week in pictures

Will is learning to spell his name, and he loves to play with the letter blocks at Memaw's house. "W" is his favorite letter, naturally. The thing about having a name with two of the same letter in a row is, why stop at just two? Will seems to think the more than merrier when it comes to the letter "L." His Aunt Jill thought the same thing too, when she was first learning how to spell her name.

Will is holding a "birthday cake" in this picture. He made it after watching an episode of Word World (his aforementioned current favorite show) when Pig made a cake for Dog's birthday. The long top part is the candle and the base is the cake. He made approximately 75 cakes this past week.

Ugh. The city is doing major construction work on the road to the west of our neighborhood. It will be great when it's completed. In the meantime, it stinks. There are several construction projects underway in this area, so a few of our alternate routes are closed. Getting to church is one of our biggest headaches. It actually only takes us about an extra 5 minutes. I know, I shouldn't complain about that, but it is an extra five minutes of stop-and-go traffic and my life is relatively easy so I will. On the other hand, Will loves it. There are tractors, diggers, back-hoes, huge cranes, dump trucks, etc. all over the place, and he loves to point each one out as we drive by.

Don't be fooled by the rock that she's got, she's still the same Lojo she's always been. Lauren loves to play with this ring rattle. Will likes to put it on her wrist like a bracelet, and it confuses her. She has gotten so good with her hands recently. It's fun to see her twist and stretch to grab what she wants. She hasn't started crawling yet, but is starting to realize that by exerting a little effort, she can get things.

This is a pretty terrible picture because Will's blond head takes up 1/3 of the frame. However, he asked me to take a picture because he was holding Lauren's hand and "she won't let go!" If you look closely, he appears to have the superior grip on her hand, so I'm not exactly sure what he was complaining about, but it made me happy that they were interacting in a fun way.

I love ice cream, so we had a few friends over for dessert Sunday night in honor of my birthday and to celebrate the beginning of summer. We lucked out and it wasn't too humid, so we were able to hang out in our backyard.

We spent a few hours at the pool Monday evening. It was Lauren's first time, and she liked it. Yay! I am very pleased. I look forward to spending a lot of time at the pool this summer. I was very excited about Lauren's swim suit, I seriously have been talking to Tony about it for days. There is just something so cute about babies in swim suits. Love those chunky legs and Popeye arms. We call them Popeye arms because her forearms are the same size as her biceps.