Mom is trying out her new cake decorating skills, with assistance from Canton and Liberty of course!

Mom is trying out her new cake decorating skills, with assistance from Canton and Liberty of course!

Adleigh continues to grow and make us laugh! She has a kind and hilarious spirit and her independence is showing through! She wants to walk down the stairs by herself and pick out her own clothes! If we could just get the potty working…
Adleigh loves to move! She enjoys being at the pool, she is always trying to climb up the side to jump in, which is adding to my gray hair collection! She also loves to jump and spends a lot of the day just running and jumping!
Adleigh is not a big eater, she has better things to do. Unless it is ice cream! She is known to pull open the freezer drawer to try to get ice cream!! 🙂
She loves to do anything and everything Canton and Liberty do. She’ll mimic their gestures and loves to chase after them as they move to different activities. I LOVE watching them read together, so sweet! They also will play princess and castle together. She can name all the princesses thanks to Liberty. She loves to have them ask her to make animal sounds! Her donkey sounds like a T-devil and when you say “duck” she doesn’t say quack, she says “duck” in a quacking voice haha!
She melts our hearts each day!
Height: 32.75inches
Weight: 24 lbs


Anything you can do I can do better! 🎶
Canton’s New Years Resolution was to learn to swim. 52 days ago we went to the pool for the first time. He entered the water with arm floaties and stayed mostly in the shallow end.
Today, he swam his first meet!
We are so proud of him! Most of the kids on the team his age have been swimming for three years or more but he had enough growth and improvement to be able to swim in a meet! He likes to tell everyone he encounters “I went from swimming like a rock to swimming a 25!”
He has another meet next week. He hopes to beat his time from this one!
**Update: Monday he swam 42 Sec, three seconds faster!


Various pictures from this summer so far…Mike took Canton to work, swimming pictures, cute sisters, etc…


Four!!!!
Liberty had a princess filled day!



Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there!
Christy and the kids surprised me today with a wonderful Fathers Day mug, a cool fit VA Tech shirt, and of course some hand-made kid crafts! Being a Dad is the greatest job I could possibly ask for! I love you guys!


Canton has been putting his sewing machine to work. He has made an oarfish, sunfish, stone fish, sperm whale, sea anemone, eel, sea star, and puffer fish.
We enjoyed a beautiful day cooking out and swimming. Liberty wanted pictures of the food she helped make 🙂
