From The Mouth Of Babes - Part 2

Gabriel continues to sing "Bless The Lord, Oh My Soul" often. He doesn't quite get the lyrics right sometimes. There is a line that says "The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning". When Gabriel sings it, he says "The sun comes up, it's a new ding dong!" He emphasized "ding dong" with little hop for each word and an extra loud "d" sound. Richard tries to correct him, but now I am just singing it Gabriel style.

From The Mouth Of Babes - Part 1

I figure we will have lots of funny things to record as the kiddos grow. So this is just the very first of a series called "From The Mouth Of Babes"...

Gabriel (age 2 and 3 months)
"Pop-con-toon!" - Popcorn!
"Bye-bye Mommy Hudson" - Bye-bye Hudson's Mommy
"Dah-eee!" - Daddy!
"wuz-at?" - What's that?

Conversations:
Mommy - "I need to change Hope's clothes" (just thinking out loud)
Gabriel - Starts going up the stairs, saying, "Mommy, I will go get Hope more clothes from upstairs"
Seriously?! Where did that full sentence come from? And wanting to help, too!

Daddy Time

Tummy Time

Just hanging out with Hope...

Hope Is Rolling Over

She sometimes rolls over in the night and gets scared. I have to go roll her back onto her tummy before she'll fall asleep again.

Baby Hope

With Gabriel around, it's easy to change someone's name to whatever he calls them. Right now Hope is "Baby Hope". Here are some pictures of Baby Hope. She is 3 months old already!

...And she may hate me one day for posting this, but it's too funny. Here is proof that Hope is not a morning person.

Photography and Easter Bunnies

We had a good time with Sarah during our long weekend together, right before Easter. Activities included touring DC, shopping, cake decorating, and an Easter egg hunt.

I enjoyed waking Sarah up in the morning by throwing a two year old on top of her. :)

In DC, Sarah took some pictures of Gabriel and I, and they turned out so cute! Here we are getting some energy out between museums.

 Sarah snapped some shots of Gabriel playing in the dirt, but when he found out he was being photographed, he ran up to the camera. Sarah did a pretty good job capturing him so close, and moving so quickly.

He's such a cutie.

Oh yeah, and the cherry blossoms were just starting to pop.

The long day wore out both kids. Here they are, sleeping on the go.

Notice the squished face on Richard's chest. Sound asleep.

There was an egg hunt at a nearby park. When Gabriel went to see the Easter bunny, he was petting his back like he would a dog.

I don't think he expected to get a high five from a giant rabbit.

Thanks for being our photographer, Sarah! Looks like you suffered what all photographers suffer from... you're in hardly any pictures!