SNOW In Sherwood!!!

Ok, so it snowed about 5" at our house yesterday, and it was a HUGE surprise! Everyone kept telling us that its a 'el nino' year (is that right?) and so it would be a warm winter, and nothing like last years 'Artic Blast' . So you can guess my surprise when it started dumping outside during Toby's nap, and by the time he woke up we already had about 2"! So I layered his clothes like crazy (since we hadn't even bought a winter coat for him) and we ran outside to play.

His super cheesy 'say cheese' smile.

Sledding in the yard.

And in the street.

Building a snowman. Toby LOVES snowmen.

After who knows how long of being out in the freezing cold, the only way I could coax him back inside is by telling him we could have 'candy in a cup' also known as hot chocolate. Ha ha. It was his first cup of it and he loved it. (take notice of Jack in the background, he's a little oblivious to all the excitement :)

And a little shout out to my little sis Hanna, who's staying with us all week (and we're LOVING it!) If it weren't for her being here, and staying inside to watch the little dude, there's no way me and Toby could have gone out and had all the fun we did. We love you Hanny!

Sweet Baby Blue Eyes

Little Drummer Boy

Here is Toby playing on his new drum set from his birthday party in Eugene (Thanks Aunt Julie and Uncle Dave!) I don't know if he's quite ready to help you with worship yet, maybe after a little more practice. But he loves it, almost as much as he loves being on the camera, as you can see in this video.

Mr. Fuzz

I love the sweet baby fuzz.

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Birthday!!!!

Our little man turned TWO today!

Here's a video of him telling you that...and just think this is before a sugar high from his cupcake.

Gingerbread House

For his first time ever, Toby got the honor of helping Granny and Grandpa Swanson build and decorate their annual gingerbread house.

My Mom has all of the old ones we've made throughout the house as decoration, and we caught the little stinker sneaking off pieces of the old candy numerous times. Well, I guess he's not that sneaky when he comes and announces to all of us that he has 'CANDY!!!' and hurriedly puts it into his mouth.
I wish this one of Grandma wasn't blurry, but I still love it of her :)

Fishy face
Oh no! Mommy caught me eating all the candy!

And sadly, this is the best smile I could get out of him... impressive right?

Jack meets Jack

Baby Jack finally got to meet my Grandpa Jack.

(hint...it's who he's named after) :)

Grandpa just got diagnosed with Alzheimer's and is staying at my parents house right now, so it was a really special to get to spend a lot of time with him and Grandma when we were up in Yakima for Thanksgiving.

I think they love each other.

Nike Ad?

Pound

A Glimpse

I know it's horribly exciting, but this is a few second glimpse into my day :)

Jack is laying around, grunting and trying to get some gas out.

And Toby, ohhh my crazy Toby, he had just made a monstrous mess in the living room by emptying his toy box, then proceeded to pick up blocks and put them in his mouth and then blow them into the empty toy box.

My boys are pretty cool, right?! lol...You don't have to answer that.

My Cookie Monster

Happy to help. Well that, and eat chocolate chips.

I had to document the first time he was allowed to 'lick the spoon'.

He kept looking at me and saying "mmmm....YUMMY! COOOKIE!"

I Love Him...

Although he likes to spit up, fart, poop and pee on me, and really enjoys screaming all hours of the night while I'm trying to sleep...I still adore this little dude more than words can say.

Can you blame me?

Toby and Gack (yes...Gack)

Toby wanted in on the video action too. He loves his baby 'Gack'!

Wiggles and Grunts

I can't believe that we have survived a not yet two year old and a newborn for 4 weeks now!

WoooHooo!

Here is a little video of what Jack has been up to these day, beware, it's pretty exciting ;)

Shot Please...

I just had to share this story because it's one of the cutest things ever...

We had Jack's two week check-up today (he's doing great by the way). We were all there and it was taking quite a while, Toby was getting fussy and kept saying 'go, go' and pointing to the door. Finally it was his turn to sit up on the doctors table to get some attention...only he didn't know that he was there to get a flu shot. He didn't have a clue what a shot is, but he wanted one. The nurse walked in and asked if he wanted a sticker (maybe to warm him up before the big poke) he said 'yaAAAhh!' and then Jamie asks him, 'Toby, do you want a shot?' Toby then says 'yaAAAHHH! SHOT!' He then looks at the nurse and says 'Shot, peez!' very enthusiastically (while making the please ASL sign for please)

We are horrible parents by the way...lol.

Then she gives him the shot (while we are all laughing). He just looks at the nurse with a ouch look and then says in his own way 'thank you' that sounds more like 'do do'. And continues to chant the word 'SHOT' while being very proud that he got a shot.

I love that kid. He asks for a shot with a please, and thanks the nurse for the pain right afterwards. Too sweet :)

Brothers

Toby's having a great time, I'm not too sure about Jack...
But it's nothing a kiss couldn't solve.

He really thinks Jack's chair is the coolest thing, I'm pretty sure he's gonna break it...

Jamie's pretty confident of it's quality though, so he decides to place our sweet little newborn baby on it too, I cringed, and then took a picture because it was too cute.

My Whole World

This melts my heart more than anything,

even more than puppies, and I love puppies.

Oh, Hi baby Jack, I didn't see you there!

Grandma and Grandad

Grandma, Grandad , Aunt Ellen and Uncle Michael came up for the day today to meet Jack and play with Toby. Grandma with her two little guys.
Lovin' life

The Notorious Baby Hog in action ;)

Brothers

Since we have been home, Toby hasn't been very interested in Jack. He wasn't jealous, just indifferent, probably thinking that he would soon leave. But yesterday I think he realized that he was here to stay, and he's been warming up more and more. Being a good helper and washing baby Jacks binkie for him.
While Jack was sitting in his bouncy seat, Toby went up to him and wrapped his arms around his little tummy and tried lifting him up to hold him. So we put them on the couch together. It was SO sweet. Toby kept patting him and rubbing his soft head.

Here he is putting the binkie in, even when Jack doesn't want it. Good thing he's a good sport. Yesterday when Toby woke up from his nap, he came running out of his room shouting "Baby?!" and looking all over for him. I love it, it's going to be so much fun when he's a little older and they can interact a little more.

Kisses:)

Grammy and Grandpa

I love this. The only way we could get Toby to smile was having Jamie bribe him with a gummi worm, little stinker.

Trying to balance life with two grand babies, and loving it :)

Jack

This is what he's best at, sleeping and being cute.

Ahhh...Cuddling.

One bonus for being holed up here in our room is having as much cuddle time as we want. We're loving it :)

We love these eyes.

One of Jamie's favorite things ever. He has been missing this stage so much since Toby has gotten so big and rarely cuddles.

So Sweet

Here are a couple more pictures, I figured I at least owed you that much since we're not allowed any visitors (due to that stinkin' swine flu). It's been pretty hard/weird for us to not have anyone stopping by. The time is going by REALLY slowly! I can't wait to go home and see my other little dude, and let the boys meet (since Toby isn't even allowed here). We have been talking with him on Skype and showing him baby Jack (or 'baby gack' as he calls him). Jamie has been able to go home a let Toby keep some normalcy in his life by getting him ready for bed last night and hanging out at home for a couple hours today while me and Hanna hang here with Jack. We are all doing really well though, I'm feeling great and Jack is just the 'perfect' baby. We are so excited for you all to meet him soon!! This has pretty much been Jack since he's been born,

sleeping and being awake happy. He is such a content little guy.

I'm hoping that's how he'll stay too :) He is such a blessing to us already.

I don't think you can tell from any of the pictures,

but his eyes are a really pretty slate gray blue.
And he has Toby's little dimple chin, although not as prominent as Toby's was.

Here he's not too happy about his first bath (well, sponge bath)

I'm In Love...Again

Just a few from right after he was born. Still nice and dirty :)
I think this one looks SO much like Toby.

Seriously, could God bless us any more? Wow.