Macy LOVES "isssh"

While I've been busy editing pictures lately, Jamie and the kids have been running around having fun without me :( Thankfully, he takes the camera with him wherever he goes, so I won't miss anything. These pictures were taken way back on the day of our big snow here in Myrtle Beach at Bass Pro Shops.

While I was home editing, they were watching the fish and riding ATVs. I'm ready to cut back my workload, so I don't miss any more fun with my babies. It's hard to find balance as a mom isn't it?














Macy really does LOVE all things fish. Jadon still has yet to sit through "Finding Nemo," but Macy will sit there amazed at all of the colors swimming in the water. She's also recently learned to say "duck," after Gramma and Grandpa bought her a stuffed yellow duck for Easter. It's one of the words she can say very clearly.

Two Point Five

Yesterday my sweet baby boy turned 2 1/2 years old. Two and a half sounds like a baby. I always thought a 2 1/2 year old would look like a baby, but really 2 1/2 is slightly heartbreaking, when I look at how much Jadon has grown lately.

A few weeks ago, he had his first pony ride at the annual Christmas tree lighting at Broadway @ the Beach, while Gramma, Grandpa, Jamie, Macy and I watched from the sidelines.





He loves going on family walks in the double stroller. He usually has to take something with him for the ride---one day a few seashells, another day Elmo. He ALWAYS has to stop and see the tractor near our clubhouse. There is no seat, but he always has Jamie carry him up to it, so he can get a closer look. At some point during the stroll, he always asks for a leaf or a stick and happily holds it back to the house. Only a few times has he tried to feed the leaf to Macy or poked her from behind with the stick :P Boys!

Jadon also loves church. He always asks if we can go there. I remind him we go on Sundays. Tonight he told Grandpa and Uncle Chris that they needed to go to church "on Sunday." haha

He also loves reading his Bible. The other day before naptime, after we finished reading "If You Take a Mouse to the Movies," he said, "Let's read the Bible." Ummmm...okay :) He likes to say lots of things about "Baby Jesus and Mary and Joseph." He knows the word "angel" and that the wisemen "give baby Jesus presents." He knows that God wants him to "love Sister and love Mama and love Daddy...and share with Sister," but he has yet to put the sharing part into action ;) No matter how big he looks, he is only 2.5...remind me of this hourly, please :D

He loves stuffed animals, though I think his obsession with Dr. Seuss that lasted about 6 weeks is coming to an end. A few weeks ago, you would have heard him reciting lines from "Green Eggs and Ham." Many times, when we would tell him to sit down to eat, he would tell us, "Try it, try it, so I say. Try it, try it, and you may..." He would also watch a Dr. Seuss DVD with several short cartoons. He loved to recite lines with me. I'd start, he would finish. So cute!
Jadon loves his buddy Ashton. He is just three days older than Jadon. He has a big sis, Aryanna who is six. He's had a few playdates with him and also saw him at Auntie Em's church on a few Sunday mornings. When he goes down the list of people he is thankful for each night, during his prayers, Ashton is always named :)

A few of the most challenging issues we've faced with him lately have been keeping him out of the house tree we now have in the foyer (it was outside in warmer weather). You may remember we had the same issue last year.

I really would have predicted Macy would be the one in it, but to date, she hasn't had any interest. Jadon, however, will not stay out of it. Everytime we take our eyes off of him, we find another car in the potting soil and a trail of dirt on the floor. He is constantly asking if he can "put cars in the drivedray." Oh, my word!

The other issue we've had lately is him telling us he has to poop, so he can get out of going to bed. This doesn't happen often, but when he does pull this stunt, he drags it out for at least 30 minutes. He'll CRY telling us he needs to poop, then he'll sit there, and sit there, and sit there. We'll tell him, "Alright, enough. Time to go to bed. All done." Whawhawha...crying fit ensues...we feel guilty thinking, "What if he DOES need to poop? What if he IS constipated or having trouble? Okay, then poop!" Repeat cycle. Blah. I decided to amuse myself and take a pic of his fake "I have to poop" face, while he was on the potty the other night for a minimum of 30 minutes. Drain. The life. Out. Of. Me!

Good thing he's cute ;) Despite all of his antics, which obviously still includes endless hours of redirection in sharing toys and being completely on top of Macy at all times, this little boy has us wrapped around his chubby, little 2.5 year old finger. Love him to pieces. Could not be more in awe of God choosing us to raise him. Two point five years to kindergarten! :(

This is really it!

We had a TON of pics from October, and I just found a few more! Geez! Waaay back on October 24, Jamie took Jadon to a kid's event at our local Chick-fil-A. Macy was fevered and had a runny nose that day, so we stayed home, while they painted pumpkins. Jadon was his typical self, and didn't want to jump on the inflatables, choosing only to stand there and people watch haha. It is so funny to see Jadon be cautious around people in public because at home, he is a MANIAC! I guess he was also obsessed with the blow up cow and loved painting his baby pumpkins. It was nice to see the pics Jamie took, since I wasn't able to be there to watch him. So thankful for a good daddy :)

This cracks me up! I just don't get it, when he does this. He is far from shy, but sometimes he just decides he has no interest in things...more like he's sad?? I don't know, but it is definitely not typical behavior. Funny. Jamie said this is all he would do, just stand there. Then he kept telling Jamie, "No. Go home." Whatever.

Naptime @ the Beach

We've struggled a few times in the last couple of months to get Jadon to take a nap, so when the weather is nice and sunny, we've decided to just take him out and let him play, rather than frustrate ourselves and have to keep going into the bedroom to tell him to get back into bed. This little boy could talk and talk for HOURS, before he will fall asleep sometimes. He doesn't really mind being in the bedroom, but if he doesn't nap, we are surely in for a troublesome afternoon. There have been days lately, when he has been in the bedroom talking away from 1pm-3pm, only to finally take a nap from 3pm-6pm. RE-READ: Our kid is taking up half of our lives, just to do naptime!!!

Thankfully there are days we can just go hang out at the beach and let him play, skip naptime, send him to bed at 8pm and have quiet for the next 12-13 hours. Oh wait, that would be the case, but we have another baby to contend with. Ha! Very little peace and quiet in this house, but lots of fun times with sweet, little faces :)

This little man is ALL about seashells! He had to bring them all home and named them Daddy, Momma and Sister haha :P

Disgruntled ;)

And the runny noses we are now dealing with (three days later) somehow came from this trip to the beach. As soon as we started to walk to the car, the snot started running from Jadon's nose, and has yet to stop :/ Poor, poor Macy Bleu. This is their THIRD bout of runny noses in the last six weeks or so! Geez!