where has the time gone?

i can't believe that in 6 (well almost 7) short months that my boys have grown up so much!

jack looks so much older to me! he no longer has a pacie and is (i would say) completely potty trained! my big boy!

charlie has obviously grown so much! my sweet baby!

God is good!

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raise a God-following adult

http://lysaterkeurst.com/2012/01/i-dont-want-to-raise-a-good-child/

i read this today and thought of my jack jack. i do always wonder if i am doing a good job raising him to be a good boy. when he asks why do i have to be a good boy? i say so you grow up to be a good man. i pray that he does. i believe that God will use his insistent personality for good one day.

this story just popped into my head...one day there was a dying roach in our hallway so instead of smacking it with a shoe (we didn't want to wake up the boys) johnny put a cup over it. so all day i told jack to go around the cup and when daddy gets home he will kill it. jack said, "don't kill it because God made it." how sweet is that?

lately jack has been saying that about a lot of things...
today i started singing the opening song from the cat and the hat show that comes on pbs. we were about to go to school. here's how our conversation went
me: here we go go go go on an adventure the thing-a-majiger is up and away.
jack: don't sing that.
me: why?
jack: because we don't have a thing-a-majiger
me: well we can pretend that our car is the thing-a-majiger
jack: no we can't because God made our car a camry!

i thought that was too funny!

anyway, i know i will pray for God to help jack behave and mind me and johnny a lot, but i will for sure add praying for God to help me raise a God- following adult!

a bunch of randomness

we went over to grandma's house saturday night to have a snowman party. jack had fun helping grandma decorate the cake.

i went to publix today and got all of this for $98! i saved $87!!
i would have saved what i spent if i didn't buy the wuggle pets thing for jack.

my dad built charlie his bookshelf (my dad builds all the grandkids something for their room). this one is my favorite (shh...don't tell all the other grandkids)

my happy boy loves his excersaucer!

we have the book hermie and my parents have the movie. it is about a caterpillar who says that he is just ordinary, but God says that he is still working on him and then one day he becomes a butterfly and is not so ordinary anymore. so when we go to columbus, jack usually wants to watch the movie. anyway, the other day he said, "how do i look". i said cute or something like that. he said, "no, say ordinary".

he asked it a few more times then walked over and got two pillows and said, "how do i look now?" and i said beautiful...i knew that he was pretending to be a butterfly. so cute!!

we had robby, andrea, clara, and joseph over for dinner last night. after dinner the kids watched a show. they were so cute!! (another picture to save for their rehearsal dinner)

then we let the baby boys join in the fun :)

zoo day

we went to the zoo today and had a great time. jack enjoyed us all being there together :)

charlie thought that the drums were fun!

this looks gross, but we thought it was funny! it's a hot dog tongue

jack told johnny that the tractor was just for kids and not for him!

sweet brothers

i was taking pictures of charlie in his outfit for his 6 month pictures and jack of course had to be in the pictures. he was being so sweet though!
(too bad i didn't wipe jack's face from lunch)

i am really loving the fact that jack is starting to talk to charlie and wanting to be right there with him. it is nothing like how girls are with babies, but it is getting better than it was. i know they will be best buds soon and jack will be teaching charlie all kinds of things!

quick trip to columbus

i went to columbus on thursday so that we could get charlie's 6 month pictures taken on friday. jack had a blast and ate more bob's peppermint balls than any little boy should eat! jack also DID NOT want to leave mimi and papa's house! so we decided that he needs to go for a weekend to stay with them soon!
we got portable dvd players for the boys for christmas from my parents and finally got to use it. jack was so excited that we got to watch a movie in the car. this will come in handy once naps are over, but he still sleeps most of the way to columbus. it was raining on the way there so i think it woke him up earlier than normal. he got to watch the lion king and was loving it!!

mimi wearing charlie in gymboree :)

bye bye pacie...for good!

on 1-24-12 jack put his pacies in a baggie and put them under his pillow for the pacie fairy to give to babies in pacieland!! it was actually his idea. monday afternoon he put his car pacie in his mouth and was talking to his teacher, ms. marcia and she said that she couldn't understand him with his pacie in his mouth. so on the way home i told jack that people can't understand what he is saying with it in his mouth and then he said, "maybe the tooth fairy could come and get them." i don't know where he came up with this, but i was just going to go with it. so i said that the pacie fairy could come and get it. he was excited and was all for it, but he did say, "i have to be older so i can do it tomorrow."
after we put jack to bed tuesday night i got a tad bit teary eyed thinking about my baby boy growing up.
he has been doing GREAT with it. he has only somewhat asked for it once. we were in the car on the way to columbus and he said, "babies need small pacies and big kids need bigger pacies so i need a big pacie." i said no buddy they don't make them that big! and he hasn't said anything since. he sleeps all night and goes to sleep great. he did miss his nap on wednesday but that is because it was a school day and on school days going down for a nap is always hard for some reason. he has woken up a little earlier some mornings, but that is ok.


the pacie fairy left him $5 which he calls "a $5 money bill".

we brought him to toys r us wednesday night and told him he could pick out whatever. he picked a drawbridge with salty the train.

we are so proud of our jack jack!!

our couch pillows can be...

a train,

a magician school,

a "booby trap", and

not pictured:
a boat
a submarine
sludge

all in a boys imagination!!

fun with charlie

there is just something about a sleeping baby! so peaceful!

we are practicing sitting up. he is getting better :)

my big boy in his high chair!!

eating sweet potatoes

all gone!

loving the swing with daddy!

fun with jack

jumping in the bounce house at the southern flight museum

playing with cloud dough...

for an hour!!

painting...after he painted i wanted to wash off his arm and feet so i put him in the tub and told him to sit down...which meant that his undies got wet. oh man...never again will i let his undies get wet!!! he had a major meltdown and didn't stop crying for 30 minutes!

:) reminds me of soccer games!

jack and charlie playing

charlie is really interested in what jack is doing all the time. jack is just starting to want to talk to charlie. maybe one day they will play together...i hear that it will come soon!

happy 29th birthday johnny

johnny turned 29 on the 17th and i am just now getting around to posting about it! we were going to celebrate his birthday the weekend before his birthday but we had to reschedule because charlie just wasn't over his rsv and we were both WAY too tired to host a party.

grandma came over tuesday to babysit so we could go out to eat together. we both needed the time together with out the kids! we went to surin and it was delicious and relaxing! i love our kids but i also love my husband and i needed that time where i could focus on him. i still hurried through my meal because that is what i am used to these days, but i enjoyed every bite.

saturday we had some friends over for a party and had a lot of fun and stayed up late (well if you consider 11:30 late)!

randomness

bed head!!

(i just realized that i didn't wish johnny a happy 29th birthday when i posted on the 17th! sorry johnny!! i will post pics from his bday later)

jack loves to make what he calls his "secret tunnel". i love that he is using his imagination but it is kind of annoying sometimes when he wants to use the one behind my back! now i know why my cousin, amy, told me to get a couch that doesn't have a lot of cushions or pillows :) but he is a boy and he HAS to build forts and tunnels...it's a must!



a boy must also play with legos!!