In Search of Myself

Mother's day page

Have been going through my picture files, making sure I do something fun with all the good pics.  :)

Rock on!

Jake's so close to being able to say the "L" sound at the beginning of words.  In the middle of the word or in blends (SL is the hardest) are still really hard, but he will get them eventually.  But just plain sticking OUT his tongue?  Yeah, he's all over that.

New Brushes

Trying to tackle all the cute pictures from the sleep-over a few weeks ago.  :)

Game time!

I love board games.  LOVE them.  We have a ton, and I am still on the look-out for more.  I have a lot of memories of playing Sorry and Uno and Rumikub and such with Kathy growing up, and I play a ton of games now with Jake.  He's getting good at Go Fish, and he almost always beats me at Hungry Hungry Hippos.  These are pics of trying to play a game with the girls -- it was SOOO funny!  I'm looking forward to when they're all old enough to actually play the games without a ton of help.

Jake funnies

When we were at Priscilla's house on Saturday, Aowyn started crying dramatically again about something.  Jake said "Oh!  I should have brought my camera."  hee

On our way there, while looking out the window Jake randomly asked me "Why are wheels round?"  I said "Because otherwise they wouldn't roll."  He said "But what would happen if they were square?"  I said "What do you think?"  He said "I think they would go 'ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk.'"  Then he proceeded to chant "ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk" the rest of the ride.

The brakes on our car squeak sometimes, and Jake noticed it yesterday.  He asked what the sound was, and I said the brakes squeaked sometimes.  He said "Maybe they need some oil."  "Yeah," I said, "they probably do."  He said "My dad can fix it!"  I told him that cars have to be looked at by mechanics who know about cars.  He said "But my dad can fix ANYTHING.  And I will help him.  We will put oil ALL OVER the car."

So dad is suddenly Superman, but Jake is now second-guessing everything I do.  We were driving home from church, and I guess he's seeing all the roads we take with new eyes, because they don't seem familiar anymore -- even though we take the SAME ROUTE every Sunday to and from church.  As we made our way toward the interstate, Jake said "Are you sure this is the right town?"  Then to stop at Target on the way home: "Are you sure this is the right Target?"  We bought an awesome marble run toy (pictures to come tomorrow-ish) and as I was putting it together, he asked "Are you sure you're doing it right?"

And now for the cutest:

On Friday night as he was falling asleep, Jake had just had a bath and was drifting off.  Out of nowhere, he said "Mama, monkeys don't take baths."
Holding back laughter, I said, "No Jake, they don't."
He was quiet for a while, then said "But how they get clean?"
I said "They get wet in the rain, or they play in rivers or lakes, I guess."
He simply said "Oh," and I swear was asleep within 15 seconds.

Friends forever

When I took this picture, I loved it instantly.  I finally figured out what to do with it!

Blast from the past

here is Jake and my mom, 19 months ago.  I love the expression on his face!  (and she looks SOOO tired.  She actually looks tired in most of the pictures of the two of them, LOL.)

Water table

These pics are from April 1st.  I've been wanting to make a page with them, but couldn't figure out what to do.  Well I just got this really cool template (at right) and it dawned on me how I could make the page.  So go me!  I changed the template from 10 photos, to fit 5, because I wanted the pictures to be big.  (I'm into big pictures on my pages, as you've probably noticed.)  So thanks to Cindy Simon for the awesome template!  Click here to view it in the store.

Tower

This is an exact quote from Jake -- he is SOOOO funny!

Nana

finally getting around to making a page about Nana and Jake from July 4th.