Sibling bonding.

This is generally how I find the little monkeys after I send them to bed. Jack loves his sister. Tonight I went up to give them something and they were in bed together and Caroline was "reading' to Jack. So sweet. And don't you love how Jack is all sprawled out. I love it when they play together. They are the nicest to each other in the bath and have so much fun in there and trouble as you can see from my last post. But Jack has trouble going to sleep and I think it is so sweet that he is comforted by his sister. I hope they love each other as they grow older and not fight all the time, cause we got plenty of that going on already too. But I think they are friends first, and always will be.

Mr. accident prone

This is one of many of a string of injuries Jack has had recently. I often find myself asking questions like how many times are you gonna bleed this week? Or how many food items are you going to dump out today? But Jack already has one scar under his chin from an incident with the stroller and side walk. But within the last few weeks, Jack fell and bit his tongue and was bleeding like crazy everywhere, and of course I had to take him to a sitter that night because I had to drive the youth to Waco. Then about a week later he busted his lip messing around in the car. His hand slipped and he face planted into the shifter. I was like oh my gosh you are bleeding again? And of course that night I had to take him to the same sitter for Young Womens. She probably thinks I abuse my kids. We gave him some popsicles and he was happy about that and the next day you couldn't even tell anything happened. He looked awful though. But then the next night in the bath I run to put cloths away in the room accross the hall and Caroline yells for me to come back and I see Jack holding my razor and his leg is just bleeding and it wont stop. They put their step stool in the bath and got my razor down out of the shower caddy. Those nuaghty little monkeys. I guess Jack had seen me shave and decided he wanted to try it out. It was so sad, he was just like "ouch ouch" I could not get it to stop bleeding, but I am a terrible mother and never take her kids to the hospital or doctor. So I just put a Bandaid on it and called it good. It did stop bleeding and he was fine, but really how much blood is this boy gonna loose. I feel like something else happened between the tongue bite and the busted lip, but I can't remember. He is just so clumsy. Caroline only had one bleeding incident at this age. I do remember her getting hurt a lot though, but not as much as Jack. Now you all are probably calling the authorities on me. But he is tough little boy, and I promise if it is real emergency I will call 911.

Jack the 2 year old....

My little boy has grown up so much and sooo fast. I do not know how he got so big.

Jack right after he was born. He was so tiny.


Jack at 1 year old. I was giving him his first haircut. He was so fat still. I can't believe how much he has changed in just the last year. Where did my fat little boy go.


Here is my two year old little boy. Don't be fooled by that innocent face. He is 100% a two year old. tantrums, irrational behavior ect...
Jack is a boy through and through. He loves cars, balls, and toy story. He gets so excited when he hears the opening credits of toy story. Of course he won't sit through the whole movie. He is too cute. He doesn't say too much, but is starting to more and more everyday. His favorites are Mommy and No. Whenever I leave the room he says "Mommy, Mommy, Where are you?" He is definitley a Mama's boy. I love my little boy so much. If you told me I would love him this much before he was born, I wouldn't have believed you. He is super naughty though don't get me wrong, but I am slow to anger when it comes to Jack. So he is pretty spoiled I'm not gonna lie, but I hate to see my baby boy cry. Thats where Daddy comes in. He loves Daddy too and whenever Ryan or any other man (like the maintence guy) are aroud doing some kind of handy work, Jack is right there to help. He always wants to be where the men are. It's funny how my kids are just so gender specific, though Jack does for some reason like to steal Caroline's panties?? Once I found a whole stash in his room. I was wondering where all her underwear were going. Anywho I could gush forever about my naughty little bitter, but I will stop, but I can't get over how much he has grown and changed. I really was in denial about him growing up.

Jackers turned 2!!!

Mr. Jack turned 2. Can you believe it? I thought he was gonna stay a baby. Anywho these are some picture from his little party we had for him. i didn't take as many pictures as I did video tape, but I am not sure how to get those off the camera let alone onto the computer. He was a cranky boy because he woke up at 6am that morning. But he enjoyed opening presents and eating cake. We had a pinata, but the kids didn't really get it, but they did hit each othe with the stick so we had to end that game. Jack's favorite present was his Toy Story underwear. Hopefully this is a sign he will be easy to potty train. So not looking forward to that.

Caroline and her little friend Gracie. They matched.


MMM cake. His hands were all blue because he already got into the icing and then he got it all over the place.

Birthday boy!

woody cake

Other Christmas festivities.

We had lots of Christmas fun this year. As the kids get older there are so many christmas things you have to do with them. Take them to see santa, class parties ect...The Firday before break Caroline's school had a Christmas assembling, which I didn't make it too, bad Mommy, and then her class had a party, which I did make it too, with Jack. Now I know why they ask you to try and not bring your younger children. Jack was stealing food off other kids plates. It was mayhem. But, Caroline was so happy that I was there. Then that evening we had our church Christmas party. They had great food, cookies (I ate too much) and the kids all dressed up for a live nativity. They were so cute. It was lots of fun! On Christmas Eve, our friends the Garners were nice enough to invite us over and we had all kinds of yummy finger foods, and we all acted out the nativity and then the adults played scatagories. I always get a kick out of that game. On Christmas morning we spent time with the Farabees. And that evening with the utleys and a few other families. We played a game called outburst guys against girls. The missionaries were there for that too, but they didn't play, but some of those topics got questionable, like differnet names for marijuana. That question was for the boys and I was shocked at their knowledge of drug slang and I am not totally convinced the missionaries weren't helping them out. We had a good time and I am so grateful for such wonderful friends who let us come to their home and share in their holiday.



Jack and his friend Ryker Farabee. You can tell they are trouble from this picture. They are so cute and they remind me so much of each other. Silly little boys.



All the kids at the garners dressed up like Mary and Joseph and shepards.



Caroline and Max at the church Christmas party. I know Caroline's costume is weak, but I forgot.



Caroline at the Christmas party again.



Caroline at ther class party. She was so happy to see me!!

Christmas Time at the Durr's

We had a great Christmas this year! Caroline got a bike and Jack a train set! Though as you can see below Jack always wants to play with whatever Caroline gets. They loved the Christmas candy too of course. Above is our first nativity set. I have always wanted one. We got this one at hobby lobby 50% off. I love that store. I love having the reminder in my home of why we are celebrating. I liked how we had lights around the garland kind of lighting up the nativity, though you can't tell in the picture.

This is one of my attempts of getting the kids picture in front of the tree. Jack would only sit for a candy cane, but wouldn't take the candy cane out of his mouth for the picture.

The only one Jack smiled in.

Jack trying out Caroline's new back, which the dog chewed the seat and bar cover off of that day.

They love Christmas candy!!

Tired Santa putting the bike together. He was such a good sport even though he had to put so many things together.

Jack on Santa's lab....we waited forever in line to see Santa and the kids weren't feeling well it was awful and Jack threw up for the first time in his life in the car after this. But they were happy to see Santa.

Caroline was so happy to see Santa and tell him what she wanted!!