Four Month Check-In

Given the issues we've had, I thought I'd start this check-in with some monkey pictures of Jacob at three months.

Here's a great smile shot, and I think it gives you a good idea of how much he's growing. Already well outsizing the monkey.

Then he decided to eat the monkey. Hey, he was only three months at the time. What do you expect?

Here he is at four months. Not sure how much difference you can see, but I definitely think he looks more mature. He weighed in at 15 lbs 10 oz, 25 inches long. My growing boy!

Bear Down

I figured out a backdoor to posting while our Mac is out of commission ... Firefox. Not sure why I didn't think of it before, but fortunately, the version of Firefox I have is compatible with Blogger. So without further ado, I present to you my boys (dressed up in their Bears jerseys).

I don't have the greatest editing software, but this will suffice in a pinch. Bear down!

Circle Time (at Home)

Joey loves having his little brother to play with. Sometimes it's hard to tell which are the toys and who is the baby. Our own little E.T. moment. The singing, though, is just too much. Adorable, if I do say so myself.

I'm Ba-a-ack!

Some of the technical difficulties have been addressed. So at least for now, I can upload images and post again. Without further ado ...

My Burger Boys

The Burger Babies

All the Burger Boys

Aunt Danielle should be posting a better pic of all the boys on her blog. She's got her hands full with Wolfie and Otto, though, so just keep checking.

Technical Difficulties

I apologize for the lack of content these last few weeks. We fried our external hard drive, and we filled up our Mac's internal hard drive. This makes uploading images to our home computer impossible. And I apparently don't have the latest version of IE at work, so Blogger won't let me upload images from there either. Hopefully this will be rectified shortly.

In the meantime, you can find me on Twitter or Instagram to see pics of the kiddos.

Thomas the Tank Engine

Last weekend, we headed to the Illinois Railway Museum for their Day Out with Thomas event. We met up with some friends and had a great time.

Joey got to meet Sir Topham Hatt.

And there was a real Thomas engine! (OK, so the real engine was in the back of the train, but it looked real enough.)

We had lots of fun with our friends.

Even mommy and Jacob explored some of the old railcars.

More evidence that Jacob was there. (I put him in the carrier after his feeding, and he slept for three hours. Not even the train whistles could wake him up.)

This picture is from our actual ride on the passengers cars pulled by Thomas. We were sitting near the back, so in this shot, the Thomas engine is turning the corner, and Joey sees for the first time that Thomas is "pulling" the train. He saw Thomas in the front of the train before we got on, but here he's actually seeing him in action.

He was so excited!

Tractor Fun

We finally have gotten rain on a somewhat consistent basis, so it was time to cut the grass again this weekend. As usual, Joey couldn't wait to help.

Getting ready to help, wearing his headphones, just like Daddy.

How fast can we go?

Helping Daddy clean the tractor.

Obligatory "please look at the camera and you'll get a treat" shot.