Snow Day!

So technically this was not Jack's first snow, but it is the best snow that he has even seen. I think its one of the best his daddy has seen too. It put me back in Germany for a minute, remembering how much fun a real snow can be. I think that I was particularly excited for Jack to experience this because for the last couple of weeks his favorite book has been, "In the Snow" by Peggy Collins. It's all about a boy who wakes up to snow and spends the whole day in it with his daddy. While he didn't get to spend the whole day out there, he really got to live out the story a little bit which I think is neat. He was excited from the minute I opened the front door for him to see the snow falling and all that had fallen already. Lots of ooos and eees and squealing went on that morning as he watched it coming down. He stood at the front door for most of the morning watching Sam scrap ice off his truck and was just delighted.

( ignore the fact that I still have fall decor on my door please, I tried to take them down but they are very important to a certain toddler)

These are the kinds of things we do when mommy doesn't want to go outside in the cold:

Bun in the oven..

I guess that I should have made this announcement on the blog already. I realize that it's probably not news to all of you, but there maybe some who don't know. I am pregnant! Sorry if you did not get a personal announcement about this one, things have just been a little difficult the past few weeks. I am about 2 months in and due August 30th. I will post more about the changes going on around here later, but Sam just got home with lunch and I am desperately needing those McNuggets!

Jack's Awesome New Bike/wagon/pushcart/awesome thingie

Thanks Papa Jeff and Kat-Kat!! This thing rocks!!

Recent Rambling of Jack..

In the past few weeks Jack's vocabulary has been exploding , I thought I would post some qoutes from the little guy from this morning.

"No mom-ee, no Mo no Mo" ( after over hearing Elmo's World on Sesame Street while he was taking a bath. This quickly ended our bath b/c the poor kid was in hysterics until I got him out and rushed in to turn off Elmo- he HATES Elmo)

"Bitte Bitte Please" while signing please on his chest.

"ooo dat's mom-ees beedy-buddon"

"poop poop poop pooooop" not as delightful unless you hear that this is a beautiful song for him

Pumpkin Hollow-09

Today we went to the Pumpkin Hollow outside of Piggot. The only way to describe this day is as the best day of Jack's life...or at least one of the best!! Such a big and wonderful day!!

Blanchard Springs- Sept 09

I have gotten a lot of grief lately about not posting. So I will post pics of what we've been up to lately. Back in September Sam took us to Blanchard Springs for a day of adventure and Jack had what at that point was the best day of his life. Here are some lovely shots of that day:

are we already there?

So in the past week my darling baby boy has bitten my face while kissing me so hard it left marks-then cried about it, threw a major fit because he didn't get his way with something, refused to sleep one night and exhausted me to the point of tears where I needed to drop him off with Papa Jeff and Kat-Kat so that I could get some much needed uninterrupted sleep, learned to open the fridge and his YoBaby Yogurt cups(and throw the open cup at mommy while licking the yummy lid). All of that was fine, I had actually been prepared for some things like this. But what happened today I felt surely was premature. Flashback with me if you will to about 430 this afternoon:

I was sitting on the couch busily writing out our menu for the rest of the week, making plans for swimming and all sorts of wonderful stuff when I hear over the monitor, " Mama Mamaaaa". No crying or screaming, just two shouts for me. I jumped up really excited about how well he's been waking up lately, less and less with tears and more of just playing until he gets bored then yelling for us. I went in his room ready to praise him for being such a big boy and what did I find..
A big boy standing in his bed, holding his diaper out to me in one hand and the poop that once filled it in the other.

That's not supposed to be happening yet...
Not in my book anyway