Funny Toddler Moments

Jake, at 32 mo, is talking up a storm. His language and comprehension is growing everyday. He amazes and amuses me by the things he says on a regular basis. Here are a couple of stories from this week.
On Tuesday we went to the Library for story time, they had set out name tags for the moms to put names on the kids. As always I asked Will how to spell his name, W-i-l-l he tells me proudly. I turn to Jake and ask him what his name is, of course he answers Paco! Let's just put Jake on the name tag, I say. Do you know how to spell Jake? A-b-c Jake he answers.

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Yesterday when I got him up from his nap his pants were went so I had to get new ones. I had not folded the laundry, let's just not talk about how much laundry is piled up, so I got some tan ones that he hardly ever wears, because they are tan and he is a boy and boys get tan pants really dirty. Anyway he takes one look at the pants and loudly exclaims "OOOOOOOH Mommy I Lub those pants!"

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Today I put on one of their bible songs Cd's so they could dance and play music. The song, Father Abraham comes on and Jake starts doing some really fancy moves, I know this is a song they regularly hear at church, so I ask Jake if he learned those moves at church. No he replies we just have snack, apparently that is what impacts him- snack

S'mores

Jonah grilled chicken and veggies on the grill for us tonight so we decided to do S'mores for dessert The fire was HOT

So you have to get down low. Roasting the marshmallows is serious business

But Jake is little and has a hard time roasting himself so I took over for him and over did them a bit ~oops! He didn't seem to mind though
"Jake let me see your hands"

Too engrossed in the S'more to look at me

Daddy helping Will out
Jake showing me that his "marmellow" was way way up "dere"

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and here are a couple more photos just because. Cool lighting makes too small corn plants and weeks look prettyWe stayed out until the sun went down and then let the boys get out their flashlights and play for a little while before heading in for a bath and bed. It was a fun evening!

I hope your Labor Day weekend is going well and that you are enjoying the last bit of summer :)

You don't Go away . . .

Conversation with Will this morning:
W: Why was grandma sad when she leaved us?
Me: Because she misses us!
W: Ohhh I miss her too!
Me: Do you ever miss mommy?
W: No you never go'd away from us!

Yep that's just the way I like it :)

Before and After

Last week Jonah decided to shave his goatee off. I don't really know why, but it was fun to see the boys' reaction as they have never seen their dad without a goatee (Will was fascinated, Jake cried) It took some getting used to as I have only seen him this was a few time myself, but now I kind of like it. Will says he likes him better without whiskers because it doesn't tickle when he kisses him! With or without whiskers I love this guy and am happy to have him in my life!

August in Photos

Can you believe August is over already? This summer seemed to fly by. . . we are looking forward to fall and all that it holds for us ;)

From seed to Pumpkins . . . well almost

We planted pumpkins a few months ago and we have watched them sprout, grow pretty yellow flowers, and now finally we have a few little pumpkins. Two of them are about the size of an apple, well a smallish apple. I have no idea if they will get big enough for us to carve but it has been really fun to watch them grow and I think we have gotten the bug for growing. We plan to grow a bigger garden next year.

What we ate today. . .

Just in case you wanted to know!

We have been enjoying a lot of fresh veggies lately, not because we have a wonderful garden, but because we of the kindness of others. Will keeps trying to tell people about our garden and I try to shush him because all we have are some carrots and pumpkins that may or may not ripen before the frost! We received some zucchini, I am not a well versed cook and didn't really know what to do with it so I made zucchini bread, I know I have sent the recipe to many of you, but for those of you who haven't seen the recipe yet you can find it here. It is so delicious that I had to make this sweet and delicious bread again this week. I can't resist it so I had it for breakfast, the boys, who seem a bit sick of it had Life Cereal.

For lunch we had sandwiches, PB&J for Jake and ham and cheese for the rest of us and on the side we had fresh, red grape tomatoes. Jonah came home with a big bag of them from K and I wondered What will we do with all of those? We still had some she had given us earlier in the week but they are so good the boys just devour them, I have eaten quite a few myself. They are almost all gone!

Today is rather cool so what could be more perfect for a fall feeling day (even though it is still August?) Chile! So we rounded our day out with four bowls of Chile mmmm so delicious as Jonah's Chile always is!

This post was inspired by Katrina's Snapshot Saturday #5 I love these challenges :)