Welcome baby Oliver!!!  He decided to make his arrival the day after Shalyn’s baby shower =]  He was born on June 11 at 10:13 pm.  We are so beyond excited to be an Aunt, Uncle and cousin!!!  Can’t wait to meet the little guy in August!

Here we are meeting him over Skype!

Well, I don’t know how it happened, but John has somehow talked me into running not one, but TWO half marathons in October!  I guess I can’t really complain about that because he is also running two half marathons AND a full marathon.  I think he’s a little crazy, but he seems excited, so we’ll go with it =]  He started his training program on Monday and I have started my pre-training (because I need to be able to actually run in order to start my program in 4 weeks!)  John has had to become a morning runner in order for us to both get our workouts in.  Only three more months until Alex can ride in a jogging stroller and come out with us! Yay!

Our first race is the Findlay Half Marathon with all of the Reineke Family on October 7!  Next, John will run the Detroit Marathon with Jose on October 21.  Sarah, Alex, and I will be cheering them on for this one (and by cheering on, I mean we will go get breakfast and probably lunch =]).  Then, on October 27, John and I are running the Great Turtle Half Marathon on Mackinac Island.  Whew, that is going to be a crazy October!!

Alex has now entered the phase of “everything that comes near my mouth is going in”.  He is constantly chewing on his hands and if you put your hand too close, he grabs it to put in his mouth!  It is pretty amusing.

This morning he laughed for the first time!  We were playing the “Where’s Your Nose?” game and he apparently thought it was very funny!  Thank goodness for technology, I was able to catch it on video and send it to John at work!  It’s so nice that he doesn’t have to miss out on stuff like that =]

Uh oh…does someone enjoy tummy time now??