Missing...

Something has been missing from my days this week! I am missing Brady's sweet smile and funny laugh. Poor baby has had a fever for 8 days and has just not been feeling himself. He had to go have a lot of blood work done today so please keep him in your prayers.

Hope you feel better Brady! Auntie loves you.

I see you....

Hello??? Is anyone there???


I really want to come play....


I don't want to nap Mommy..........


I will be ready for you when you come to check on me......

Isaac's new trick is to pull the bumper down and peek out to see if anyone is there lol. He is so funny. He turns himself sideways and has figured out how to put his hands on the top of the bumper and pull it down.

I am in trouble if he outsmarts me at 6 months old haha...

Today he had the whole bumper down flat looking out so he could see me when I came to check on him. He gets so excited and grins. Then he gets sad (and by sad i mean mad) when you lay him back down. The other day he was quiet so I came in and started putting his laundry away and then I heard a little movement and then a little giggle....and this little monkey was looking at me. I do love that when he wakes up I can see his smiling little face as soon as I come in the room.

Meet Shark

Ethan got his first pet....a fish he named "Shark". LOL...he cracks me up.

I realize fish are small pet's but it's a start considering his first choice was a buffalo or a whale. Although at the pet store he really liked the turtles. No dogs for this boy. He is still afraid of them. I know he will outgrow it eventually so I am not worried.  However he is convinced that Bapa needs a giraffe because we learned that giraffe's eat leaves and grass and Ethan keeps saying "But Bapa has tons of grass and trees for a giraffe".  It makes perfect sense to him. :)

He loves his fish shark and takes very good care of it.

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