Jacob made my day...

So on Thursday afternoon, after going to the store, we had a funny thing happen. I had bought a baguette and left it on the kitchen table after putting all of the other groceries away and putting Jacob down for a nap. Jacob woke up from his nap, but Hannah and I were busy finishing up a project downstairs, so I just let Jacob wander around the house and play for a bit. I heard him upstairs, playing with toys, running around, crinkling paper... what? "Oh, it must just be the grocery sacks that I left out."


10 minutes later...

Jacob had pulled the baguette off of the table, ripped the paper off and broken it in half. I found him CHOWING down on the bread totally happy that he had found food for himself. He wandered around for a good 20 more minutes eating the bread before I was able to get it away from him. Check out all of the crumbs on his mouth and the other half of the baguette on the flour behind him! Silly kid!

Orange Jello with Carrot Slivers

Obviously my orange jello with grated carrots was NOT a hit in our house! No one would eat it! I seriously like it, but I guess I'm the only one. I asked Hannah if she would like some and she said "No way!" I asked her "Why not? Don't you like the carrots?" Hannah replied, honestly, "No! They're YUCKY!" Whelp, I guess I'm never making THAT one again!

Memorial Day Fishing

Jacob saying "cheese" for Aunt Lisa. He thoroughly enjoyed sitting in the camp chairs and walking around the site.

Grandma saving Jacob from himself.

We got to go to Colorado Springs for Memorial Weekend and we had a great time with Grandpa and Grandma Powell and Aunt Lisa and Uncle Bryan. On Monday we went up to the mountains and went fishing. Bryan, Hannah & Cami all got fishes, but only Bryan's was worth keeping. Hannah was very excited about her little fish. Jacob wanted to play in the water and kept trying to nose dive in. Here are Aunt Lisa's pictures from the weekend.

Super-Hero Kids

Super-Hero Jacob in action!

Our kids LOVE to pretend that they are superheros! Here they are running around in their "capes." By the way, did you know that only the most heroic Super-hero's suck their thumbs? Super-hero Jacob is not invincible though, as you can plainly see from the top picture. He fell off the couch a few minutes earlier and got a good sized goose-egg on his head.

Ready to Swim

Hannah and Jacob got to swim in our new PINK plastic pool (can you guess who picked it out?) on Monday. We had a hot day and the kids had a great time cooling off. These pictures are of the kids all ready to go out and swim.

Lumpia

This is an amazing recipe for Spring Rolls that was given to us from a Filipino friend in Bozeman. Just thought we'd share the wealth!

3 cloves garlic
minced 1 medium size onions chopped
1/4 lb. Ground beef or shrimps
1 pk. bean sprouts
2 c shredded cabbage
1 c green beans, diagonal thin sliced
1/2 c carrots, shredded
soy sauce ( optional)
cooking oil
salt & pepper
Bell pepper ( optional)
Celery( optional)
Knorr cubes (optional)
Spring rolls wrapper( Buy @ Asian grocery store)

Saute the garlic, onions and ground beef. Cook till meat is done. Add vegetables according to hardness. Seasoned to taste. When the vegetables are cooked, drain out all liquid. Wrap vegetable mixture in spring rolls wrapper as directed in the spring rolls packaging. Deep fry in low heat.

Happy Mother's Day

What could make Mother's Day better than happy kids? Here are a couple of videos of happy Jacob playing with Daddy. Thank you Jacob for making me laugh. I love you Boo Boo!

Baby Animal Days

We went to the Greeley Baby Animal Days today. We had a great time exploring, playing and seeing the animals. There was a horse, alpacas, pigs, sheep, kittens, a puppy and a cow.

Driving the tractor.

The sheep kept bleating at Hannah so when I told her to go stand by it to take a picture she held her hands on her ears. It was really loud.

The kids spent at least 1/2 hour in the sand wheel. They had a great time filling up buckets and scooping sand. Jacob was giggling through most of it. I captured a little of that in the video at the bottom.

Dedicated to Heather

Here's the proof, Heather... Jacob really can get messy! He's finally decided that he wants to feed himself. These are pictures of Jacob eating oatmeal and having a great time at it. Here we go! Here come the messes! More pictures to come....

It's hard to tell if he got any in his tummy!

It only took 16 months, but he's FINALLY there!

This is Hannah's bruise from slamming her own arm in the door. This picture really doesn't do it justice. You can see where she pinched the skin and the bruising on either side of it.

Jacob LOVES to "cheese" for Mommy. I have to admit that it's one of my favorite things too! You'll keep seeing a lot more of these pictures too because I am seriously in love with this handsome little man!

Here is video of Jacob walking! He finally started a couple of weeks ago, the same week that he turned 16 weeks. Just this week he has mastered standing up in the middle of the room with nothing to hold on to. Yesterday, Daddy asked me a question that is very telling of how excited Jacob is to be walking "Does he really just wander around the house all day long?" Yep. He does. He walks around the house all day long, usually dragging his blanket with him and turning to watch it as he goes. The transformation is complete, we have a monster on our hands!

Unbelievable!

A few weeks ago I took Hannah to a church activity. She was on the verge of sleep when we arrived home and actually ASKED if she could go and take a nap. Jacob and Daddy were also taking naps, so it made for a quiet Saturday afternoon for me. The crazy thing about it is that Hannah NEVER asks to take naps. She will down right refuse even when she is grumpy beyond belief. Seriously though, how cute is she with her blanket all spread out and her cuteness going on!

Easter 2009

The kids had Easter a week late this year because of our travels. The Easter Bunny sent us a letter letting us know when he would come. The kids were thrilled with their new toys, watering cans and garden tools. We are very excited to have a yard to work in this year and we have a feeling the kids are going to be great helpers with it!