Our 'baby' is 2!!

It's hard to believe Jacob has only been alive for 2 years. I can't even imagine life without him!! On Saturday we had a little birthday party for him here at our house. He loves Mickey Mouse, so that was the theme. It was a cute party and we had a decent turn out. He had fun and that's all that matters.

 I took these when he woke up from his nap. He was so happy when he saw all the decorations!!

 Living room is ready for company!!

 CAKE!! 

 Enjoying a piece of his cake with friends

 It's party time!!

 We gave him a skateboard.. he loves it!!

He already had the smallest Mickey, but got a medium one and a large one!!

 

 Birthday breakfast

Ready to take Jackson to his first day back to school after Spring Break

 

 

Speaking of Spring Break... it was a good one!! I watched 2 extra kids for part of it and then Jes' sister Shari flew in on Wednesday. We had a great week and a great visit!! I think Jackson enjoyed his break and we all got spoiled with no alarm clocks some days!! 

Jackson is 5 1/2 today!!

A couple weeks ago I saw this cute idea on Pinterest and quickly realized that Jackson's 1/2 birthday was coming up!!

 

 

To be honest, until this morning I had forgotten about this idea. I was talking to Jackson and realized today is the last day of February, so I was telling him that tomorrow is the first day of March and I quickly remembered my 1/2 birthday cake idea!!! I told him it was his 1/2 birthday today and he was excited!!! I didn't tell him we were going to make 1/2 a cake and I can't wait to see his excitement!!!

 

This is Jackson all ready for school!! Jes' mom & I found this cool shirt on sale at "Crazy 8" in January. He's growing up so fast!!

 

 

 

After I dropped him off at school, I ran to the grocery store for a cake mix, so that it could cool while I was at MOPs (Mom's of Preschoolers). When I got home, I cut it in half and used chocolate icing as a "glue" and filling.

 

Here's the finished product!! I cannot take all the credit... Jes is very good at this stuff and helped me a lot!! I think it turned out pretty good!! Green & yellow are his two favorite colors too, so that's a bonus. :)

P.S. This is two days in a row of blogging... maybe I will do it more often again.

Jacob got his tubes!! We went in at 6:30 this morning... Below is us in the waiting room...

 They took us back to a room to both get in gowns and talk to the anesthesiologist and doctor before surgery. Jacob flirted with all the nurses and they all loved him!!

Mommy and Jacob all "gowned up"

He liked his gown with Bug's Bunny on it!! 

 Our feet... I had to put booty's on since I went back to the Operating Room until he was asleep. He did so good!! The anesthesiologist warned me that he would probably fight us holding him down, and that it's normal cause it's just the age they're at. Well... we went back and I held one hand and the nurse held the other. He looked up at the anesthesiologist and just stared for a few seconds and he was out without a fight. They were all amazed at how well he did.

This was right after surgery... the doctor came out and told me that everything went great and "Good luck getting him back from the nurses, they love him!!" I'm glad he did so good!! They said when he woke up he just started sucking his thumb :)

 

Not even an hour later and we were off!! So proud of my brave boy!!! We both took nice long naps when we got home and Jacob is still asleep after over 3 hours!!

 

Thanks for all the love and prayers!! Here's to a healthier year!!

Here we go again...

As most of you already know Jacob has been sick on and off (more on) since October. It's been a rough and stressful winter at our house.... He has had it all....

Double Ear Infection
Bronchitis
Croup
Pnemonia
More Ear Infections
And More Ear Infections...

He has pretty much been on antibiotics since October and is finally seemingly better at this point in time, but considering his past couple months it was decided at the appointment he had today with the Ear Nose & Throat doctor, that it's time for tubes in his ears.

We went through pretty much the same thing with Jackson and he got them put in at 9 months old. I'm ready for our household to be healthy and happy... it's been a wild ride!!

The office is going to call and schedule the surgery sometime this week and we will go from there, and hopefully by his 2nd birthday (April 1st) he will be HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!!

Family Pictures 11/2012

We had our family pictures taken a couple weeks ago at the Garden of the Gods which is about 2 miles from our house!! We are happy with the pictures and thought we'd share. :)

 

 Love the background.

 cold little boys!!

 My honey & I

 Love this one

 Jake & Mom

 Me & Jackson

 Jackson & Daddy

 Jes & Jake

 Jes & the boys

 Me & my boys

 Holding up the balance rock.

Re-creating a picture from last years Christmas pictures.

I have a 5 year old today!!!

Yikes!! How can Jackson be 5 already?! Time seriously needs to slooooow down!!

5 things about Jackson:

He's helpful
He's happy
He's cute
He's smart
He's loving

Of course I'm his Mom, so I'm a little biased, but he's a pretty good kid!! Our family wouldn't be the same without him!! Now that he's in school it's even more fun to see him and Jacob both excited to see each other and play. They play so well lately and I love hearing them laugh at each other.

Me holding Jackson for the 1st time

 

Daddy & Jackson bonding

 

Chubby baby when we got home from the hospital

 

Jackson's 1st bath at home!!

 

Our family!! Jackson was only a couple days old!!

 

Love from all the Grandparents and Parents

My baby starts Kindergarten Monday!!

We just got home from Howbert Elementary's Open House... Boy was that hard!! It really hit me and I found myself holding back tears!! His teacher is Mrs. Starkey. Small world.. Her daughter is attending college in Spokane!!