Misc. January Stuff...

We spent New Year Eve at Grandma & Grandpa B's house. We went over for some dinner and snacks. Jack played with Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Hayden, we watched some Twilight Zone (is it New Years Eve without the Twilight Zone marathon... not one that I can remember...)

New Year's Day it was right back to work on the kitchen floor. It's all done now. But here is a picture of when it was almost done. The countertop looks great and the floors are beautiful! We love our new kitchen :) Jack especially likes to slide across the slippery floor.

Jack has had a wonderful few weeks playing with all of his new toys (and some old ones) while cleaning in the basement he pulled out this bumbo chair from when he was a baby (and never used much) and has been carting it around and sitting in it ever since. He also loves to play with his pretend food, tractor set, various drawing things, animal barn, etc. The Christmas toys were quite a hit!


This past weekend Jack has had a bit of a head cold - but one positive... he loves to use the buggar sucker on himself, so that's nice, I guess! I think he just likes the disgusting sounds and sucking feel it makes.

Christmas

Here are few pictures from Christmas. Jack had a great one! He got lots of nice presents from everyone :)

And the day after Christmas we got new countertops and tore off the kitchen floor - new floor is now almost complete... pictures will be added soon.

December Catch-Up

It's been a busy december... with christmas shopping, christmas baking, etc, etc.... We can't believe Christmas is only 4 days away!!! Jack is sure excited (I can sense it...) at least, we know he will be when he sees what Santa brough him christmas morning.


Here are a few highlights from the last two weeks or so.



This afternoon while mom and grandma were baking pizzelles Jack played outside with Grandpa. They tried out the big snow tube... Jack was OK - but didn't love it like he loves his little red sled at home. But he sure had fun being out in the snow for a little while :)

Last weekend we were over by B's for the Packers game and Grandpa Steve's birthday party. Jack had fun playing with the train set with Grandpa. He loved to send the train cars up the hill so they came flying back down!

Last weekend Jack helped daddy shovel the driveway. He loves to be out in the snow - and is such a good helper!


Jack enjoying a kiss cookie! He loved it (especially the kiss part!)

First Big Snow!

It finally snowed! And we had our first snow day :) (at least daddy and Jack did, mommy had a sick day... but I really wasn't feeling well!)

Jack took his very first walk in the snow a few days ago in the backyard with his new boots on. He loved it.

And after the "big snow" of Dec 8-9. 8 inches maybe, I'm not sure. Anyway, Jack and daddy had a lot of fun playing outside that afternoon even though it was pretty windy and getting colder. They built a snowman and Jack got his first sled ride!

Checking out the back yard after our first snow fall.

All set to go play outside!

Working on his snowman.

Jack's first sled ride.

St Nick!

Last weekend St. Nick came to visit Jack while he was sleeping! He must have been a very good boy because he got a stocking full of yummy and fun treats and toys :)

After the fun of opening candy, Jack had fun with grandma and grandpa S along with some waffles and power tools. And then we headed over by grandma B to make christmas cookies (no pics unfortunately, but he was quite a cutie).

Thanksgiving Break!

Jack had a wonderful Thanksgiving break home with mom and dad. Mom was home all week, dad had school all day monday and part of Tuesday. On monday, Jack and I did some Turkey-day crafts and then a few errands. Tuesday we just hung out at home all day. The nights are long without daddy at home :(

Wednesday we were home to enjoy the day before Thanksgiving. We decided to get our Christmas tree since we would be busy the rest of the long weekend. We got a steal of a deal on a Frasier at Menards :) It is beautiful. The bottom half of is a little sparse of ornaments, only a few nonbreakable ones remain - because Jack absolutely LOVES the christmas tree! He's broke a few... but hopefully we have all the glass ones up high enough or removed by now... that boy is really tall !!!

We also spent lots of time baking is past week. Jack helped me make apple pie, pecan pie, cranberry cake and yesterday we made A LOT of christmas cookie dough to put in the freezer for the coming weeks. (It's so much easier to do the dough first and then the cookies closer to when they are needed!) Jack loves to help mom bake :) My sweet helper.

Today was back to school and daycare. Jack did surprisingly well at Miss Cathies - I was afraid he'd freak out when I dropped him off and cling to me. But he just walked right in the door and started playing with his favorite toys. He had an excellent day back with all his friends. My little boy is growing up :(

I'll add pictures from the holiday soon.

On to Christmas... ho ho ho...


Jack helping with out Thanksgiving crafts... he liked the glue and the scissors... :(
Jack cleaning under the tree. He loves the tree.
Jack and Daddy checking out the black friday ads on Thanksgiving morning.
My beautiful and delicious Thanksgiving pies Jack "helped" me make.
Jack and Carolann having fun on Thanksgiving.

Christmas Pictures - Part 2

A little over a week ago on a nice Saturday afternoon we took Jack's Christmas picture out in the backyard. He was pretty cooperative - for an 18 month old :) We got a cute one with his puppies. Jack loves to look at it on the side of the fridge, because he LOVES his puppies !!!

We hope everyone enjoys it.

Christmas Pictures - Part 1

This past Sunday we got together with the B's at Oakwood to take our family Christmas picture. It was a little cold, and cloudy. But at least it wasn't windy, and it didn't take too long :) With a toddler and two dogs this was the best one, I think....


It looks like a winner to me!

After we finished Jack had a great few minutes holding Hershey's leash. Hershey is such a good dog for Jack!
Here they are watching Uncle Hayden climb the fence... it was very intriguing to boy and dog alike :)

Soon it will be time for our Christmas picture of Jack... stay tuned...

18 months!

Jack is 18 months old today!

We had his check up at the doctor this afternoon and it went great! Jack weighs 26pounds 3ounces (50 percentile) and is 34 inches tall (that's the 91 percentile!!) He's a tall one. And he grew A LOT since his last check up at 15 months.

He's babbling and climbing like crazy and he's REALLY into dogs!!!

Last week we gave Jack a Christmas gift early (really early) but he was getting kind of restless in the evenings and needed something..... so we got him a play tent with a tunnel. It is awesome :) And he loves it. It was bought as a basement toy but so far it's in the living room. He sure loves taking all his treasures, and dogs, inside it to play!


That's it for now :)

Trick Or Treat!

Jack had a great time Trick or Treating last night!

We started off by going over to grandma and grandpa B's to show off Jack's puppy costume and grab some treats.

Then we went back home and went up and down our street. There weren't too many houses participating this year, but that was ok because it was a little chilly and Jack had a cold so we didn't stay out too long. Jack got some M&M's, Smarties, animal crackers, cookies, and crackers! He loves to eat them all (luckily he hasn't finished them yet!)

After we came in Jack kept his costume on until bed time and helped daddy hand out candy at our dorr. Everytime someone came to the door Jack ran away with a huge grin on his face :)