First In Flight

We took Jake's first flight last weekend when we went to Fort Worth for Mother's Day/birthdays.

I'm excited!

Checking out the other passengers.

Our plane is here!

Yay flying!

What's out there?

Reading up on the safety guidelines.

Browsing the SkyMall mag.

Finding the most interesting thing
near us: the screw on the armrest.

We did not get near the engine, as it warned us.

Jake and his Grandude

One time he got really really tired.
And also had a ridiculous sized head.

We celebrated my mom's and my birthday.
My name made it on the cake this year!

Unlike last year.

Jake helped blow out the candles.

Unlike last year when he just sat there.

Mom and her kids near Mother's Day.

Jesus has a lawn care service in Fort Worth!

Chatting with Great Grammy.

Chillin' with Uncle Josh.

I realized I didn't take any pictures with Jake on Mother's Day (just like last year) so we took a few before he went to bed. His tongue is out all the dang time these days.

On the way back to the airport, we drove by Six Flags. They're deconstructing the Texas Giant!
(I hate that ride, though, so I don't care.)

Just relaxin' on the way back to the airport!

Posted in: , , , , on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at at 8:58 PM 0 comments  

14 Months Old!

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late. Not much has been going on. I'll be posting about Jake's first airplane ride soon though!

He's 14 months old now! Say what?!

The foot has now surpassed the finger.
He's been making some major progress with the
start of his physical therapy. Here are his new skills:


This was several weeks ago. It's about time!


Watch out people! He's in motion!
(Even if it is just army-style.)


And this just happened in the past few days. He knows a word! To all outside ears, it doesn't sound like anything, but I waited a few days to proclaim it just to make sure. It really is intentional! He says it when he sees Jack, when I say something about Jack, or when we see a dog in a book. Yay first word!

Posted in: , , , on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at at 10:31 PM 0 comments  

Did You Know?



I was unaware of the fact that green beans spark in the microwave. Since I'm forcing my child to eat something that I myself don't eat, I've recently learned this. Also, no forcing is involved. He loves the stuff.

Posted in: , , on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at at 10:40 PM 1 comments  

The Cookie Making Adventure

How To Make Cookies With Your Nieces
While Watching Them At Their House

1. Buy this awesome Crayola cookie kit on clearance after Easter.
2. Add the small amount of wet ingredients to
the ridiculously large amount of dry mix.
3. Use a spoon to mix.
4. Give up using the spoon and just do it with your hands.
5. Divide the dough into four parts, mixing the
three primary colors into three of the parts.

6. Let Alyssa Kate mix the primary colors
to make the secondary colors.

7. Have her pose for the camera.

8. Put all six colors (plus "white") into separate bowls for creating.

9. Let Alyssa Kate make the sun on a paper plate.
10. Try to move the sun onto the cookie
sheet, subsequently mangling the sun .

11. Decide to just let her make the
cookies directly on the cookie sheet.
12. Hand some dough to Caroline to let her mash.
13. Continue helping Alyssa Kate.
14. Look back at Caroline to see nothing in her hands. Ate it.

15. Check on Jake. Yep. He's good. Just shaking some Cheerios.

16. Realize there is a ridiculous amount of dough
here so decide to make a cookie pizza.

17. Let Alyssa Kate fill the tray with... a polka dot cookie, the sun, ("Caroline's" flower), a layer cookie, a ladybug, a green snake, a flower, and an orange snake.

18. Pick your favorite - the smiling ladybug.

19. Go to put the cookies in the oven.
20. Find out the cookie sheet doesn't
fit in the oven in their new house.
21. See if there's any way to move the cookies to another sheet.
22. There's not.
23. Try cooking the cookies with the door part
open, rotating the tray every 5 minutes.

24. Check on the girls. They're oblivious.
25. Realize the door-open strategy isn't working
because there is no heat left in the oven.

26. Check on Jake. Still good. Eatin' a puzzle.

27. Think (knowing exactly what's going to happen), "Maybe if I put these partially baked cookies in like this, they'll finish baking before sliding down the tray."

28. Not quite, genius.
29. Set cookies out on counter, hoping for
them to harden to eating quality.

30. Share the yummy and successful cookie pizza.
31. Put everyone down for a nap.
32. Realize after cooling that the cookies are
not edible since the bottom halves are still gooey.
33. Carefully move the cookies to another cookie sheet.
34. Finish baking.

35. Be excited that, four hours later, the cookies are now edible.
36. Try to recognize what each one was supposed to be.
37. Use the rest of the neverending dough
to make some swirly cookies.

38. Swear to check the pan size beforehand next time.

Posted in: , , on Friday, April 23, 2010 at at 6:22 PM 4 comments  

13 Months Old!

I debated whether or not to continue the monthly Snoopy pictures. I've rolled my eyes at people who have continued the pictures after a year. However, I decided I didn't want to give it up yet. So deal with it.

He only wanted to smile with his tongue out.

The happiness and drooling still continues.

He can almost do a full sit-up on his own.
Especially when we hold his legs down.

He now has 8 1/2 teeth.
4 1/2 on top.

And four straight-up-shaped-like-a-W on the bottom.

As of late...

The child has finally caught up with the rest of earth and was 70th percentile on height, 50th on weight and rockin' the 98th percentile on head size. And he got his 12 month shots and got this super great camo band-aid because he was so tough.

Our trees in the backyard bloomed!

He has returned to the age of chewing on his socks and feet.
That age being 6 months old.

He has started to pull up on the coffee table.
Sometimes he stops to take a bite out of it.

And sometimes he finds the newspaper
or magazines on the coffee table.

He isn't crawling or walking or anything, but started his physical therapy last week. They said they think he's going to progress really quickly, and I agree. He's started making progress on his own at home too, with the trying to stand and pull up, and moving around faster on his belly non-crawling style (such as pushing backward across the room, or rotating in place.)

Posted in: , on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at at 11:30 PM 1 comments  

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