New Bedding!

It's been a long time coming, but Jackson is officially in his bed full-time! His reward: new bedding - all these little animals keep him safe and happy all night long. My reward: a full night's sleep! Jude has also been sleeping so much better since he has a buddy in the bed next to him :)

Other big accomplishments of Jackson's: independent shoe tying, identifying all coins and thier values, and counting to 100 by 5s. He is also doing a great job with reading! I don't remember being taught reading in Kindergarten - I don't think I learned to read till at least sophomore year in high school..........

Oh no!

Jude's not the easiest kiddo to dress. With that said, Jeremy and I were wrestling with him to get him dressed for bed last night and this is what we ended up with (2 legs in 1 hole). Go ahead, say, "ooo, that's awful!" We fixed it, don't worry. Jude is crying in this photo, not b/c of the pants, but b/c he was mad I was taking a picture.

Mr. Mothee!

Can't believe bugs are out already, but they are. We've become a host family for some moths and the boys love them. They run around chasing after them shouting, "Mr. Mothee, where are you? Where'd he go?" Of course, they always seem to find Mr. Mothee about 2 minutes before bedtime (so it takes a little while to calm down).

I guess this is also the start of the 'bug blog' that we started last summer when Jackson wanted to take a picture of every bug or creature he found.

Easter-y Stuff

I have no photos of Easter - I didn't take any, not one. I didn't even bring out the camera. Why? No reason, just didn't feel like trying to get Jude to smile. He's just going through a phase where he doesn't want to get his picture taken. So instead of getting frustrated over having 50 photos of the sides and back of his head, I just didn't take any!

We had a really nice Easter, though. We had breakfast with Jeremy's Gram and then hung out for the afternoon then went to my parents for the evening. It was pretty relaxed. The Easter bunny found our house and also found Grammy Linda's and Ga-Ga's. It was like Christmas for the boys - Legos, Mega-rigs, matchboxes, DVDs (Bolt and Raiders of the Lost Arc), books, and of course, some candy.

Jackson spent 2 hours today putting together this awesome Lego combine - a gift from Dana and Nate.

Sara B Concert

We had a blast at the Sara B concert. The kids did great and Jude danced the night away. We waited around after the concert and got to see Sara and her band get into their escort vehicle. I shouted, "Sara, my kids love you!" and she looked over and said, "Thank you!" and waved to us and continued to wave to us as they drove away! It was awesome.......


There weren't more than 400 people at the concert so we were able to get a good view.


Her opening act was April Smith - cool, cool stuff -if you get a chance, check her out @ http://www.aprilsmith.com/ .


This is Sara B. covering a U2 song.

Me with April Smith (the opening act for Sara B)

Mini Vacation

Well, we're headed to Indiana this afternoon. We're going to see Sara Bareillis @ IUP and then we're camping @ Dana and Nate's house. We'll be back tomorrow, hopefully with some photos!

Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail......

The weekend was held ransom by local Easter egg hunts! Jeremy took the boys to one yesterday at Saint Francis (I did not go because I was recovering from a visit from the vomit fairy - yucky). Today we all went to one at Saint Mike's. Both were great and the kids filled their buckets with a bunch of candy that they don't need :) I think we still have 1 or 2 to get to next weekend. Jackson has a short week because of Easter and we are going to see Sara Bareillis in concert on Thursday night at IUP (and then camping @ Dana and Nate's). Gotta go make lunchs, pick out clothes, iron clothes, and pack bags for tomorrow.