My little ballerina

Here are a couple of pictures of Kaylee. She had her ballet/tap dress rehearsal tonight. Her recital is next Saturday. She is so excited!

Summer Swimming

Swimming at Grandma and Grandpa Smythe's house. Jimmy loves the kiddie pool. He crawls in, crawls out, explores the yard a little, plays with a dirt pile - then back to the swimming pool. He likes to play with measuring cups and to dip his face in the water. We are thinking we'll have to get a little pool at our house too.

More Alyssa

Per Rachel's request, here are a few pictures of just Alyssa. They were all taken in the past week. She is getting big so fast!

Here is Jimmy on his birthday

Just thought I'd get in my 2 bits.

It's great to be 6!

We celebrated Kaylee's birthday tonight while Seth and Abbie were here. Just wanted to share a couple of pictures of the birthday girl!

The newest Fillmore babies

Alyssa seemed so small until a week ago! As big as Matthew was, she dwarfs him!

Our newest cousin

Here is a picture of each of my kids with Matthew. They were excited to get to see him at the hospital a second time. Alyssa looks so big next to him. Time flies so fast when they are newborn!

Matthew

I told Seth that I would post a couple of pictures since they are still in the hospital. Here is the newest addition to the Fillmore family. He is so sweet. My kids were so excited to visit him today.

Jimmy's first steps

go to this URL to see a video of Jimmy's first steps:
http://www.smytheadventures.com/MOV01180.MPG
Let me know if this link works as I've never tried to do this before.

Let me entertain you . . . .

This is our new entertainment center. When we started out (day after Christmas), we just wanted a small one. But they went from small and cheap to big and expensive very fast. We finally found one we liked and ordered it.

After three months, we asked for our money back and went shoping again. We found a place that would sell us just part of an entertainment center, so we got the left tower (the one that's holding the books) and the TV stand.

We thought it would look framing the window. It looked dumb. So we moved the couch to the opposite wall and put the pieces we got on the wall where the couch used to be. Looked much better - but incomplete. So we went and ordered the other tower and the bridge over the top. Then called back and ordered the curved bookcased for the ends.

They came. The bridge was broken, so they left other tower and the book cases. But the book cases were supposed to bolt to the towers so they became one unit and no one could get things to line up properly. So, they ordered 2 new towers and 2 new bookcases, along with a new bridge.

All of the pieces finally came!!!! Whew - took 5 months and we ended up with a much larger entertainment center than we ever dreamed of. Now we are decorating.

Jon brought one of his old computers and we hooked it up to the TV. On the computer, we have DanceMania (computer version of Dance Dance Revolution). I got the pads the other day.

Here's the proof. Now if I can just figure out how to make everything work without making myself look like a fool in front of my children!!!!