Christmas Day

Christmas

Fun at Holly's third Birthday

Jadon, Ian and I had tons of fun at Holly's 3rd Birthday party. It was at an inflatable gym. Jadon just ran, ran, ran. Holly actually keeps pace with him. Ian was a little timid at first, but after shown the ropes (how I got to have fun too) tackled even the tall slide!

Reindeer

Reindeer visited us at the local shopping center. Fun to see and occupied Jadon and Ian for all of 5 minutes! LOL!

The big reindeer (Snowball) is 2 1/2 years old and the little one (Prancer) is 6 months old.

Results of asking Jadon and Ian to smile

Truck Day @ Library

Things that make me smile

Watching Ian pick up the stool to reach a book, bring it back to exactly where he found it and putting my phone and pager back on top. :-) WOW!

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Sorry Guys

I am busier than anticipated and apologize for not being able to keep the blog up to date very well. We've had a couple of hot days lately and here are the boys keeping themselves cool through it all.

A Day at the Children's Museum

Some of my favorite things

Watching Ian pick up his potty chair insert to dump it in the big toilet. (Now if I can figure out how to get him to leave it back in place after he has emptied it once).

Waiting for Ian as he goes downstairs to pick out his favorite night time book, "Quiet, there's a Canary in the Library" by Don Freeman, bring it upstairs and hand it to me on the rocking chair. Climb in my lap and say "book".

Things that make me smile

Watching Jadon's drawings evolve from scribbled lines to shapes and designs with different colors. In awe of the One who created us.

Happy Mother's Day!

Things that make me smile

While singing Ian to sleep, he joins in while singing "Amazing Grace"

Family Day

After our busy errand day yesterday..... The boys did really well keeping their cool and maintaining pace with mom. We spent the morning today doing fun stuff! We enjoyed a morning at Gabriel Park. It has trails, skate park, jungle gyms and playgrounds, a dog run area. So there are a lot of things to see and do here, definitely enough to keep a 3 yo & 18 mos old occupied for 3 to 4 hours. And then deliver them hungry and ready for their naps. (a bonus for mom and dad). We also visited the velodrome, which was full of cyclists practicing and nearby is a quarter midget race track for the kiddos. Too many fun and exciting things to see and do. If mom and dad didn't have to get dinner ready and attempt maintaining the house and laundry, we would of joined our little ones in their siesta!



I thought mixing meat for meat balls would be a lot of fun for the boys. Allowed to put their hands in food and get all dirty. Well, didn't go over too exciting. Both thought it was pretty "uckie" and would not put their hands in it. Let's see if they eat it now.....

Haircut Day

I had been cutting Jadon's hair for awhile, but I attempted to even Ian's out too while we were at it. He got his first haircut today which didn't turn out too bad. Tomorrow the three of us have a busy day planned with grocery shopping (a big treat for Jadon because he gets to push the cart and starting to become exciting for Ian too as he has taken an interest in pushing the kid cart at Trader Joe's), a huge consignment sale for clothes and shoes for boys. Will is going to enjoy his day by attending a men's bible study and then we will all finish the day with church! We will all probably be pretty anxious to see our beds at the end, but life doesn't get better than this! A full Saturday means that on Sunday we get to hang out and be a family! May God Bless your weekend.

Some of my favorite things

Watching Ian turn himself around while saying, "roun roun".

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Jadon is 3!

If you asked Jadon how old he is, he will tell you 4. This year he started telling people that he was one, then jumped to five, and now he is down to four. It is just as he counts now too, "one, two, threefour, five". Isn't he handsome?

Just like his daddy. Full of excite ment & energy with hilarious one

liners. We all have fun with him! He wanted an upside down chocolate birthday cake with orange frosting. We asked Jadon what this card said, he replied "Happy Birthday Jadon!" LOL!

Ian didn't mind it either. He is probably taking notes and will have an even greater request of me in 5 months!

Jadon's eating of cake has not changed much since he turned one. Shove as much in as possible, then chew and swallow!



It was a joy having the grandparents joining us via Skype for evening!

Ian's First Ice Cream Cone

Compliments of Ben and Jerry's Free Cone Day

A dry day for Ian

Ian's first day in the same underpants from start to finish! Except
his nap, which involved wrestling him to put on his diapers - not a
happy camper. Praying for a repeat performance.

Some of my favorite things

Watching Ian move the box back into position so he can climb over the
footboard of our bed. The box I just took away so he couldn't climb
over it!

Watching Jadon jump the dance steps of Jonah a Veggie Tales Movie.
Will states that we should get him involved in acting or drama, my
reply "he just likes to jump, and what else can vegetables with no
arms do?"

Some of my favorite things

Watching Ian put clothes in the dirty hamper on his way to his bath! He's so excited and loves doing what big brother does.

Making Cookies

Oh this was so much fun! After I got over the fact that this was going to be a lot messier than I had originally planned. All the ingredients were tested before placed in the bowl (even flour!) and whats a couple of bits of egg shells? Extra protein or whatever - right? Will never noticed! Can't wait to do this again with my little helpers.

Making Snow

One day, Jadon decided his train needed some snow to travel through. Guess how he made snow....