summertime splendor

This summer has been rockin' aweosme so far and we are planning to keep it that way! This last week our favorite people came to visit us down here in so cal and we had a blast! Alex and Haley flew in from Washington to spend the week between Alex's graduation (congrats Alex!) and his first day in his new job being a physical therapist. Erik got to meet his cousin Zoey for the first time and they were so cute together and Erik seemed to enjoy picking on Zoey when he could by grabbing her face. He also tried to hold her hand when they bathed together and showed off by rolling over for the first time while they did tummy time together. Yeah he is a show off.....he has yet to show Lindsay his rolling skills yet.

We went to the outdoor swimming pool one day while they were down here and had some fun. The babies weren't real sure of the cold pool water but they endured it for about 20 minutes
before they called it quits. Erik did better this time than last time in Arizona. Probably because Lindsay was swimming and doing all sorts of fun things with him. He still wasn't excited about the water but stayed in it longer than when I took him in.

Oh naked cheeks, can't refuse to take a picture of his cute bum!

And the cousins in the tub together! Erik's eyes are hilarious to me, he gets wide eyed like that often when there is something new, exciting, or startling. In this case both cameras were flashing and we were all trying to get them smiling before one of them started crying from the comotion. Zoey is only 6 weeks younger than Erik but look at her chubby arms, couldn't you just eat them off? If there was a full body shot though you would notice Erik is considerably longer than her. Oh so cute!

This one makes me giggle looking at it. We put Zoey's hat on Erik one morning and he got this mischievous smile on his face. Who knows.....this may be a blackmail picture later on but I love it!

Notice the outfit he is wearing? Yeah that pic was taken on my birthday and we ended up going into the city for lunch and shopping that day. Up until that special day Erik had never (trust me I know I am lucky) had a poopy blowout before. But he wanted to give a present like any good child would....he hadn't pooped in a few days so we knew when it happened it was gonna be big. But let me tell you, it was huge! I was carrying him into the family bathroom in the mall and when we got in the and I laid him on the changing mat Haley just started laughing and asked me to look at my shirt. I look down and there was poop smeared all over the stomach of my shirt, not just a little speck but humungo streaks....great! So the boys offered to go buy me a shirt while I cleaned him up. Normally I probably would have said I would have been all right, but it was my birthday and figured I could treat myself. So his outfit went into a bag and his ugly emergency outfit came out. Oh well, he felt better I can guarantee you that!

Another new thing in the moon household is that Erik is starting to be way more interactive, we love to see his personality shine through and all that he offers us. Lately he has been giving us kisses by sucking on his lower lip. I am not exactly sure how we figured this out but I think we kept making kissy faces and noises at him one day and he started trying to mimick by sucking on his lower lip. So now when we walk into his room after a nap, or he hasn't seen one of us for a bit or whatever he will offer us his "kisses" we love it! He is not as much into us actually kissing him on the mouth, it is a bit too much up in his face, but he will smile and "kiss" while being held, across the room, in the bath, etc.

O the joy!