Sunday, February 22, 2009

Ode to Jack











Here are some recent pictures of Baby Jack who is 10 months old already! Honestly, this has been the fastest year for a baby that I have ever seen! I am sooo sad that he is growing up so fast, but he is doing so many cute things. He doesn't want to be apart from his mom lately, so when I make dinner, he plays with kitchen utensils on the rug. He is pulling himself up on anything he can and cruising around everywhere. It won't be long before he takes his first steps! He is the sweetest, cuddliest, happiest baby ever! I threw in the sleeping baby picture because I just cannot resist a sleeping baby. Sadly, I have to pull him up out of that happy state every morning to take the other kids to school. I love love love my baby Jack and am really trying to soak up my two last months of having a baby ever again. As soon as they turn 1 it seems that they are suddenly toddlers wreaking havoc around the house. Isn't he just adorable?




Friday, February 6, 2009

My Little Hugh Hefner




Lately, Owen has been so picky about his clothes. For a few weeks he would not take off his shoes for anything and now he will not put them on. If I try to put them on, the second I turn my back they are off again. So needless to say, we make a lot of shoeless trips. He won't wear a jacket no matter how freezing cold it is outside (and even though I spent a lot of $$ on some rad Quicksilver hoodies). And now he throws a major two year old tantrum every morning when it is time to get dressed. He wants to wear his "jammies" all day long. Wouldn't we all? And now to make things worse, he only wants to wear specific types of jammies. Last week he was all about the racecar jammies, but this week all he wants is his bus jammies. This morning he got some pooh from his diaper on his bus jammies and are therefore not wearable. I tried to convince him of some of his other cool jammies in his drawer and he threw them all over the room. Whatever am I going to do? Does anyone have advice for picky dressers?


Sunday, February 1, 2009

Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony

So Connor has been really into Shel Silverstein's poetry and when he read me this poem, I couldn't stop laughing. So hopefully I brighten someone's day or can make you laugh too!

Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony
by Shel Silverstein
There was a girl named Abigail
Who was taking a drive
Through the country
With her parents
When she spied a beautiful sad-eyed
Grey and white pony.
And next to it was a sign
That said,
FOR SALE- CHEAP.
"Oh," said Abigail,
"May I have that pony?
May I please?"
And her parents said,
"No you may not."
And Abigail said,
"But I MUST have that pony."
And her parents said,
"Well, you can't have that pony,
But you can have a nice butter pecan
Ice cream cone when we get home."
And Abigail said,
"I don't want a butter pecan
Ice cream cone,
I WANT THAT PONY-
I MUST HAVE THAT PONY."
And her parents said,
"Be quiet and stop nagging-
You're not getting that pony."
And Abigail began to cry and said,
"If I don't get that pony I'll die."
And her parents said, "You won't die.
No child ever died yet from not getting a pony."
And Abigail felt so bad
that when they got home she went to bed,
And she couldn't eat
And she couldn't sleep,
And her heart was broken,
And she DID die-
All because of a pony
That her parents wouldn't buy.
(This is a good story
to read to your folks
When they won't buy
you something you want.)
Hope you enjoyed! There is a picture of the mom saying"Oh if she were only alive I would buy her a hundred ponies!" And the dad is saying, "Oh....what fools we were."
Anyone with kids has to think this is hilarious!