Fun Stuff

We have been spending a lot of time doing some fun stuff around here lately.

We made our own lava lamps...

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We also had a very fun letter day. Ethan has been really into learning his letters and their sounds lately. We ended up with a lot of "letter" things suddenly so it was meant to be.

First a few weeks ago Jon brought home scrabble cheese-its crackers he thought the kids would love. I have been saving them for just the right day.

Then I found letter shaped cookies at Winco that I knew the kids would love.

And it keeps getting better....Ethan got a belated birthday present from a friend and it was a letter Leap Frog movie.

But that wasn't it....a few days after that Jon's mom brought this fun game over for Ethan. So we had some letter cookies and played this while the babies napped.

But the fun didn't stop there! We got out our letter blocks and each of them found the letters in their name...

And then we used crayons to make these....

Then we watched the Leap Frog letter movie together...which was very cute!



You're probably thinking...tell me she is done with the letter madness. But I am not!! For lunch we had sandwiches in the shape of letters, some of those yummy scrabble crackers, i cut cheese out in letters for them. We also had yogurt but it just sat on their plates in a nice blob. :) I am most proud of my cheese..I love cheese....

And that was our letter day!

Reality Show

Sometimes I wish there was a video camera following me all day long. So many funny things happen before I have time to run and get the video or regular camera. If there had been a camera following me I would have shown you the following:

{Please insert your imaginary video for each of these and feel free to laugh or say "awe" as you feel necessary}

I would start by showing you Brady standing next to Isaac while he was in the highchair and wanting bites of Isaac's food. It was funny because Brady would open his mouth every time I gave Isaac a bite. So I gave Isaac a bite and then Brady a bite. 

Then I would move to something funny and show you Maddie standing on the first stair and suddenly falling off and managing to fall into the side of the couch and hurting herself. Yes I said standing on the first stair. :)  And I would then show Maddie trying to drink water from my refrigerator like a drinking fountain....she stuck her head in where the cups go and pushed the button. Oh my the look on her face was hilarious when water landed all over her face. And the little grin on her face while cleaning up the water seemed to say "it was still worth it".

For sure I would have shown you a sweet video of Brady saying "Thank you" every time I put his socks on his feet. He does that every day. So sweet.

I would actually have a video of Isaac on all fours rocking back and forth! Why is my 6 month old doing this I do not know...but every time I try to video he doesn't do it. But all day long he is trying to figure it out.

And I would end by showing you a video of Ethan telling me when he woke up from his nap he was going to be taller than me and then he would be in charge.

Hope you enjoyed the "movies" hehe.

Mothers Day

Well I guess I need to work on my blog security ha ha. That post certainly was sweet of Jon and it made my day. I didn't know it was there till I saw my sisters comment in my in box and it took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on. He is so sneaky =)

For Mothers day we did our annual brunch tradition with my family. We all bring some of our favorite breakfast dishes for a brunch potluck. I brought sticky buns and fruit crepes. Yummo! My dad brought farmers breakfast (eggs, potatoes, cheese, links (veggie sausage), seasonings...super yummy). My sister made a frittata and stripples on toast. For those wondering what stripples on toast is...it's our vegetarian version of biscuits and gravy ha ha. Only we put it on toast. Very yummy. As you can see we all needed our arteries unclogged after that meal. :)

After breakfast and some family pictures and playing we headed home and I put Isaac down for a nap. Then I took Ethan and just him and I went to do something special. We don't get just Ethan and Mommy time as must as we used too so I try to do it with him more. He told me on the way I was spending to much time with Daddy ha ha. This will be an upcoming post soon.
After that we came home and cleaned up a bit and I made dinner and a fruit pizza and we had Jon's parents over for dinner to celebrate with Jon's mom. They ended up bringing Ethan's cousins, Alexis and Emma with them so we had a full house. I made taco salad which I though was quite yummy and helped to hopefully lessen the blow from breakfast. I don't think I will do so good at my weigh in this week. :(

After that...I had a headache and went to bed!  I did get a very nice beginner sewing machine for mothers day which I am super excited to learn. So if anyone wants to teach me let me know ha ha. I have a lot of ideas of things I want to make just need to figure out how to do it.

All the pictures all still stuck on Bapa's camera and Bapa is working super duper hard to get them off ha ha. So when I have some I will be sure to post.

My Beautiful Wife and one heck of a Mom

I know that the posts you read here typically come from Christy, but this one is a little different. I have hacked into her blog from an unknown location and I'll be gone before this can be traced. I hacked in cause there is something that I just have to say...

It all started 9 years ago with just me and her. We were young and energetic. We stayed up late and slept in when we felt like it. We always had the option to go see a movie or go to dinner. Then one crazy month we found out we were pregnant.

Now this was amazing news because we had finally started our family and it was all so exciting. Now I had fulfilled two of my major goals in life, the first being to marry the women of my dreams, and the second to start a family with the women of my dreams.

Watching Christy and Ethan play was the highlight of my day. From acrobatics to telling secrets to sharing every type of dough imaginable, Christy and Ethan were best buds. 

Our wonderful little family had started and it was good.

We had so much fun and Ethan was such a hoot (had to say that for the older generation, you got to appeal to all demographics right :) ) that for some reason we decided to have another child. I still think I was coerced somehow even though I can't prove it.

Now don't get me wrong, we love Ethan and he is awesome. He is our best bud but having two children is simultaneously the best thing in the world, one of the hardest things ever and lastly the most tiring thing of all time. But as long as Christy was sure we could do it I was on board, cause of course she is always right.

And to her credit, she was right. Our family has grown with Isaac and it is even better now. I'm so lucky to have a wonderful wife to spend my life with and to help raise our kids. I know I don't say it enough but thank you for everything you do. You mean the world to me and I can't wait to grow old with you!

Happy Mother's Day!

Love,
Jon, Ethan and Isaac

To Grandma and Bapa's house we go....

Sometimes you just have to escape and go to Grandma's and Bapa's house. Saturday was one of those days for Ethan. He called Grandma in the afternoon on Saturday in hopes of getting invited over. But Grandma didn't answer (I think they were napping lol). So he suggested to Jon and I that we drop him off at their house anyway and he could sit outside by the door until they woke up. Apparently we are that boring over here.

But soon Ethan received a phone call from Grandma inviting him to come over and play. And then they invited him to spend the night and they were going to come get him! Oh he was beyond excited. So Ethan quickly ran around and packed his most necessary items.

Let me tell you...we had some negotiations on what to bring because he wanted to pack everything lol. Clothes really aren't as essential for Ethan so after I packed some clothes he added...his cup, his tooth brush holder (because you can't set it on the counter he says lol), his cup he uses while brushing his teeth haha, his work gloves (in case Bapa had some jobs for him to do), his sun glasses, his tennis shoes, another pair of pjs, some movies, a car or two and an airplane. You know...the essentials. :)

Now that is just his suitcase! We also packed two bins of Geo trax and some other toys that were necessary as well lol. Along with the toys came one strawberry blanket, one light turtle, one stuffed tortoise, one stuffed whale, one stuffed iguana, a bike and helmet, and one CD to listen to at night.

YES...this is for ONE night! Clearly he got his packing from me :)

Oh but the waiting was just to much for Ethan. He couldn't take it inside with us anymore. So he moved his booster seat outside and waited outside for them to come.... (Don't worry Jon was watching out the window to make sure he was okay) ;)

AND then finally after what seemed like forever for this boy Grandma and Bapa arrived. And they brought Bapa's truck...the dodge as he calls it...he loves riding in Bapa's truck with Bapa.

He was so happy when everything was packed and ready to go he did a little dance. :)

Ethan was one happy boy! And Jon and I ran around in circles for the first hour he was gone because the silence was just to much for us. We were confused...lost...our heads didn't hurt. After we recovered we enjoyed a wonderful Saturday night! Isaac was in bed by 630 so we had the evening to ourselves. It was fabulous.

Thanks mom and dad for making Ethan's weekend.

NUM NUM

I am just so happy to say that Isaac finally...finally...finally goes eats every 4 hours now!!! HALLELUJAH. We have been eating every 2.5-3 hours for the last 6 months. That's a lot. I get like a whole extra hour now.
We have been doing solid foods for about 3 weeks now and Isaac really likes it. I was planning on waiting a little longer but he was very ready and was starting to attack our food when we were eating lol. So I decided to try.

Man does this boy love the sweet potatoes. He literally attacks the spoon lol. He also likes avocado, bananas, yogurt, pears, apples, peas and I think that is all we have tried. Oh wait...I tried squash but it's safe to say he isn't a fan of that yet. I am still trying on that one.

I am also making most of my baby food this time too. Sheesh it is so easy and so nice to know where it's been before I feed it to him. I wish I had the time (or taken the time) to do this for Ethan, but given his liking (more like disliking) of solids I would say he wouldn't eat the food I made either ha ha.




Here is the cutie enjoying his food:

Light Bulbs

In my previous life I used to think all the time how long lasting our light bulbs were. Rarely did we have to change them. In my new life, where I stay home all day, I have come to realize that our light bulbs are not so long lasting lol...we were just never home. How sad is that. This weekend Jon changed 3 light bulbs out in just the kitchen. I won't mention the one in my room or the back room that need to be changed currently.  The last time we changed light bulbs there were 7 out before we could get to the store ha ha. I hate sitting in a dark room, so if I am home I keep all the windows open and the lights on in whatever room I am in.  Maybe my prince charming will fix the other two for me when he gets home. Although he will have to wade through a mountain of clothes that need to be folded, so maybe he will fold first. :) A girl can wish right??

I have come to realize that I also buy way more dishwasher soap and paper towels...

Oh Paper Towels..I am not very green. It's so easy to just grab one whenever I need to dry my hands or wipe on the the kids. I am working on this habit. But it's hard. I limit myself to one roll a week. HA HA HA, I think I need to find more coupons to support my paper towel habit.

Well that was pretty random but it's Tuesday and we had a busy Easter weekend so I am taking it pretty easy today.