Silly Straws

I remember when I was a kid LOVING silly straws. Apparently Jacks took after me in that aspect, but when I found him using his in a HUGE bottle of Sprite, it confirmed I have my hands full with this little man. He explained that when he had it in the short cups, he kept spilling his milk...

To quote Jack's comment to Brad last week..."Daddy, if you aren't looking, I just do it." Uh huh...he's 3 1/2.

Twins Fest

Brad and my Dad took Jacks to Twins Fest a few weekends ago (yes, I'm still catching up and totally out of order, deal with it!) :)

Jacks had so much fun with everything. He is still talking about it! The most fun part? Getting to ride the train (the light rail). He thought it was a blast.

We'll see how he does at a game this year...I'm pretty sure Daddy is more excited about it than he'll be!

A House of Sickies

I think we're over it (did I just jinx myself??) I think everyone is going to be healthy for a while...

Two weeks ago, Jacks came down with a terrible virus. If you know Jack, you know he is ENERGETIC. Yes, that's what we'll call him...energetic. On the last two days of my maternity leave, he was so sick he couldn't even get off the couch. When I took him to the doctor he even said "Mom, can the doctor come out to the car instead of walking in to see him??" Definitely not the Jackson I know. It wasn't strep, just a really bad sore throat, soaring fever and cough...

Cut to a week later, and little Finny wasn't far behind. When I could feel her breathing in her chest, I knew it was time to take her in. This is the picture Brad took of us at the doc while we took her oxygen levels and had her nebbed...

My poor babe had RSV. Jacks got it when he was about the same age, only his was coupled with pneumonia, so I felt lucky to only have RSV this time. You hear the horror stories of babies spending weeks in the hospital or having to be airlifted to Children's because they can't breathe...so we really were fortunate for just a terrible cough. She's finally over it...feeling better and acting like herself again!

Let's just hope we can make it to Spring with no more sickies in our house.

Big Brother

Jacks found out that sometimes being a big brother isn't always so fun...like when you're trying to get your little sister to smile and she throws up on your face.

Yep, good lesson learned.

My Little Lovies

Does it get ANY better than hanging out with your little lovies??

I say no...not when it's these two :)

If I Only Knew

Let me start by saying Jacks is MUCH more interested in taking pictures these days than being in them. And typically, when he gets his hands on the camera...pictures turn out like these that were taken by him.

So...when he said "Make a funny face with Fin Fin, Mommy!" of course I did because I knew it would only be the top of my head or of my ever-flattering sweet sweet muffin top.... little did I know he'd actually get us in the frame! I mean, come on...no one would make this face thinking it would actually be a picture...

I smiled for one for him too...what a surprise we got when this showed up on my PC when I uploaded the pictures! If I only knew...I would have put my sweater on earlier!

Proof

Proof that we won't get another good family photo until Jacks is at least 8...or maybe 18.