The things we said we would never do...

Dear Adam
Remember all those things we swore we would never do??? Well it seems we have started down a slippery slope, and it is a VERY slippery slope indeed!   I'm sure it all started by doing one tiny little insignificant thing that we said we would never do... so insignificant that I can't even remember what it was. I'm sure we brushed it off and said "no big deal, we're still cool." But oh Adam... let us count the ways that we have BROKEN our own rules (and lets try not to place any blame here...)
1. We will never let our kids sleep in our bed
2. We will never let our child yell at us
3. We will never buy our child something to get them to behave

4. We will never let our kids get food and smudgy fingerprints all over our house
5. We will never let our kids have so many toys that they over-rule our garage
6. We will never devote a room in our house to our kids "play room"
7. We will never let our kids toys clutter up our yard
8. We will never listen to stupid kid songs in the car
9. We will never let our kids dictate what we watch on TV
10. We will never let our children's nap schedule dictate our lives

Nona found the perfect pumpkin

11. We will never let our kids have control over what they want to eat
12. We will never let our kids deter us from traveling and having adventures
13. We will never put our children before each other
AND
14. we said we would never drive a mini-van, BUT now we are coveting one.  We are planning and saving to purchase one. One with automatic doors, DVD's, and STORAGE.

So serious...

We may have fallen off our high horse Adam, but I think we are loving every minute of it.  These little boogers of ours are bending our rules, making us uncomfortable, taking our time, money, and energy.  But their love is unconditional, our family is happy and blessed. I am so thankful for YOU, Jack-Jack and baby NonaJane. Even if you don't FEEL like you are my # 1... you will always be my man. We have each other for the long haul my dear... so for now, let's just keep bending the rules :)

With ALL MY LOVE
your wife
Kelly Lyn

I'm already scared of a 'teenage' NonaJane... ha! look at this face!!!

The Best moment of the day :)

the small stuff

Jack showing NonaJane his computer games

A moment of sweetness

When I started this blog, I thought I would cherish it for capturing all the BIG moments in our lives. Like birthdays and holidays..  but I am realizing that the amazing part of this blog is catching the small things, the sweet moments, and the frustrating times.  The moments that may otherwise go forgotten. Lately we have scaled back on our crazy schedule and actually spent a few weekends at home. It has been quiet, calm, and heavenly which means Adam has been bored out of his mind. Anyhoo... we had our first COLD night which is why Nonajane is dressed in an assortment of non-matching clothing items. I still can't give the girl a blanket, so instead I layered her like crazy. 
Big things have been going on in her little 5 month old world as well! She can now roll across the room and get herself stuck in the weirdest of places. Half under the ottoman, legs under the crib, wrapped around furniture etc. She grabs and scratches at everything and I swear she has a death grip. She likes to grab hold of the flesh on my neck which does NOT feel good.  I didn't realize I had that much skin on my neck... should i be self-conscious?
The other day I tried setting her up in her boppy pillow, and discovered that she can SIT! Who knew?? She can sit in there for a long time without a hitch. I tried letting her sit without any support and she lasted about 10 seconds. Longer than I thought :)

"This is no big thing Mom"

Jack and her are getting along much better now. She thinks everything he does is funny. Even when he is smothering her, licking her, and screaming in her ear. These are all things that he seems to do on a daily basis. On the plus side Nona is developing and extreme tolerance for annoying behavior :)  But we have also been catching Jack in random acts of sweetness. He holds her hand, kisses her, and will cuddle up next to her.  Grandma jokingly asked him if she could have Nonajane. Jack answered seriously "NO!" when Grandma asked why he replied "because i LOVE her." and my heart melted :)

Preparing for the Broncos game

 Jack continues to get smarter and cuter everyday. He can play computer games by himself (and I think he would play them ALL day long if he could). I was watching him play some this morning, and he was correctly answering math questions like "if Clifford had 4 donuts and ate 1, how many are left?"  ummmm AMAZING!  He is also in AWANAS at church this year and is memorizing bible versus.  He already has 5 under his belt.  He really loves going to school, and seems to be quite the rule abiding student. He tells me all about walking in line, and waiting his turn, and how he colors in the lines.  He makes me sooooooooo proud! At night he helps me sing to nonajane and I only wish I could capture his sweet little voice forever.

Family fun night :)

 We went bowling the other night. Jack's perfectionism did rare its head, but overall a good time was had. Jack honestly beat me. I really was trying. But in my defense he had bumpers and I didn't. Nona was a very good observer.

 We recently offered Nonajane some of those wagon wheel baby munchy foods to try. She nearly ripped em outa my hands and knew exactly what to do with them! I let her play with a few while we eat our meals. The other day she was munching away, and Jack was eating a pig-in-a-blanket (pancake wrapped around sausage on a stick).  Jack's blanket kept falling of his pig.. and he was all distraught and screaming about it. Nonajane kept dropping her wagon wheel and shrieking until I would give her a new one.  Luckily Adam was at work.  Frustration tolerance is not my children's strong point (nor is it mine).

yumm