January fun

Mid January already and snow has melted a little, but has been pretty nippy outside. We had a fun past 2 weeks doing different things. Here are the latest and most recent pics....

My Little "Con" Artist :0)

Kimmie playing and singing. I LOVE that my kids love the piano!

Speaking of con artist, I was finishing up business after changing Jacob's diaper and thought he was downstairs. Well, if you don't put the clip on the opened cutting board then he can crawl up the drawers and get onto the cupboard. After awhile I went in to see what he was doing. I saw him, told him to stay put--and ran and grabbed my camera. He cooperated :0).

Beautiful winter afternoons, the sky was really pretty.

Here is Evelyn Christmas Day at my mom's. I love my little neice.

Besa Mi!

Grandma with her 3rd grandchild

Kimmie has a lot of fun each week playing with her friend. Last week her friend came over and she taught McCall how to play Break the Ice.

......a little nervous....

hmmm, almost....

aaaaahhhhh!!!! haaaaa! yay!! (I love this picture of them. They screamed with fun when all of the pieces fell)

Here is a puzzle mat Kimmie made a house out of. She was pretty proud of it. Then she hid in it.

Loves oranges! I call this monkey boy.

He's learning to eat better and more variety, but is still a very VERY picky eater.

His favorite way to go to sleep....

Last night Kimmie fell asleep (talking one second, silent the next!) She had her stuffed animal on top of her face and her arms were the way they'd be when she slept deep as a baby. So funny.

Kimmie's favorite thing with Daddy or Uncle Jason, walking on the ceiling. Thank goodness Daddy has strong arms and shoulders!

Kimmie loves preschool. She has it twice a week. She's made a couple of friends, one is Sommer from our ward. Jacob loves having Mommy-Jacobeans time while she's gone for 3 hours. Oh, the things I can get done now!


Jacob is my little organizer. He loves to get our canned food and stack it, sort it, arrange it. He's just like me when I was a kid. Kimmie started helping him. Jacob also has a long attention span for a kid his age. He does get into things, lately, quite often, but when I see his cute face smiling back at me I just can't get mad. I do, however, need to learn to listen more to the "still quiet voice" (aka, the spirit) when it tells me to do something. EVERYTIME I don't listen I regret it. Today it was, "You better put the clip on the cutting board or Jacob will be on the counter before you get out of the shower". I thought--Oh, they're playing fine in the front room. They won't think about the kitchen. I got out of the shower and found Jacob on the counter playing in a pile of orange flavored metamucil powder (granted, they need it, but not in that quantity). He poured the whole container out. I don't know how much they ingested but Kimmie had 1/2 c. of powder in a glass ready to eat and Jacob was licking his fingers. After vacuuming up all of it off the counter, linoleum and rug and mopping the semi-sticky floor, I now know not to leave any yummy flavored stuff around, let alone opened!

Jacob is always so handsome and cute. This is him ready for church, but he's not in his booster seating eating, so I didn't get a front shot--he's always walking away. He is doing great in nursery at church. I even drop him off. He whimpers, but is fine once we leave. Kimmie is a Sunbeam and likes her new teachers. Church is now 9am-noon. So anyone from out of state calling on Sunday mornings (7am-1:30pm Missouri time) you won't catch us home. Lane is in meetings starting at 6:30am--then I meet him with the kids at 9am. It's hard to get ready and out the door on time without pulling my hair out, but I did it. I like church early, even though I'm not a morning person. It's nice to have an afternoon of semi-quiet (Jacob and Lane nap). Kimmie and I find something to do. We have new houses/people added to our ward/church and we go to a different church building. It's smaller and nice. It'll feel like home before we know it.

This picture is a painting of Jacob done by Lane's mom, Dianna.

Here is a picture Lane's mom did of Kimmie in November of 2006

There's no time like SNOW time!!!!

Kimmie, cousin Olivia, Grandma and Mommy made snowmen at Grandma's house

Eating the snow.....it's nothing new....but it is cold!

The finished product has carrot nose, arms are old day lily stems, apples for the eyes. I thought we were really creative!

GRANDMA AND KIMMIE--it wasn't very cold at all!