My nephew Andrew is in the "hood"!

Yes, I am one of those proud aunts who love to share pics and stories about her nieces and nephews. This last week I spent some time with my nephew, Andrew. He is one of the happiest babies you could ever meet.

One day I spent some time with Andrew in the backyard. He was touching a planter base with dried dirt on it. Whenever he touched it, I would say, "dirrrty, that's dirrrty!" and he would smile and laugh like in the photo above.

Then it was off to do some gardening in my niece Kristin's pumpkin patch.

He loves to play with water, so I filled a couple of bottles from the table with water. He was fascinated with it. I enjoyed sitting there watching my nephew explore and play.

My nephew looked so cute and tiny sitting at the picnic table.

Here's Andrew behind the railing on the kids' fort.

The other day I was feeding Andrew some lunch after I took him for a walk in his stroller. As he was eating he started to fall asleep. He had a mouthful of rice with his eyes closed, so I was going to stop feeding him. Then he kinda woke up and said, "Mo, mo," Andrew speak for "more." I gave him some small pieces of chicken and he started to put them in his mouth with his eyes closed. I walked away from his high chair and by the time I walked back, he was sleeping leaning against the side of his high chair. He looked so cute, I almost took a picture but decided not to so I could get him down for his afternoon nap ASAP. Later, he woke up from his nap all smiles and he was trying to play peek-a-boo with his blankie while in his crib. Too bad my sis and the kids didn't live closer. Then I could have more of these priceless moments with Andrew before he's older. And of course I could have more time to spend with my other nephew and two nieces as well.

Giving my niece Kristin some "blog-time"

The other week after some "badgering," I posted a blog entry about my nephew, Jordan. Well, I decided that I will dedicate a blog post to each of my nieces and nephews. Today it's Kristin's turn. The photo above is Kristin at Lakeside Park, it's one of my favorite pics. I like the reflection of the water in the background.

About two weeks ago when the kids were here for a visit, Kristin and I went for a bike ride on the nature trail. During our trek we discovered tons of chipmunks, "Chipmunk City" as Kristin called it. I counted 12 chipmunk sightings and Kristin counted 11 chipmunks. And no, they were not the same chipmunks. We only counted them on the first half of our ride, we didn't count them on the way back. Those chipmunks are so cute, but they can give you a scare when they dart out directly in front of your bike. Yikes! We also saw some gold finches flying around. It was a nice day for a ride.

There are a handful of bridges throughout the trail and here Kristin is standing at the first bridge.

On our ride back we stopped by a bench to take this photo of us together. Thank goodness for self-timers and benches.

Kristin playing on the playground at Lakeside Park ~ June 2009

While Kristin was here, she was interested in helping me make my Petite Purses. I asked her if she'd like to decorate her own purse and take one home with her. I think she ended up making three purses and she's going to use one of them for her American Girl doll.

Kristin with one of her Petite Purses with her American Girl doll wearing the pretty dress that she bought at the American Girl sale that same week. I think the dress outfit was only $7.00 or $8.00.

Here's Andrew holding one of Kristin's Petite Purses.

A close-up of her purse she decorated. Didn't she do a great job?

Meet my nephew, Jordan, a young Dr. Spock & Puff Daddy

Okay after "someone" (ahem!) giving me a hard time about not giving my nephew, Jordan, much "blog time", here is an entire post devoted to Jordan. The photo above shows Kristin and Jordan, who have been known to act a bit goofy when they spend time with each other. Here's a pic from Jordan last week. I call this photo, "Young Dr. Spock with Chocolate in His Mouth." Last week while we were at the park, he requested that I take a photo of him with his candy bar popping out of his mouth.

Now if we go back to June of 2006, you can see Jordan posing as a "Puff Daddy" with a hot dog in his mouth. His choco mouth pose reminded me of his hot dog mouth pose. My nephew has been a ham for my camera numerous times. It was difficult choosing what pictures to post because he has hammed it up so many times. Most of us say that Jordy takes afer his daddy who's also been known to be silly.

It looks like I have a food theme for these pics of Jordan. He's stylin' a nice ice cream gotee along with his sis Katrina stylin' an ice cream tipped nose.

And here's a pic of Jordan & myself taken one year at Thanksgiving.

And last but not least, here's one of my all time favorite pics of Jordan. Isn't he adorable?

So now Jordan has a blog post that focuses on him. There is more than one line of text devoted to him and each pic has him in the shot. Are you "anonymous" person and "Badger Fan" now satisfied? :-) Lol! (-: