We have a 5 year old

Luke is almost 3 mos old. You can see his cute little dimple in the picture above. It also looks as though his hair may be coming in blonde????? His eyes are still blue so maybe????

Calli, Emma and Eva-they all went to Sheila's (daycare) together last year before the other two went to kindergarten.

We have now been parents for 5 years. Eva had a 5th birthday party on Sunday. She wanted "barbie and the island princess." Not sure why since we didn't even own a Barbie until she got some for gifts. But, she's becoming much girlier these days and into those things and dresses and stuff.

All the girls eating cupcakes at the party.

Playing musical chairs.

So, I didn't do all "barbie and the island princess" games, just got some games off the internet. Well, one of the games was to wrap up in toilet paper and have races. That was fun for 5 minutes. BUT, what was really fun was the game that got started of burying people in the toilet paper. Everyone took a turn getting buried.......

.... and then they played Mr. Fox to wake up the sleeping fox buried in toilet paper. Who knew that would be so fun? Not one of the games I found on the internet to bury children in toilet paper.

Eva and Crysta, who go to Sheila's together.

The other really fun game that got created at the birthday party was to sit on the ledge around our basement and pretend that they were dolls. Here are all the dolls that were at her party.

Dolls for sale! Eva, Emma, Shayla, Calli and Lauren

Luke at 2 mos

Luke is 2 mos old now. Eyes are still blue!!!! Although, he's looking more
and more like the baby "Chris clones" everyday. A lady at church asked if I cut his hair like that? No. Then she saw Travis and said "your boys sure can grow hair!" That's why we call Travis "carpet head." Luke is so easy, it's ridiculous.
I feel like I should have another one just because it's so easy now. I need to remember that
key word...NOW.

Poor Uncle Nolan is very, very sick. He had an ACL reconstruction and got a very bad infection. Poor Uncle Nolan, seen here doing his favorite job in the whole world of babysitting his neice and nephew.

We love Lukey-Dukey so much that we all want to take a tubby with him! This was a tight fit. Even Travis now loves to play with "Wukey." He likes to spike his hair to look like "Wukey" and it's a fight of who gets to sit by him in the car and shake the ducky toy for him.

Many people think Luke looks like the other kids, so I thought I'd add pictures. Obviously, he definitely has Travis' hair, but I don't think that anyone on earth has eyeballs that big. Tough to compare with Travis' mouth/nose.

Eva at 2 mos.

Eva at 2-3 mos.

travis singing

This is Travis singing days of the week and the months of the year that he learned at his daycare, Sheila's. The months are just the cutest!

baptism

Mom, I just can't handle this bouncing....it makes me so sleepy!

Luke so excited to be getting baptized.

Luke's Godparents: Sheena Greenwald (Adam's fiance), and Chuck and Sue Evens.

The Hanson cousins. Cody and Jed are Scott's boys, the bigger ones. Cody looks like he is holding a fish. Jack is Mardi's boy. Travis sticking out his tongue....who's kid is that? You will notice that Eva is the only girl. Mardi asked Jack when we were pregnant if he thought it'd be a boy or a girl baby. He replied "I think it will be a boy and then Eva will still be the princess." How cute is that?

Our family and me making a horrible looking face.

That outfit is why we baptized him right away.... we couldn't let him realize how ridiculous he looks.

Luke, that is what I think your brother and sister too sometimes.

Baby love.......

Travis "holding" Luke.

Sorry Chris, I think this kid has some Buckhouse in him!

Making snow angels out on the sledding hill.

LUKE GERARD HANSON is here!!!!! And as an added bonus.... I'm not pregnant anymore!!!!!!!!

Eva loves her baby brother and "can hold him all by herself without anyone helping." Travis...well I laid Luke on his bed last night so that I could give Travis a kiss and he said "TAKE THE BABY OUT." Doesn't really get what is so great about him.

You just really don't get any goofier than Travis. He is so silly!

The kids got a "band" from Grandma Tree, along with 100 other things. This is Eva being a one-gal show.

The larger band.

Mommy and Daddy always cry when the baby arrives.

It's scary how much these two look like twins, isn't it? I must say, Luke at this moment at least has a shot at not looking like a Chris-clone as Travis does and as Eva did as a baby.

Eva and Travis with Santa. When Eva sat on his lap, Santa said to her "I saw you come in the door so I checked my list. You're on the nice list." Then she told him what she wanted, a toy computer. Then he asked Travis what he wanted and he told him a race track. When we got outside, Eva says to Chris in a very worried tone "Santa only said I was on the nice list, not Travis." The next day, he was whining about something and she said "Travis, you'd better stop because Santa didn't say you were on the nice list." Such a protective big sister!

Travis in his Viking's santa hat at the very, very fun daycare Christmas party.

The fun after trick-or-treating. All the candy he got. The bucket it still full up to the eyeballs.

This is how Chris had to push the gimpy around. He would just lift the stroller right up to the door. If you ask Travis about trick-or treating he says "I dwop my candy. I cwy." He dropped the bucket a few times and Chris had to pick it up.

I may have over bundled the princess? When she got home she said "I'm so hot!" Dad actually lasted trick-or-treating an entire hour!

Make-up and curls. I don't worry about Eva thinking girls need all that stuff at too early of an age. She seriously thinks doing your hair and putting on make-up is only for dress-up because that's really the only time she sees mom doing it.

This is Travis' mode of transportation, especially for mom who can't carry him. He has recently started walking on it though and he crawls and scoots all over. He doesn't even notice it. He was standing up on the same bed jumping with that cast the other day. At least he held on this time.

Injured Vikings. No-you Packer fans- the cast is green for the BISON.

Chris doing celebrity trick-or-treating at work. I would've never figured it out: He's senator Larry Craig, the guy that got caught in the airport bathroom sting.

Does this shirt make me look fat? Yes, that's what it says. It's my favorite. Yes, I have the token bun on my head that I always say I'll never take another picture with. Oops. And yes, I have 2 months to go.