Snow For Breakfast

We woke up this morning to a light dusting of snow. The first thing Jamie did was go out with Toby, scoop up some snow on a plate and take it inside to eat. It was hilarious to see Jack's reactions to the cold but he wouldn't slow down, he just kept shoving it into his mouth.

Jamie even stayed home for a extra hour and half to play with the boys, since snow is such a rarity here. Such a blessing to have some fun family time. What a great Daddy these two boys have.

These Eyes...

Are beautiful, aren't they?! Jack's are big, round and bright blue. Toby's are almond shaped, and blue-green-gray as we say. I love them. And I can't tell you how excited we are to add some beautiful brown/black ones to the mix!

He's Walking!

Jack took his first step in early August while we were in Black Butte (he was a little over 10 months old) Only Jerry and I saw it, we were forcing him to try on the porch, and surprisingly he did it. Since then he has gradually been making progress. A couple weeks ago, right after turning one he just decided that he wanted to walk....all the time. I have failed to get him on film (our camcorder right now is not compatible with our laptop) so I had to use the web cam this morning to capture it. He usually has his arms in the air, I wonder if it's a balance thing, or him just being so used to someone holding his hand to walk, and just waddles around. He's had quite a few bumps and bruises, Toby seems to think that Jack is a lot more capable of his tackles and (rough) hugs now that he can walk, so he's getting pushed around more than before, hence the bumps and bruises.



I was a little late getting Jack in for his one year check up, we went last week. Here are his stats if you're interested: (even if you aren't I'll do it anyways, since this is my 'baby book' of sorts :)

Weight: 25 pounds 4 ounces (Which puts him at 80th percentile)

Length: 32 inches (94th percentile)

Head Circumference: 47 1/2 centimeters (77th percentile)

He's a happy, healthy little dude!

October 31st, 2010

We had such a fun Halloween. The big event was Athey Creek's Harvest Festival. They had all sorts of games, a cake walk (which Toby and I won as soon as we got there! wooohooo!) a professional photographer to take your picture, an awesome biblical puppet show, and lots of friends. We had a blast, although it was very, very crowded, we still got loaded up on candy and Toby had a ton of fun, which was the goal. We love our church.


Practicing his "ROOOAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!!!!"


Trick Or Treating at Mr. Phils (our tenant and next door neighbor). Right after this we started to load the boys into the car and then our neighbor from the other side of our house, George, yelled out "Karen has been waiting for those boys, you better go see her!" So we hopped on out and ran over there before we left for church. I sure enjoy our neighbors. They love our boys :)

Like father, like son.


Fishing for candy... definitely the best kind of fishing, if you ask me or Toby.

Toby was captivated by the puppet show.

Here's our family photo from the festival.

And I just had to include this one...it's Hanna, Chris & Katie Niehus and some friends of theirs Anthony and Nick. SO funny. Hanna got quite a few curious stares from the kids, it seemed that the utters were eye level with most of them, it was priceless.

The Simple Things

Who needs expensive toys when you have bubble wrap?!

Self Portrait

Here is Toby's first drawing of a person...up until now there's been a lot of snakes (squiggly lines), O's (circles), and T's and crosses. I think it's a pretty accurate drawing ;) I took some child development classes way back when and in one of my books I remember them laying out the progression of how kids start drawing people and this is always what the first one looked like, a head with legs coming out of it.

A proud boy.