Happy Birthday Grandad!

Quotables

Whenever he needs to answer in the affirmative, Jack says, "I do!" Sometimes that works, and sometimes it sounds funny because the right answer would be "yes" or "I am" not "I do!" He uses such funny inflections for the various reasons he says it. I need to get it on video before he grows out of it!

Hannah was playing with some tomatoes my parents brought from their garden. She lined them up by size and declared they were a family. Pointing to them in turn, she named them, "This is Albert, this is Irene, this is Alice, and this is WaterStank." Poor WaterStank. His whole family has such normal names, then they went all crazy on him.

Hannah says she's going to have three children and name them Alice, Thomas, and Ediff. At first I thought she meant "Edith" but when I asked her about it she said, "NO, E-diff." Again, the little one gets stuck with the funky names in her world. I'm not sure what that's about.

The other day I was putting sunscreen on the kids so they could go play in the baby pool in the backyard. Hannah explained to Jack that they had to get sunscreened so they wouldn't get a burn. "Sunburn is bad," she said, "but calorie burn is good!"

After a bad time at the supermarket, Hannah delivered this gem of a bedtime prayer, "Dear God, we had a very bad day. We were doing a lot of disobedience and when we were getting temptationed we cried for ice cream instead of running to Jesus. We're sorry, Lord."

Zoo with Gigi

Last week we went to the Zoo with my mom. We had the kids in their sailor suits for photo ops. In a couple of years they will probably roll their eyes if I suggest they dress alike and go to a public place, so I have to milk this while I can.

This is my current favorite picture of Hannah.

I love this! Mom was taking a picture of the butterfly and Hannah stuck her little hands in at the last second.

I found it!

Oops

I neglected to post that Sarah weighed 16 pounds and was 26 inches long at her 6 month checkup. Then yesterday she turned 7 months old, and I realized I should probably post that so I don't forget!

Above Sarah is wearing a dress that is too big, but was still cute!

Bathtime for the Littlest Bonzo

For some reason it had not occurred to me until a few days ago that Sarah could just get her bath in the real bath tub. I have been bathing her in the baby tub this whole time, even though she's been sitting up on her own for well over a month. Ah well, no harm done. Doesn't she look so cute and tiny in the tub?
She loves being able to play around in the tub! What a happy girl! What bizarre hair she has!

Check it out! There's water in here!

Oh, Snap

The problem with only being able to crawl backwards, as you might imagine, is that you tend to get stuck under the furniture.

Hannah

Hannah decided her tutu would make a fabulous hat. It even matches the outfit.
I got this water toy on 90% off clearance at the end of last summer. It doesn't have very good water pressure, but it was worth 79 cents.
The sprinkler is a little more intense!

Jack's Treat

We let the kids have ice cream cones last weekend. Jack saved most of his ice cream on his shirt for later, as you can see. This picture illustrates how annoying it is when you accidentally focus the shot on the background instead of your subject. Oh well, you can still see how cute he is.
In the above picture Jack is in proper focus, but is sporting his petulant, "Mine!" face. "Mine" is a very big concept for him right now. He is two for sure.

Sarah Sue

For some reason I find myself singing the song "Peggy Sue" to Sarah but singing it as "Sarah Sue." I only know part of the lyrics, "Sarah Sue, Sarah Sue, pretty pretty pretty pretty Sarah Sue, OH! Sarah, my Sarah Soo-oo-oo-oo" etc. The kids have taken to calling her Sarah Sue too. It's kind of funny.

And yeah, she still has crazy hair.
I love her big eyes and sweet cheeks!

I forgot to note the exact day, but Sarah has been sitting up by herself for a few weeks now. She doesn't go from crawl position to sitting yet, but she does this weird ab crunch move that makes it look like she's exercising. Hilarious. I should get a video.

Sarah can crawl backwards. She gets up on her knees and looks for all the world like she's about to crawl, and then she hurls herself backward and looks up in shock as if to say, "Oh SNAP, I just went the wrong way AGAIN!"
My best efforts to keep Sarah out of the sun are no match for her self-hurling skills. She disdains hats, and when I put her in a carefully placed seat to ensure that she's shaded, she throws herself forward trying to get to the action. I need some sort of standing umbrella or something.

Funny Boy

Jack is such a funny boy. On the way to the car today after MOPS he was bopping his hands around and saying "duh duh duh" so I thought he was just goofing off. Suddenly he jumped and shouted, "GOO-ISS!" That's when I realized he had been playing an imaginary game of duck duck goose.

Jack also loves to read to Sarah. He recites Goodnight Moon to her, shows her all the dogs in Our Animal Friends At Maple Hill Farm and Harry the Dirty Dog and other books, and most recently started pointing out all the As in books. On occasion he also teaches her about M, N, O, P, J, B and other letters he knows. He's a good big brother.

That's a good question, Hannah

Miss Perky Pigtails

Sweet Sarah

This Sunday Jack wore a smocked outfit with cars on it. Hannah wanted to know if Gigi made it for Jack. I said no, Gigi made it for Uncle Thomas, but Uncle Thomas said Jack could wear it. Hannah pondered that for a moment, then asked,

"But what will Uncle Thomas wear to church then?"

I nearly passed out laughing at the thought of my over 6 foot tall brother wearing a little embroidered shirt buttoned in to plaid shorts to church. Heh.

Sarah is 4 months old

Above you can see Sarah in a cute cloth diaper. I put her in cloth for a few days last week, and may try to do it a few days a week this summer. Anyway, it's the most recent picture of her that I have!

Today Sarah is 4 months old, and at the pediatrician visit this morning we found that she weighs 13 pounds 13 ounces (50th percentile) and is 25.5 inches long (90th percentile).

Who Made You?

Here is a video of Jack answering the first three questions of the children's catechism (coached by Hannah).

Happy Easter!

Today was Sarah's first Easter. She didn't get any candy so she had to resort to sucking her fist.

Jack decided to pop a piece of candy in his mouth right before I took this picture, but it's a good one of Hannah!

Being goofballs

On a quest

Have I mentioned how difficult it is to get a good picture of all of us? We tried to take a family picture of the five of us, but they didn't come out. This is the best one of the kids and me, if you can believe it.

After church, the kids had another egg hunt at Grammy and Papa's house.

Egg Hunt

This morning we went to an Easter egg hunt at church. The kids enjoyed making a stained glass window craft, singing some songs, and hearing a short message, and then went outside to hunt eggs. Sadly the "feels like" temperature this morning was in the 20s (!!!) so the cute spring outfits I had picked out had to give way to warmer clothes. Jack hadn't done an egg hunt before, but immediately grasped the point and shouted "AY-GGS" while filling his basket with an astonishing number before the big kids even knew what hit them. That is the bonus to being so close to the ground, I suppose.
Hannah also found quite a stash. As you can see, she has officially grown out of her winter coat! Yikes!

Littlest

I love that Sarah can wear a bow in her hair already!!!

Usually a very happy baby!

In the above picture, Sarah looks bummed because she won't be able to hold an Easter basket to hunt for eggs. Maybe next year.

Seriously!?!?!? You don't have a basket for ME???