The look

This is “the look”.  Jacob first began giving us this look if we said something he didn’t like, or if he was questioning us in some way.  However, we found it so comical that he now does it on demand, just to make us laugh.

I felt like giving Jacob “the look” when I realized that he had brought an orange marker into my bed unbeknownst to me and I ended up laying on it and coloring my sheets…and my pajamas.  I am thankful for washable markers!  “Just put ’em in the wash; they’ll be grand.” (Can you name that movie? It’s one of my favorites!)

I’m sorry that I’ve not been posting very regularly lately.  I’ve really not been feeling well between recurring back issues and new vertigo issues.  I’ve just been trying to get the bare minimum done, and on good days pay a little more attention to my kids.  We did get to go to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum last week when Tim’s mom was here.  I highly recommend the place if you are ever around here!  It was really amazing.  I hope to be up to posting more soon!

 

It’s March already!

I guess I have lots of updating to do!  Last week was an extremely busy week for us, but we survived and I was very pleased to be “snowed in” today!  I guess we really didn’t have to be, but it was nice to feel like I could use that for an excuse!  The kids all had a blast playing in the snow that we received over night and this was Jacob’s first official time to play in the snow!  It took him a little time to get used to walking in the snow, but before long he was even eating it like all my other children!  They all love to eat the snow!  We have no hills remotely close to us (at least that we know of – this is Indiana after all!) – so Hannah took the job of pulling Jacob around on the sled.  Ben and Lilly stayed out the longest – they were out there for at least 3 hours straight.  I am so glad they were able to enjoy it today – because based on the weather forecast over the next few days the snow will not be hanging around for long!

Ben made family history this week.  He has the first broken bone of any of our children!  We went to a place called Snapperz on Monday night and Ben’s left pinky finger was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was smashed  between two colliding bowling balls!  Thankfully, there was no need to set anything, so the trip to the doctor(s) was not too horrible.  They got the x-rays and saw that he broke the tip of the bone off, gave him a splint to protect it, and sent us on our way with a return appointment in two weeks for another x-ray to make sure things are healing correctly.  He was very brave!  His finger looks horrible!  Maybe tomorrow I will try to get him to let me take a picture of it without the splint on!  Oh, by the way, Snapperz is similar to Chuck E Cheese, but has other bigger things like bounce around types and rock climbing wall, mini bowling, etc.  Ben doesn’t really want to go there anymore.

 

This is Jacob completely obsessed with mesmerized by Elmo.  He’s his new best friend.

The kids also finished their last day of basketball this past Saturday.  Yeah!  We get Saturdays back!  I will be posting some pictures that I have of that soon!