My Boys

These days have been filled with little boys things for me. I am so blest to have these little ones!


Patrick is already 6 weeks old! I can't believe how fast time is flying, or how fast he is growing up! He has been smiling since the day after we brought him home from the hospital, and he has a very pleasant disposition. He has discovered his voice and is a very social baby already. I guess that's a good thing, since he has two older brothers who enjoy interacting with him and love him so much!


Liam is growing up quite a bit too! At 21.5 months, he is quite mature for his age. He speaks using complete sentences using a vocabulary surprisingly large for his age. He is such a happy boy, very sweet and smiley, and loves to romp with Papa and Thomas! His favorite things to play are trains, trucks, and various animals that he calls 'donkey'. (One of them is a donkey, but the others are girraffes or horses. It just sounds so cute hearing him say 'donkey' that I don't have the heart to correct him.)


Thomas is a leader in many ways. At 3 1/2 years old, he initiates (or instigates) many conversations, games, and items of monkey business. As you can see from his face, he is one happy child! He loves the camera too. Perhaps in a later blog entry I can let you sample some of his photography. His style is interesting... he uses alot of finger in his work.

Is it any wonder

Is it any wonder that I can't post good photos with poses like this? How do you photographers get more than one person in a good pose at the same time?

At any rate, here are a few photos taken recently. Above, the boys getting ready for Mass on Sunday, and later, Thomas and Liam refusing to pose nicely on the steps.



These photos were more like I was trying for, but I will get better... as they learn to sit still to humor me!

And so we begin anew...

This is our new family blog. We have previously posted under several other titles using our children's names, but want one more permanent, and less one-child-centric. (I am allowed to make up my own words here, right?)

At any rate, we are hoping to use this as a way to communicate with you that we are in the world and not of it, and to remind ourselves of this. (I tend to get caught up in the world of laundry, housework, and things that could quickly be destroyed or at least greatly modified in a matter of seconds by any normal 2-year-old, so this is to remind me, in particular, that I should be thinking as a pilgrim and a Christian, not as an obsessive worldly heathen.)

I will try to post regularly, but my past record has not been too good, so I leave that as my disclaimer.

Please enjoy as we post photos, updates, and our musings here to share.