summer at its best

Our backyard has lots of raspberries. They are huge and yummy and shout summer at its best!

The boys have tried to be helpful and pick with us. Corbin learned that he doesn't have to pick many because he can just come to mommy or daddy and take from our buckets.

Elias is funny to watch. He will play in the sandbox or with the lawn mower for a little bit and then he gets the munchies and takes a raspberry or two off the bush and goes right back to playing. He seems to have learned that the red ones are the best. For a while he would grab at the green ones and would soon spit it out...but the red ones stay in!

Elias has been changing constantly! He has got 4 teeth in the past week. He has climbing up the stairs mastered and is working on going down. He has found a love for raw veggies (peas mainly). And the part that I enjoy the most is that the boys have finally started to play together. Corbin will "roar" at Eli and Eli will giggle and run away. The run after each other all day long. Corbin also enjoys rolling the ball around the floor with Elias or playing puppy, with Elias holding onto his "leash".

Corbin has a bubble mower that blows bubbles out where the grass should come out. He thinks it is the greatest toy on earth! He runs around the yard and Elias follows him trying to pop the bubbles.

Elias got Corbin's hand-me-down mower. It doesn't do anything but make a popping noise...bubbles are so much cooler! Someday something better will come along and Elias will get the bubble mower and Corbin will have a brand new something-or-another.