Happy Birthday Chunk-A-Monk!

Today Jaeger is 3 months old! I can't imagine our lives without this sweet boy. He lights up a room and absolutely melts my heart with his cheeseburger grin. I have come to love so many things about Jaeger and here are a few...

*His rolly polly thighs that I can't wait to kiss every time I change his diaper
*His chubby knees that are the cutest things I've ever seen
*His marshmellow cheeks (that's a straight inheritance from Daddy!)
*His sweet smile (see above & below)
*His sweet coos and gurgles at just the sight of my face
*Rubbing his sweet head and watching him drift off to sleep
*Falling asleep together
*How happy he is all the time




I couldn't decide which one was the cutest so here are 3 of my sweetie in honor of his 3rd month birthday! :)

Arts & Crafts

Now that Dane is a little bit older, we've been trying to weave arts and crafts into our daily routine. Some days the craft proves successful (Auntie Jenna brought some Crayola Model Magic for Dane and he absolutely LOVED it! He actually sat at the table and "molded" for nearly 30 minutes - a huge feat for our little man.) and others not so much (I pulled out some yarn and Cheerios (thanks for the left overs Unc Sal!) and thought we'd make an eatable necklace. Well, Dane had other ideas. I think we only put one Cheerio on the yarn and the rest wound up on the floor, but Dane's laughter told me he still had a good time. :)

Here are some snaps of another successful arts and craft activity.



We flipped through the pages of an old magazine and Dane pointed at pictures he wanted to add to his collage. I cut them out and Dane rubbed on the glue and stuck them on to his paper.

Here's the final product -


And what was my Chunk-a-Monk doing....


Sleeping of course! He's exhausted after all that eating and smiling he does. :)

Why spend a fortune on toys?

All of the best toys in our house were definitely not purchased in the toy aisle! Case in point...

Thanks for the collapsible laundry basket Amy! As you can tell, we are getting loads of fun out it. :)

Just another beautiful day in Juneau!

By the way, this was taken from Dane's new favorite family hike - The Airport Trail. He was absolutely in love with all the float planes and wheel planes he got to see. He is in LOVE with anything that flies lately and just so you know all of his planes and "ha-cocks" (helicopters) fly exclusively to Home Depot. So if you need a ride to The Home Deep, Dane's your man. :)

Guess who slept 5 1/2 hours last night?

This guy....

Now, I just need to get this guy to stop waking up at 6am!!!

Perhaps we need these guys to come for another visit as Dane slept until 9am while they were here this summer!

Hoonah

I'm loving the maternity leave life! We just picked up on a Sunday afternoon and rode the ferry to Hoonah just because we had the time and wanted to check this small (tiny, really!) fishing village. We couldn't have picked two days with nicer weather - it was absolutely gorgeous. Here are a few photos from our trip.

One very cool wagon!

I've always been so impressed with people that can take someone's "trash" and turn it into a treasure! That's exactly what Guy did with this ultra cool wagon he found down the street with a free sign on it. Here are the before pictures ...


Look at this awesome helper...


And now for the treasure Dane and Jaeger now have thanks to Guy! I think it's too beautiful to actually use, but I'm sure my 2 sweet boys will veto that idea.