Drake & Paige

October & November highlights

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Both kids had so much fun with Halloween this year.

Beautiful October day on Wabash Steam Train...fun!

Gotta love the magic house for these pictures

2044...not that far away Drake

Beautiful christmas display in Branson

pretty sure we can tell whose favorite ride this was :O

Lady spiderbug??

Had an awesome time at the World Series Rally with front row tickets & got some great close ups of players. Fun memories for the family :)

Getting caught up on blog...more to come

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We got to go to founder's day at Busch & go down on the field, get free food, meet players. Minus the middle finger, I think Drake liked meeting Daniel Craig ;O

While it appears it snowed in our house, this is really just the aftermath of 4 boys, plus Paige, getting into a big box of packing peanuts. Granted it was a huge mess, but they were having so much fun I couldn't stop them!

Trip to
Grant's farm-Drake got mauled by the goat's. I had to of course take a picture of Drake's look of terror before saving him ;)

Drake's birthday celebrations & hangin' with sis

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Tons of fun with all his friends at Pump It Up for his birthday party

Trying to stay cool in this HOT weather

I did not stage this, we had almost an entire day of them wanting to be with each other!

I told them to clean up the goldfish they spilled on the floor & this is how they did it:Paige actually started this trend of pulling the shirt over the head thing

June and July pix

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Fun with friends

Spent some time over July 4th weekend at the Holekamp Family Farm-soooo much fun!!

As the patio was being poured, the kids had a lot of fun in the dirt, especially sitting in the hole.

Had to post this picture-they're sitting within a foot of each other and ACTUALLY liking it ;O

Paige loves making her 'funny face'

Fun with neighbors at Purina Farms, Paige especially liked touching the animals

Getting lots of use out our family zoo pass!

Out of the two of them, Paige is definitely the one who enjoys making a mess & getting dirty...and picking up bugs, etc.

November-February

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Drake identifying some presidents...and 'his' opinion of one ;)

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Halloween Fun!!

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Late September and October

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the many faces of Paige

Fun at Eckert's with Alex & Aunt Jenn

Butterfly house with Henry & Oliver

August flew by!

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Birthday Highlights

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Out to dinner for mexican on the night of his birthday & two birthday parties later, Drake had some great celebrations. He's so excited to be 2!

Early July Highlights

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summer's here!

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little blue eyes

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my little boxer

videos of drake

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singing ABCshe sure knows his construction machines!

2010-05-17T10:58:00.001-07:00

i can happily say I have not changed a poopy diaper in 4 days!! Drake is loving going on his potty. He'll let you know if it's a 'big un' ( big one ) or a 'poo poo nugget'. He is making sentences now--I asked him to go tell daddy to get mommy some toilet paper and he went all the way across the house to our bedroom and said " Daddy, bring mommy toilet paper'. He's so much fun right now. If you get him on the phone, the very first thing he says no matter what is 'tractor, on, vroom vroom, beep beep'. Paige seems to be having happier days and evenings for the most part so that's making life a bit easier.

april highlights

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For our neighbor's birthday party, they had a snowcone man come---so much fun!

New pictures of 'the kids'

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The black and white pictures are from my neighbor-he has his own studio set up in his basement and wanted some practice so I was happy to lend my kids for him to practice ;)

Pictures of Paige & big brother Drake

2010-02-23T08:25:00.001-08:00

Well, here are finally some pictures of Paige. Now that Drake has to 'share' his blog with his sister, I'll just update his latest milestones-he can count to 10, knows his colors, loves reading aloud with his 'regular' books-especially shouting out the last word of every sentence, will repeat pretty much anything we say, and now he can do the chicken dance along with his little animal (I need to get that on video & post that one because it's hilarious)

As for Paige, she sleeps a lot, more than I remember Drake sleeping, and will go 3-4 hours at a time at night, so that's not too bad. She definitely enjoys being cuddled and always in a little ball with her arms in front of her face-no flat sleeping for this one!

Video of Drake reading along to one of his booksthis was about 2 months ago--now we can get to 10!

videos

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This is a long one-almost 3 minutes, but just shows how he has a 'conversation'-this about what not to do with playdoh.

Drake is 'reading' his Cardinals book.

He loves singing-this shows how he fills in the missing words to his favorite songs.
Fixing the vacuum that mommy broke

December fun

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Halloween fun

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Drake had a ton of fun on Halloween. He went up to the doors and grabbed candy right out of the bowls and put it into his pumpkin. As you can see in the video, he practiced saying trick or treat, but we couldn't get him to say it when he was out-pretty typical that he's a chatter box at home and not in public ;)

He has something important to say!

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Watching words and making animal noises

lots of new words

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Saying 'lawn mower'

some of his animal noises he knows-he just learned

to oink last week!

Last days of summer

2009-08-06T19:26:00.000-07:00

Birthday and other July highlights

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Dancing to Michael Jackson

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Busy days

2009-07-05T19:40:00.000-07:00

Drake spent a day at Little Gym-right up his alley as he could climb and tumble and loved the music. He's had a lot of fun playing with some new friends in his playgroup.

Video-He's walking!!! (& spaghetti pictures)

2009-06-11T15:26:00.000-07:00

No exaggerating-this kid learned to walk overnight! Last weekend he was taking 2-3 steps, then on Monday, he just started walking from room to room-we were wondering where this kid came from! He can even stand up without holding on to anything. Everyone says watch out, but seriously, he's much faster when he crawls anyway. Though he's getting a lot more bumps and bruises while trying to 'run'. The pictures are from his first 'go at it' spaghetti experience and Incredible Pizza Co. play date. He also discovered Alex's little dinner table in our kitchen and apparently thinks he's a big boy and can sit there too, because he went over and sat in the chair on all on his own, so I put his dinner there and he sat and ate it-really, who does this kid think he is ;)

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Drake's day at the zoo

2009-06-05T18:41:00.000-07:00

Drake's 1st push up pop

mom-is that my brother?

Highlights from Florida

2009-06-04T07:48:00.000-07:00

We just got back from our trip to Fort Lauderdale. We went with Gus, Amanda, and Ayla and Jake & Kim. Drake was glad Ayla was there so he could steal her pacifier out of her mouth all the time and stick his fingers in her mouth or eyes--little bully! He took a few days to like the pool, but he finally got used to it-not excited about sitting in his little boat, but OK when mommy held him. Any chair in the house was fair game to get pushed all over. He took about 2-3 steps on his own a few times and is sure trying to be independent. We all had a really great time.

Drake & Alex go to Fritz's

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Such Talent!

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Brushing Teeth

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"Dancing"

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Baxter's Best Buddy

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Fun with food and friends

2009-04-29T15:39:00.000-07:00

This kid is known as the speed demon at school-apparently he's the fastest crawler in class. He's SO excited to be outside lately and grunts/happy screams everytime you open the door like he wants to go out. As you can see, he's played with a lot of his friends lately and spent some time visiting his Kansas City cousins. According to Drake it's nice to share his dinner with Baxter and of course the dog is not complaining ;)

Videos of crawling to the easter bunny & finally learning to put the ball in the hole!!!

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Easter pictures-Drake LOVES the easter bunny!!

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But WHY can't I play in Baxter's bowls? How about I touch it with my feet?

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Drake and Alex's Bath-too cute!!!

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What a day!!

2009-03-16T19:33:00.000-07:00

What a day! This kid is quite the mover now. Drake had a play date with his friends Lucy, Macy, Charley, Biz, and George. Macy had a new swing set and he loved to swing-it was his first time. He came home and had a blast playing with Baxter-let me just say Baxter is such a good sport since he is now getting his hair pulled, is chased, and often bothered while he's eating by Drake and he is so good through all of it. He may be bad at jumping on people, but he's a very good brother ;) Drake can not seem to stay seated in the bathtub so that's interesting and quite exhausting, but he sure does have fun. He's such a hoot right now-even Craig commented on how 'easy' he is to take care of because he can go get his toys without help and keep himself amused for awhile. He manages to pull himself up on just about everything. Today, he crawled from the kitchen to the front door, then all the way to our bedroom in just a few minutes time...time to really 'baby proof' this house!!!

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Drake wants to vacuum!

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'Worm'Crawling video and other pictures

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Just a few of the great dads in the neighborhood!

Drake's 1st professional pictures

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Playing Baseball!

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Christmas Day

2008-12-25T19:41:00.000-08:00

I never knew how much fun Christmas could be. Drake truly is the coolest and best thing that could ever happen to us-we really do realize every single day what a blessing we have. He had a long day with three stops, but got some really nice things and he enjoyed all of the attention!

Christmas Eve

2008-12-24T19:55:00.000-08:00

Drake LOVES his new 'Little Superstar' toy from cousin Alex. He actually sat up without even falling over for about 20 minutes playing with it. We spent Christmas Eve with Grandma Harashe where he got some cool books!

Santa Photo

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Visit with the McKinleys in Columbia

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Opening his first Christmas present...we couldn't wait ;)

Drake loved Santa!!!

With his cousins from Kansas City.

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Alex can actually recite the entire

Drake wants some too! 'Goodnight Moon' book-impressive!!

Baxter protects Drake during his naps. Alex gets stuck in the diaper box!

There's something perplexing about this tree ;)

Videos of Drake's silent happy screams.

Christmas tree & new videos

2008-12-04T19:53:00.000-08:00

Drake is loving the Christmas tree with all the lights. We're excited for his first Christmas.

We've found our feet!!

2008-11-25T15:52:00.000-08:00

Drake is up to 14.5 lbs. and is still 'average' length...let's hope it stays that way. He's discovered his feet-they're yummy! He'll sit up unassisted now for almost a minute or so.

Cousin Alex loves Drake

2008-11-22T19:56:00.001-08:00

These pictures were taken over the last two months, but I'm just now sharing. I love the one of Alex 'honking' Drake's nose. Alex likes to tell Drake 'don't cry' and pat his head if he's crying and wake him up if he's sleeping to play with him. Although Alex did chuck a book at Drake's head awhile back, I think he'll forgive him....but we're building his muscles to get him back ;)

Drake reading a book out loud

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Video of Drake laughing

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Drake is full of noises these days and puts everything in his mouth. He sings with Mommy and gets a big smile now when Daddy comes home each night. Watching Baxter play and run around the house entertains him well.

Highlights from Halloween

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