The Kids

The Kids

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Fresno Zoo

We had a MOMs Club day at the zoo. It was a lot of fun seeing all the 3 year olds and their siblings run around. It was a little hectic to say the least with 3 rough housing boys and the sweet girls whom I call the "mamas." Definitely a different personality between those boys and girls! And that was just the 3 year olds! Here are a few pics of just the Besmer kids.
Ashton with the elephant that every child HAD to sit on top of!

This bird was amazingly close!


Tim enjoying the ride!

Violet held back a little but once all the kids abandoned the elephant she wanted to make sure she got her own picture too!

In the turtle shell

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Watch Tim Grow



I can't believe Tim is 11 months old! In less than a month, he will be 1 year old and all my "babies" are no longer officially babies. Hard to believe after 4 years of baby making!

Let's see! Tim is 11 months old and still not walking. He will occasionally take a step here and there, but not a walker for sure. He will hold on and walk and can stand on his own. He can definitely climb up the stairs like he is a big boy. He has the climbing skills like the other two had for sure! He can say mamama, dadada but other than that, he just makes noises. He still loves to eat and drink juice and real milk like the big kids. He can definitely defend himself by pulling hair and pushing faces away and has recently learned how to pinch which is annoying. He is still quite the cuddle bug. He is a great sleeper. He loves to go swimming with the big kids. He loves his little baby tube and has come close to falling asleep in it a number of times. He definitely has an opinion of what he wants and doesn't want. If you take something away (ie candy) he will definitely cry and get mad about it. He can wave hi and bye and sort of makes a noise to accompany the wave as if he is saying it. He just learned how to clap and it is ridiculously cute! He was in the tub clapping away, like what is this that I am doing? He has 6 teeth and likes to use them! He will chomp down on a finger in a minute! I will update more later, but I can't think of other developmentally appropriate skills that he has!

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Weekly Update

It has been a pretty mundane week. I have been cleansing our house of the big baby items. We had a garage sale last week and got rid of the major baby items, swing, exersaucer, jumper, stroller, etc. A lot of the teeny tiny clothes went as well. It was a little sad to see it all go but I hope it will help someone out. And I'm sure there will be some adorable little babies out there with our old clothes. What didn't sell went to the baby consignment store today. So we'll see how all of that does! What a great concept! I wish I had known about them earlier. It seems as if the kids (especially Ashton) are rough on their clothes and I'd much prefer gently used and less expensive clothes. That allows me to splurge on fun cute outfits!

Here are just a few updates from our week.
The red dragonfly flying around our garden

An exhausted Violet. We have been swimming a lot this week!

Happy Father's Day!

Look who has teeth!

Just a regular messy kind of day! I dislike Lucky Charms forever more! If I am missing a kid, I will follow the trail of Lucky Charms. Of course all of the marshmallows are gone!

Violet wants to say "Cheese!"

I'm sure this is making my Mom's eye twitch

Sunday, June 10, 2012

What We Are Up To?

Just an insight into a few things in our life...
The kids are "working" like Dad!

Hilarious as they tap along on the letters!


Ashton loves this puzzle

He can do it all by himself!

Progressing!

All done!

He always wants me to take a picture of the final product!

Look who is a climber!

Busted!
Someone loves the water!

I spy a bum!

The kids love the water!

The choo choo train in the water!

Out of order... but the kids love to see the lizards that run around the house!

Tim and Papa Tom

Tim loves the water too!

It really is adorable to see them hold hands!

I love this picture of Violet

More relaxing in the water!

Tim's Top Teeth

Tim is finally getting more than his bottom two teeth. Poor guy is cutting all four top teeth at once. He cut his fangs first. He looked a little funny until his top two teeth finally broke through. I'm going to miss that gummy smile.
Trying to get the big boy to smile/laugh

There's those teeth!

I love to make him laugh out loud

He's so funny!

Someone Got Her 1st Haircut!

Just a cute picture! Ashton was holding Violet's hand to "protect her" while going through the carwash. I just noticed he is holding Tim's hand as well!
Little Miss Violet finally got her 1st haircut! Well, official haircut since Ashton technically cut her hair already. It's adorable!
Getting ready for the haircut!

She has bangs!

Chopping the locks

The final products!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Garden update

The garden sure appreciates the heat much more than I do! Our tomatoes have grown like weeds and everything else has sprouted except our strawberry seed and a couple of basil seeds. I'm even surprised the edamame has made its appearance. I hope it actually bears some pods!
In order from left to right: edamame, squash, and eggplant. The little weed looking things in the back near the bricks is spinach! And the little looking weed in the middle back is basil!
Check out those tomato plants!