Pre-Spring trip to Myrtle Beach

Hey guys...
Hope you had a great weekend. Last week we went to see Uncle Keith and Aunt Liesel and cousins Anika and Brett out in Myrtle Beach!! Brett and Lucas are the two new arrivals and so it was great to see the new baby boys. Brett is a load of baby at almost 5 months he weighs 24 pounds!! Lucas comes in at 18, which is no slouch, but baby boy Brett dwarfs him!! In the picture it's oldest to youngest with Anika, Tyson, Brett and Lucas. It was only mild chaos in the Barker house when we would get together at night, but it was so much fun.

Anika is such a pretty little girl. Strong willed and likes to take charge. But she had a little shadow in Tyson. He followed her into every room and wanted to do everything she did. It was so great to see them interacting like they did. Anika speaks two languages and is working on starting a third (Spanish). Ty is really starting to try and form words and mimics syllables we say very well. While we were out there Lucas turned 4 months on the 19th and Tyson turned 19 months on the 22nd.

For the first time we rented a vehicle while we were there. It was a lot of fun being a little bit more mobile and hopefully less of a burden on Keith and Liesel during the day while they are at work. For the most part the weather was pleasant. It was more than just a little chilly there for the first couple of days with a low the first night of 29, but by Wednesday it had warmed up into the mid 60's which is about all you can ask for in February.

Ty loved the pools and the lazy river at the condo. He chased birds on the beach and did accidentally put his feet into the 50* ocean while chasing one of those birds. He had a pretty bad chest cold and coughed a lot at night which didn't allow him to sleep as well as we would have hoped. Lucas did great in the pack-n-play. Slept pretty much on the same schedule he does here at home.

Well...have a great week and hope to write more later on.

Do we have some news for you?

Hey guys...sorry for the delay, but here's baby boy number two....Lucas James....8 1/2 pounds, 21 1/2 inches long. More to come later...again for not hearing from us for so long.