Updates

 2 days after my last post Tanner went in for his 9 month check up (which was almost a month late).  He doesn't look it but he has thinned a bit from all his moving.  He was 20 lbs 4 oz.  His height came in at 29 3/4 in.  He is a very flexible kid in that some days he can go with only one nap and still be happy.  His nap times are never at the same time, but he is okay with that.  Sometimes they are close to the same general time frame.  He likes to go to bed at 8:30 still but we push that a lot too.  He is one happy monster.

 Braden still cannot get enough of his brother.  He hasn't stopped kissing Tanner.  The most annoying sound in the world is a constant, repetitive kissing sound.  I have to tell Braden to stop kissing Tanner and to leave Tanner alone.  Tanner has started to push him away.  I think he wants some space.  At least he loves him.

 His first boat ride.  He loved it.  He didn't mind the jacket and it didn't slow him down.  He crawled all over the boat and made sure to throw a ball in the water.

 Here he is helping drive the boat and wearing Uncle Jeff's baby hat.

 He is very good at making messes.

 Today he found a new place to play.  Yesterday he crawled into a shelf of the entertainment center.

He thought sitting in this bowl was great fun.

Enough about Tanner.  Here are more of our adventures.

 Enjoying the outside.

Swimming at Mike and Becky's on Memorial Day.

 We went to the Curiosity Museum at Thanksgiving Point for Grandma Wendy's birthday.  All the kids had a blast.

 Macy even promised to eat fruit and vegetables every day.

 We finished school for the year.  Kelsey's class had a volunteer come to their classroom on a regular basis to help them put together an opera.  They began working on it right after Halloween.  The kids came up with the subject, the story line and all their parts.  It was really cute.

 Braden finished up preschool.  Man has he grown up, mostly in good ways.

 But the "boyside" and goofiness is really starting to come out.  During his end of the year performance he was more easily distracted.

He had more fun being silly with his friend than singing the songs.

 We also had fun at our Stake Carnival.  Our friend's have done a spectacular job 2 years in a row.  I hope the next chairman can do as good a job.