First Steps

I don’t have a photo to corroborate this news, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
On Sunday night we went to visit my parents for a bit. My sister stopped over while we were there and between my mom and sister, it was as if Jake was in sugar overload. Someone just [...]

Jake . . . a miniseries

Matt surprised me with a new camera for Valentine’s Day. Happy Valentine’s Day to me. He definitely showed me up on the gift giving this year considering he got homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast, a card and Reese’s peanut butter cup heart, and some incense and a burner for his music room. 
But, back to my [...]

A whole lot of sickness

Right now I am listening to Jake bark like a seal from his room. He’s trying to take a nap, but his coughing is keeping him awake. And it’s stressing me out. 
It has now been 4 1/2 weeks that he’s been fighting one thing or another. It started out as a little cold and then [...]

These are a few of Jake’s favorite things . . .

Pulling out all the papers, foils, and ziploc bags from the bottom drawer in the kitchen . . . 

Then pulling the individual ziploc bags out of the box and proceeding to scatter them all over the kitchen.
Hey, when you know you only have a limited window to cook dinner and this occupies your child in [...]

Jake’s First Christmas . . . take two

Well, it’s the first of February and I have no excuse for posting more Christmas pictures this late. I had every intention of posting more photos before the end of January, but I must have fallen into a black hole. It happens a lot. It had nothing to do with the fact that I get [...]