A nice little Arctic Blast

We got a nice little blast of winter this weekend and it is expected to stay until at least Sunday. We took the children outside right when it started getting snowy. I took them out again today, but I didn't allow them to stay out too long since it was so darn cold! They both love it! Isaac is obsessed with snowballs, and he keeps falling over like the child in Christmas Story and can't get back up. Jazmine keeps planting her face in the snow to eat it and thinks making snow angels is the best thing ever!

Quick Update

I know I have been slacking terribly on the blog updates. Sorry. It seems like there is never enough time in a day most days.

The children are amazing me daily. Jazmine is turning into such a perfectionist and there is no middle ground with her when she needs something a certain way. And her new thing when you tell her to do something is "In just a minute mommy, I am doing this." We have also been working on "reading", though I know it's really memorization at this point. But she is up to 15 words she can tell you on sight what they say. Her absolute favorite thing to do is "play with her words". I actually heard about a great home schooling reading program that I am trying to find and buy. She loves books and reading so much!!

Isaac is amazing, too. The words and phrases he says always surprise me. You would never guess he is only 18 months by listening to him talk. His current favorite phrases are "I'm coming" "I got it" and my fav..."Love you more". He has a laugh that he laughs all the way to the tips of his toes. You can not hear him laugh and not have it make you smile and giggle yourself. This last week he has been testing me, though, with a head start of the "Terrible Two's". He started hitting, biting, throwing things, and even flips over the coffee table and knocks over the highchairs when he is in the middle of not getting what he wants. Time out and even spankings have been a part of his daily routine this week, more so than ever before. I sure hope this passes soon!

I promise to do a better job of keeping up to date!! Also, here is my new fav pic of the children...

Here are my "babies" this Thanksgiving. Though I must say the do not look much like "babies" any more. As for the pictures....there was a ton of chaos with so many small children so I didn't get very many good pictures. And there were NO highchairs, so I had no time to get pics of them eating all the good grub because I was way too busy keeping them at the table.





This last picture is my favorite! When it was time for desert Isaac climbed right up with Daddy and Grandma. And if you look carefully at the picture, you will notice that he was being very well taken care of!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Just for fun I thought we'd take a peek back at LAST Thanksgiving. Then we can compare when I post this years tomorrow. :) Last year Isaac had turned 6 months the day of Turkey day. And Jazmine was not quite two yet.

These pics always make me smile!!!