Update: My Boys

I just love my three boys more than I can express in words. Each of them has special things about them. We'll start with Parker. He is the youngest of my boys at nine months old. Parker is the one that gets babied because he is the youngest and because he is the victim of Kallsen's antics. This first picture of Parker I like to call "potato Free Parker." This picture was taken right before dinner on Tuesday night. Notice how clean and happy he is.

In this next picture, you notice that he is absolutely covered in mashed potatoes. He's not yet to the point of eating table food but he can handle some of the softer foods. He liked mashed potatoes so much he couldn't get enough of them with his hands so he picked up the plate and dived face first into the potatoes. As you can see, that seemed to do the trick.

Some of you may notice in this picture of Kallsen that his hair is about as short as it has been in about a year. We had his bangs and the back trimmed. We've heard people tell us stories how their child had really nice curls like Kallsen has and one day they had their child's hair cut and the curls never came back...we would hate if that happened. So we try and keep his hair long enough to always have curls. He's so darn cute with his curls. He's a handsome boy who turns 2 years-old tomorrow.

This next picture was taken during dinner tonight. Kallsen, who loves corn on the cob, tackled his first full size cob tonight. We've been only giving him half a cob until tonight. He ate the hole thing. No problem. No problem at all. I'm guessing that our move to Iowa is just fine with Kallsen. He justs loves corn on the cob and Estherville is the home of Sweet Corn Daze, which is next week. On the first Saturday in August there is free sweet corn for anyone and everyone. I'm told that the town is overcome with people from all over for the day. And with free sweet corn all day, I'm sure Kallsen will just love it!

Joseph had his hair cut really, really short this week. This first picture was taken about a month ago at my sister's house. The picture, taken by my Mom, is one of my favorite pictures of Joseph. It captures his sweetness (just the thing every boy wants to hear) and it also captured that inner light that Joseph has always had. If I can only learn how to keep it lit as we enter, for what I'm told, will be his more difficult years.

In this next one you can see how short he had his hair cut. It gives him a whole different look...in fact, it makes him look much older than he is. He'll turn 10 on August 7th.

My boys are all very special boys. I'm a lucky man to have such a fine family.