New Tricks

Lincoln has a new trick--he can CRAWL. He is into everything and can motor around our house like it's nothing. He has been crawling almost two weeks now and mama is busier than ever.

Lila has a new trick--she can CLAP. Our sweet little thing, who loves music, claps when mama sings her favs. She thinks she is pretty hot stuff.

The Patch

This past weekend we took our lil' pumpkins to a local cider mill and pumpkin farm. I'm sure they didn't know what was going on, but they loved the fresh air and new scenery for sure. Lila survived her 1st rock-in-the-mouth experience and Lincoln loved grabbing the dirt. B + I picked some good pumpkins this year and will have our annual pumpkin-carving show-down here shortly.

Friendly times before the carving begins...

The 'Won't-be-on-the-Christmas-card' pic...

Discovering...

Lincoln Scott...

Lila Pearl...

Swishers are Swingers

(Get your mind out of the gutter!)

L + L made their first trip over to the local park with the specific purpose of riding the swings. They loved it! The higher they went the more fun they had. Brian + I enjoyed it too...almost made me wanna become a swinger again.

I Just Gotta Say...

...I love this guy!!! Always busting booty to take care of our family and make our dreams come true. Truly one of the bests.

Hawaii = Bliss

We just returned from another fabulous trip to Hawaii. Hawaii continues to be one of our favorite places. It's only fitting that we love it so much--we honeymooned there, we have vacationed there with our best friends and visited with our parents and families. So it was only natural that we would take our first official Swisher family vacation there as well.

The babies were a dream on both flights and adjusted fabulously to the time change and new surroundings. It was definitely a different experience from our other trips to Hawaii, but it couldn't have been better. Lila's souvenir from the trip was her first two teeth, and the Linc-man learned to crawl on the island.

Here are a few pics from the trip. And Hawaii, we will be back. Oh yes, we will be back.

4 set out to snorkle, but only 3 made it...

These 2 definitely made it...

Swisherzzzz...

We played LOTS of tennis...

A shot of the mama + daddy...

Our little surfer dude on the beach...

The sistas and their babies...

Big Swish + Lil' Swish...

The Pearl-girl...

8 Months

Lila + Lincoln are now 8 months old. Time continues to mystify me with how quickly it passes, but these two are keeping us quite busy and entertained.

Lila is S.W.E.E.T! She is a girl with 1000 smiles. She has her coy smile, her happy smile, her shy smile, her mommy smile, her daddy smile, her Jezzy smile, her Lincoln smile, her silly smile, paci-still-in-the-mouth smile and on and on. We love every one!!! She loves music, singing and dancing with her mama. She can scream loud and be quite the chatterbox one minute and sit quietly and contently the next. Such a chick. She is strong on her tummy, scoots all around and continues to chow down like a champ. Sweet Lila Pearl.

Lincoln is a beast. He is such a dude and he is into everything. He wants what is across the room, what is in daddy's hands, what is hidden behind mama's back, what Lila is holding, etc. He wakes up with a smile and is always ready to go. He is becoming sooooo strong and pulls up on anything and everything. He loves to sit up in his crib at naptime so he doesn't have to sleep. This boy's laugh, well you just have to hear it and you'll be in love.