Tall Boys

Based on this height predictor, Max will be 6'2" and Jake will be 6'1" at age 18! Surprised me that it gave Max an inch more than Jake. Watch them both be 5'6" or something...

wow...

Paul Harrington Band

Friday night we went to hear my dad and brother play at the Shops at Legacy. It was fun to see my kiddos appreciate the music more. Max kept saying, "grandpa...songs" and was snapping his fingers (flicking his fingers). And Jake couldn't get enough.




So proud of my dad and brother. Listen on his myspace page...(no clue he was on myspace! Jim must have helped...;))

The Ice Cream Truck Came to Our Street

Remember the gumball eyes?

Helping

The other day I had the dustpan out and he decided to help. Cracked me up - he would pick grass to put in the dustpan,


bring it IN the house,


to dump in the trash......but he usually missed. So he'd have to put back in the DUSTPAN and try again.

This went on for 15 minutes. He kept saying, "grass, grass."

Two-year-olds...;)

Chores

One of Jake's chores is to take our recyling (which we put in this cardboard box right outside the kitchen door to the garage) and dump it in the blue bin.

He was so happy he could lift it up and dump himself. (If it's too heavy he has to do it the slow way - transferring by hand.)

Grrrr!

So proud! 50 cents!

In Under 5 Minutes...

Ha! This was back in April when he was sick for so long. Thank you Lord that he's been much better...for a long time now. Sweet boy - he LOVES that blankie ("ya-ya"- don't ask me why) and paci ("papeece").

Whew! Better!

I played with www.thecutestblogontheblock.com and www.scrapblog.com for too long tonight and updated finally! (BTW, have any of you scrapblog girls noticed that now a lot of the themes/backgrounds/stickers cost now?! frustrated by that...)

And I realized in spending all this time on cute-i-fying my blog that this is a fun creative outlet for me. I really loved scrapbooking, but it just took SOOO long to pull everything out, shop at the store for just what I wanted (not to mention planning what to buy and the cost involved), and to make the layouts just right. So updating my blog every once in a while like this gives me a little creative fun. Great because it's free, relatively quick and there's a million options online. Fun. Now I need sleep.

Oh, yeah, and I'll put pics of the boys up soon. ;)

Ugh

That's how I feel lately when I think about my lack of bloggyness. I want to, but really have been putting more important things first it seems. So sorry to my few readers who SO anxiously wait for a post. ;) I just haven't been piddling online as much lately - a good thing. But I hope to do a real post soon - with actual pictures and updates.

Too much TV?

The other night I asked Jake where he wanted to eat. Then wondering why I asked when I KNEW what he would say, and he did: "E-McDonald's." (He's called it this since he began talking - he mixed the restaurant up with Old MacDonald, the song. He used to say E-I-O Donald's.)

I told him no, that's like greasy fast food and we want to go to a restaurant.

He said, "Well, let's go to Wendy's. It's WAY better than fast food."

Oh my goodness, it's amazing how much advertising affects us! I didn't even know he had seen that one that much.

Also, for you moms who ever watch QUBO (channel 68.2 on our digital converter box - a big step up from the 5 channels we've gotten our whole married life ;)) it's a channel with only cartoons all day. I like some of the shows better than others. This is how we discovered 3-2-1 Penguins, a cute show made by Big Idea, the people who made VeggieTales. Jake loves it and so do I because it always has a biblically-based lesson in it. But Qubo also has shows like Miss BG, which I have banned because BG is a not very nice little girl. Anyway, all the commercials in between the cartoons are for random as-seen-on-TV products, like space bags, this under the bed shoe holder, the pancake puff maker, etc.

Today we were in the Walmart checkout line and on the shelf were Aqua Globes.

Jake was like, "Mom, we need these because they water your plants perfectly every time."

Oh my goodness...

I'm Here!

A HUGE thanks to my sis-in-law, Erin, for her (always) brilliant comment to make my pics smaller before uploading them. (duh.) It took me a while to figure it out, but MY GOODNESS it's so much faster now. So, here's some recent kid pics. No cohesive theme or anything funny...just our household over the last few weeks:

Max LOVES reading. Crazy - he'll be quite in his room for up to 15 minutes (!) just doing this. He likes to sit in this chair in his room or the recliner in the living room to "rock-rock" and read books.

We went to a park a couple weeks ago. He still LOVES balls...mostly "be-be-ball" (basketball).

Jake has been practicing writing his name at school. Funny - at home he doesn't want anything to do with writing or even coloring, but he comes home from school every day with papers from practicing the letter of the week. Glad Mrs. Parker (or maybe just watching the other kids) motivates him! So I was surprised when he wanted to do this on a magna doodle...

all by himself - I asked what letters it spelled. Thought that third letter was supposed to be an "a" but then he read out "J-K-Q-E." Ha. At least he knows what he wrote...

I'm learning to encourage practice without correcting too much. My instinct is to correct, but he gets discouraged so easily and hates making any mistakes. At this early stage of writing as his motivation and self-confidence are so small, I'm trying to praise any effort. We'll correct soon enough...

Kicking a ball with Daddy

We didn't catch the beginning of the soccer season this year, but we want to do Upward soccer next year...

Before church the other day...

Sweet boys...