Did we mention?

I don't know that we've mentioned that we're expecting a new addition to the family at the beginning of August. We found out today that we'll be having another BOY. We're very excited to have two little boys running around the house!

Those rude shoes

Gabe has recently learned the phrase "how rude". Today when he was trying on five thousand pairs of shoes for the umpteenth time (a WONDERFUL hand-me-down package arrived in the mail yesterday), he had trouble getting one on. So he declared, "how rude" to the shoe and moved on the the next pair.

A Picture Says

Houston Zoo

We ventured to the Houston Zoo again last weekend. They have some great kid-friendly features like an aquarium with a tunnel through the bottom.

Helping unload the dishwasher

Gabe takes his job of helping me unload the dishwasher very literally.

Just call him Amelia Bedelia.

Dynamics

I've been trying to teach Gabe the difference between loud and soft so when I ask him to use his "soft voice" he knows what I'm talking about. What this has resulted in so far is him periodically shouting "LOUSSSSE" (loud) or "SSSSOOOFT" as I'm singing or talking. I'm expected to promptly change my dynamic as he shouts these directions.

Here's Gabe basking in the sun, reading. (Just like his mom.)

Someone discovered the Strawberry Fanta.

Gabe's often found like this playing with his cars.

I knew it was a little too quiet as I sorted the laundry.

Nap time didn't go so well today.

An outdoors boy in an indoor sort of way