Lana is Growing Up!

Lana is one determined little lady. She is definitely a lot like her big brothers. She is not content to just sit still and she wants to make sure her voice is heard in this crazy house!

She started saying "Dad-Da" the other week and she says it as loud as she can constantly. You can hear "da-da-da-da-da-da" no matter where she is in the house or where you are. She has also learned how to sit up by herself and she has started crawling. There won't be any stopping her now! As you can probably see from the picture, she has also gotten her first two teeth. She has discovered that it's very funny to chew on some poor unsuspecting person's hand when they're holding her! They are usually quite surprised when she BITES their hand instead of just sucking on it.

She is definitely a cutie pie!

Summer Haircuts

For the past couple of years TJ has given Nathan a buzz during Memorial Day weekend. This year we decided that Tate had enough hair to get one too.
It's a great summer haircut! It makes life so much easier in several different ways. First, it helps with bed-head in the mornings, bath time at night (because there is less hair to rinse shampoo out of). Second, because their hair tends to grow fast we take them for haircuts every 4 weeks when they don't have buzzes. Giving them a buzz cuts at home eliminates all those trips to the Hair Cuttery and helps our monthly budget. Since my kids tend to spend the summer in our backyard and camping it also makes it a lot easier to search their hair for ticks and keeps their hair from looking too dirty when they've gotten hot and sweaty.

Nathan still isn't a big fan of the clippers, but he puts up with it because he likes having his hair short during the hot summer months. Tate was very excited about getting his haircut by Daddy and happily went first when Nathan refused to. He laughed and smiled through the whole haircut and was amazed by how his head felt when TJ was done. He looked so strange to me the first couple of days after his haircut but now that I've gotten used to I think it really looks good on him.