Boys Will Be Boys

After all of the fuss over Nathanael coming home subsided, Levi and I needed some time to just be boys.


During Levi's "quite time" it was really hot and I did not want to send him outside so we decided to try letting him be creative with a set of train tracks. He has never really played with them alone so I was not really sure how or what he was going to do, but after a few minutes he figured it out and made this track...of course by the time he finished it he must have squeezed all of the creative juices out of his brain because he did not even take the time to run the train set through the tracks before cleaning it all up.The picture above is about all that he did: move the trains back and forth through that bridge a few times and then he was done.



Later that afternoon when it was still hot but starting to cool off, the girls went inside to start on supper and the boys...yes, all four of us: Levi, Daniel, Nathanael, and myself...decided to make a bow and arrow out of some cedar that we found earlier this weekend. We finished making it just as supper was called so we had to wait until just before bedtime to shoot it. Levi got it to shoot a little more than 20 feet! He was fairly proud of himself.

Enjoy!

Meet Nathanael!

We are very excited to meet this little boy! Nathanael Taylor Hollingsworth was born on May 26, weighing in at 8lbs. 9oz, and was 21 1/4" long. He got a sleepy start to life, but is starting to show a little more personality now, which is so very fun. Taylor's mom has been here since we got home, which has been a HUGE help. We'll try to get more updated soon, but I at least wanted to get a few pictures up while Nate was still tiny. Praise the LORD for his wonderful gift!

Taylor and his "armor bearer"

I have seen some variation of this shot quite often...and every time I see it I have to stop what I'm doing and grab the camera. It's a "Mama thing" perhaps. I love those guys. :) Levi takes his job as armor bearer quite seriously and is counting the days until he is five, when Taylor said he will be big enough for a small bow. In fact, when Levi turned 3, he went around telling anybody who asked that he was "3, almost grown up to be 5". :)

Waiting

For those of you who are already waiting on pins and needles....we're still waiting. Our official due date is in a week, and since we have not managed to have a baby on or before it yet and this is number four...well, I guess you'll just have to keep on waiting with us. :) I was realizing recently that we have never been very good at remembering to take "before the baby" pictures; so Little One, though you may get a Baby Book with only two or three pages filled out, at least you got a photo shoot. :)