Happy Day

When Jack sings happy birthday it usually sounds more like "happy day" but that's what it is...a happy day.  Today I celebrated my 32nd birthday.  A perfect day shared with Seth and the kids. We shopped, we ate some of my favorite foods and the weather was beautiful. I am so blessed.

A family picture using the timer...not bad...

Of course, Ella was trying to show us something but we did our best to ignore her! :-)

My sweet girl all tuckered out at 4:30.  

Seriously, her new bedtime is between 5-6pm!

Jack really enjoyed his piece of cheesecake.

Now, with the kids in bed it is our turn for a piece and a few presents!

This Moment ~ Mail Run

Diggers not Groundhogs

Happy Groundhog Day! I haven't heard, are we having 6 more weeks of winter?

Well, we have had some beautiful weather lately and we decided to take some time to enjoy it.  Our boy loves the park so we headed to the Kids Castle.  It really is an amazing playground...see!

I wonder how it feels to be so small while looking at this?

We started out on the boat (steering wheels + Jack = true love) and then headed over to the bull.

Well, as you can see Jack became distracted.  I asked him to give me a "Woohoo! Ride 'em cowboy!" and he stuck his little fist in the air and gave me a half-hearted "woohoo".  The playground took a backseat the second the front end skid loader showed up!  The rest of the time was spent finding the best spot to watch him work! He is all boy.  Which is good but I do look forward to the day of girl play.  I saw the cutest little girl daintily running around the park...in her tutu!  One day Ella, one day.

One of our 1st sitings

Catching the view from the top

In the end, we ended up back at the boat.  The perfect place to soak it all in!

6 Weeks!

I think she is pretty happy about it too!

Jack has been a great big brother!

Tub & Potty Time

Jack got some monkey bubble wands in his stocking this Christmas.  We had fun playing with them the other day.  It makes huge bubbles and my little monkey has so much fun trying to catch and pop them!

 "Awww Mom, why?!"

"Alright...I will play along!"

Jack has also been potty training and doing a great job!  I'm not sure why I wanted to tackle this with a newborn but I'm glad I did.  I'm really looking forward to only 1 baby in cloth diapers!

Jack with his fireman and policeman potty charts.

Look at all of those stickers!

Good job buddy!

Ella is 1 Month Old!

We made it to 1 month!  Ella has been a bit fussy and usually needs help falling asleep.  I can't believe I already forgot Jack at this stage (I must have blocked it out!) but the more I think of it he was fussy too just not as bad. From what I read most babies are like this at least until 6 weeks and then hopefully start to get better.  As long as I get her to start sleeping through the night earlier than Jack I will be happy.  :-)

She has started to smile and coo at us which of course makes us happy!

Sweet smile!

Here she is looking at Jack...

he makes her smile too!

This is what makes Jack smile!  

Our landlord has the Bobcat ready for plowing the snow.  Jack will be ecstatic to watch it in action!

This Moment ~ Boys will be Boys

One of Jack's favorite things to do is read "maz-a-geens" with us!