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We decided to have a little belated birthday party for Erik and Christopher.  I think that Christopher is going to miss Uncle Erik very much since he finally gets to go home tomorrow and see Teresa.  Even though we have enjoyed visiting with him I am excited for him and Teresa.

Christopher had a battle with the grill and he lost.  We don't know what happened for sure, but I think the grill brush got him.  Hey chicks dig scars, but I don't think that it will, since it was more of a scratch.  He is definitely a boy.

This is Christopher's new hair cut that he got the other day with Daddy.  Hopefully this will help him stay cool this summer.  Aaron is trying to learn to crawl.  Once he gets to his stomach he tries to do the army low crawl.  He is still not very good at it, but practice makes perfect.  He also loves to blow raspberries at you.  He is such a happy baby.

Christopher and Aaron love playing together out on the new swing set.  Christopher is also great at pushing Aaron in his swing.  Even Dante gets excited and wants to play with everyone.  Thank you Grandma and MaMa for helping us get the swing set.  We love you.

Well we did what Erik asked and waited until he returned to cut Christopher's hair.  This is how it looked before we went and got it cut yesterday.  It was actually getting a little too wild and we were having a hard time keeping it from turning into a rats nest.  He really loves his Uncle Erik as you can see in the pictures to the right.

So this is what has been going on since my brother has gotten back from Iraq.  Everyone has become obsessed with Guitar Hero.  Even Christopher had to get his own little guitar and pretend that he was playing along with them.  He is having so much fun with Uncle Erik and I have a feeling he is going to be heart broken when Erik has to leave.

Christopher finally turned three and he is a big fan of Thomas right now, so I decided to make him his very first character cake.  I know that I did an okay job, when he looked at it and said, "Monny it's Thomas".  Oh and the Monny is not a typo, Christopher can say Mommy and he has called me Mommy rarely, but for some reason he prefers Monny.  He finally got a swing set and he is outside on it everyday.  He also got a tricycle, but he has yet to take to it.  He would rather you push him, or push his feet on the ground to go forward.  We are still working on the peddling.  Some of the other kids in pics are from the party.  There is Andre in the top right and then in the middle right Julia is on the left and Nick is on the right.  Hope you enjoy, I will be posting more pics of the boys soon.

This is what happens when you let an almost 3 year old dress himself.  He chose camo shorts, a yellow hoodie shirt, and winter snow boots.  He also likes to play dress up with his different animal costumes.  The bottom right picture was just thrown in for fun.  Christopher was so exhausted that he fell asleep at the dinner table. 

Aaron has finally started sitting up and he enjoys being able to play with his toys and interacting with Christopher.  Christopher likes showing Aaron how to play with his toys and of course making Aaron laugh.

And of course Dante has to get in on the action.