Hey - I got them on before February!

I got Sam back yesterday, he ate lunch and took a two-hour nap. Once he woke up and played for a little while, it was supper time. I sat him on the counter to put his meal in the microwave. He decided to just SLIP down off the counter! I was RIGHT there, so I threw my hands out to grab him... somewhere between him going down and me reaching, he banged his head on the drawer pull. He nearly never stopped crying! He has a HUGE goose egg... I felt so bad! I gave him Tylenol (for the 'headache') in hopes that would "make him feel better." No such luck! By the end of the night, he was telling us "Head hurts a little." So pitiful! Needless to say, Mama and Daddy are ready to come back and get him since I am 'hurting' him!!!!

OK, so, I need to post some CHRISTMAS pictures BEFORE it's February...

The tree... and presents!

Sam got started early!As did Bo and BJ!

Christmas morning... had to have a clean diaper to see what Santa brought!AND the hat!!! So he'll probably hate me for this outfit, but I thought it was SO CUTE... and I'll probably never get him to wear stuff I want in the future, so I'm milking it now!SANTA CAME!!!!

Not sure what to think... Ummm, guys, I think the toy store exploded in our living room!!!Sam LOVING his slide!WOW! A stocking too???? It's bigger than Sam!

The Magna-Doodle that this lady in Wal-Mart made me feel awful about buying - b/c it's made in China! I bought it anyway... and Sam LOVES to play with it - so does BJ!!!And he's in the wagon... Along with all of his new toys! Uncle Bo was THE man - along with Pop Pop... Sam and Bo played all week long!!!No time for pictures, MOM!Jake loved Christmas and Santa too... his jammies (kinda) matched Sam's!

Sam loving presents!Jake - loving presents! Well, he was tired... again!Bo was even Rock Star with Jake too!

Sam happily playing...Jake happily sleeping...All of us happily eating!!!

Jake was at the table too... =)Sam decided he needed a new pair of boots!Happy, happy Jake!

Sir Agony... later re-named PURE Agony! (Yes, it took me and Bo both to play the drums!)Can I PLEASE go upstairs now? I can't listen to this terrible music any longer!!!Lulled them right to sleep... or are they in a coma?
The whole fam...The nucleus - less the doggies... where were they?The Laterveers...Bo and Jen... ummmm... I'm ready for a SISTER already!!!!! =)

Beware of the big white SUV's...

So BJ was following me the other day - we were on the phone with each other - and I pulled into Quick Trip. I hear him yell, "Oh! My Gosh, Babe! You just cut that car off!" I replied, "huh? Are you talking to me?" "Yes," he exclaimed. To which I said, "Was that horn I heard blowing at ME???" "YES!" he yelled, "You need to pay more attention!" So now I wonder how many times something like this has happened and I had absolutely NO IDEA!!!??? If he hadn't been behind me and told me, I would have never known that I had put both of my children in harms way just then!? OH MY GOSH... I am THAT driver!!!!! I'm not just blond, but I'm a blond MOTHER of TWO, who is running on little sleep... I am literally scared now! I think too that I have slowed down a lot (well, I KNOW I've slowed down), and that makes me (amongst other things) pay attention less. Maybe I should go back to my aggressive driving...

That being said, please have compassion on those 'soccer moms' in their big white SUV's... we know not what we do, and are really trying to be EXTRA careful!!!

In the past couple of weeks, Sam has been sick, Mama and Daddy have been sick (b/c they kept Sam again for us), BJ got sick, I have been sick, and now Jake has caught it! I have been freaking myself out ALL DAY! I look at him and think he's turning blue, he's running a fever, and/or he's panting... it's just a cold, but these doctors have me scared to death that it can turn into pneumonia in no time. That being said, the last two nights, he has slept on my chest. I have gotten pretty much no sleep (which obviously makes for even worse driving experiences), and Jake is doing ok. I just hate that it's the weekend, and he's just at the beginning of this cold; it's his first; and he's a 'heart baby' which puts him at higher risk for everything. Ugggg... I am SO not a 'worrier' but Jake has brought out the best (or worst) in me, that's for sure!

I thought that Jake had lost a pound in the last month... turns out that I got a little dyslexic, and it took BJ hammering me with questions to get me to look it up in his records (I 'didn't have to b/c I could remember, thank you very much!') to find out that I had switched his L-B's with his O-Z's... OOPS!!!! My bad! Again, blaming on lack of sleep! Looking back: Like I wouldn't notice a 13 pound baby losing a whole pound... man, I'm a little slow sometimes!!! He's a chunk (a happy little chunk, I might add) and doing just fine - except for this little cold business!

I have some good pictures that I will post another time... I'm TIRED, and going to bed - SOON! Mama and Daddy have Sam, and BJ is feeding Jake so we can retire momentarily! Who am I to keep the bed waiting??? Obviously, I need some quality time with my pillow to get my sanity back!?

Finally got the pictures!

First of all, I need to take a moment of silence for fallen breast milk..............

In the chaos that is life, milk got left out in the cooler (that the ice pack melted) all day. I maybe could have saved it, but the safe thing to do was toss it. It was traumatic... that stuff is hard work - especially with juggling two kids while pumping it! On the positive side, I have a child to actually pump the milk for, so I will take that any day over my milk! But I would rather not experience that again! BJ would too... =)

Jake did his part, though... after the milk loss, he slept for EIGHT WHOLE HOURS! He ended up skipping a bottle, so that made up for our loss (a little =)! No worries, he was right back to six hours the next night!

Got the pictures downloaded... loving the new camera! Not hard to love it when you have the best 'subjects' in the world to shoot!!! Oooooo... he looks about like his mommy in the mornings!!!! He needs his milk before you talk to him!!! Sam and Pop Pop ready for the farm... Pop Pop had to wear a hat because SAM had to wear a hat! Sam really thought Pop Pop was funny!!!! And Pop Pop thought Sam was pretty funny too! =)

Sam's new play room is "really taking it out of him!"

GO TIGERS!New Year's Day... look at Jake's foot - he is OUT!!!Sam ready to go to the farm with his Daddy!Sam ready for church... that is, until we told him where he was going! He still gets a little whiny when he realizes he is at church or when he realizes we're going to church!?Jake is just a SWEET baby!

Playtime for Jake... he LOVES "kicky time" --- we just have to do it mostly while Sam isn't around, because Sam is A LOT of help!!!Night time at our house goes something like this: BJ takes Sam to take a bath (while I give Jake a bath or bottle)... this is usually what I witness if I get upstairs to see what's going on - they have such a great time together!

Once out of the tub, Sam runs around like he's got a new lease on life (it's the 'wind-up' before he crashes). This, is a pure blackmail picture, but it's just too funny!Then it's Pajama Time... he steps in and helps BJ get his jammies on.He was showing me his Buddha belly here! He was patting his belly! It was pretty funny! We laugh all the time around here!!!Then it's time to say his prayers. He repeats his prayers after BJ, and he usually can say the next part before BJ even gets it out! Have I mentioned that he's smart? That's great, but that also means I am IN FOR IT!!!

Here is our happy little Jake... SITTING UP!!! Not by himself of course - he's only three months old! He smiles all the time! And he LOVES it when we make funny faces at him! He usually sticks his tongue out at us and copies us! It's so cute!With the realization that Jake likes to sit up, we got the Bumbo out... and this is what came of it! Sam was so excited about it, and LOVES to sit in it!? He's obviously watching Sesame Street here, which is the ONLY show that he will even slow down for a second to watch... literally!

Jake finally got his chance, and he loves Bumbo too! Sam, however, thinks it's fun to tip Jake over in the Bumbo! YIKES! No worries, I won't be leaving them alone anytime soon like that!Isn't that cute? I love the little feet sticking straight out!Well, Jake likes Sesame Street too! He just has no choice as to when he gets up... until he starts crying, of course!!!And this was a split second before Sam was up and going again!

I still have Christmas pictures to post, but these will do for now!