Priorities...

Our happy boy finishing up his meal

"please don't take away my drink. this meal is too good to be true!!"

mean face (he usually will only give you a mean face if he's happy and wants you to laugh at him)

just starting the meal (and, on a girly note- how did he get the perfect mix of mine and Jeremy's hair? I want his hair!! :)

Can you tell what is important to Jakey? I think if you look close you will notice that he is hugging his drink for the majority of our meal tonight. And, what a weird night to worry about his drink when we were having his favorite food- "Itza"!!

The bottom pic is of the very beginning of the meal--his pizza slice was almost whole and his drink cup full. Once he realized that there was chocolate milk ("choc-choc") in there he never let go...not for a second! :) Chocolate milk completely grosses me out, but Jeremy loves it! Guess he's Daddy's boy in that regard. Hey, atleast it was organic. :) We're not completely over-indulgent, neglectful loser parents in this house, afterall. And, if I need to further justify why I LOVE giving my baby chocolate milk; I will say that it's because it makes his bones strong (not because I absolutely adore watching him gulp it down and then take a huge breath and sigh when he's done). His Daddy loves all milk and has never broken a bone and let's just say that after Jake's ugly fall and huge scare last week, we'll take that excuse! Heck-maybe I'm just an enabler after all and should not give my baby "treat-overload" and the chocolate milk high that comes along with such a fabulously nutritious dinner!!

Back to meat and veggies and um...plain whole milk tomorrow. Sorry, buddy. :)

Priority verdict:

#1 - Chocolate Milk

#2 - Pizza

I just had to post these memories of our silly boy and fun dinner. They were too cute not to share and add to our family memory book! :)

18 Month Well-Check

long, chub legs and sweet blonde curls

"Show Mommy your sticker." =)

Mommy and Jake went to see Dr. Edralin this morning and had a great visit! Jake received one shot and other than a booster for that shot at 2, he will not get any more shots until he is 4. We don't go back to the Dr again until he's between 2 and 2 1/2 years old, so not until next year!

Jake was 29.12 lbs (83%) and 34.5 inches tall (86%). He's perfectly proportional and "just a big guy" as Dr. Edralin said. He asked us about sleeping, eating, discipline, etc. Jake was surprisingly vocal--he talks non-stop to Jeremy and I but sometimes is quieter and more shy in a group or around strangers. But Jake was giving high-fives, hugs, dancing around and talking up a storm to Dr. Edralin. He used a couple of his phrases "teear you go" (there you go) and "heer eh is" (here it is) along with his more polite words-- "more" "miiinne" thrown in there. I hate that word! Anyway, the doctor seemed impressed and thought that his language skills were advanced for his age. He was also impressed with his great sleeping habits, and motor and fine motor skills.

Dr E was also impressed that Jake can completely feed himself with a spoon or fork, and that his favorite foods are avocado, yogurt and broccoli! :) (Maybe I forgot to mention his other favorite food, ice cream, after the doctor called himself the food nazi). ;)

It wasn't all good, we spoke about Jake's big opinions, temper tantrums, time-outs, etc. :) Hey, that's just part of life with a toddler, right? The Dr did say that developmentally all of this stuff is necessary, whether we like it or not. We also told him that weaned Jake off of the paci this past month and he's been completely without for about 3 weeks now.

We are very proud of our big boy who is doing awesome in every area and who is also very healthy! I can't believe he's over half way to being a 2 year old! Where has the time gone?!?

We love you Jakey, you bring so much joy to our lives and we can't imagine life without you!

End of Summer = fUn WiTh FrIeNdS!

Jake (19 mos) and Jax (18mos)

Nico (nearly 3) and Jake (19mos)

little baller :) look at those huge hands!

Jake's friends Ben, Harry, and Ryan

We've LOVED having pool passes this summer and can't wait to do it all again next summer!

Jax on the slide at the Chilidren's museum

Fireman Harry!

In the firetruck!

In the kitchen

Digging!!!

playing with the trains!

sliding!

Jake's first time at the public library with Luke and Lily!
They were pointing at the butterfly above.

Lily and Jake walking at the Library

Our Little Peruvian!

love the curls and tan little ankles!

One of Mommy's new favorite pics of our little man!

My mom and brother brought back this little Peru soccer jersey from their recent mission trip to an orphanage in Peru. Our Jakey looks so cute in it, it was the perfect souvineer!

The last one's leaving the nest!

So we had a family going away dinner last night. We'll miss him lots but are glad he'll be not too far from home.

The heath bar pizza (aka sugar cookie crust/cream cheese-whipped cream sauce and heath bar topping!!)

LOL- You can tell they are soo brothers in this post

Yummy vanilla homemade ice cream!

We missed you, Haley!! =(

We LOVE weekends!

Our fam- about to head home. It was after 8pm so Jakey was gettin' past it.

Our little man

"dive!!"

Court, Jake and I rode a virtual roller coaster :)



through the glare of the glass window you might be able to locate Jeremy and Shad on the go-carts

Jakey rode the train around the track all by himself :)

Our little conductor

on the baby carousel

The Worley Cousins- Kaleb and Jakey

Last night we went with Shad, Court and Kaleb to Incredible Pizza in Conroe. We had been there once before and had bought a restaurant.com gift certificate there a while back (25$ but I paid 2$). We'd been telling Kaleb that we'd go there for months and finally got around to doing it. So glad we did!! We had a fun evening of eating Pizza, dessert, playing games and riding rides. They had go-carts, bumper cars, miniature golf, laser tag, a kiddie area w/rides and a playground and also the typical arcade games. It cost $13.87 for Shad, Court, Kaleb, Jeremy, me and Jakey (ate free) to have all you can eat pizza, salad, dessert and drinks!! It was worth it and if we can find that deal again we will definitely go again. We had a blast - it made for a fun Saturday night!

Before Incredible Pizza we had gone to lunch at Cheddar's with Jeremy's parents, Court and Kaleb and then to Kohl's for some back-to-school shopping. Jakey got some cute things and so did Kaleb. It was a fun afternoon! (Although Cheddar's and Incredible Pizza in the same day=too much food!)

Tonight we are headed to Magnolia to spend time with my family since Matt is off to College Station this week for College. I just can't believe it - we are looking forward to some fun family time tonight.

Worley Port A Trip!

View from our 7th floor balcony- It was beautiful!

Kaleb and Jake had a ball playing "golf"

Papa, Jakey, Granny, Kaleb

Our fam as we were checking out

Sleepy boy on the trip home. Love this precious face!

The pool had a fun ledge where Jakey loved to jump off

Granny and Jake

Trying to wake up Kaleb

holding Daddy's hand. Love it!!

Me and my Love

Our nephew, Kaleb

sweet kisses from Daddy

Sweet face

getting lotioned by Daddy

he didn't like the sand on his hands

Our condos from the beach

View from our front porch

The last weekend in July we headed to Port Aransas for 3 nights with the Worley side of the family. We stayed at the Aransas Princess and were really impressed. We had a large condo with 3 bathrooms and full kitchen and 2 den/living areas. We celebrated Shad's 32nd birthday while we were there, ate great food, spent time at the beach and pool and played games. We had a great time, as always in Port A. We just love it there! We are looking forward to floating the river next year as a nice change up, though! =)