Buds

We love C Ville and all our good friends we have here.  Jack is especially blessed with many fun little friends to play with.  His best bud Kai, whom he doesn't seem to go a day without seeing, lives just down the road from us.  They are so funny together and such good friends.  Jack also constantly talks about his buddies Liam, Bennett, Everett, Addie, and Olivia. He even blesses his friends in his prayers at night.

Jack and Kai coloring

I am not sure what's going on here.

Playing at the playground.

All tuckered out after a long walk and ice cream.

Kai wouldn't put down his toys but he wanted cereal.  Jack solved the problem by being his third hand and feeding his cereal to him.

Stacy and the boys eating a picnic.  Jack LOVES Stacy.  Seriously, sometimes I think he likes her more than me.

One day Jack and Kai decided to hold hands.  It was so funny to watch them..  They would run around giggling.  They thought it was hilarious.


 

Jack and his buddy Bennett.  Bennett is a good body guard and makes sure kids don't take Jack's toys.

Kai, Everett and Jack

Liam, Jack and Kai playing some ball.

Holiday Fun

Spring is filled with lots of fun little holidays.  We have been getting ready for Easter and there are lots of egg hunts in our future.  I changed Jack's water table from it's usual dirt and trucks to a Easter theme which he really liked.  St Patricks day was fun.  We read Green Eggs and Ham and ate green eggs and ham.  We also went a friends house for some St Patricks treats.  And back in Feburary, the night before I had Charlotte we celebrated our good friend John Harding's birthday with a Mardi Gras themed party.

This is the cute water table I made for Jack.  It's all coordinated and cute.

Then along comes Jack and his boyism and trucks.  Why must everything have trucks in it?

Reading Green Eggs and Ham for St Patties.

Green eggs and ham

Eating treats at the Lowders.  Jack sitting with Kai and Everett. 

Cute Rachael Harding and her delicious buffet of Mardi Gras food.  So good!

Jack and Liam loved the Mardi Gras beads.

Our masks.  Little did I know I would be giving birth about five hours later.  Sick.

"Little Gwill"

Jack loves Charlotte... a little too much.  I think that because Jack and Logan wrestle and play so physical that Jack thinks this is how you communicate love to someone.  He is often caught body slamming her, running his dump trucks into her and just squeezing her.  Sometimes he is doing it just because he can but more often than not he seems to just be really excited and doesn't know how to show her.  Every morning when we get up she is usually still asleep.  Jack demands, "Go get her!"  And every night as we put him to bed he has to have a horsey ride on daddy's back with baby sister.  He usually refers to her as Baby Sisty or my favorite, Little Gwill.  I think they will be good buddies someday.

I left the room for two minutes and I came back to this.  Jack decided to share his cars with Charlotte.

Logan giving horsey rides to Jack and Baby Sisty.

Char Char

This little girl is already a month old.  My goodness it goes by fast.  Here are a few pictures to see the changes she has gone through.  She looks like a different baby in almost every picture.  

She had jaundice for a while.  I couldn't tell at the time but now I see it.  She looks like a yellow squash.

Still at the hospital in this picture.  She is so swollen and looks really fat. 

Just a few hours old.

The first time I actually got her dressed up.  I love this  kangroo shirt I screened her.  Should have made me one.

Hanging with dad.

Tummy time.  This little girl loves her tummy time.  She will even fall asleep like this sometimes.

Her baby acne exploded around three weeks.  Poor girl.  It seems to just be going away.  

First day at church.

 

"I have two grandmas"

We were so blessed to have both grandmas stay with us after Charlotte was born.  I don't know how you have a baby without grandmas.  Jack was spoiled with fun activities, attention, and playing.  He loved every minute of it.  Alice came first just a few days after Charlotte was born.  Charlotte came a week early so it was super generous of Alice to drop everything, jump on a plane, and come stay with us.  Jack loved playing dump trucks with Alice and race them up and down the hallway.  I don't how she did it, even I can't bend over and push a dump truck for hours.  Jack still calls the blue dump truck "grandmas dump truck".  The weather was odd while Alice was here and unfortunately a bit cold and wet.  It even snowed one day.  Jack and Alice would go for walks and play outside for hours and let me rest.  After Grandma Alice left, Grandma Kay arrived.  Grandma Kay had lots of fun things planned like a treasure hunt and dirt play dough.  Jack still plays with his dirt play dough daily since she left.  And Jack cried when we took Grandma to the airport because I think he thought he was going on the airplane with her. It was so nice to have the help and rest and we can never thank them enough.  Jack is always telling us how he has two Grandmas and he says it with such pride.  Thanks Grandmas!  

Snow day.  It has snowed twice this winter.

Jack would throw snow balls at Grandma Alice through the glass door and she would pretend to fall over.  He thought this was hilarious.  

Jack got to play in the mud and rain a lot with Grandma Alice.

 

We treated Grandma to some Sweet Frog frozen yogurt.

Giving Charlotte her first bath.

 

 

 

Dirt play dough!  Jack loved this.

We went to the park one day where Jack made a buddy.  I obviously didn't do very well taking pictures while my mom was there.