Austin

We had a great time with Austin for the week. We hope he visits again. Gwen really took to Austin right from the start. She could not take her eyes off of him.

The babies loved having a back seat passenger.

Grady loved wearing Austin's baseball cap.

Austin is now a pro at getting the babies strapped in the car. Since Neal still cannot carry them because of surgery he was a great help taking them in and out of the car and up and down the stairs to sleep.

Austin got some great shots of Gwen in the backseat of the car on his phone!

Yummy, feet!

Peek - a - boo

My parents don't feed me.

Zoo

Austin stayed with us for a week. We had a great time with him. I have another post coming on that. We did make 3 trips to the zoo. The last trip we forgot our stroller, so we had to rent the zoo one. Unfortunately we did not see the polar bears playing, but the babies are always interested in the fish. Thankfully they are always swimming!





The very unsafe zoo stroller. Luckily the did not bother each other too much!


At least Austin is smiling. We were laughing at what people were thinking of us when it was just me, Austin and the babies. You can use your own imagination.

Gwen trying to look cool wearing her hat!

Grady loving the aquarium.

My family enjoying the day together.

The babies enjoy the fence more than the animals! Thank god we got that 2 year pass.

Austin feeding the birds. Ok, it was a little frightening at first, but he did a good job. Sad thing, he is the only one out of all of us that had $2 to buy food for the birds. I owe you Austin!

After an hour at the zoo the babies passed out in the car!

Thanks to Austin for getting these shots. The babies are going to miss Austin sitting in between them!

On the move

Gwen decided to crawl on Friday. Her pace has picked up a little, but she still has a ways to go to catch up with Grady.

Dash for Donation

http://www.active.com/running/columbus-oh/dash-for-donation-2010

The babies and I will be participating in the Dash for Donation. This is a great event that raises awareness for organ and tissue donation. If you would like to join me, click the link and select the team option. We as always are Team McKoth. I am so far behind on getting this rolling. Registration is over on Thursday. Right now I just signed up for the 1k, but I may end up doing the 5 k. Join me if you would like!

The event is Saturday, July 10th at 7am.

Swimming Take 2

I decided to buy a small pool after using the sprinkler pool. I think they will like the sprinkler pool more next year. The water has to be constantly running so it is pretty cold. I set the new pool up during the babies nap to get the water nice and warm. They enjoyed it, at least I think they did. One good thing is my arms got quite the workout carrying them in and out. The extra bonus, they slept a little bit longer the next day (every 15 minutes helps).

Swimming

With the weather being so hot, I figured it was time to drag out a sprinkler pool we received at a shower. The babies hated it at first, probably due to the ice cold water, but eventually they came around.

Memorial Day

Ryan and Leslie had a Memorial Day cookout today. I think this is the third year we did it. The first year it was pretty small, C could not yet walk and he was eating his feet. This year, C is running around, playing corn hole and I have two kids who are eating their feet. Things sure do change fast. Luckily Jill was there with her camera that I drool over. She sent some cute pictures over.

Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Moustache for helping me out. Without Neal it is kinda hard, not to mention it was so humid outside I would have been drenched hauling around both babies.

Please tell me this is not going to happen to my kids. This is R and C, our friends kids. Look at them. They are so big and they are playing by themselves. They are growing up so fast. I wish I could freeze time.