daddy's are good for lots of things

including making really cool beds for big boys to sleep in. we needed to make the crib available for a rapidly growing little sister, (who still slept in the closet in our room in her bassinet) and wanted to give luke a cool space of his own. here is the result.

















this picture doesn't really do justice to the awesomeness of the bed that justin made luke, but the room is very small and it was hard to get a good shot. the first evening justin was working on this project, luke was so excited he could hardly contain himself. he kept running back and forth between me, justin, and gina, telling us each in turn "i lub you" at random points in the conversation. he asked us no less than a hundred times if he could sleep "up" before it was even finished. i was really concerned that we'd have to have a huge fight to get luke out of his crib, but it took no effort at all. he was thrilled to sleep in his "new bed" and slept without any trouble at all. the bed itself is really cool, justin put in all kinds of windows that open different ways, right up luke's alley.

the trickier part in this situation is getting shannon to sleep in the crib. she's a much lighter sleeper then big brother and its been challenging getting her to sleep through the night. i had her sleeping in the crib a few nights, but she got into this kick of waking up at 4 am every night for no reason and screaming like a banchy, so we put her back in the bassinet until she got out of that. i'm thinking that tonight we'll try again.

and here's some more pictures of the nuggets for your viewing pleasure.


we went to the part on a exceptionally hot day a week or two ago, and tried to enjoy ourselves but it was basically miserable.





























luke loves saturday morning trips to mazetti's to get a "chochy donut."



















shannon has a natural beehive do.




















she's rolling all over the place now. we find her stuck under furniture sometimes.

photos

i thought i'd take an opportunity to put up some recent pictures of the kids.

these two were taken at the zoo on one of those ridiculously hot days we had a couple weeks ago. luke handles the heat like a champ but shannon has a much harder time with it.














































reading stories before bed...
































nobody's quite as fun as daddy











he LOVES to read stories these days. he even "reads" them to himself.