Mother's Day

I had a very nice Mother's Day today. I was able to sleep in until 9 this morning (that is a huge deal for me!) I was brought breakfast in bed. Scrambled eggs and donuts, which I had to share with Will. But hey, that's what we moms do, right?

After breakfast we headed outside where I was given a beautiful hibiscus plant. We spent the rest of the morning working in the vegetable garden. The sun was warm and a nice cool breeze was blowing. As I picked green beans, I could smell the tomato and onion plants. There is something very self gratifying about growing your own vegetables.

We finished up the morning watching Will splash in his pool while Jack snoozed in his bouncer.

It's been a wonderful day!

Firsts

It was a week of firsts this week.

Jack rolled over for the first time. Doesn't he look so proud.

And, he gave his first real chuckle. He seemed to get a kick out of the funny noises I was making!
Will got his first black eye. I'm not sure what he was doing, but I think it involved roughhousing at daycare.

We're also making advances in potty training. Apparently, although I was totally aware, he'd been going potty at daycare. One of the other boys finally started going and now he's following suit. This is one time I'm ok with giving into peer pressure. Will's started wearing pull ups during the day and he's aware of a certain candy jar filled with rewards if he goes potty at home. I thought I was the only one with a child who refused bribes. It took about a week, but he now tells me he needs to go and he'll try, but nothing yet. And with pull ups now come the pull downs along with waving "it" around while making a "sshh" sound. I think I'll let that go for fear of discouraging potty-ing.

Three Months

Jack turned three months this week. This smiley boy is thisclose to rolling over (from back to stomach). He loves to watch his big brother. His favorite time to play is 11 at night...kicking and "talking" and smiling as if to say "Aren't I cute?" Of course you are my darling, but I've got to get up in 6 hours and I'm sure we'll meet again some time between now and then!

Three months

Two Months

One Month

This is gonna be a long one...

We had a very busy Easter weekend. We went home to have Jack baptized, visited as much family as we could, and fit in a few egg hunts.

So here it is in pictures...

We started by visiting Ben's Grandma and Grandpa Lewis



Then it was on to my Mom and Dad's.



We went to Ben's parents for the evening and spent some time with his siblings. We were sorry Jon's family couldn't make it. Hope they're feeling better!



The next morning Will and his Momee made cookies. I think all Will really did was eat the cookie dough.



We then had lunch with Ben's Grandmother and Granddaddy Autry.



Jack was baptized later that evening at the Easter Vigil Mass.



The weekend wrapped up with an egg hunt Easter morning. Unfortunately the rain forced us inside to hunt eggs in the Sunday school classrooms.

Two months

Jack turned two months a couple of weeks ago. But, due to the computer trouble I was having, I'm just now able to post his pictures.

At two months Jack weighs in at 13 pounds 3 ounces and is 23 inches. And this smart boy, developmentally, is mastering some 4 month tasks such as playing with his hands, vocalizing, and bearing weight on his legs.

Computer issues

Last week my computer crashed. So, I'm dealing with a very scaled down version of Windows until my IT guy can work his magic with the recovery disc. Luckily he was able to pull all of our pictures and video from the hard drive. Whew!

I have Jack's two month pictures to post but, until everything is up and running again, they'll have to wait. He's being baptized this weekend at the Vigil Mass, so hopefully I'll be able to get those pictures up next week when the computer is fixed.

Another lengthy blog

It's time to catch up again. Needless to say, thing have been busy here. And when they're not, I'm sorry to say, the blog is not at the top of the list of things to do. So, I do my best to mentally file away our family events and they all spill out into one very long blog. My apologies.

I think we'll start with the most recent and work our way backwards.

As Will is now 2 (and a 1/2) years old now, his vocabulary is increasing daily and he is doing his best to string the words to make sentences. And if I may boast, he's doing rather well. I can tell all the words are up there in his brain, it's just a matter of getting them out and in some sort of order. It makes for fun conversations.

Yesterday in church Will noticed a "boo boo" on his hand. It has been there for a little while now, but as Will had just noticed it, it became a big deal.

"Look Mama. Boo Boo."

"What happened?"

"Jack owie me hands."

Apparently Will's 6 week old brother bit his hand leaving a boo boo. Uh-huh.

We've been trying to get Will to use the potty, nay, pleading with Will to use the potty. But the boy just isn't ready. He says it's scary. But in our attempts to entice (read bribe) the child we've promised him anything he wants. "You wanna go potty? We'll get you a toy (candy/cake/etc.)" Will had decided that if he went potty he would get a Mickey Mouse cake. Fine, whatever, just go!

In a very excited and encouraging voice,"Ok! You wanna go potty? We'll get you a mouse cake!"

Mimicking the same excited voice,"No!"

Grrr.

Saturday morning. Will has just awakened.

"Mama, I want mouse cake"

"You do? You know what you have to do to get a mouse cake?"

"Eat."

"No. What do you have to do?"

"Um. Cook."

"You're so smart! But no, you know what you have to do."

Pointing to temple "I smart!"

"Yes you are, but remember how you get the mouse cake. You have too..."

"No mouse cake."

He remembered. So much for the bribe.

Jack is changing daily, growing and packing on the pounds. At five weeks his umbilical cord stump had not fallen off, so we made a trip to the pediatrician's office to assess the situation. While there, we set little Jack on the scale. He weighed in at a whopping 11 pounds 12 ounces. This kiddo packed on 3 pounds 10 ounces over a four week period! I'll be interested to see what the scale says next week at his two month appointment. (side note: cord is off. Mama is happy) Jack is now "conversing" with me and with the toys that hang from his glider. He likes to talk when he wakes up and late at night when he should be going to bed. He also smiles now. We first saw hints of a smile at 4 1/2 weeks. Early for the mere average child, but my children are exceptional (at least to me!)

We're trying our hand at a spring/summer garden again. We've planted tomatoes, green beans, red onions, cucumbers, and strawberries. While selecting our veggies to plant, Will spied the flowers. He selected orange and yellow marigolds, blue and yellow pansies, and pink petunias. He had a good time planting his flowers in the garden.

We'd been having some spring like weather, so we took the opportunity to enjoy it and take some family pictures of all four of us.