Fun in the sun

I have this sneaking suspicion that it is going to get hot WAY TOO QUICKLY out here! But in the meantime, we are having a wonderful time playing in our backyard every afternoon. Ty giggles and laughs when Maxx runs through (muddy paws and all) the baby wading pool, and he and Jax both think it is awesome to slide down the slide into the pool... they go extra fast because they are wet! Unfortunately, our pool doesn't quite fit right under the slide, so they just slip into the sloppy grass and then jump right in, pretending that they are sliding into the pool.

Jax is really into pirates right now because his favorite show is "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" from DisneyJunior (a cheesy spin-off from Peter Pan). He is always pretending that he is on a hunt for something. Yesterday while we were watching, he said, "Mom, I get to be Jake. You're a guwrl so you have to be Izzy. Gauge is small so he has to be Skully--the parrott. And Ty gets to be Cubby (a chubby little red head)."

He cracks me up. Gone are the days of my little baby Jax, he is all boy now.

Ty is quickly transitioning too. He does so many "big things" now that I feel like I only get glimpses now and then of him being a little one. Everytime I'm worried that he's switching from toddler to big boy (or thinks he is), I watch him run and I remember that he is still little enough. He runs so cute... his little legs always going slightly faster than his body, as if he were constantly running downhill... and his arms flail above his head like Captain Jack Sparrow.

Gauge is growing up every day. Yesterday I put him in an exersaucer for the first time. And, in an instant, he transitioned from infancy to babyhood. It made me so sad! Why does time go so quickly when you don't want it to?