Its been so long.....

It has been 6 months since I have posted anything on this blog! I hope I'll be able to keep up with it when I have 2 munchkins! Wow...so much to say...so much has happened in the last 6 months. In March, I lost my sweet Bailey Boo, my 12yr old yellow lab. He passed away outside in the back yard one day. He hadn't been feeling well and wasn't acting himself for a couple of weeks. I miss his sweet face dearly but know that he's happy in heaven. We still have our 5 yr old lab mix, Sammy. He's doing well but probably hating this heat. We don't get to play as much! We found out that were having another boy! And only 3 months to go! Still no name yet, but were working on it. We are excited to see what how similar or different this little boy is going to be from Jake. We still have so much to do in terms of getting the house ready for our new addition. We have to convert a messy, cluttered, office/guest room into a cute baby room and somehow find room for all the stuff that was in that room! Oh boy...I don't think that Jake really knows whats happening yet, but he does notice and play with my expanding belly. He likes to rub it, tap it, and blow rasberries on it. Pretty funny. Jake's vocabulary has really taken off in the last 6 months. I feel horrible b/c I should have been writing down the words as it started saying them...and now I forget. For a while, he was really into saying "hi" to everyone and over and over again. Then it changed to saying, "mommy and daddy" as much as possible, which was adorable. Now, its almost anything you ask him to say...he will try to say it! We are really communicating now. He can tell me better what he wants to eat and drink, where he wants to go and who he wants to see. His favorite tv show is "Little Bear" and we have a DVD of it, and now he brings us the DVD remote to turn it on and says, "Little Bear?" Or, in the morning, he likes to watch "Blue's Clues" and he will say, "A Clue? A clue?", whcih means "turn on the tv so I can watch my show!". So funny. He can basically count from 1-10 now! I owe that all to Stroller Strides. During class, he will count down and up with me and shout out the numbers. He can also point to things on his face and name them (nose, mouth, ears, hair,etc.) His favortie songs to sing are "Twinkle Little Star" and the "ABC's". He's doing pretty good at saying some of the letters of the alphabet too. We think he's pretty smart but of course were biased. Lets see...what else...we started swim lessons about a month ago, and they haven't been going so well. He doesn't like to be held and doesn't seem to like the structure. He does awesome though when he's in the water and he can touch the bottom on his own or at a "splash" park environment. He'll go up and down the slide and into the water over and over again. That reminds me...the other day at a splash park he slapped the bottom of another little girl there....I told Phil he needs to watch what hes doing around Jake! I'm still teaching Stroller Strides and enjoying it. Its just been so hot that classes have been moved inside and so attendance drops. Plus, lots of moms go on vacations during the summer. Phil went to Tennessee for a week of fun with old friends. He had a blast! He is doing well and is still really busy with work. Jake has been calling him, "Phil" lately...it cracks me up. I think that's it for now!! If anyone actually reads this, I hope it wasn't too boring!!!

July '10

July '10 cont...

First, here are some random pics of Jake when he was sick. He was very cuddly with his big puppy dog and then built an awesome tower! He's a pretty good architect. Jake and mom flew to Florida for a week to visit both sets of grandparents in Cape Coral and Sarasota. We had lots of fun! The plane ride was not fun and probably not the best idea, but we survived!

More June pics

South Carolina pics with the Dean and Truitt family. .

June '10 - Busy, busy!

In June we had a visit from Grandma Truitt and rode the train, celebrated Fathers Day with some hiking, Jake tried corn on the cob and loved it, we went to a Cubs/Rangers game, and we had a family meet up in South Carolina. Lots of fun!

May '10

We had so much fun with our good friends, Jo-Jo and Adrien on the Fort Worth train. The boys had a blast together and loved every minute of it. After, we enjoyed the playground and then dinner at Central Market with live music. It was such a fun day!