one of the gang.

Titus fits right in with our big boys. They love him and he's pretty easy going and open to whatever they've got going on around him.  We loved all the beautiful days in March and spent lots of time in our driveway.  I'd strap Titus in our little stroller and he would be content for quite a long time as long as someone was pushing him around and luckily for me I had some eager volunteers to push! 

This is another good example of how things have changed around here from baby #1 to baby #3.  I don't think I would have dreamed of putting Isaiah in a flimsy little umbrella stroller at 3 months old, but I didn't give it a second thought this time around :)

bumbo baby

Titus loves to sit in the bumbo chair - these pictures were taken mid-March and has been sitting in the chair regularly since the beginning of March.  He is so strong and can enjoy the seat for 20+ minutes at a time.  Since  he was a few weeks old he has always wanted to look around and be able to see what is going on so it's no surprise that he wants to be sitting up watching what's going on around him now -- making the seat perfect for him!

a perfect view.

Nothing beats the view we have from our kitchen window.

these two spend hours and hours together simply being little boys.

There's nothing better!

strong baby!

Here is Titus showing off his strong neck on March 7.  Can you believe just how fast he is growing?  He really wanted to take off crawling, I could see it in his eyes ... it won't be long!

first real smiles.

On March 6 we finally caught Titus giving some real smiles.  We'd been waiting and waiting as it seemed like the other boys had smiled much earlier on, but these smiles came and brought joy to our house!  He was sitting in his little swing (thanks again Molly!) and just started smiling all on his own and just sat and smiled for about 5 minutes!  Mark, the boys and I had fun watching him.  He was so cute!  After those few minutes he was ready to get out and be held -:)   What a good baby.  Each day from then on he's been smiling more and more!  Love it!

slumber party!

Levi and our niece Liahna have developed their own sweet little friendship.  They are just a couple months apart with Levi being born middle of August and Liahna middle of November 2008.  For the past few months when we've gotten together they've played together like good buddies do.  It's fun to see their bond together.  A few weeks back my sister and her girls came up to visit and I got to keep Liahna and Elise while she went out with my parents (I think I got the better deal haha jk).   Levi and Liahna were so cute while we were reading stories before bedtime....

and were even cuter when after I told them it was lights out and time to sleep.  (Liahna was sleeping on a spare crib mattress on the floor of the big boys' room) Shortly after I left the room I hear someone making a "boo" sound and then lots and lots of giggling.  After a few minutes the giggling hadn't stopped so I went in to remind them it was bedtime.  As soon as I turn my back I hear "boo! boo! boo!"  I turned around and tried as hard as I could to be stern and said, "shhhh!  it's time to sleep"  and walked out to hear lots more giggling...this happened several more times... It was so adorable. They did eventually fall asleep and sleep through the night just fine.  I think they were excited to play again in the morning.  I think we need to have lots more cousin sleepovers in our future! 

Mario Chess

Isaiah continues to be so interested in board games and loves to play them any chance someone will sit down to play one with him.  One night (the same day as crazy hair/pajama day in my last post) Isaiah decided to create his own version of chess/Upwards/dominoes/checkers/Mario Brothers.  It was quite the complicated game and I don't think I ever really got it down mainly because the rules changed with every move :)  But there were bad guys and Mario and Luigi and power spots to get star power, freeze power, fire power, little power and so much more I can't even remember.  It was quite the game...  I hope he continues to be this creative his whole life!  What a sweet boy.