It's a busy month

We welcomed out first niece, Ivy, on May 3rd! I drove up to VA with the boys to meet her and surprisingly, it was an easy trip. Ivy is so sweet and we look forward to watching her grow.
Mother's Day was the 9th and we had a great day. My Mom was here and Randy's Mom came over. It was nice to spend the time with everyone. Randy made breakfast for everyone and we spent the day just being together. I love being a Mom :)

On the 10th John graduated from Emory. We left the house at 6am to get to the 8am ceremony but as always something happens to throw a wrench in things. Jake decided to wait to poop until we were in the car and this one closely resembled the incident we had a few posts back. Outfit destroyed. Luckily, I did have an extra set of clothes for him, but the clean-up took about 20 minutes putting us behind schedule (as usual). We finally made it to Emory and Randy dropped Ethan and I off to go meet the Folks, Grandpa, & Aline at our seats.
Traffic was so bad that Randy didn't make it to the ceremony until about 45 minutes in. The key speaker was Arnold Schwarzenegger and he was really entertaining. We all enjoyed his speech. With graduation under John's belt, he has taken a job in Rome, GA and will begin his professional career as John Goodrich, DPT. He has worked so hard for this and is an inspiration. It is easy to say we are very proud of him!
We had such a fun weekend having everyone around. We did miss Dan, Stephanie, and Ivy, but at least we will get to spend lots of time with them while we are on vacation next week. It was really cute watching Great Grandpa play with the boys and it's awesome that they are able to get to know all of their family, as family is the most important thing to me.
Tomorrow is Ethan's 3rd birthday party as Chick-Fil-A, and then his actual birthday is on Tuesday. We are looking forward to watching him have fun with friends!

Jake's 1st boo-boo

Jake LOVES to pet/smack the animals, especially Bogie. Unfortuanately, she is the only one who doens't like him to pet her. This was the result.
Amazingly, he has healed so quickly and is once again after the cat.

Oh, Poop.

I took the boys out to eat for lunch yesterday and while eating, Jake needed to take care of some business. Once we were done eating I snatched him up and we went to the bathroom to clean up shop. Before I even got to the bathroom I could tell it wasn't going to be a one wipe clean-up. I layed him down on the changing table only to find that poop had escaped the diaper and was all over his shorts, legs, feet, and ME. I was planning to go shopping after lunch but not with a poop covered shirt on. So Jake rides home in just a diaper and I breath through my mouth (since I stink) the whole way. Now, this is NOT the first time this has happened to him. At least once a week he has an poop explosion. Another time was at Randy's Dad's house where we had to hose him down in the sink. At least this was the first time he did it in public, but I'm sure it won't be the last. Never a dull moment :)

Birthday guests

I went ahead and scheduled Ethan's 3rd birthday party so that I could get the invitations made with plenty of time to spare. At dinner tonight I asked Ethan who he wants to invite. His reply "Santa Claus and Brian." (Brittany's husband). LOL

Busy weekend

We left Friday night to go to Jacksonville and visit Randy's family for the weekend. What is normally a 5.5 hour drive turns into about 6.5 hours with two little kids, but we got there with very little trouble

On Saturday, the boys all went golfing while I went to visit with Malinah and our new nephew, Brayden. He is so tiny and such a sweet little boy! I took some pictures on him while I was there. On Sunday, we went to the beach for a little while and had a great time. Ethan LOVED playing in the sand but refused to put his feet in the water. It was very cold and the water was choppy so we think he was just afraid of the waves coming. It was Jake's first time at the beach and he hated sitting on the dry sand, but when we put him on the wet sand he was happy. He felt the sand in his hands and feet and tasted a little. Not too bad, a little gritty.
Randy's brother, Matt, played in a baseball game in the afternoon so we watched him play the second half. We decided to leave at 8:30 on Sunday so that the kids could sleep in the car like they did on the way down. We realized that the drive back is not a good idea at night because we are tired from the weekend and it makes it a long drive back. It doesn't help to get pulled over 10 minutes from the finish line. Ugh. Just a warning at least :)

Jake - Baby Idol 2010

Jake - Baby Idol 2010

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Let me do it!

Ethan has had the "let me do it myself" mentality for the past 6 months or so, but I never thought that Jake would already be doing the same. I was trying to feed him some ravioli for lunch, but he wouldn't let me put it in his mouth or feed it to him with the fork. I finally set the fork down and what do you know, Jake picked it up and fed himself. So, then I had to keep reloading the fork so he could eat. Sheesh. . .