Grandma and Paigers

Grandma made a special delivery of Dunkin Donuts Munchkins for my little munchkins yesterday. Jacob wasn't up for a photo, but Sissy was. Thanks Grandma!

Best Bubbles Ever

Gymboree has the best bubbles ever. Who knew? They are not messy, your hands don't get sticky, and the floor doesn't get wet when they land.

Paige waiting for me to get my camera with bubbles all around her.

All of these bubbles have landed on the floor and stay until you pop them.

You can see all the bubbles on the toys. They will last over-night even. Amazing!

And when they pop they are more of a latex. It's so cool!

Strep Throat

Poor Paigers has got strep throat. Since Sunday she has been waking up at night crying, then in the morning she will have a cough and crusted nose along with a watery eye. But then the rest of the day she is fine. No fever either. I decided this morning to take her in just in case it was something. And it was. Poor girl. Thankfully her ears looked good.
She always has such a yucky throat that she knows what to expect at the doctor's office. After the doctor listened to her chest and looked in her ears she said, "Okay, lets lay her down and look at her throat.", and Paige looked at her and said "NO!". Then she kept crying "no" as we laid her down and got her ready. The doctor looked at me and said, "She is smart. She knows what is coming." Poor baby. She gets her throat swiped at almost every visit so she probably does remember what is coming.
Tomorrow she has her follow up with the ENT for her throat. Since we were in the building, I stopped by the ENT office on my way out to see if we should keep the appointment since she has strep. Turns out he does want to see how her throat looks when it's sick. It will help him know what he wants to do with her tonsils since when she is healthy they are gross. We shall see.

Cookie Helper

I don't consider myself a good cook, in fact I don't enjoy cooking. A lot of it is that I don't feel comfortable trying new things and cooking tends to overwhelm me. So I stay with things I know. But, I don't want Paige to feel the same way as I do, so I hope to encourage her in the kitchen as much as possible. Which leads me to this post: I figured cookies are a good place to start. :)

For now we will do ready made dough, but later we will make our own. Paige was ready to break right into the package. "That's my girl!"

I cut the top off and she dove right in.

I showed her how to pick the dough out.

She naturally tasted it on her own.

Then we made balls and she put them on the tray. This last one she had to have a little nibble.

Then she cried when I took the dough away. It's so hard for babies to understand waiting for the cookies and not filling up on the dough.

Look at that lip!

At last, they are done!

Jacob liked them too.

But if you give a boy a cookie, he will get a glass of milk. It's funny, he will go to the fridge and get milk and if his cup is empty or he drinks it all he will then go to the fridge and bring you the jug. One of these days I am going to have milk all over the floor I just know it.

Lost and Found

Phoenix is back! We are so relieved. Paige cried out last night at 1:30am, and when I got up to help her I heard Phoenix crying at the back door. The kids gave her big hugs this morning when they saw her. We are about to got the vet to make sure she didn't come back with any bugs.

Missing Phoenix

We are very sad today. Somehow Phoenix got out and we haven't been able to find her. We have walked and driven all over, calling her name. I am hopeful she will come back soon.

Birthday Party

This post is by Travis - Jacob went to his first gymnastics birthday party on Saturday for a classmate and friend of his, Caroline, whom turned 3. All of the kids had a blast.

I originally wanted to label this post "Why We Will Hold Jacob Back In His First Year of School" but was overriden by she who shall remain nameless. Why would I want to title this post as such? See below for the answers.

Alas, the first picture shows my dear son waiting patiently in a line. Wait a tick, he seems to be looking not at the teacher of the class who is shouting the instructions (you know legal liability stuff that a 2 year old needs to know) but instead back at something else.
Same story. Maybe there is something more interesting on the kid's shirt in front of him. Side note, that is not too straight of a line...F for the Teacher. Okay, next picture. Yet again, looking away from the teacher. Only this time, the kids have been asked to line up in a circle...and Jacob is in the middle of the circle. Jacob is still in the middle of the circle. Only now he is standing up. There are 2 other kids standing up as well but had I taken this picture 15 seconds earlier, Jacob would have been the only one standing up...they followed his lead.

Middle of the circle, standing up and turned away from the teacher. These pictures look innocent enough. Jacob was doing a great job playing with the parachute. Prior to this picture but after they had been raising the parachute up and down, the teacher asked the class to hold the parachute down and wait patiently while she put balloons in the middle. Jacob is the only kid to leave his post behind and dash out into the middle. Lt Winters would not be happy. They also raised the parachute high into the air and he is the only one to dash underneath. I recall jumping underneath the parachute catching my son by the foot to pull him back on his stomach as they were lowering the parachute.

Jacob, I loved the time with you today young man. I had a blast watching you play. Love you - Daddy.

16 Months Old

Little Miss is 16 months old today and what better way to celebrate than to get new clothes at Gymboree! Okay, so the real reason was because I had gymbucks, but we did get some cute pics in one of the new outfits. Look Grandma- Yellow, just for you!

The biggest news for Paige this month is we are pulling the pacey. Last night was her first night without it, which lead to an early morning. Then nap time was very hard with out it...lots of crying.

Plus- Daddy is back! He was gone this week to California and we were all so happy to see him come home today. While he was gone Paige would talk to him on the phone, and she would hug and kiss the phone- so cute!

She weighs 24 pounds and is slimming down. Her hair is getting longer but not thicker. We are hopeful for pigtails in the fall. Jacob was also happy to see Daddy. Jacob also turned 33 months on the 10th, Good Friday. Since we were out of town I didn't get to post anything. The newest thing with him is that he sings a few songs, and for some of them he goes into his falsetto. It's hilarious.

Jacob is such a clown- I was trying to get a picture with Paige and he kept running into the picture.

Ahh, we finally got one.

Another thing Paige is doing is talking so much. We will be out and others will remark how well she talks for her age. She already has some two word phrases, which Jacob just got a few months ago. It's like they are on opposite ends of the extremes. Plus, something really funny that I need to get on video is Paige doing her flash cards. When you show her the "mice" card with 7 mice, and the "bugs" card with 8 bugs she screams. It's really funny. Such a princess, and oh how we love her!

Morning with Sissy

Jacob had school this morning so I got my weekly time with just Sissy.

Phoenix is usually in the room with us where ever we are. I think she really does like us, but has to act like she doesn't of course. She let Paige give her a kiss.

The front living room is, at the moment, our overflow playroom. We keep the play food and dishes, with table and chairs here. It's so cute how girly Paige is- she loves to play with her food set, and dishes. She will take the spoon and a pot and start stirring. So cute! Today she clung on to the mini soda bottle that looks like a travel liquor bottle.

Eating a fake cookie. See- this looks so funny to me.

We love our mornings just the two of us.