• Kids

    Jack: 11 Month Update

    Jack. You are one month away from turning a year old. This can’t be possible. This month’s pictures have to be the best yet. You’ll be hard pressed to find a great one in the group, but they are so representative of the current stage you are in. You just can’t be bothered with sitting still to take pictures. The picture above is what happens when we say, “How big is Jack?” You raise your arms up in the air and give a big ole smile. You’ve also learned to point to your hair when asked and you love to brush your hair and other people’s.  Your biggest accomplish is…

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    Jack: 10 Month Update

    Jackers Snackers Crackers. Not sure why we call you this, but we do:) On Monday you turned 10 months old. Time is passing at lightening speed and it seems as if your “month” birthdays always sneak up on me. Like every month, you continue to learn so many new things. You don’t like to sit still (notice the photos in this post) and you want to walk so bad and you took one step on your own without holding onto anything. I think you scared yourself when you did this and you immediately sat down:) You’re a pro at cruising on furniture and crawl almost as fast as we can…

  • Kids,  Motherhood

    T-Storms & T-Ball

    For the past 3 days we’ve had horrible thunderstorms and apparently the worst are still coming. Last night we had some of the loudest thunder I’ve ever heard! Both kids slept through the entire storm and Jack didn’t even stir or make a peep. In between the storms, Ben had his first T-ball practice on Tuesday night. It sprinkled pretty good towards the end of practice, but we made it through, just a little wetter and colder than we expected. Have you ever seen a bunch of 5 year olds play baseball? Pure chaos. I can’t wait to see how the games go. The league Ben’s in is really laid…

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    Jack: 9 Month Update

    You’ve officially been in the world for just about as long as you were on the inside my belly:) So much has changed in the past 9 months! Let’s start with all your big milestones. You are pulling up on everything including our legs if we’re standing still. You can also stand without holding onto anything for several seconds at a time. Your biggest achievement this month though is that you are walking behind your lion push toy. You just crawl on over to it, pull yourself up, and take off walking and pushing that thing around. You’re no longer army crawling and instead take off at lightening speed on…