To the Zoo with Sandy

My old room mate and Stephen's third cousin, Megan, and I have been talking for a while how we need to get together and go to the zoo. After months of talking we finally went in July.When we got in there I saw the lion water fountain. I had to take Joseph's picture while he was drinking from the water fountain.

Joseph was really excited to see the elephants.Aaron just wanted to know what it was he was supposed to be looking at.Here is Sandy, Joseph and Aaron in front of the Elephants.Here is Sandy with the Zebras.Here is Sandy, Joseph and Aaron in front of the animals that Joseph would not stop talking about at home. The Giraffes!Here are Joseph, Aaron and Sandy with the Cammels.
By luck we were there on the day that they introduced a new snow leopard cub. That was fun to be one of the first people to see the cub.
We had such fun time at the Zoo with our friends Megan and Sandy. It was Joseph first trip to the Hogel zoo and Aaron's first trip to a zoo.

Bair Family Reunion

This year we were able to go to the Bair Family Reunion. It was held on a Saturday in July. Stephen doesn't often have Saturdays open in the summer, but this one was open so we decided to go. The last time we went Joseph was 9 months old. So it has been a few years.We started the morning with kids games.

The first was passing a balloon up and down the line both under the legs and over the head.

Here are Aaron, Grammy Bair, Max, Aunt Miriam and Ruth watching the action.

Here is Audry passing a wet sponge to Joseph. Ashlynne is behind Joseph waiting for the sponge. They took the wet sponge from the front of the line and passed it all the way back to the end of the line where the last kid would squeeze all the water into a container and run to the front of the line to start the sponge again. A lot of the water never made it to the end of the line because the kids kept sqeezing the sponge on the next kid.

Here is a game played with a cup attached to the foot. I didn't witness this game so I have no idea how it was played.

Here is Aaron with Grandpa Bair.

They also got to play water balloon volleyball. Or at least they passed it back and forth between two towels.

They also had a fun craft for the kids. They could decorate a hat, frame or bookmark. Here is Joseph showing off the hat that he did.

After the games were done the kids all got prizes. Joseph got a kite. Here he is ready to fly his kite.

Daddy put it in the air. This is a very good kite. It stayed up in very little wind and also would sometimes get up into the air on its own.

Max had a turn flying the kite too.

Some of the cousins put some stickers on Aaron's face. The AB on his forhead stand for Aaron Bair. Then they put a C on his nose to continue the alphabet.

After the games they had a silent and live auction to raise money to pay for next year's reunion. Then we had a wonderful lunch. Both the boys ate pretty well. After lunch everyone started to pack up and leave. We decided to fly the kite one more time. Aaron really liked watching the kite fly up in the air.

The two cutest kite flyers.

Brothers and Best Friends

I have noticed lately that the boys are getting along better and better. Joseph loves his brother and always wants to hold "baby Aaron". They are always giving hugs and kisses to each other. There are the occasional problems with Aaron hitting or Joseph getting tired of having a shadow. But all in all they love to play together.Here is a picture of them in Grammy's chair. This chair was my mother-in-laws when she was a little girl. She gave it to Joseph a few years ago and now both of the boys love to sit together in the chair.

They also love to play together in their room. This day they were both pretending to sleep. Or I should say that Joseph was pretending to sleep, Aaron was just copying his brother.

Aaron's method of movement

Aaron is 14 months today. I can not believe how fast time is flying by. Aaron doesn't really want to walk yet, unless he is holding your hand. He really prefers crawling. It is much faster. But he has discovered that he can not crawl and drink his sippy at the same time. So he has come up with a solution. He walks on his knees. When I told my mom that he was doing that she requested that I take a video of him doing the knee walk so she could see it because she has never heard of a kid moving like this before. I just think it is cute that he solved his problem of not being able to move and drink.

4th of July

The forth of July was fun this year we were able to spend it with Stephen's family. His brother and family decided on Wednesday to drive out to Utah to spend the weekend with the family. We haven't seen this brother in 3 years so we were really excited to see the. Here is a picture of Joseph with his cousin Joseph (or Jo Jo) playing in the playhouse.
Here is Sarah, Aaron, Jo Jo and Joseph playing in the playhouse.
We brought our slide and the little kids had fun on it. Aaron loved it so much he sometimes made it hard for the other little kids to use.
Aaron also loves the trampoline. Here is Sarah and Aaron on the trampoline.
Joseph on the slide and Jo Jo waiting patiently for his turn.
Adelaide helping Aaron down the slide. It was fun to get the chance to play with the Iowa Bairs.
Ruth and Joseph playing in the playhouse.
Jacob, Cathan and Adelaide waiting for the bouncehouse to blow up. This is always a big hit. The kids take turns and only kids of the same age are allowed on at the same time.
Aaron and his new love the slide.
Aaron with his fan club. Jo Jo, Cathan and Michael.
Time to wrestle on the trampoline. They all had such a fun time.
Grampa and Grammy Bair went to Jackson Hole the week before and had brought back Bison teeth for the grandkids to make necklaces out of. Joseph really enjoyed this project.
Then the best part of all, The Fireworks. Aaron was absolutly enthralled by the firey lights.
And he cheered after each one.
Joseph wasn't a fan of the noises but he like the fireworks as long as he wasn't on the front row.
Michael and Stephen lit the fireworks.
Sarah really enjoyed the fireworks too!
Here are Kate and Joseph, with Max, Chris and Miriam watching the fireworks.
Aaron looks so grown up in the chair. He had to have his own chair. He was not into sitting on laps.
Joseph awed by one of the fireworks!
We didn't get home until after 10pm. The boys were tired. It was definatly time for bed.

Playing with chalk

Stephen and Joseph love to color on our front walkway. Joseph has Stephen draw lots of pictures and sometimes he even draws some too.
He also loves to run around in just has underwear or pull-up. This was just before bed so we just had put his pull-up on. He just loves to play with his daddy! I also took a video of Joseph and Stephen showing me all the things they drew. Joseph also does some impressions. But it would not let me upload the video tonight so I will try again later.








Another fun thing around our house are Daddy's ties. Stephen comes home from weddings or church and takes off his tie and leaves it where ever he is at. So Aaron has discovered them and loves to wear them. He is so cute. The boys are just growing up so fast!

Backlog

This is the first of a couple posts tonight. I have been busy. It's wedding season. So we haven't posted in the last month. We haven't really seen anyone or done anything for the past month too. Hopefully we can be more social now. So sorry to all the friends who we haven't seen in forever.

Stephen takes Aaron with him to Preisthood because I teach primary. Well they give out treats in our Elders quarm. Our friend Dan gave Aaron a sucker one Sunday. Aaron has this new thing that if he likes something or is happy he nods yes. I am not sure he really means yes but he nods. It is very cute. So Stephen got out his phone and took a short video of him enjoying his first sucker.


Also this last month my brother Andrew came down for a few days to see the family down in Utah now that he is home. It was fun to spend some more time with him. While he was down here we found a cute little hole in the wall that served Russian food. It was interesting and good. We will have to take him back there, now that we know where to find it, when he comes down again. We also got to go to the park for a little while. Aaron loves to swing and Joseph loves to play. So here is a little video of them playing at the park.