Ha HA, Your Attempts Will Be Futile!!

Gramma - "Come on Jack, let's crawl!"

Jack- "But I don't WANNA!"

Gramma - "Come on Jack!! Lookie! Balloon!! It'll be fun! You'll be a big boy!!!!!"


Gramma - "I'll even HELP you!"

Jack - "Whew! I win again ;)"

Our Little Bum Scooter

Jack used to use his arms, throw them out in front of him and then scoot him bum toward his hands. We figured this would eventually lead to crawling. He then realized that if he didn't use his hands at all he could really get momentum with arms in the air and his body. He gets ALL over the house this way. I think the smoothness of wood floors helps. Here's a demonstration at Gramma's house.

The Process

Heels to the left, scoot bum.

Switch.

Heels to the right, scoot bum.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.
You get the idea.

A Few More to Boost my Ego

It was great, they're a fun couple, we love em'.

Jenny's Wedding

I know, I know, right now you're asking yourself, "Who is Jenny?" and "Why do we care about her wedding?"

Jenny (formerly Naujoks) was Julie and Steve's FES (foreign exchange student) a couple of years ago when she met Dan who she married yesterday.

And you care about her pictures because I took them and I have to say that I think they're great, oh look at my modest self. I think they spent about a week planning this wedding. They were going to go to the courthouse by themselves and about a week before their court date, friends and family decided to throw them a wedding. It was fun, wildly romantic and about what you'd expect from two people obsessed in love.

Camp LaDaSa

This is the LDS Church's campgroung out in willow. It's behind the church where Mike and I were married. Our ward (the group we go to church with) had a campout. We didn't campout but we did GO out.

Some of the minnows were catchable by Emma, that's great 4 year old fun.

Even Jack had a good time, he got to play a little in the water too but mostly sat in the sand.

The train tracks run right through the trail, you can see Denali (McKinley) in the background.

The Alaska State Fair 2007

Mostly we go for the petting zoo. They have this huge indoor pavilion where the animals are and besides her very own ice cream cone, that's what Emma thinks the fair is about.

Lucky little Jack got to hold his sister's balloon, for a while.


And this is our reward, a drive home in peace.

Yet Another Way to Lose Sanity

Fold and match socks with a VERY particular 4 year old just before bedtime while she agonizes over which ones to wear...to bed.
10-20 minutes later we're wearing mismatched pink and white socks and are reading happily.
I, on the other hand, immediately went and matched every sock in her sock bin as to NEVER go through the process again.
AAAAHHHHH!!!

Style, Firsts and Seconds

STYLE - Thanks Stuie for having a mom with such good taste :)


FIRSTS - Here is Jack eating his first "cookie," he bit off a small piece, spit it out and coughed up the rest. You can see the quizzical look on his face. Mike is begging me to never do it again.


SECONDS - How long I was not paying attention while Emma did this. Fortunately they're children's paints and wipe off fairly easily. Thank goodness for Behr paint.

What the?!

So Jack would take a bottle when he was tiny, then we didn't bother, now we want a date that lasts longer than like an hour and a half but he's no longer interested in the bottle and gets angry. We thought if it was HIS idea in his chair with something other than milk, he may re-get the hang of it.
He didn't do too bad but I still think it's a lost cause.


My favorite :)