Jack on the Zipline

Pop got Jack a membership to the Children's science center in town and HE LOVES IT!! Asks to go almost everyday! He even got brave last time we were there, of course with a little help from Reed and Sara Ann.

Baby Its Cold Inside

I really have no explanation for this! I think I was getting stuff ready for the consignment sale at church and Jack got these hats out! (the child LOVES a hat!) I have NO clue why Henry is dressed and Jack is in PJS...and yes it is still 100 degrees around here!!

Blog Lag

I really just have not had much to say lately. I work ALL THE TIME! We play some, Jack is still as wild as ever, and Henry as easy and happy as ever. He has learned a new trick and can balance himself on his hands and feet....for some reason he missed the memo on trying to get on your hands and knees and skipped right to the feet! HA! Its really really funny and when he does it he can not seem to figure out how to get back down! HA! He has also taken to pulling up on the train table! He is so proud when he does it and then Jack usually knocks him down!


We are on the countdown and school starts back in 2 weeks YEA!!!! Jack and I need a little time apart! I think I might be that mom that has to carry the spanking spoon around in the diaper bag. He got so excited at Wal-Mart recently when he realized they have spanking spoons too! Some days its the only thing that works!

Don't ask about the visor..that's an Aunt Emmy thing!




We are also on the countdown to 30...4 weeks from today. OH MY!!! 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess What???

It might have been a fluke, but we are celebrating anyway!!!!

Guess who used the potty yesterday????

He picked a hot wheels out of the potty treasure box AND got to have a little Dr. Pepper. (We have decided that taking something away and using it only for reward is the route we are going to have to take)

We are Here!

I know, I know...I think is the longest I have ever gone without blogging and I better start trying to catch up! We have been busy, busy, busy. Thankfully Tootlebugs has been crazy, J was home from work for 10 days with us..10 DAYS!!! That is a LONG TIME when you are used to only spending your evenings with someone! HA! We had fun and did lots. So here is the recap. WARNING ITS LONG!!!


Last weekend we headed to the beach. Jack had been begging to go and our sweet friends and my bestest friend for over 20 years lives in Orange Beach. They were headed to visit family in south FL, so we crashed their house! It worked out perfectly. We had a baby bed for Henry and lots of toys. They have an AMAZING pool in their neighborhood and we took full advantage of it.


Jack got to go to the beach, J got to eat Pink Pony, I got to shop and we got to spend lots of time playing with the boy's cousin Hampton. Plus Aunt Tanner and Uncle Bo were willing to take on the trip to the beach with me and the boys while J was fishing with his dad.


Jack screamed I am so excited about 20 times and immediately wanted his shirt off to play on the beach. Henry just took it all in and played quietly with a shovel for about 2 hours. The weather was perfect and all 3 boys were great. I think they would have stayed all night if Hampton had not buried his face right down in the sand when he got sleepy! HA!

We had an adventure on the way home that turned into a new alternator and a 4 HOUR stay at the Wal-Mart in Greenville AL. I cried, but only when I realized it could be much worse. After all we have a nice car, the money to fix said nice car, and the Blessings from God that made everything fall perfectly in place so that we could even get our car fixed that night and get back on the road. We looked at every toy Wal-Mart carries, ate dinner at Subway in Wal-Mart, bought snacks, baby food, and pjs in Wal-Mart complete with a super hero mask and we were back on the road by 10pm!

We took full advantage of J being off for a week and slept in, let him cook, did some shopping, dinner and a movie sans kids, worked, went to the science center with Pop AND even get to go back anytime for a whole year now that Pop got Jack a membership for his up coming birthday! (which I refuse to really talk about because I might or might not be a tad bit in denial that I will be 30 and that my baby will be 3!)

WHEW!! I think you are mostly caught up, and now you know why I never have time to answer the phone or emails!

Hopefully I will be back to more reg scheduled blogging!

Happy Monday!!

Dear Henry: Month Eight

Dear Henry,

You have changed SO much in the last month! You are eating 2 meals a day of baby food. Still not a big fan of the veggies, but you LOVE fruit. Your brother also thought he needed baby food for a couple of weeks when you started really eating it, thank goodness that passed!

You have 2 teeth on the bottom and when you grin and those two little teeth stick up it is the cutest thing I have seen! And thanks to Sara Ann we even had a bib to mark the occasion! I was searching every store high and low for the teething tablets we used with Jack and guess what? They had been pulled off the market. Good thing I decided to read up on it before I found some to give you!

You are sitting up like a pro these days and have mastered the shopping cart and high chair to perfection!

We have moved you to a big car seat recently and you seem to like that you can see better and interact with Jack more.

Jack is loving that you can sit up and play with him. Every morning he runs upstairs and gets all your toys so you can play. You are so easy going that you just take everything in stride even when he starts to get rough!

You are talking more and more and have almost caught up to Jack in diaper size! We are in size 4 diapers and 12 month clothing. You don't go to the doctor this month, but will next month and I can not wait to see how much you weigh. I think you have slowed down alot, but thankfully not enough to take away those chunky monkey legs and the rolls on your arms that I could just eat up all day long!

Love those big blue eyes and that deep laugh you let out! We would not trade you for all the riches in the world! I am lucky to be your mom sweet Henbug!!

A Girl?

This is one of those things that Jack will probably kill me for one day, but I have to share!

This morning my mom was here and I was trying to get some work done for Tootlebugs while she was here to help. Anyway I needed a picture for a project that required a birthday shirt and a child wearing it, well I had just finished one that happened to be Jack's size, but it was for a girl. I did not need a face in the picture, so I did not mention anything about it being a girl shirt, the color, I just put it on him and said if you smile pretty for me I will give you some Dr. Pepper.

As soon as I put it on he smiled for a second and then he looked down and said Mom, I am a girl! It was so funny, just hoping I did not scar him for life!!