Juner update.

For those of you who have been needing a little Junebug in your life, here you go.

June has finally master holding her own bottle. Yeah! This is especially useful now that mama and June have given up their 5am nursing date. Mama decided after June turned one that she didn't want to get up in the middle of the night anymore. But she didn't know how to accomplish this without June waking up at 5 am and staying up. (We all really like not getting up until after 8.) Lucky for mama, June was thinking the same thing, so about a week ago, she just started sleeping in. Everyone is pretty happy with the situation.

Gugger likes to sit on her chair. She also likes to sit on top of the train table. If Henry doesn't inform mama and papa of her position on top of the table, June makes sure to yell and squeal to let them know.

June has become a big fan of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. If you click on this picture you can see my two newest teeth. An unpper front tooth and one of my lower teeth.

June has mastered climbing up stairs and sliding down on her belly. Even in the buff. But she's still not walking.

We're still deciding what to do with her hair. Last night we put it up in a little pigtail.

Yesterday, everyone was feeling pretty low. June and Henry were trying to see who could be more pitiful. Juner won.

Riding a bike- Henry.

Papa thinks that maybe I've been spending too much time in my intellectual pursuits and not enough time trying to defeat the athletic ability that I inherited from my mother.

We decided that maybe a Big Wheel would be easier to ride, so mama picked this great Barbie big wheel up for $2. I just wanted to push it.

So papa pulled my bike to the top of the parking lot and let me ride down hill.

It was a mild success. I rode my bike a a few minutes but didn't have much interest in continuing.
This picture pretty much sums up my feelings towards my bike. I just wish I was inside working on math problems.

The real reason we haven't been updating the blog- Henry.

We got a call from a certain great grandmother in a certain northeast Ohio city today. She told us that it was time to start updating the blog again. But we have a good excuse!

It's called RockBand and it's our newest video game. It's got two guitars, a set of drums and a microphone. Every once in a while, they let me play . But mostly they spend all their free time playing it after we go to sleep.They spend so much time playing that they even have their own band. They started it with Mister Paul and Miss Susan. It's called TinRiver. The members are from left- Larry Needles, Ester Beasley, Stiggs McMurtry, and DJ Sparklenutez.

Larry is mama's RockBand persona. She prefers to have him play the drums.

DJ is papa's character. He's a guitarist and the front man for TinRiver. We'll try to keep the blog updated, but mama and papa like this game so much, we're afraid they might not even remember that we're around.

Playdate- Henry.

My friend TJ came over on Monday to spend the morning at our house.

Mama says she's thinking of getting a 4 year old to keep because we pretty much stayed out of her hair all morning. She set up the marble run and that kept us occupied long enough for her to read the paper and try to keep June from climbing on the table.

Later we went to the park, where June practiced her backwards downhill scooting skills.

TJ is a good example of how two high energy kids can be completely different. I prefer to channel my energy through car parking and random flailing of limbs. TJ channels his into climbing and running fast enough that mama had a hard time catching him while playing tag. We hope that his supreme athletic prowess is partly because he's about 8 months older than me. But it probably doesn't hurt that both his parents were college athletes.

At the castle, TJ wanted to lock the door and climb up the slide. I was too much of a wimp to even try it.

Back at home, we set up my race track and even let June try to catch some cars off the track.