We did not have this picture on our camera from Easter, but I finally remembered to get it. So, here is the first time in years that the entire Judy family has been together, in front of Mom and Dad's new house, nonetheless!!
Whew - Evan worked hard to help Daddy split all this wood!
Ryan still loving all his critters in buckets, cans, anything that contain them!
Ethan starting doing an army crawl around the beginning of May, and of course immediately gets into his brothers' works of Lego art. By the end of the month, he is full-on crawling and loving every minute of it!
My mom hurt her back and was unable to lift the babies, so I helped her for a day. This was one busy set of dudes!!
It's toad time! Every day, the boys check "the pit" (the entrance to the crawl-space of our house) for toads and rescue them.
Ethan and Kai giving each other some fist bumps.
Our poor Ry-Ry wasn't feeling so hot one Sunday afternoon, so he decided to take a nap at Evan's soccer game. He's there, somewhere under the sweater...
... and Ethan did too. It was super windy, and these 1:00 and 2:00 games are right in our napping wheel-house!
A big kick-in from Evan.
His end-of-season medal. He did awesome this year, and we can't wait for Ryan to join him next season!!
Ethan is crazy silly these days. He has that same glimmer in his eye that Ryan did at this age... Should I be afraid?? :o)
Just what I've always wanted for Mother's Day... a mommy spider eerily protecting her marble-sized egg sack... They watched her pace back and forth for hours!
Feeding the ducks at Suicide Bridge Restaurant for Mother's Day. Unfortunately, the ducks were pretty full and not very interested in our treats, but there were hundreds of minnows that went insane for the pieces of bread we threw in. The boys, of course, were delighted!
My three biggest boys. :o)
Don't be fooled - it's not actually Spiderman. It's just Ryan. :o)
Back to their summertime antics at Brown's Branch Park. This time, they're "fishing" with long sticks.
Finn turned 4 this year, so we helped him celebrate with a huge dinosaur bash. Evan loved that he had a reason to put on a mask and go around roaring and grunting at people:
Excavating dinosaur fossils with Finn (although I'm pretty sure most of them were simply party decorations that had no fossils...).
Ryan and Evan found the longest millipede I've seen in a while, placed him a bucket, and named him Stripes.
We headed over to Towson for the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend. The kids all loved Uncle Jesse's version of tether ball:
Ethan thinks Dad-Dad's whisker hat is funny.
Judy cousins on the slide in birth order, obviously with the exception of Ethan (10 months). Then there's Kate (6), Leah (5), Evan (5), Isaac (4), Ryan (3), Jack (3) and Anna (19 months).
Lately, Ethan goes absolutely nuts when it's bath time. He shrieks so loud because he can hear his voice echo around the tub, and he splashes the water everywhere. His newest discovery is to put his toys on the edge of the tub and push them over so I have to chase after them. Silly boy!
