~21 Months Old~



Happy August!!! It is hard to believe the summer is already 2/3 of the way done. Every year the summers seem to zoom by, even more so with 3 – 21 month old kiddos! We have had an amazing summer so far, and have already been on many, many great adventures!

We ended our swimming lessons, which all 3 of the kids absolutely loved, with a bang (literally!) back the end of May. Our last night of lessons Mason slipped and fell climbing up the stairs to the big kid slide at the YMCA and hit his head hard enough to need stitches. Luckily, we had lots of help that night (Aunties Kathy and Jaye as well as Char) so mom and dad could bring Mason down to Childrens Hospital to get 7 stitches. He was such a trooper, loved watching the movie Brave (which also has a set of triplets in it!) and eating popsicles while the doctors stitched him up. We also got to go see where the new Mother Baby Center was. We took a chance and went to the special care nursery, where the kids spent the first month of there lives to see if one of our favorite nurses was working (Peggy, the kids primary nurse when they were there) and low and behold she was! We were so excited to see her!

June brought lots of fun, and many trips to the parks around our neighborhood! We got to go over to the Johnson’s to celebrate our friend Brecken turning 5. It was a very chilly day, but they had a bouncy house that we got to try out and we loved it! We also got to take a trip up to Cloquet to celebrate our twin cousin’s Christina and Cassandra’s high school graduation party. We had so much fun playing in the backyard with all the other cousins and kids and dancing in the garage to the music! Mom and Dad also took a long weekend to Las Vegas with some friends. They had an absolute blast, but they sure did miss us! Luckily, we were in the best of hands, with Aunt Nancy, Sara our nanny, Grandma Bonnie, Grandpa Ray, and cousin Bayleigh coming to watch us.

July went by in an absolute blur. We had a lot of friends over for a little 4^th of July celebration before heading up to the Roy family cabin, as well as the Spaeth family week lake stay. We had fun swimming in the lake, well, we all did except Dylan. He didn’t seem to like the sand on his feet. We loved having our own personal swimming pool up on our deck as well as spending lots of time playing with cousin Aeriana. It is so fun having a cousin our age to play with! We also got our pictures taken by mommy’s friend Lorissa, which turned out great! We are excited to see the rest and share with everyone how cute we are!  We also got to take some special one on one time with first mommy and then daddy, as they were off celebrating the soon to be marriage of our friends Shawn and Alyssa. They are getting married the end of this month, so mom and dad had to go celebrate the last of their singleness with golfing and a girls trip to Duluth/Superior.

Here are some of our favorite things to do:

Mason James

still a very picky eater, but still loves his milk more than anything. Loves to play with his zebra scooter that he rides around the house. His absolute favorite is his white puppy that he takes everywhere with him; car rides, walks in the stroller, bedtime, you name it, he has it with him. He is also our little dare devil, always the one to try out the biggest slides first, the first one to climb on the rides at Valleyfair, the first one to wander down the path as far as we let him push it. Mason’s favorite song to sing is Wheel’s on the Bus and he loves to dance! He also loves to look for airplanes when they fly over our house, as well as sign for them every time he hears them. He is probably the best one at doing sign language, it’s so fun to watch them learn new ones!

Dylan Patrick

loves to gives hugs and kisses, he is definitely our little lover. He is our biggest lover of the 3. He is also still our best eater, but also our skinniest. We are slowly trying to wean him off his nuk, which we are currently only letting him have at bedtime and naps. When you go to get him up in the morning, the first thing he does is hand you his nuk to be put back on the dresser.  Dylan’s favorite song to sing is Old McDonald. Dylan’s favorite toy in the house is a little flashlight that sings and lights up all different colors. There are many nights it will be the last thing he plays with and the first thing he grabs when he gets up.

Madelynn Grace

Is turning out to be quite a mommy’s girl. She loves, loves to be held by mommy, and gets easily jealous when one of the boys are getting any attention at all. She will just walk over and try to fit herself between whoever is on mom’s lap and push them off. It’s been hard teaching her to share and take turns, but most times she is starting to get it.  Maddy is also turning out to be our ‘little hoarder’, as in she loves to get as many things as possible in her hands and carry them around. We did get her a little purse to carry stuff in, but she still likes to have everything in her hands. There are many times we will go to check on her before we go to bed, and we will often find her with books, stuffed animals, ping pong balls, finger puppets, etc, in her bed with her.

A tie-dye kind of day!

All 3 are still learning and using sign language. They can now also sign mommy, daddy, cracker, shoes, and socks. All 3 love to blow bubbles, play with balls, and go down slides. The boys love to mow the grass and play with trucks out in the yard.

We are looking forward to a fun-filled end of summer and a fun start to fall! Some of our many activities we are looking forward over to the next couple of weeks include the MN State Fair, Weddings, Birthday parties for cousins, friends and great-grandpa. We are also very excited to see the bus start coming again every morning. It picks up all the school kids and drops them off right at the end of our driveway! Have a safe and fun end of summer and a great start to the school year!

Love always,

S&B+3

Fun at the park!

We are so blessed to live in a community where there are parks everywhere!

Summertime Fun!!!

Just hanging around!