Santa Pics...that will make ya laugh!!

You really need to work your way from the bottom up on this post. The top one is after Mommy came to the rescue. The actual sequence of the pictures is backwards.
I've totally already tortured my child two times this season by making him sit on Santa's lap. I already knew he'd cry, so last week when we went with Jake's friends Nico, Yuri, Kinley and Jax to the library for Santa story time I made Jakey sit on Santa's lap last--so we wouldn't scare any of the other kids with his reaction.
I LOVE these pics, I can't help it! I think they are flat out hilarious and they so make me SMILE!

attempted escape, squirming out of Santa's arms

WHY oh why didn't I use these for our Christmas cards this year?!? They totally would've gone great with a letter (that will not get sent out) about our year of tv's that die, computers that your injured son shatter, dog surgeries, longing for a baby#2 and of course we cannot forget Mommy's brain surgery!!!! =)

Does anyone really want a Christmas card w/a screaming kid and a totally debbie downer story of the major happenings in our family? ;)

No worries- I'm not complaing. I'm thankful that it's still all fresh in our memory and we can just laugh about it already!!

Bring on 2011...we've NEVER been soo excited for New Year's!

Hope this post put a SMILE on YOUR face like it did mine!!

Week In Pictures: Black and Blue edition

#1 Black and Blue thing: some homemade banners I'm beginning to make for Jakey's 2nd bday party that's about a month away!!

#2. Well, this is more bloody than black and blue but I'm guessing she feels pretty bruised. We found a 6cm abcess on the poor girl's neck and she had her first surgery on Saturday!

#3. Jake's comfort zone got a little bit bruised over his first haircut. He did not want to sit in the chair without Mommy and did not want Jasmin to hold him. And, they're both wearing black and blue! :)

#4 Last and least, my arm is black and blue. My MRI tech collapsed several veins while digging around trying to get some dye fluid in me via IV. What a fun way to start a 50 minute MRI. :) All that matters is that it's over, and it will be a while before I have to do it again.


Well, I really thought we were just having way too fun of a week not to record it in our family memory book. With Christmas and birthday preparations going on, and some health situations with me and Sadie, we've had a very pleasant week around here. :P

(Sorry if a couple of these pics are gross!)

Bye-Bye Curls!!

all wetted down!

the boy loves a good sucker! so glad she had them!

mid-cut

He did the same pose here as he did for Santa!! Haha!

We love Jasmin! Well, atleast Mommy does!!! Haha.

Well, since Jakey had to sit in Mommy's lap I didn't get very good pictures. He wouldn't sit on his own and was trying to dive off of the chair. :) He's pretty skeptical of most strangers these days, after never really going through much separation/stranger anxiety as a baby. Anyway, we chopped the curls but stil left his pretty blonde locks in place with a nice, even trim. I'm happy with it, and am glad we didn't go super short. He has great hair and I want him to still have some of it left. His dad, Papaw and a few others may say it's still too long, but if Mama's happy, everyone's happy, right?!? And Mama loves it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

Shutterfly Shout Out!!

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We in the Worley house LOVE shutterfly. They are my go-to for cards, photobooks, prints and also even for greeting cards. I personally love that lots of their cards have places for one or even several photos and come in tons of color choices and layouts. We have used shutterfly for cards before and have never been disappointed. There are always awesome codes out that you can save into your account to save you money and get great deals on quality, personalized photo products.

It seems that now that we have our sweet Jake, we use photo cards even more. This year is no different. I can't wait to show of this sweet face in one of the tons of awesome photocards they have. I like so many of them, I never even know how I am going to narrow it down!?! So excited to get to work on this year's card. I'll probably even make a shutterfly photobook of our Christmas season this year, since we have last year's sitting on our end table and can't stop reliving Jakey's first Christmas!

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Merry Christmas!! So excited for this awesome deal!! =) Something I would've spent money on, anyway!

Jakey went Potty!

Tonight we put Jakey's potty seat on the big potty for the first time. He climbed right up there and sat down. We handed him a toothbrush per his request and a juice box, and he went pretty much right away! He knew just what to do...we will see how it goes from here on out. We can only HOPE it was as easy as tonight. ;) Yeah...um...right. Ok, so we know it will be a trying process but we have finally started!

Several weeks ago he began grabbing his diaper and saying "dirty" at times when he was either extremely wet or dirty (I'm assuming just b/c he was uncomfortable). Of course, he didn't do it too consistently but he seemed to be aware of it on his own w/out any prompting from us. About a week ago we bought his potty and finally tonight we put him on it! Sorry it has taken us awhile to get on board, Jakey! I have been dreading starting this for months.

Now you are caught up, we'll keep ya posted!

*Feel free to leave us any tips that you think might help!! (All I can say is that it is Thanksgiving week and we're going to attempt staying home as much as we can stand it this week to be near the potty. I haven't decided on diaper free/pull-up/etc while we're at home yet. Any suggestions? It's just that pulling off and re-fastening a diaper seems like too big of a pain to me!)

WISH US LUCK!!!! =)

*UPDATE* How's day two going, you ask?

Well, let's see. We spend until about 2pm out with friends, so Jakey really didn't get a chance to go potty until this evening after his nap. So, he's stripped down naked and he sits on his potty in our guest bathroom. He then gets up and runs like a bullet through our house back to our master bath. He walks in our bathroom, facing the toilet and pees (standing up, of course) on the rug that surrounds our toilet!!! Think he watches Daddy much? I don't know what to do with this child!! But I thought that was really cute, funny, and smart!! He totally knows what he's doing, he just needs to be a couple feet taller, right? Well, as my friend Rachel says, "We will try again tomorrow." =)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!! I will try to do a thankful post and some Thanksgiving memories/photos later this week!

The "FI-TRUCK HAT!!"

Ok, so not the most exciting post ever! Jakey got this fireman hat when the library had their fire safety even a couple of months ago. Recently it got cracked and is now in the trash. So now that it is gone I thought I should atleast post and save a couple of pics! It made me a little sad, it was something he played with daily. In fact, it was one of his first non-girly dress up items, since he loves to play in Mommy's shoes and with my makeup brushes. Hehe.

It looks like Mama will be on the lookout for another free (or cheap) "Fiii-truck hat". I just thought he looked so cute always wearing it!

PS- I know the term firetruck hat is not a totally accurate way to describe it. However, he is pretty much obsessed with anything with wheels and that is how he put the fireman/hat/truck/ theme together, and it has just stuck. =)

Oh, Jakey-- you crack us up!!

* Anytime the phone rings (even at other people's houses) Jake runs to the phone and says, "Papaw!!" Earlier this week it was a telemarketer and he cried when it wasn't Papaw and he didn't get to talk. Several times a week we call and bug Papaw when Jake has a "needing Papaw" meltdown. :)

* One night we were over at our good friends, The Lee's, hanging out and we could tell Jake was getting tired and he'd been having teething problems. He dug through his bag and found the infant tylenol and brought it to me holding it in his mouth. We all got a good laugh!

* We don't know if he's just stubborn or not very good with "G" sounds. He has said Papaw for months and flat out will not usually say Gammie or Granny. He will see his friends pictures on the computer or around the house and say them all (it's not like he doesn't know his grandmothers!), but will usually call my mom Baby or Be-bop! We all laugh but she doesn't want us encouraging him.

* I love watching any type of talk shows with Jakey in the room, because no matter what he's doing if the audience claps he will stop what he's doing and clap very enthusiastically!

* We will never tire of hearing, "mo, pease!" So, if he's in the 5th grade and that is how he pronouces "more, please" then it's only b/c his parents thought it was cute when he was a baby and decided not to correct him. ;)

* The other day Jeremy and I were having a conversation. I'm guessing Jake was tired of listening to us because he just blurted out, "yeah, yeah..." I really don't know where he got that but we were both cracking up!

* Lately I've been having to tell Jake to be careful a lot. He usually replies with, "don't fawwl".

* We read books pretty much at some point every day. One of Jake's faves is "Bunnies are for Kissing". There is a page where the Mommy bunny and Bunny are planting vegetables in their garden. On this particular page there are little carrots sticking up out of the ground. Jake points to them and says, "Wittle treeees!!" Hehe

* This morning as we walked out of Jake's room and into the front hallway and entry the sun was beaming in through the glass and window over the door so brightly. Jakey walks out squinting and says "It's hot outside, Mommy!" (actually today it's in the 50's)

*Last week we are relaxing in the living room after dinner and we hear Jake in our room being pretty quiet. All of a sudden we hear, "dangous, dangous, dangous!!" As we walk in to see what he's doing we see that he is plugging in and unplugging the vacuum cleaner. Yikes!

* On a similar note, he will tell himself "don touchhh, don touchhh!" when he touches something he's not supposed to. He will go up to his room and turn the switch on the back of his fan all while telling himself not to touch it.

* Recently while at the outlet mall he saw a couple of older toddler's/preschoolers in a stroller. I think that they were twins and they each had a paci in their mouth. Jake's in his stroller and starts pointing at them and saying, "Awwww baby!!! Babies, awww!"

* Every night after kissing Jakey goodnight I lay him down in his crib. We have this game where we kiss through the railing and he moves all around his crib and I have to catch him while his face is mashed into the cracks where I can kiss him. When we finish and I stand back up, he will say, "Mo, mo kiss Mommy!" It melts my heart almost every night, but the first time he did I just started laughing I thought it was so cute!

* Recently while I was at Canton, I got Jake a backpack so I could start carrying a normal purse again. The day after he got it, I got him out of the car first before I got out his backpack. He was so upset I left his big-boy backpack in the car that he immediately said, "No, pack-pack! pack-pack!!" He is normally pretty laid back and he was so yelling at me before I even had a chance to get it out. I thought it was so cute how fast he was attached to his "trac-tor pack-pack".

I know there are so many more cute stories, but I wanted to write a couple down so we could remember them in the future!

In a Nutshell

He loves driving his hotwheels/matchbox trucks on the furniture.

He was helping Mommy w/this little project for Gammie. =)

He loves dressing up in his "fiitruckk hat"! And don't forget the tractor!

He closed himself in Daddy's closet, and when he came out this is what he was wearing. Can't believe he could walk in Daddy's size 13's.

"Hewow!?"

his favorite food! with meatballs, of course!

This is the perfect glimpse of our baby boy at this age. He is happy, crazy, silly, funny, entertaining, sweet and affectionate. He loves talking on the phone and runs to the kitchen desk when the home phone rings. He points out every sliiiide, track-ttor, truckks, bus, bikkke and fietruck we see while in the car. He loves anything with wheels. He also loves to help me out, and even helped me put an uppercase living expression on a platter for my mom. =) He loves to ride things that are not ride-ons (aka the bus above). He is more fun every day. He knows so many of his friends names (even that aren't in his class/age group) and surprises us by saying them perfectly occasionally. He loves to talk, dance, climb, drive, hide, lock us out of our bathroom, and run laps around the living room. He will go to the playroom and play with all of his toys by himself for long periods of time. He still loves to eat and sleep and is such an easy baby! I think technically he will only be our baby for a couple more months before he turns 2, however, I will not stop calling him my baby at that time...he will always be my baby!

Speaking of growing up, we purchased a potty this week! He has been off and on telling me that he's "durtty!" (even once or twice when he was just wet) I think he's just trying to tell me when he's uncomfortable. We're going to try out the potty very soon!!

Hope everyone is having a fantastic Fall, too! =)

Halloween 2010!!

A super sweet moment with Daddy and Jakey

water was desperately needed after his first butterfinger!

one of the only times he acted a little shy...Mommy loves her Mama's boy =)


picking out candy after saying "trick teat" to Mrs. Jenn (maybe we should've practiced before we were on our way there) =)



Not the best pic of Mommy or Jake =(

One adorable Scooby!

In front of the Alarid's Mystery Machine! Jakey, Velma, Shaggy =)

Scooby with Raggedy Anne and Andy

LOL!!

Scooby and his love........Tinkerbell =) What a pair!

Boo!

Gran sent us home with this little Halloween ghost outfit that my cousin Luke wore when he was little. It was a size 3T and we couldn't keep the snaps closed. Everytime Jake moved he would unsnap a few more buttons. Our little guy still looked so adorable running around having fun in his ghost outfit that I had to share them and have them to look back on. The top two are my favorites! (PS- Jeremy thinks he looks more like a chef than a ghost w/that hat!)

We will hopefully have some Trunk or Treat pictures to share early next week!

We hope y'all have a Happy Halloween!!

Oreos are fun!

This afternoon we went and spent some time with my sister Courtney, as she is starting a new job this week. We'll miss having her home during the day to call and talk to or hang out with, but we're excited and proud she's starting her first "real" job this week.

Anyway, we hung out and ate lunch and after lunch she brought out the oreos. I knew they tasted good and all, but apparently they are actually fun! Jakey was cracking us up, showing us his black teeth, food, doing his mean face and squealing with happiness.

How will I ever be able to resist giving him future oreos with a face like this and a sweet voice asking, "tease, tease, tease, tease?" with a cookie already in each hand.

Pumpkin Patch!

Jakey by the spider made out of hay

about to go on the hay ride!

trying to pick up a pumpkin to take home :)


In front of the hay spider!

on the hay ride

with Daddy...driving the tractor

He was so happy the man let him drive! He walked right up to him with his hands up saying, "diive! diiive!" We were pleasantly surprised that they actually let him since the tractor was running. It sure made Jake happy!

=)

"Aww huugs"

oh, and kisses too =)

sweet boy!

At first we were scared it was going to be a bad day. Ha! We set him down by the pumpkins and he threw a huge fit. Basically, we've figured out that he will do things how and when he wants to. And, if you put him in a position he doesn't wanna be in, he will throw a fit or get sincerely sad. Once he's crying, he will get embarassed and duck/hide his head. Don't worry, Jakey, Mommy and Daddy have learned our lesson. We'll let you warm up to things first and pick our battles when you don't want to do something. Luckily, after one fit, you can see above that he was happy the rest of the day! :)

Bahahahaha!

The last time I went to this particular pumpkin patch, Jakey was in my belly! I had just quit my job a few weeks before he was due, and I went with Jess, Kinley, Rachel and Taylor. Wow, I can't believe that was two years ago and Jake wasn't even here yet!

Last year we went to Dewberry Farm. We really were looking forward to going there again this year, now that Jake is older and can enjoy more that it has to offer. However, our time before Halloween was running out and the weather was not cooperating. So, we made a quick trip over to the "Old Time Christmas Tree Farm" literally 5 minutes from our house. We really enjoyed it, and even took Jake on the hay ride out to the Christmas Tree fields. He loved it!

We had fun this year at the pumpkin patch, but will for sure get back to Dewberry next year!