FEED ME!!!!

This little man of ours is just way to active. I had just gotten home from the store and was putting groceries away, thus the fridge door was open. I turned around to get something and when I turned back, I found this....

9 Months old. I just cant believe him sometimes. My mom and I were laughing so hard. It was just too cute. Apparently he was hungry and I was just not fast enough for him, so he had to take matters into his own hands.

Jameson Firsts

Jameson is growing way to fast. It always happens doesn't it. We just go through each day and they get bigger and bigger and progress so fast.

I just thought I would document a few of his firsts for memory sake. He is now officially 9 months old (as of a few days ago) and is just getting into everything and keeping us on our toes. He climbs the stairs, gets into the bathroom, loves to pull drawers open and empty them of their contents, and has officially taken his first steps. WOW! He is an amazing little man. I am so proud of him.

Here are some pictures of some of the fun times with Jameson.

This is actually one of the first times he was able to pull himself up on the hearth. It was about at 6 months or so. He has now moved on to climbing onto it and cruising along the fireplace. He will also lean over the edge to get something off the floor and kind of belly slide (like a seal) to get off. It is very comical to watch.

This is actually the very first time he stood up on his own. It was just a bit before Christmas so he was about 8-1/2 months old. I just thought I would snap a shot and text to Jim at work to say hi. I stood him up thinking he would fall down and he didnt. I quickly took the shot. Now, he is all over the place. LOL. What was I thinking teaching him a new trick. He has enough in his arsenal. LOL.

And here is his lovely drawer emptying abilities. He loves to pull open these drawers and pull out all the towels and rags. The drawer below has all the "kids" cups and he loves to play around with those as well. Fun times.

Here he is with his first sucker. Boy it really pays to have older siblings!!!!! He loved this one. I couldnt help it, I had to take a picture before I took the sucker away from him. LOL. Look at those chubby little cheeks. He was really sucking hard on that one.

I love this one as well. Notice the binky upside down. He loves to put it in this way. He is just TOO COOL FOR THE BINKY!!!!

Don't Eat Pete!!!

I just had to blog this mostly so that I would not forget the moment. We played Don't Eat Pete for FHE last night and Daniel was just hilarious. If you are not aware how to play... We divided a piece of paper into 8 slots. Each family member got to draw a face. We then sent one person out of the room and decided which face was "Pete". I put 2 pieces of M&M's on each face and when the family member came back to the room, they started eating candy off the faces. When they got to the face we chose as Pete, everyone screams "Don't Eat Pete."

It was a lot of fun. The kids had a blast. Daniel was the 5th person to go out of the room, so he had watched all the brothers eat the candy and was sooooo excited to get his chance to eat candy. When he came back in the room, he just started shoving the M&M's in his mouth as fast as he could. He was laughing so hard and as he was putting candy into his mouth, it was falling out. He actually did very well and did not pick "Pete" until last, so he got to have all of the candy. He was a slobbery, laughing, cocholate mess, but he was so very cute. It was adorable. At 2, I am not sure he understood the idea of the game, but boy did he understand that you get to eat the candy. LOL. What a fun night. FHE can really be entertaining at times.

Roses

Jim likes to surprise me with roses sometimes when he goes to the store in the evening (usually for milk LOL). The other day he had to run to the store and came home with 2 roses, one for his wife and one for his little princess. How totally sweet.

Abby was thrilled to get a rose of her own. She was not so thrilled to get her picture taken, but she did enjoy daddy's attention and rose.

Thank you Daddy, your girls love you so much.

The boys sledding

We decided to make a backyard sledding run for the kids to enjoy. It is small, but they had a blast going down the little hill we made.

There is just a bit of a slope to our backyard, so after piling snow up we were able to make a nice little run for the boys. Tyler and Jacob really had some fun. Here is some video of them going down.

Towards the end, Tyler added a few bumps and was trying to catch some air while sledding. He had a great time.

Christmas Carols from Abby and Daniel

Jim won a digital video camera at his work Holiday party last night. I have had a bit of fun playing with it today, so I thought I would try my hand at uploading videos to blogger.

This is a video of Abigail and Daniel serenading us with Christmas songs. She loves to sing and he loves to do anything she is doing...

I love how she has started to bow when she is done performing. I am not sure where she picked this up at, but it is just too cute. And in typical Daniel fashion, we get a little push at the end. I hope you enjoyed the video and look forward to more fun videos of the kids.

Here are a few shots of the kids playing in the snow yesterday after the huge snow storm. They had a good time, but were dissappointed that they could not make very good snowballs to throw at each other. They found other ways though.

The boys climbing the "mountain" of snow from shoveling off the driveway.

Princess Abigail finding her way in all this snow. She had a hard time as most everywhere she went it was to her armpits.

Sunshine enjoying a nice comfy seat just the right size for his small frame. He had a great time also, but like Abby became quickly overwhelmed at the amount of snow. It was hard for these little guys to do much more than just walk on the shoveled sidewalk as the snow was just too deep for them.

Jacob and Noah trying to rescue the sleds from the jungle gym. They were pretty buried, but never fear, mommy came to their aide and pulled them out. Jacob then became frustrated as he "tried" to sled down the small slope in our backyard, but failed. Again, just too much snow. We will have to go out there next week and build a little sledding hill of our own for them to enjoy.

Putting Sunshine to work. He is a great little helper. Notice Abby in the background in the safety of the house. She got too cold and too tired of trying to climb over all the mounds of snow. She did the smart thing and went inside to stay warm.

With this picture you can also see how deep it is. I only shoveled a little bit on the back porch and all of it went out over the railing, so what Sunshine is standing next to is as deep as it got. There is over 24 inches back there. It is amazing how fast it came, so much in just a short time.

Tyler had fun running from the top of the slope in the backyard and jumping into the fresh snow. He is totally covered here. The only downfall, he said, was the snow that snuck its way into his boots and gloves.

Noah standing in the middle of the jungle gym. he was trying really hard to clear all the snow out so he could play. Not sure if he ever got it the way he wanted it. He had fun trying though.

Some icicles off the back of the house. The kids had a great time throwing snowballs at them to knock them down with plenty of warning from mom to stand back so they don't get impailed, followed by a lengthy discussion on what it means to get impailed and then stories from the boys about guts falling and etc, etc, etc...

I really do think the snow is beuatiful. It is hard to drive in, but just look at this... I love going for walks in the snow, especially when it is snowing. There is just something about it that is so peaceful. The snowfall adds a muffled tone to the noise of the world that I really enjoy. It is so pretty to look at also. Granted, there is a lot more than we really know what to do with at this point, but it is gorgeous none-the-less. Lets see what I say after all of the next few snow storms make their way over us. We are due for more snow in the coming week. I just wonder how much this time.