Olive you!

My son's new love.....



Olives!!! I tried to buy them cut up, but he refuses to eat them. They have to be the whole ones so he can put his fingers in them and then eat them! He could eat a whole can if I let him, although I don't think his belly would like that. He said to me today while eating them " "Mommy, I love Olive". It sounded so funny.

My kids are both asleep finally and I'm going to go catch up on some me time:)

Let it snow!

It snowed like crazy on Saturday so when we got home from our Holiday party I let Jacob play out in the snow while daddy shoveled the driveway and sidewalks. We got Jacob a mini shovel so he could help daddy and after about 45 minutes of him playing outside and making snow angels , he started to help daddy shovel the snow. When I went out to see if he wanted to come inside he said "NO mommy, Jacob is shobeling the snow!"

I have some big news! Logan hit 3 milestones yesterday! He said "mama" finally!! He also stood up all by himself without holding on to anything and he walked across the entire living room all by himself!! Again, I would be super surprised if he wasn't full on walking by Christmas!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Happy Holidays

I just love everything about the holidays, except one thing: I hate the cooties!!! I feel like we have been bouncing cooties back and forth since October. I have another head cold and it sucks bad. Mommy wants a sick day!!

We had a great weekend! We had our annual Toledo Parents Christmas party and it was a bunch of fun! Jacob had a blast running around with the kids and Logan loved watching all the big kids play.

We also had our pictures done with one of the girls in our mommy group. She did such an amazing job and I can't wait to do them again with her!

Logan is walking so much. I would be surprised if he's not walking by Christmas. He has 6 teeth now and is slowly starting to eat solids. He'll try bites here and there.

Jacob...oh my Jacob. We are entering the complicated age now. Jacob has such a little imagination. He won't sleep on his own anymore because he says that there are robots and spiders in his room. He also says that there is "shoop" out the window. We haven't figured out what it means yet, but until he gets over this, daddy has been sleeping with him. He loves Christmas and asks to go see Christmas light everyday. Every morning he wakes up and says "Almost Christmas time" He is such a little ham anymore:)

Stay tuned...we have family coming in this weekend and we'll be sure to take tons of pictures!

Catch up

It's been so crazy around here I forgot to update my blog;) Let's start with Thanksgiving. We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving. Jacob and I made turkey cupcakes on Thanksgiving Eve. Jacob had a blast with the sprinkles and suprisingly barely ate any of the cupcakes as he was decorating. I gave Logan a plain cupcake in hopes that he would eat it, but he just threw it at me. Seriously, who doesn't love cupcakes??

We had my family over for Thanksgiving and I was in charge of all of the sides and desserts. They were all so yummy and my Tiramsu Trifle was everyones favorite!! I definetly will make that again!

Jacob and Logan both had a blast putting our Christmas Tree up. Logan was more interested in eating the ornaments (go figure) and Jacob put every ornament that we handed him on the same branch:) We had to gate off our entire tree because Logan was trying to pull it down before we even had it half up.

What's new with the boys? Well Logan is almost walking. He'll take a few steps and then fall. The other day he took 2 steps and then stopped and took 2 again! I wonder if he will be walking by Christmas?? How exciting for him, but poor Jake has no idea what is coming his way when Logan can walk:)

Jacob has been a handful the past week. He has been fighting with naps and bedtime. As soon as we lay him down, he gets back up and opens the door. It's getting really annoying and I feel like I'm a step away from losing my cool so if anyone has any advice for me that would be great.

Jacobisms

I just want to post these so I remember them forever.

Daddy: "Jacob, that chocolate pudding on your face looks like poop"
Jacob: "Yummy poopy, Jacob eat poopy"
*5 minutes later*
Jacob: (while playing with his pudding) "Look mommy, poo art"

Mommy: "Jacob, quit being mean to your brother"
Jacob: "Mommy, quit being a turkey yak yak yak"

Mommy: "Jakey, can mommy sit in the wagon with you"
Jacob: "No mommy too fat"

I can't think of anymore at the moment. He is such a ham anymore. I can't believe some of the things he has been saying.

I want to print this blog out at the end of the year and want to remember all these silly things he says:)

Gushin about Jacob

I feel like gushing about Jacob today. I feel like he is growing to fast and it makes me sad. Last night he was talking to Nana about berries and it hit me that he is such a big boy. A couple months ago he couldn't say berries. He would say "mommy look, booies" It was the cutest thing and I didn't ever catch it on video and now I feel like that memory is gone forever. It makes me sad to think I'll never hear him say "booies" again.

His new thing is taking his shopping cart to each room to go "shopping". The other night he told Brad and I he was going to Meijer and then Target and he'd be right back. When he came back in the room we asked him what he got. He said "Milk, eggs, chocolate ice cream, snacks and Jacob used coupons!" We about died laughing. He was so proud of himself for using coupons! Just like his mama:)

When he rides his car he always says "gotta go mom, gotta get some gas, see ya next time, love you" all at once. I think Santa may bring him a little tikes gas pump this year. He loves filling his cars up with gas.

I just feel like all of the cute baby things he did are gone forever. I must invest in a video camera. Maybe Santa will bring me one:)

Jake's favorite thing now is tattoos like Papa's. He cannot get enough of them, which makes for easy stocking stuffers. He shows random people in the store and loves the put them on his belly. Let's hope this phase passes before he turns 18:) (excuse the fingerprints on the TV, Logan loves to hit it all day long)

Slow down little guy, mommy isn't ready for this. Sleeping in your own bed, going to bed without mommy and daddy lying with you, getting your own snacks from the snack cupboard and wanting to stay the night at nana and papa's. Mommy isn't ready for this yet, buddy:(

An update...finally!!

Well I finally can update, but with no pictures this time. I know I know a blog update with no pictures is boring but we have had snotty noses all week and snotty nose pictures are gross:)

The boys are doing great! Jacob was pretty sick on Halloween and only wanted to walk for about 5 minutes before wanting me to carry him the whole way home. Around 8pm he wanted to go trick or treating again so my mom and I took him around the block to collect some more candy. One good thing about going trick or treating 30 minutes before it ends is that people are trying to get rid of all their candy so they were pouring it in Jacob's bag. He luckily hasn't even asked for it to much so he hasn't been filled up on sugar!

Logan loved riding in the wagon watching Jacob go door to door. A couple people even came to give Logan treats, too, which he loved playing with. He has turned around so much. He is such a delight most of the time. Of course, we still have the hooked to mama's hip problem, but he's actually eating food and not nursing nearly as much as he use to. Actually last night he ate a whole plate of macaroni and slept all night! His new favorite thing is clapping his hands and saying "yah". It's to cute;) He just learned how to shake his head no, too. I think it's to early to be telling his mama no, but it's cute anyways.

We have been talking to Jacob a lot about Santa Clause and now every time he finds a toy that he likes I tell him that we have to add it in his letter to Santa and he says "please Santa" :) Christmas is going to be so much fun this year. I can't wait to put all the decorations up and take the boys for a drive to look at the Christmas lights with their hats and gloves and cocoa:) I love it!

Anyways that's all that is happening in our world right now. I'll try and update with pictures later.