More cuteness...

Story #1:

So tonight we ran out as a family to grab a prescription from Target. On our way home we are at the light closest to our house and a motorcyle pulls up next to us. Jake was pointing out his helmet and called it a hat. I said, "That's a helmet, you know what that is. It's a hat that protects our heads when we ride bikes or play sports."
Soo....fast forward five minutes later- we're home and I'm sorting Jake's laundry. He "pulls up" next to me on his little step 2 motorcycle and says, "Helmet, pease?"
It was so cute he immediately ran in the door, found his motorcycle and asked for a helmet. I love how they soak up everything and apply it at this phase!

*Too bad Mommy's too lazy to take a pic (and upload it) of her cute, clean boy wearing his camo pj's and riding around on his bike with a pretend helmet (hat). We really need to find a dress-up helmet for this boy.

*Story #2:
The same night we were walking through target and Jake started acting a little crazy...whining for Mommy and such. So, I said, "Jake - be quiet, you're acting like a nutcase!" I didn't think anything of it. I had been on the phone with insurance and the pharmacy for hours and was just over the whole thing. We paid for the prescription and headed for the exit. As we were walking out, Jake starts loudly saying, "Nutcase! Nutcase! Nutcase!" Too bad his listening and speaking are getting so accurate, because it's a little embarrassing the things he repeats -- and says perfectly clear. All Jeremy and I could do was laugh!

*Story #3:
The other day Jake was singing his abc's for his Daddy. He got through the first several letters and then sang, "now I know my abc's next time won't you too sing me!" LOL

*Story #4:
When Jake counts to ten, you can understand all of the numbers, but when he get to seven he always says, "fedent" and it's my favorite "word" that he says, it's just so cute. We should probably correct him but I really don't want to!! Hopefully we'll get a video posted soon before he starts saying it correctly.

Bye-Bye Mommy's Purse!!

This is way too funny of a memory not to write down.

Tonight after we ate supper we ran to kroger to get a few things. After grabbing a redbox and a couple of groceries we got back to the car and I got Jake out of the "car" part of the cart and Jeremy loaded the groceries. By the time I had Jake strapped in I turned around and the cart wasn't there, it had already been returned. So, I obviously assumed that Jeremy had taken my purse out of the top of the cart and put it in the back seat. Well, as we were pulling out of the parking lot we hear "bye-bye, Mommy's pirse! bye-bye, Mommy's pirse!" I immediately realized what Jake was saying and jokingly asked Jeremy, "You got my purse out of the cart, right?!?" He looked around and shrugged so I had him speed back to where our cart was....and the nice shiny gold of my purse became visible. We still don't know how Jake noticed it, but I'm thrilled he did!
Apparently he's much more observant than his Daddy and he totally made my day--what a funny story!! Our day woulda gone downhill fast with a stolen purse!!

2 year well check (in a nutshell)

Well, "everything checks out perfect!" in the words of our doc. That's it!








............I should make a few other notes but it was pretty quick today.
*Jake is 90%-ish in height and 80%-ish in weight. If my memory checks out I think he's over 32lbs and 37 inches. My sheet is in the car w/the exact #s.
*The doctor had him undressed and was looking at his legs and squeezed them and said, "he is solid, solid muscle!" I said, yeah, he pretty much is being super active or sleeping. There's no tv time or craft time or anything that keeps him sitting down, even if mama wishes he'd slow down a bit.
*After asking how long he sleeps at night, and me saying there's got to be an earthquake to get him out of bed before 8 he asked what time he went to bed. I said between 8 and 8:30. He said, "Well, the boy needs his sleep. Don't wake him up. And, in fact, when it's time for preschool in a year or two do not schedule it earlier than he would naturally wake up." Um, good luck with that. :) His Mommy still hates getting out of bed early- if I had it my way he'd never start school. :)
*After seeing that Jakey is in a big bed, potty-trained, eating well and healthy, sleeping lots, talking well, behaving well, etc he said, "Well, this is about as easy as a two-year-old can get. Good luck with him at 2.5 or 3!" haha-- mama has faith that Jakey will continue to impress us with his sweetness, smarts, sleeping, etc. :)
*His height was estimated to be 6'2-6'3 minimum when he's full grown.
*The nurse and dr commented on how they hadn't seen us in so long. I said, I know! Other than one well check about 6 months ago and a diaper rash burn when the pampers drymax came out we've not been to the dr at all in one year! (And he'd just seen the nurse practioner for the burn, not Dr. E) I'm shocked but thrilled that he stayed well his entire second year. I think God just knew we already had more dr appts and co-pays this year than any young family ever should! ;)

Can you tell that we are so in love with our big boy?!? We are cherishing every day of being his parents and are so proud of the sweet boy that he is!

Weilun's visit!!

Last weekend Jeremy's college buddy and a good friend of our's visited us. Weilun joined the military after A&M and is now a Captain in the Air Force. He seems to come visit us about once a year so it was only his second time seeing Jake. We relaxed, talked, ate, and just spent some quality time with him before he's deployed again.

I wish I could remember all of Jake and Weilun's conversations, because we just kept on laughing. The one I remember most is when Weilun said he could tell I enjoyed staying home with Jake and asked what we did during the day. When I told him other than the usual cleaning, playing, etc that we went on lots of playdates with our friends. We asked Jake who his friends were and he began listing them..." Kiki (Kinley), Emi (Emily), Tay Tay (Taylor), Anna, Wiwy (Lily)"....(all girls!) And Weilun said something like, "Wow, I'm impressed all girls!" And I said who are your best buddies?!? And Jake replied, "Jax!!" And later on he added his friend Nico to that "buddy list". Too funny!!

For days after Weilun left Jake asked where he was and pointed to the guest air mattress and said, "Waynon's bed, Waynon's bed!!!" I think it's safe to say he misses Weilun's company already, and so do we! He is such an amazing friend and we are blessed by his friendship.

all boy :)

talking on the phone- usually it's Papaw or Jax and they talk for several minutes :)

firing up his grill from Noah and Tate-- he loves that thing! Especially the "mutsard and ketchup!"

He's still my baby when he's sleeping. So breathtaking!


And yet, so big boy!!

We call this "Worley Wipeout" haha. We all watch wipeout as a family, and Jake entertains us with his wipeouts off of his toy bin, the couch, the ottoman and just throwing himself on the ground in general. I think we could invite friends and charge a ticket price! ;)

See what I mean?!? He is TOTALLY boy.

Most of the time. :) You gotta also be in touch w/your sensitive side!

Several times a day he takes my hand and leads Mommy to Daddy's closet. "Daddy's hat, pease!"

This little man just makes us smile! He loves tackling, wipeouts, cars, trucks, bikes, airplanes, the outdoors, hats, girls, sleep, talking on the phone, and his mama's ruffled scarf. Just thought I had to post some of his daily antics. :)

Our Jakey at T-W-O!

First night in his big boy bed!

I just loved all of his ride-ons "parked". Oh, and the vacuum next to them! Soo Jake!

Well, I'm finally (a couple of weeks late!) getting in a post mainly for our own memory of what our Jake is up to at 2 years old! He has changed and grown so much in the past 4-5 months!

He is so sweet, funny, entertaining, smart and has a memory that continues to amaze us!

-He's wearing mostly 3T clothes, with a few 2T left. His shoes are mostly 9-10's right now. Hopefully he'll stay this size for a while b/c he was a size 8 for several months!

-He knows most of his colors, vehicles, wild animals, farm animals and can count to 10 on his own. We're working on the alphabet occasionally...it's Mommy's least favorite!

-He is potty trained (other than night time and the occasional #2) :) But wears his big boy underwear every day.

-He's sleeping in a big boy bed

-He knows who lives where and more directional things than some adults I know. :) When we pull into or pass by our friends and families neighborhoods he will say, "Papaw's home" or "Jax home."

-He uses please (pease) and thank you a lot-- and I just love it!

-He continues to sleep about 12 hours per night. This is the least amount he's slept since he was a few months old, but I know it's normal for toddlers to decrease their hours of sleeping at night time and during the day. His naps have dropped down to about 2.5-3 hours, on average. He does tell me he's going night-night and climb into his bed several times per day. Of course, he just rests for a minute and I make him get back up. He's still a very sound sleeper and never wakes up at all during the night or a nap, even when, you know-- the doorbell rings and the dogs bark like crazy! Amazing!

-He LOVES cars, trucks, tractors, buses, bikes, or anything at all with wheels. He's pretty good about identifying specific types such as dump trucks and motorcycles and helicopters. He, for some reason, still pronounces airplaine as, "airpa". We love it!

-His vocabulary is huge, we think there's pretty much not a word he doesn't know. He doesn't always string his sentences together correctly or fully, but he does use several words strung together.

-He's been singing "Happy Burday too _____ " a lot...like every day! I think him and lots of our friends and family have so many January birthdays that he thinks it's always a birth day for someone!

-He's very much into listing his family and friends when we're away from them. Whether he's laying in his bed waking up or playing with his pretend phone he's usually saying, " Papaw, Shadt, Rere (courtney), Mommy, Daddy, Lissa, Keke (Kinley), Jax, Jessa (Mrs. Jessica), Emi (Emily), Tay Tay (Taylor), Rachel, Jacob, Nico, Hawey (Haley), UnMatt (Uncle Matt), Bian (brian), Mickey (Nikki).....etc, etc he lists many more of our loved ones than this but he goes on and on for minutes listing everyone he loves ...it's so cute! But it usually does start w/Papaw. =)

-He's very mechanical and likes to plug things in, take things apart, lock doors, and "drive" - rolling up all windows and turning on lights and the radio and such.

- He LOVES to read books and insists on doing it several times a day. He points out every animal, house, tree, etc on every page after you finish reading the words. Both Jeremy and I love reading to him at this age because it's so interactive.

-His favorite food is probably french fries. Any time we drive past a fast food place, he says, "free-fries, free-fries!" It cracks me up, especially when I'm just turning in a red box! He really is such a good eater and loves lots of healthy foods- avacado, raisins, fruit of every kind, green beans, fish, brocolli, pickles, etc. He also loves sweets, just like his Daddy (and maybe Mommy, too ;) He eats a lot but does not eat it very quickly!

-He loves babies and points them out every where we go, usually saying, "Aww, baby! Hug!"

-He loves to wrestle, tackle daddy, do "supaman", "ashes, ashes" (ring around the rosies), and run laps around our living room.

-He likes to dress up and always takes Mommy by the hand into Daddy's closet and asks for Daddy's hats. =)

-He could live outside. After Dada, Mama, and dog, outside was one of his first words and he uses it several times a day. If he could camp outside to sleep I'm sure he would.

-He still does not like to sit still. Craft time and watching tv only last a couple of minutes still, he'd much rather be running around doing something or sleeping, nothing in between.

-He's still pretty mellow. The temper tantrums are pretty much non-existent. He does occasionally fuss but not very often. He doesn't seem to rebellious yet and usually plays so good by himself and minds his own business. I love that he entertains himself when I'm busy, but often comes and finds me to give me kisses and hugs or brings his toys to where I am and plays nicely.

Well, I'm sure I'll be the only one reading this in full, but I'm glad I finally sat down to finish it. :) We love our life being all about our sweet, silly, playful, adorable, little 2 year old!! We are so proud of how much he's growing and learning and can't wait to spend many more years with him! We are so blessed to experience the joy he brings!

*He has his well check in a week or two so I will for sure be posting his measurements later!*

Christmas Day - Magnolia and San Antonio!

this boy is so obsessed w/tractors! he loves his new tractors from Gran!

yucky shot of me, our family as we were loading up to head home


aunt Lissa and jakey!

"awww, huggh!" as Jake would say

fun grab bags (holes cut in tops of boxes with lots of fun things inside that you can only feel for, not see! love this tradition!

LOVE when he lays on the floor w/his feet like this!

he was using the pillow that keeps the cold drafts of air outside to "hit" people-- it was so cute. He's definitely all boy when it comes to finding anything to play with!

pound--pshhhh!! He loves noises after he pounds it!

too cute not to snap a pic. He'll sit EXACTLY like ____ (insert bigger kid/adult). Soo cute!

my folks!

Matt's top present on his pile was a VS bag...it was cologne =))

Haley and Beaux matching in their gray :) so cute!

We had a great Christmas! Jeremy had over a week of and we got to spend Christmas day in magnolia with my family and then headed to San Antonio for a few days. When we got home we had about 6 days left before he had to go back to work. What a nice "vacation" we got to spend playing all sorts of games with our family. It was a blast and it ended too soon!