Johnny's 31st birthday

I have him 6 CDs. I asked friends on Facebook what bands they liked so that I could get him some new bands to like. I think my friends made good suggestions :)

The boys and I picked out johnny some cupcakes. Jack really wanted to make him a cake, but I really wanted to get him yummy cupcakes. I kinda feel bad that we didn't bake him a cake. But these cupcakes were sooo good!

The boys gave johnny a car back rub shirt :)

We were going to go to a Japanese steakhouse the day after Johnny's birthday, but Charlie had a fever.

4 days after Johnny's birthday jack asked "is it still daddy's birthday?" I said no. He said, "but we didn't get to go to the Japanese steakhouse." 

So, of course we had to go this past weekend!! We tried to go on Saturday night without reservations...big mistake! So we made reservations for the next night. When we were walking to the car I noticed jack was crying. I picked him up and he said, "I can't get my tears to stop coming." Sweet boy!! So, we got pizza and a movie and all was well :)

 We had fun! The boys were wonderful!!

Jack loved the show!!!

Charlie loved the rice!!!

Random pictures in January

They wore shorts and tshirts in early January 

Charlie pushed around "my baby"

Then he worked on the stroller

We went to see the bats fly out if their houses

Charlie brings a toy around with him wherever he goes and 7 out of 10 times he brings his hammer

Jack made a fruit face

Jack has been building with his mega blocks a lot lately 

We babysat for some friends that helped me out when I needed a babysitter. Our kids loved having friends over.

Switch and go Dino's parade

Jack was some sort of creature 

We went to the au vs fl swim meet. Charlie thought it was too loud and kept his ears covered for a while. He kept saying "lets go". But we managed to stay for an hour and a half. Jack had a hard time telling the men from the women swimmers which I thought was funny :)

Bad morning with a 2 year old

Today I went to the post office with Charlie (without a stroller). He definitely showed everybody that he is in the terrible 2's phase!! He didn't want me to hold him and he didn't want to stay next to me. Well, sorry Charlie you have to stay with me when I am in line!!! I gave him 2 m&ms to bribe him to stay with me and he threw those on the ground. Then, the lady helping us gave him a Mickey sticker and he threw that on the ground too. All of this while I can feel everybody judging me (especially all of the older people who haven't been in this stage in a long time and have forgotten what it is like) Ugh! The lady helping me asked what was in my packages. I said frames. She asked if they have glass. I said yes. She asked if I wrapped them well. I said that I put them in a bubble package. (Mind you this whole time Charlie is fighting me to get out of my arms and fussing). Then she asked if she dropped them from up high if they would break. I wanted to scream "at this point I don't care if they break just hurry up!!" But I resisted the urge! Then I managed to get out my credit card while barely holding Charlie. Paid and got the heck out of dodge!! Charlie screamed the whole way to the car and I could barely get him buckled because he was arching his back! I even tried the car pacie (he only gets a pacie in the car and at bedtime). That didn't work...he threw it out if the door before I could shut it! Y'all he was terrible!!! So I drive 10-15inutes home while listening to Charlie cry and scream at the top of his lungs while I scream, "what do you want? Use your words!" He finally gets out the word "sticker". Really Charlie?? Really, you want the sticker that you threw on the floor??? Ugh! He continues to cry and when we got home he went to his room to pout! I come out to the den to pray. I go in his room calmly and hug him and live on him. I explain to him what he did wrong and told him I was mad and sad. We hugged and kissed and made up. He has been very loving the rest of the day! I know it is just a phase, but it is hard! I do love that boy no matter what though. 

So now I am looking at strollers! Ha!!

December (before Christmas)

Jack said that he was an angel and that Charlie was baby Jesus 

Charlie was very busy one morning

Charlie loved on his baby

Charlie built a tall tower

Then jack had to also

They got a package from Tia, Darryl, and molly

We snuggled

Made funny faces

Jack wanted Pete to sleep with him and Pete didn't argue :)

Pajama day at jack's school (they watched polar express and had a ice cream)

We watched Charlie Brown's Christmas on the air mattress

I cut 8 inches off of my hair 

We put our feet in the pool on an 80 degree day

Charlie's haircut

We had to shave Charlie's hair because he was pulling it out. It was really hard for me. He looks too big! When we talked about doing it jack said with teary eyes "I don't want you to shave Charlie's hair". When johnny shaved it I had to go away and got a little teary.

Shorts and T-shirts on January 5th

Charlie took "my baby" for a stroll 

Then worked :)

Cheering on the auburn tigers for the national championship. (Auburn lost...sad)

Christmas in Birmingham

Decorating cookies with grandma

Don't break the ice

Jack's igloo (I think is what he called it)

Foam disk guns were a huge hit

Visiting sonny

Zoo light safari 

Hammer :)

Jack helped Charlie with his pop ice...it was so sweet!

Charlie cut his green beans

We hit 100,000 miles on the way home 

We forgot to take a pic of Mimi and papa with all of the grand babies so we got one with them and jack and Charlie on on the way home