Who is ready for some lateral thinking???

The person to figure this out wins a Jacuzzi in their mansion in heaven. Good luck.

Birthday Blues
The day before yesterday Freda was 17. Next year she will be 20. How can this be so?

The Boy and Little Miss

We picked the name Jacob because...well, we really liked it, but I really wanted to call him Jake. So far we've used The Boy, Jacob, Jakers and occasionally Jacobus, but I've only used the nickname Jake maybe twice. Mostly we just call him The Boy and we mostly call Lizzie, Lizzie or Little Miss.

Yesterday as I was hanging our new family pictures on the wall I started pointing to people in the pictures and asking Jacob who they were. Here's how the conversations went.

Me: (pointing to Lizzie) Who is this?
Jacob: a Sissy.
Me: (pointing to Mike) Who is this?
Jacob: a Daddy.
Me: (pointing to Jacob) Who is this?
Jacob: Da Boy.

Okay, maybe I didn't hear him right. So I continue.

Me: (pointing to me) Who is this?
Jacob: a Mommy.
Me: (pointing to Jacob) Is this Jacob.
Jacob: a Da Boy.

hahahaha! Maybe I should start using his real name more. He's gonna go to school thinking his name is The Boy. LOL.

I got this picture in an email and after seeing the news reports realized...

it's not far off.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/politics/local_elections&id=6493052

Jacob's art work and Lizzie's newest trick

Jacob loves pens. This used to freak me out with visions of him running with one in his mouth and falling or something, but I discovered that he is actually really good with them. He never puts them in his mouth or runs with them or writes on walls or anything. If they have lids he just likes to take the lid off and on over and over again, if it's a click top, he likes to click it. So when he came and grabbed a pen off the desk and took it into the other room, I didn't think anything of it. Then I found him sitting in his little chair "coloring". He drew on his hand, his shirt, then is legs and feet. Niiiiiiice.

Guess I should keep a closer eye in this kid. :)

Lizzie has figured out how to pull herself up on things. She watches Jacob and Amare' climb up on the slide all the time, I guess she wanted to give it a try. she was sure trying hard to get her foot up on that first step.

And I've never met a kid who didn't try and pull themselves up with the safety gate.

and chew on it. Yummy :)

Tagged

13 Random things I love...hmmm...where to start. There are so many!

1. I LOVE watching kid holiday movies, like The Bunny Picnic at Easter, The Great Pumpkin Charlie brown at Halloween, Charlie Brown Christmas, etc. The Holidays would not be the same without these movies. At least now I have kids to watch them with. hahaha.

2. I think I mentioned this in my 100 things about me post that I did forever ago, but I LOVE crazy shaggy pillows and rugs. I don't own any right now, but Mike has promised me that one day I can have one room in the house designated for all the shaggy pillows, rugs and any thing else crazy I want to put it in. I will hold him to that promise and when I get it, I will post pictures of it. :)

3. I love colorful dishes and square dishes. I don't know why, I just think they are cool. Again, I don't own any right now, but one day I will. I love the red, yellow, orange, blue combo's of dishes.

4. I like the smell of plain shampoo. I think because it reminds me of when I was little. You know, back before they made shampoo and soap in different scents.

5. I love looking at floor plans for houses. I think they are cool. I took an interior design class in high school and had to draw out a floor plan and put furniture in it and everything. It was seriously so stinking fun and I am obsessed with floor plans now.

6. I love interior design. If I hadn't done massage therapy, I would have done interior design and looking back, I wish I would have done both. I wasted a lot of time going to college doing nothing in particular. I love googling interior design and getting ideas for the house I will have one day...if I ever get a house.

7. I love Old Navy. I love their clothes (except for when they go through fazes of trying to bring back the 80's). I would buy all my clothes there if I could.

8. I love cheese. Especially Australian cheese. Their cheese just tastes different. I miss it.

9. I love milo. I would take a cup of milo over hot chocolate any day. I need to figure out where I can get it around here. If you've never had a tim tam slam, you have never truly lived. While I was in Australia I sent my family a big box of milo and tim tams so they could all experience it. :) YUMMY!!

10. I love cilantro. I can't get enough of it. I cook with it as often as I can.

11. While we are on food, I love pumpkin. It is the best cut into cubes and roasted. But I like pumpkin soup and pumpkin cookies too. However, I'm not a big fan of pumpkin pie. Weird, I know.

12. I love the movie The Boys Next Door. (The Hallmark one, not the psycho R rated one.) It totally cracks me up. My favorite part is when the social worker tell then that he is no longer going to be their case worker and they all start screaming at him and as he's leaving they are throwing stuff out the window at him. I laugh every time. It is such a fun movie.


13. I still love looking through the Wish Book at Christmas time. We got it every year when I was little and we would all looked through it wishing we could have every toy in there. Now I look through it remembering all the fun Christmas' we had as kids.

Okay, now I shall tag 3 people. And I choose...

Kacey, cause I'm pretty sure she hasn't been tagged in a while. Michelle B. and Doris. I am very interested in what you 3 have to say. :)

I have no words...

Wow!

We're so glad when Daddy comes home...

AS GLAD AS WE CAN BEEEEEE! Yes, Mike finally got home yesterday afternoon. Jacob was so excited to see his daddy. As soon as he walked in the door Jacob was all over him wanting him to play. Jacob was having so much fun being chased. He is just a blur in this one.

He sure missed his daddy. We all did. We are SOOO glad he's home.

To celebrate his return we decided to go out for dinner. We went to Jose Peppers. I'd never heard of it before, but it looked family friendly, so we went. It was VERY family friendly, and the food was awesome! Probably the best Mexican food I've had. Jacob made friends with the kids in the booth next to us. They were playing peek-a-boo over the wall thing that separated our tables and were giggling. At one point Jacob and one little girl did this over the wall hug thing. It was cute...until she started coughing in his face. hahaha. I was wishing I'd had my camera.