Photoshoot

For Father's Day I thought it would be nice to get pictures of the Grandpas with Joaquin wearing his "I love Grandpa" shirt to frame.  Joaquin was never really in the mood for the pics.  The photoshoot with my dad went pretty similarly to the one with Tommie, but I just love the expressions on Tommie's face to go along with Joaquin's :)  If you'd like to weigh in on which photo we should frame, feel free!

Vacation to the Roan Mountains

Chris and Joaquin looking at the water, or "wow" as Joaquin pronounces it.

Sign at Blowing Rock

close up of Joaquin's new haircut.

Joaquin and the baby cows, or cow-pigs if you ask Joaquin.

it took him a while to warm up so swimming again, but he LOVED going down the water slide.  I couldn't believe it!  He's growing up so fast!

swimming in the pool.

having fun on the playground.

with Papa.

Playing with Christopher.  This is about as close as he got to Christopher after Christopher finally got a hold of Joaquin's hair.  After that every time Christopher would crawl towards him or put his hand up Joaquin would go "no no baby" :)

Joaquin got his face painted for the first time at the festival.

Reading with Uncle Jon and Great Grandma Ruth.

Where's Joaquin? Still loves putting things over his head to hide :)

Growing Up

Every year a place called Lil' Angels comes to Joaquin's daycare to take pictures of the kids dressed up in outfits they bring.  Here is Joaquin's picture from this year:

At Jack and Jim's birthday get together Joaquin had a blast.  Here he is riding a horse.  He loved it... yet is still afraid of the rocking horse we have for him at home.  Hmmmmm.

Crawling down the tunnel at Jack and Bobbie's

As soon as he saw the slide he ran to the ladder and started climbing up!

Getting ready to slide down.

He still liked to hold your hand when going down.. it was a big slide!

Wearing Grandpa Tommie's hat

May

Joaquin walked around for a while the other day with this bucket on his head.  He just laughed and laughed :)

Joaquin loves playing with the "helicopters" in our yard ever since uncle Jon showed him what they can do.

A toy of Christopher's the Joaquin had a blast playing with.

In front of our house.

Taking time to smell the lilacs with uncle Jon

Havin fun at Hibachi

Joaquin's reaction every time the cook threw shrimp at someone :)

Really, this kid had a blast!

another toy we'll have to get....

driving the ship at a museum

cuddling with GG, pretty sure they're watchin Elmo :)

My first time taking Joaquin to the pool.

helping Papa water the flowers.

so many ways to use a chair.

aaaaah daddy is so comfy.