Pictures from the last week

Once Jacob turned 2, he has started this crazy thing. He likes to put things in lines. He is very precise about where things go. All day long Jacob makes lines. His plate, cup, fork & spoon all have to in a line for every meal. He will make lines across his room, down the hall and down the stair. I'm not sure if he will be very organized when he gets older, but it is fun to watch him. Here he is in our basement and then at Leslie and Melinda's house we kept him entertained giving him things to add to his line so we could play Rook.


For Andrew's birthday we went to our most favorite place, Chuck E Cheese. We only go there for birthdays, so it is a big deal. Andrew has been counting down the days until he turns 4. Everywhere we go he tells people he is 4.

Andrew got Play Doh for his birthday. We have had a lot of fun playing with it.

Andrew chose a Scooby-Doo birthday cake. It was a lot more difficult than Jacob's Elmo. I was happy with how it turned out though. I think we might start a new tradition next year. I'm not sure I can make more difficult cakes.

The other night Doug decided it would be fun to have an indoor snowball fight. He went and got all his socks and then the boys had a sock fight. Now Andrew and Jacob want to have a sock fight every night.

The other day I was downstairs running and I could hear the boys upstairs laughing. I decided to go and check on them. I found them making funny faces at each other with their glasses on. It is fun to see them play together, although they seem to get in more trouble together.

A day in the life of Jacob

Jacob’s favorite words right now are pee pee and poo poo. It’s a great vocabulary. I’m not even potty training him, but it makes Andrew laugh when he say these words, so it continues.
The other day our home teacher came over and Jacob started to say pee pee. He also says baby, which both words sound similar. I tried to play it off that he was saying baby as Jacob kept going up to his face saying pee, pee. Andrew was not helping the situation by laughing at him. Our home teacher was very nice and kept trying to give us a “spiritual thought”. Jacob wasn’t getting the reaction he wanted, so he tried again. This time he walked over to the home teacher and said, pee pee poo poo. This time there was no denying what he had been saying the whole time. I took him and put him on my lap and whispered to him that we don’t say those words. Jacob hadn’t made enough of a disturbance, so he then decided to bend over and bite Andrew who was sitting next to me. The kind home teacher finished and SOON left.
Why we have home teachers come when we have small children has become a mystery to me. I usually end up more embarrassed than what I ever get from the thought they share. I think if you have small children, home teacher shouldn’t be assigned to you. If you need something there is a special number you call. (Okay, I know I’m being a little extreme.)