may in pictures

randy had been messing around with the settings on our camera and i took these first few pictures before i realized it and fixed the coloring. but they're so cute, i still had to post them. jonathan is one of the most expressive kids i've encountered. he hardly says three real words, but he can talk your ear off and has the best inflection.

he and madeleine are best buds.

these are from mother's day. something happened with the camera, so they're not great, but it's at least documentation.

madeleine lost her first tooth! she walked up to me and said, "look mom, i lost my tooth. it was bothering me, so i pulled it out." randy and i were both fine with avoiding involvement in the actual removal.

this was a family outing to bothell landing one weekend.

randy and i went to a byu singers concert that was about two minutes away from our house at the bastyr university chapel. they had beautiful stained glass windows.

my tomato fleet is planted and growing. i can't wait for the fruits.

jonathan loves to bring all of his bedding downstairs and set up his bed in the middle of the room.

we finally got diane a bike with pedals (i need to take pictures of her riding) and now jonathan has a bike. ah, the joys of hand-me-downs from sisters.

well, after three kids, we finally had our first trip to the emergency room this month. jonathan ran into the fireplace and put a nice gash in his head.

this was to hold a numbing agent on the wound:

randy held him for the actual stitches. i don't do so well with that stuff.

they gave him this bear at the hospital, with a bandaid just like his. poor boy.

and this is the main reason that i have been behind on blogging and pretty quiet on instagram lately:

potty training. we started a couple weeks ago and jonathan is fully potty-trained now, but it took about a week of completely devoting all of my time to following him around and teaching him, and then another week of pretty close attention. i feel like i'm finally getting my life back and trying to catch up from a couple weeks of doing absolutely nothing.

the weather was really nice and we were sick of being cooped up, so we moved the potty training outside.

and she lost another tooth. once again, no involvement on our part.

enjoying some ice cream together in downtown kirkland.

we also saw these ducks and geese while we were down there. the ducklings were all piled on top of each other.

and that's may. i'm finally caught up. until next month... or three months from now...