glorious weekends.

What a hectic and fun (mostly) past 2 weeks!

First, we welcomed our healthy God-daughter, Daniella Perez into the family on the 26th (for those curious about the connections, this is the youngest sister to Parker and Sofia, daughter of Tally-daniel's oldest sister- and Trent).
Then Jacob's best friend Eric (you may know him from the laughter during Jacob's "hey mine" video way back when) and his fiancee Megan came for a visit! Lots of video and action but not a ton of pictures. They gifted Jacob Where the Wild Things Are, and Jacob can be seen as below, frequently reading and rereading it!

Though, if not reading in the warm sunshine, he could also be found in a box coloring. Thanks Grayson; boxes will never be anything but an empty canvas for this guy <3

Last week, the church where Daniel is interning had a gift-card shower for Thomas; how generous and cool is that?! We learned that tere are so many people with unique talents in the congregation; Thomas and Jacob have many quilts, soaps, and cross-stitches, etc. Last week, Jacob received something totally unique: mouse slippers!


Aren't they precious? I can't say they make Jacob walk/run as quiet as a mouse, but they do make him grin.

Speaking of grinning, Thomas is beginning to really intentionally do just that. We are LOVING it.

He's getting so big. He's much longer than Jacob was at this point (partly because Jacob had stubby legs) and continues to outweigh him....which is an incredible feat. We just can't get enough of him!!