A long time coming

I haven't touched this blog in over a year. Well, that is not completely true: last weekend I spend about an hour trying to remember how to login to my blog to finally start to update things. I am hoping that blogging will become a regular activities for me but don't hold your breath!

As the boys are getting older, I am spending an increasing amount of time driving them to their activities. Jayden just played his last t-ball game ever and is a yellow belt in martial arts. He has a goal in mind to be a black belt in 18 months. Such a type A little dude. He expects so much of himself. He is also enjoying golf and will often get his clubs out and just practice in the front yard.

Jacob just completed his first season of t-ball. The boys played on the same team and they loved it! He wants to do everything brother does but he just isn't old enough for some things. I enjoy watching my boys-they are very best friends. I hope it stays that way.

Bubble bath for birthday boy

After all of the fun birthday festivities, I put Jacob in the bath, filled it with lots of bubbles and grabbed my camera.
Here are the results. He is so cute-even if he is the reigning king of fit throwing.

And these sweet chubby bubble covered hands! I want to kiss them!

Jayden the Brother-Whisperer

Hello from Jennilee! Because Juli is a busy mommy, I have asked her for permission to be a "guest blogger" on her site. She and I chat everyday, so I often get to hear stories about Jacob or Jayden that just never make it to her blog. I thought that one from today was particularly cute, so, knowing that she's busy, I asked if I could just post it. Happily, she agreed!



Jacob was in his crib crying after his nap, and Jayden said to Juli "Oh, he needs me to hold him."

Juli hoisted Jayden up in the crib, he crawled in and sweetly cuddled with his baby brother.

After a moment, he reported back to Juli "I know why he's crying, Mommy."

"Why's that?"

"It's because he doesn't have any stuff in his bed with him."

Jayden then proceeded to his room to collect some miscellaneous junk, er, I mean, valuable stuffed animals so that Jacob would no longer be lonely in his crib. Perhaps this is why Jayden sleeps with approximately two dozen stuffed animals.

The potty train has derailed!

Grrr! Jayden had completely regressed in his potty training efforts in the past couple of weeks! But today, I feel that things are finally looking up. Although he has had a couple of accidents today, he has told us at least three times when he needed to go. He just yelled out from his bed "Oh no! I have to poo-poo! I need to go poo-poo!' And he made it-no accident! I am so happy!

Side note: Jayden told me "I hate you" today. Well, he was saying to either Jacob or Mommy, I am not sure which. Where do they learn this stuff? I know that he has no idea what it means. In fact, he was "trying out" the phrase by whispering it first. I told him that those are mean words that will hurt a person's feelings so he should not say that to anyone. I also told him that if I hear him saying that, then he will get yucky sauce (vinegar) on his tongue as a punishment. I knew that the day would come when he would say that but I didn't think it would be so soon. They pick up things so easily-from me ( I had to stop saying "crap", well I am trying to any way!), friends at church, and tv.

Jacob is getting so big. He is smiling and cooing and even giggling some. He is still a mama's boy and I love it! He is so sweet but has a temper.

We have a very busy week ahead. Should be fun but hectic. I sortof like being on the go!