Future Cirque Star

First he was just really having fun holding the ball.

Then somehow, I'm not sure how, he managed to get it on his head and balance it there for several minutes...

White Man's Overbite

Picture him dancing, badly.

Blueberries

Corbin is getting his back molars in, and therefore is mowing through frozen blueberries; the evidence is all over his face, his hands, and yes, our furniture. Not pretty, but kind of funny.

Asher in the Neglect-o-matic

Ah, the sad lot of the second child.
PS - Thanks Auntie Annie for the hip shirt!
Thanks Auntie Kristen and Uncle Eug for the adorable socks!

Outtakes

A classic examples of the perils of photographing young children.

Ahma, these are for you!

Safe travels!

We love you!

Storytime with Coco

Coleman, our 5 year old neighbor, came over today with some books to read with Corbin. This was after Coco and his older brother McKinley were belting out tunes and showing Corbin their new dance moves outside. Prediction: someday, Coco, McKinley, Corbin and Asher, perhaps joined by Ben and Dominic across the street, will form the Paramount Road Band, which will become THE boy band of 2022. Keep watching YouTube...

The Vacation After the "Vacation"

We're SO lucky that Ahma and Ahmpa now live nearby. They cover the early morning wake-up and feeding, entertain, cook, clean, and generally help keep us sane. Yes, we have discovered that we need a 2:1 adult: child ratio in order to handle everything. I don't know how people do this without help...

The best Christmas present

After we got home, Corbin got a belated Christmas present that had been shipped late. Now Corbin can put his obsession with cleaning tools to good use!

Scenes from our "vacation" in Palm Desert

We discovered that at least one of us tends to leap out of bed at the sound of a child's cry, regardless of whether it was one of our own children, because at some level, all children's cries sound the same - i.e. distressing. And with four children under age 3, in an unfamiliar environment, under a single echo-y roof, it was pretty inevitable that our nights were punctuated with very loud cries.

But the days were punctuated with so many joyful moments, such as:

All the kids piling onto Grandpa

Watching Sophia hang out with Asher, who was having a blast in his jumper. (So glad we brought along that jumper!)


James reading to Corbin and Dante.
Visiting the Living Desert Zoo...

And getting to feed a giraffe (chang jing lu!)

In the chaos, we missed taking photos of Grandma holding Asher (which she did numerous times, thankfully), not to mention Terri and Adam.

Spending time with the Breeden family was a wonderful way to start 2008!

Asher's First Christmas

This is why I started a blog

My three guys...so sweet.

Introduction

This is the first, experimental posting for the newly-created Lee-Breeden Family blog. I'm hoping that the blog will become an electronic record of our family's life, something that may prompt our children, in the future, to fondly recount "remember when?" stories. More likely, they'll just be embarassed by it, if they even deign to look at something like a blog when they get old enough to read.

Expect future posts to be brief, as we are pretty busy...

Also, expect future posts to not be that funny, as I have just wracked my brain for days trying to come up with a witty name for this blog, failed miserably, and settled on functional.