not startled at all.

Christmas 2011

Like any good Christmas it started at today break with Roc and Emma opening their presents. When they were done they immediately wanted to get Calvin and Porter up to bask in the enjoyment of new toys and clothes (between you and me I think they knew that they could help open and play with Porter's presents). Porter was intrigued by the whole process, while Calvin just wanted to eat, sleep and poop. The rest of the day was filled with kids playing with toys and fighting every time someone else got close their new toys.

Christmas Tree Time, Christmas 2011

One of the kids favorite activity, cutting down the family Christmas Tree. This year we went to a tree farm with Acres of trees, I wanted the fifteen dollar tree that would of taken up the entire living room. I tried to convince the kids that we could fit more presents under the tree that way, but Stacie used her ultimate power to veto that idea. We found a great tree that will work great for us this year.

Calvin finally smiles

Calvin continues to grow with his strict regiment of eating, sleeping and pooping. A lot of people believe he may just have gas but we will take the credit for his smile because we fed him the food to give him the gas.