LUAU

our friends, chad and christy had a luau this last weekend and i had to go. i can't wait scrap pictures of vanderlei in a lei! i'm going to call it vanderLEI. i know i'm a dork! but i got some cute pictures! here's a few...

Father's Day

this was brad's first father's day! of course i had to take pictures in the same spot that van and i took on mother's day (for scrapbooking purposes)! brad is such a proud daddy. i love watching him with van. he's always saying how much he loves van and how he can't believe van's our baby!

i'll never forget when we were in the hospital, brad was holding van and he said he would go kevin bacon for van! LOL for those of you who don't get the reference. kevin bacon plays in a movie called 'death sentence' where his son is killed by a gang and kevin bacon pretty much goes crazy and kills everyone in the gang. brad's also wants to be the punisher when he grows up...hehehe.

vanderlei is fearless when daddy's around!

i'm just so grateful to have such a wonderful husband and father to our child!

my baby van is 4 months old!

my little angel gets bigger (and cuter!!) every day! i can't take it! i keep telling him to stop growing but he's not listening to me already. we made a deal yesterday. i love his little toothless smile so much that we decided he could get bigger but he could never grow teeth! i don't think he'll his word on that one but i can always hope!

i think this is my favorite month of his life yet! well nothing can top the day he was born but i'm loving 4 month vanderlei! everyone made fun of me because i swore that i was going to get the first time van rolled over on video. and i have hours of van just laying there! of course i proved everyone wrong!!! the night before van turned 4 months old (6/11/09) he rolled over!! from his back to his tummy! i was SOOO happy that brad and i both got to see it!

so far 4 month van still love, love, loves bath time! his face lights up just hearing the water come on! all you have to say is "splash splash" and van's one hyper baby! we put his little bathtub down inside the tub so when ever he makes a noise it echoes. he "talks" his whole bath! i tried to talk to my sister the other day while van was taking a bath and i couldn't hear her over van! it's so adorable though! he talks a lot actually. not just in the bath. he's so funny too. he kicks and kicks until he's in the deepest part of the tub. he likes to get so far under the water that his legs are hanging off the side and his ears are under water. it makes me laugh! he also pees almost every time in the water. i've gotten to where i hold him so just his legs are in the water for just a minute then i pull him out so he doesn't pee in the water.

he's also realized he can blow bubbles and he does it all day long! of course he already drooling because he's starting to teeth so we spend most of the day wiping his mouth!

i love that he loves food so much. i'm not talking about formula or rice cereal (he definitely loves to eat those) but i'm talking about no matter what we are eating his eyes get so big and he follows every bite you take!

he gets more and more animated every day too! i love his many faces! he smiles on demand all the time now. he also laughs daily now. it's the funniest laugh i ever heard! i wish i could bottle it up and listen to it forever!

anyway, i could go on and on all day about how cute my kid is! i just love being vanderlei's mommy so much!