"Who made me?"

Our good night conversation from tonight:

James: "Hey Mommy, why do I have nails?"

Me: "Because that's the way you were made."

James: "Who made me?"

Me: "Mommy grew you in my belly."

James: "But who MADE me?"
Me: "God made you."

James: "Who made everyone?"

Me: "God made everyone."

James: "But how did he make me?"

Me: "It's magic."

James: "Will you call him and ask him?"

Me: "Sure honey."

James: "How are you going to call him?  You should use your cell phone.  Is he going to talk to you?"

Me: "Honey, it's time for bed.  Good night honey!"  

Oh my goodness... where do these questions come from!?!?!?!?

Brotherly Love

Jack (aka my climber) climbed into the little wagon the other day so James decided to give him a ride.  No, Mommy didn't make Jack wear a helmet (he already had that on just because) but I am sure glad that he had it on because they were having a good time!  The main rule... on the carpet only, no tile!  I loved hearing both of their belly laughs!!!

James got tired and decided he wanted a ride.  Jack gave it a try but brother was too heavy so James got ditched!  

To add onto this... we went for a little walk to the park in the wagon after lunch today.  Mommy got tired from pulling the boys up the slight hill on the way home so I asked James to pull.  He agreed!!!  It was so sweet that James pulled Jack home the rest of the way in the wagon and let Mommy rest as she walked home.  Love him to pieces!  

I also must brag... we had to do tons of "house buying/selling stuff" today and the boys did great!  They sat wonderfully in the stroller while I took care of stuff at the bank, then again waited nicely in the stroller as I talked to the mortgage lender for a few minutes at a coffee shop.  Now the scariest one... signing the selling papers at the title company office.  I came stocked with snacks and quiet time toys.  Jack sat quietly on my lap the whole time eating a little snack (and feeding me).  James switched between snacking and playing quietly on the floor with his cars.  Other than a chocolately Jack face, we survived the signing pain free!!!  (Let's just hope that signing the buying papers, twice as long, goes just as smoothly next week!)  We then headed to a relaxing lunch with Daddy and then home for a walk to the park (so Mommy's blood sugar wasn't too high) and a triple nap!  That's right, we all got a nap!!!!  That's why it's 11:40 and I'm still sitting here on the couch blogging!  Time for bed!!!  Tomorrow is going to come way too early and Josh doesn't get home from his business trip to Reno for 2 more days!  Hope everyone is doing well!!!  Love to you all!

We're Moving!!!

As most of you know... we're moving!  We put our house on the market at the beginning of June and finally got an accepted offer in the middle of August!  Too long to keep a house clean for constant showings with 2 young boys and being pregnant but we did it!  We did a 45 day escrow on our house and then hoped and prayed that we would find a place to move before then.  Thankfully we found a great house in El Dorado Hills at the last minute!  We are moving in a week and a half!  Yikes!  

Cousin Andrea was sweet enough to drop off some boxes the other day.  (Still way too much packing to do!)  The boys immediately found boxes for themselves and hopped in!  Love the way Jack is looking at James in this picture!

My sweet little boys!  

Jack is done with this box business and James is crazy!!!  

We are very excited to have a little extra room in the new house and a lot of extra yard space!  The boys are going to love having more room to run around in the backyard and I am going to love having a room for the baby, a guest room, and a DOUBLE OVEN!!!  Welcome back baking fun after gestational diabetes is over!  :-)  

Apple Hill Family Picnic

Two weekends ago we were supposed to go camping in Yosemite to celebrate my 30th birthday!  I know it's a little late but it takes a while to get reservations in Yosemite.  Well, 2 days after we got the reservations, we learned about baby #3... we decided to still give it a try.  Then Yosemite caught on fire and when I asked the OB about going to altitude, she said no Yosemite because of the smoke.  Let's just say that there were tears shed but we ended up having a wonderful family weekend at home!  On Sunday we decided to make a short trip up to Apple Hill for a little picnic lunch and fun...

Jack and Daddy going for a little walk.  As you can see, it was a Sunday (Niner gear!)

My little man loved having lots of room to RUN!!!

Josh was showing James how to roll down a grassy hill.  (Can't help but think of rolling down the super steep hill in Edinborough with Gaga, Colleen, and Peggy).

James giving it a try.

Jack doesn't want to be left out of the fun either!

How cute is my little guy strutting his stuff!  Love that little one!

James loving being outdoors.

Look at the joy on his face!  His rolling down the hill ended up looking more like this but he still LOVED IT!

Mommy trying to get a cute picture with Jack-Jack.  Someone did not feel like smiling!

My cute picture with my big boy.  Love that his eyes always close with big smiles for the camera!

Then we attempted a cute Mommy with my boys picture... as you can see, Jack is crying, James is trying to squirm away, and I am going crazy!  Oh well, it was worth a try!  :-) 

Josh's co-worker was doing a ride along with his brother who is Folsom PD last week.  They were kind enough to stop by and say hi!  The boys LOVED it!!!  The officer even turned his lights on and the siren for a second!  

James admiring the police car up close!

Jack was the brave first one to sit in the car... and try to push all the buttons!

James even sat in the car for a minute.  Not a great picture.... you can see that we just got back from an after dinner walk (Mommy's attempt to keep her blood sugar low) in the heat with his helmet on.  A fun little treat for everyone! 

Gymnastics

The boys continue to LOVE their gymnastics classes!  Jack took a little break over the summer because we were out of town a lot.  I was planning on keeping him out for the entire summer but he watched one of James's classes in August and had a fit that he couldn't play too so we decided to have him start again.  He was a few weeks young for his class initially but he has done great and is loving it!  Here are a few cute pictures from class a few weeks ago...

Jack got to do this class with Daddy (Mommy got to sit and watch = Heaven!!!)  All of his classes start with some circle time with songs.

James's classes start with circle time and stretching too!  He is doing a much better job of listening and following directions each class!  Those are his favorite gymnastics pants... FYI: it was probably about 100 degrees this day as he is wearing sweats to class!

Jack getting a little love from Daddy! 

This is how I got Josh to agree to the boys taking gymnastics classes... they learn how to climb a ladder!  Jack is climbing up to a huge pile of "tumble bunnies" (foam blocks) which he LOVES!

Reading and Train Museum

James and Jack enjoyed reading one of Gaga's favorite books a few weeks ago!  As you can see, Jack still loves wearing his helmet though we have started to get rid of it (thankfully!)

When Gaga and Papa went to visit Mikayla, we decided to make a family trip to the train museum (because Mommy has been working on the weekend way too much)!  Jack enjoyed watching Percy go around the track.

Jack also enjoyed looking at all the model trains and many other exhibits while James spent most of his time playing with the trains at the train tables of course!  Overall, another fun and successful trip to the train museum!

Time for more pictures...

Time to upload more pictures from my camera!  I don't remember what pictures I posted last (and I'm too lazy to check right now) so here are the most recently uploaded ones from the camera (again too lazy to upload from the cell phone)!  

A few weeks ago, I decided to be brave and take a quick shower while the boys were playing nicely.  Josh had fixed the sink faucet the night before so the contents had been removed from under the sink and were sitting in a huge pile in the bathroom.  During my shower I heard the boys come in and out of the bathroom happily so I figured everything was going okay.  As I got out of the shower, Jack walked into the bathroom with a huge (post delivery) pad that he was trying to rip open.  Then James walked in with a very mischievous look on his face... I walked into James's room to find this....

It appears that the boys found the pile from under the bathroom counter!  After making sure I got a picture (to embarrass them with for many years to come), I very seriously told James that it was not okay to mess with Mommy's things and that he had to pick them all up and put them in a plastic bag!  Still love the picture though!!!  :-)

Wow Jack!

Jack is getting so big lately and continues to amaze me daily!  He is starting to talk more and more each day but it's still quite challenging to understand him.  Bot = milk.  Tan do = Thank you.  Sta = Stuck.  Etc but we are getting there and he keeps trying.  He is quite skilled in the "Mommy" and "Daddy" department, especially in the middle of the night or the middle of nap lately!  I asked the pediatrician about his language the other day and he said that he should have about 5-6 words at this point, we definitely have that!  Then after James delivered a speech to Dr. Wang, he clarified with, "Just make sure that his big brother doesn't speak for him too much!"

A few amazing Jack stories from this weekend...

Jack and I were playing when Jack realized that Daddy and James were gone.  He asked, "Daddy?" so I told him that Daddy and James went to Daddy's work to get some more boxes.  Jack then got a very concerned look on his face and started pulling Josh's work backpack over toward the front door with quite a bit of determination because the backpack is heavy!  I kept telling him that Daddy didn't need his backpack today but he continued to be very concerned!  I finally called Josh and asked him to tell Jack that he didn't need his backpack today at which point Jack finally let go of the backpack and went back to playing.  It was amazing to see the correlation that Jack made!

Tonight after dinner, Jack went running off with the remote control.  Josh asked him to bring the remote to him but Jack just stood there and stared at him.  Josh finally told him that he would count to 3, otherwise he would have a timeout.  Jack stood there during the count to 3 and stared at Josh.  After 3, Josh told him to go sit in timeout so Jack put the remote control down and slowly walked over to his timeout spot and sat down by himself.  It was so cute to see him sit down in timeout all by himself and see the little pouty face when he did it!

One more... I was having a little discussion with Jack on the couch tonight about sleeping through the night (it didn't work because Josh just got back from his room!).  I told him that if he wakes up in the middle of the night that I want him to put his head back down and go back to sleep with no crying or screaming for Mommy.  I then said, "Okay, Jack?  Got it?".  My reply, "No."  James was still finishing his dinner and thought this was the funniest thing as he started busting up laughing!  What am I going to do with these boys!!!  :-)

Bed time!  I'll try to write more later and update with pictures soon too (when I find the time of course!)  Love to all!