P(r)iano Lessons

Anyone who has met the Priano family knows that they are very musical. Here's a picture of Bekah having a "piano lesson" with her Daddy. For being not quite 2 1/2, she does pretty well with Chopsticks. Watch out, Uncle Jonny - you're going to have a challenger in a couple years ;-)

On the go

Ryan is now 7 months. He's recently started becoming VERY mobile. Here's a picture of him from a few minutes ago when he climbed up to standing at the kids' trampoline. Not that we don't already have our hands full, but with him now moving it's going to be a circus around here!

Wheeee

This is another picture from Blast from the Past. They set up plywood for summer sledding. So fun! Here's a picture of Joey sledding with his Grandpap. Looks like Grandpap was having a good time too!

Blast from the Past

This past weekend, the kids & I went to a kids' carnival type thing at Tim's brother's church called "Blast from the Past". It was SO much fun. They played games, did crafts, listened to Uncle Danny sing, played with Aunt Laura, and so much more. The highlight for me was watching Joey ride a pony. Despite his rather serious look in this picture, he really enjoyed it. Bekah wouldn't get on, but in her defense, she did get rather harshly bludgeoned by an angry goat.

Smile!

Ryan's first tooth poked through today (his bottom left, fyi). Here's a picture of my sweet little guy from June. I would post a new picture of him, but he currently has a pretty nasty cold, so I figured one without snot would be nicer. Despite being sick, Ryan is still such a sweet boy. He's looking more and more like his daddy every day.

Eeeee You're Cute!

This is my sister, Andrea Stange (with Ryan a few months ago). She's wonderful and beautiful and smart and good at EVERYTHING. Best of all, she posts comments on my blog. Love you, Andi.

She has a blog too. Click HERE to see it.

Prianos & Fentons

We went to camp with some friends of ours, Tim & Tamim Fenton and their kids Karis (almost 4), Kelcie (2) & Makayla (7 months). Needless to say, with all our kids together we had quite the group. My kids really enjoyed spending time with the Fenton kids. Yesterday while I was shopping, Joey started asking me where Kelcie was. Unfortunately, they live in Erie, so we don't get to see them too often. We hope to spend many more years together at family camp with them.

Paint Ball

Tim had the "privilege" of playing paint ball while at camp. He had never played before, and that coupled with a bad cold made it rather exhausting for him... not to mention it was over 90 degrees that day. Despite all that, in the second game he captured the flag and got it within 10 feet of winning before getting shot by a member of his own team. His reward for playing so well is several long-lasting welts. No pain, no gain, I guess.

Here he is (on the left) with Tim Fenton before the game started.

Water Slide

Here's Tim at the bottom of the water slide.

Camp

Camp was great! I hadn't been to Bethany since 1999, so I was really eager to get back and see all the changes and enjoy all it has to offer. Tim had never been there, so I thoroughly enjoyed showing him where I grew up. The staff was wonderful and really made things easier for us.

Joey really liked the pond (aka, big big pool). He even went down the 75' water slide 2 times with Tim. They added a blob this year. I don't have any pictures of it, unfortunately. Tim got blobbled by a rather sizable man and did 1 1/2 flips before hitting the water. Very impressive.

Stacking

Rebekah has recently started to like to stack things a lot... like obsessively. She did this while at my parents' house and I thought it was quite impressive. Those jars are slippery!

Shortly after Ryan was born, I was watching ESPN in the middle of the night and watched competitive cup stacking. Maybe while Joey is at the spelling bee we can get Bekah into cup stacking.

Baaaaa

Joey really liked the sheep. He kept sticking one finger into the pen to touch their noses. I was trying my best to warn him not to let the sheep bite his finger without making him scared of the sheep. It worked - he didn't get bit, and he spent a good part of his time at the fair trying to climb into the animal pens. Guess he wasn't scared.

Ryan's Pig Twin

This picture is a little blurry, but I wanted to post it because the pig in the picture has the same birthday as Ryan. I pasted his card in the corner of the picture. Notice - he's a blue ribbon pig. Must be a good day to be born. Way to go, Rosie.

We're Back!

We visited the Chautauqua County Fair last Friday with my parents.

Bekah was given this stuffed bird by some random guy while we were eating. She decided it would be nice if she shared her lemonade with the bird. I think this picture is just great... if you've spent much time with The Boo, you know it's not easy to get a picture of her smiling.