Jack's Odd Sense of Humor

Jack has been known to laugh at really random things that wouldn't seem funny to most. This event is no exception.  He likes to shove lots of food in his mouth all at once.  So all i was doing was breaking his crackers up a bit so he wouldn't get too big a mouthful.  

Riding Bikes...Finally!!

The girls finally figured out how to ride their bikes with no training wheels!  Alex has been working with them and they were so excited to figure it out.  Ellie is a little better at it.  Anny kept getting mad because she was falling and Ellie seemed to have no issues.  On Monday, Anny had a pretty bad fall and scraped her chin and now has a big bruise.  

Jack also likes going out for bike rides.  Alex put him in the bike trailer for the first time and he was cracking up laughing for like the first 5 minutes he was in it.  It was pretty funny.  

So me and a couple friends are on a vball team for the new league that started up in queen creek.  We had a practice on Monday and played for like 3 hours.  Then last night was our first time playing against some of the other girls.  Lets just say my team is probably the underdog.  It didn't help that i was sore from Monday night and missed a bunch of serves last night.  It's still really fun and I'm glad I'm doing it.  Haylee did laugh at me though.  I guess she doesn't think I'm qualified to play in the league.  What a jerk.  We can't all be as good as you Haylee, no need to make fun of others!  You see how good you are after having 3 kids and being out of shape.  She is going to be a sub for one of the other teams, so i may have to play against her.  All i can say is BRING IT ON HAYLEE!!!

Anny does fine in the parking lot.  but for some reason she panics when she's on the sidewalk and keeps falling over.  I don't think she likes being confined to a straight line.  She is exactly like me though, when i was a kid.  She is super cautious and takes forever.  I couldn't help teach her cause i just started yelling at her, which doesn't help anything.

No, the can of red bull is not open.  Alex thinks its sooo funny to try and trick people into thinking his kids drink that crap like he does.  Alex, your headaches are never going to go away unless you stop.

They first learned in the grass at the park by our house.

Some Video of Jack

Just thought i'd put this on for those of you that don't see Jack on a regular basis.  

Jack has a thing for ears.  He's always trying to grab or chew on mine and alex's.  He also plays with his ears all the time.  At first i thought it might be an ear infection,  but he does it all the time.

Jack is 1!!!

I can't believe that my teeny, tiny baby is getting so big.  And just for the record, he did army crawl by his first birthday.  Still can't regular crawl though.  He weighs 19 lbs.  I think that is about how much Anny weighed.  Ellie only weighed like 18lbs.  My kids are just small.  

We had it on Sat. the 17th, so Briggs could join us.  But his actual birthday was the 20th.  We had it at my mom's.  It was just the fam.  I felt so bad cause that night he got really bad heartburn.  He was up crying and spitting up.  I'm pretty sure it was the cake.  He hadn't ever really had that much artificial sugar all at once.  Poor kid.  but i had to let him eat some.  I should have made a more healthy cake.  O well, he's over it now.  He got some new clothes, a Little People farm, some books, and yes, a baby doll from Great-grandparents Thompson.  Now he can learn to be a good dad.  

I had to crop my face out of this pic.  Jack looked cute, but i didn't.   What do you expect me to look like when my baby is playing with fire!

No Jack! Don't eat it.  It will give you heartburn!

No, you can not have any more.

No Jack, not 3.  You're 1.  

Ahh, here's Jack with his lovely new dolly!

Family from Nebraska

Earlier this month Alex's brother Ryan and his wife Dawn came to visit us.  We had a lot of fun with them and the kids were really excited to see them.  We didn't do anything too exciting while they were here, but we did take them to one of our favorite places to eat, Pita Jungle.  Yummy.  I had the tabule with hummus.  The next week we got a visit from Alex's other brother, Briggs.  We had Jack's birthday party a couple days early so he could be here for it.  On Sunday he decided to run the P.F. Chang's marathon.  He ran the 1/2 marathon and finished it!  I guess they said he was the youngest kid to ever finish it.  He's only 13!  We were pretty proud.

Here's Briggs and Anny

We were out in the back playing croquet.

Jack loves his swing.  Thanks grandma Debbie and grandpa Mike.

Okay, so i walked in to get jack when he woke up from his nap the other day.  And guess what??  he can now sit himself up.  So we had to lower the crib mattress, obviously.  It was so funny to walk in there and see him like this.  I ran and got the camera right away.  

Jack and Aunt Dawn.

Jack and Uncle Ryan.  It was so funny, when they first got to our house, Jack looks at Ryan and did a double take.  He made the weirdest face.  I think Jack was pretty confused cause of the resemblance.  

December

So this is the month that I get to be done with micro.  And guess what?  I got an A!!! I got an A in humanities too, but I don't want to brag.  I can't believe Jack is almost going to be 1.  And no, he still is not crawling.  What a lazy little butt.  It's really my fault cause i hold him too much.  But I can't help it.  He is so cute and cuddly.  Lets see... What happened this month?  Oh yeah, I stupidly decided to butcher my hair.  Hmmm, what was i thinking.  Actually, i kind of like it.  It makes me actually have to do it, instead of just putting it in a ponytail.  

Christmas was good.  Alex got me a new lens for my camera.  Man, you can really zoom in.   I got some really good close ups that some people may not think are so good.  Hee hee!

Here's my new do.  It doesn't look so great in this pic though.  Unless everybody thinks it does, then yeah, i mean, it looks good. 

Jack make up your mind.  Is it Star Wars or Batman?  I guess we should really ask Alex, who is the one that finds all this crap necessary.  

For Christmas, me and my siblings made a memory book for my parents.  We all included our first memories of them (or at least as early as we could remember).  We filled it with pics of the past and present.  It turned out really good.  If you are ever at my mom's, be sure to check it out. 

Here's the pic i used of me and my mom.  This was my first camping trip, and i think my mom's last!  Oh, let me make sure that i mention that she was wearing all her pre-pregnancy clothes right after i was born.  Wish i could say the same.  How old is Anny now?

And this is the one of me and my Dad.  The funny thing is, is i remember this exact moment.  Its pretty fuzzy though.  I know it's not the picture I'm just remembering though, cause i can remember my own visual point of view when i was opening this present.

So here's all the junk the girls got this year that they won't remember in a couple weeks.  They did get some good stuff.  Santa got them Leap Frog Leapsters.  

Jack got this cool car from Grandma and Grandpa Thompson.  Ha Shanna, i got the better one!

Here's Anny playing with the barbie head that grandma got her.  Maybe she can practice on barbie and learn how to do her own hair so i won't have to (not that i actually ever do it, as you can see from the pic).

Alex didn't have surprises for Christmas, cause he picked out everything himself.  this is his new watch.  He did get one surprise.  I got him a new drill, cause the old one was broken.  How exciting.

This is a shot taken with my new lens.  It is one of our trees taken from across the yard.  Pretty good detail from afar, huh?

Also in November: Jack's first haircut!

Okay, not that his hair is all long and thick, but all those little thin, wispy hairs where really starting to bug.  So they had to go.  

Oh, and yes.  I did put all this hair in a bag to keep forever.