Its been a while...

So i have been quite busy! And with my main computer broken down i am on a lap top and have all my pictures stored so i can't upload new ones. So sad:(



Jordan is now a First Grader (starts in the fall) He is so proud of himself and excited for first grade. I remember the days...then i was like "what the heck i have to do this for 12 years! Why was i so excited again!" He amazes me though and has awesome teachers that make things fun and interesting. He loves to read and is aways picking up new books and even if they are above his reading level will sit there reading till he figures it out. (something i was not interested in at all, so it really makes me happy to see him doing that) He is an awesome big brother and helps me out so much. It really will be nice now that summer is here to have him around. He gets up in the morning and gets in bed with Zane and talks to him while i get Nates lunch ready and breakfast going. I love waking up in the morning...even if it is 6 o'clock more times than not...to the boys giggling in bed. Makes me so happy! :O)



Zane is growing like a weed. He is 10 months now. He says Momma, Dadda, Hi, Bye, Ball, Bottle, Eat...pretty much will try to say anything but those words you can understand. he loves B words so when you say one like Bus, Bugs, Brother...he will look at you and start going B B B B and jump around. He is pretty much fearless and has been crawling and walking around holding onto things for a while. He will stand without holding onto anything and look around proudly. He loves climbing stairs but doesn't try it unless given the go ahead by me. He got his butt whooped once, seeing how we live in a basement it is not a good idea for him to fall so I'd rather he learned not to climb then to find out just how hard the concrete can be. he is a very fast learner as well. We taught him the sign for "NO" and he will smile and go on his merry way when told. (for the most part) :O) Back to the stairs issue we tried a gate before swatting...he proceed to get up on the first step by holding onto the gate and fell and put a good bruise on his head...so we moved the gate...Babies are way smarter than people give them credit!



Nate just got out of school as well and is waiting for his job to come threw (more on that later) We are working on building our house and supposed to be moved in by the end of August. Should be livable but not finished... But it will be ours. We have been working on fixing up and selling two of our cars. It has been alot of fun working together.

We've been together 7 years and I can say everything we went threw was worth it and if i had to i would do it all again!

We went camping memorial weekend and it was probably the best time we have ever had as a family. I wish i had pictures on here because Zane was adorable in his little life jacket on the boat. He loved it! So did Jordan!



I am just so looking forward to this summer and all the things we will get to do together! We bought a Bronco for 4by4 We have to do some things to it but it will be a blast!



And me...well I'm planning on taking EMT courses in the fall...if there wasn't enough going on right now. Something Ive wanted to do for a while. Nate is hoping to do it with me so that should be fun! I went from 203 to 122 in 9 months (actually in 6 months) i didn't start working out till Zane was 3 months. So now i need to go kick some butt ...

So this post has been all over the place but as long as i can read it it wil have to do...I got my video camera working thanks to my husband so now i can keep track of the boys that way.

my crazy boy!

Zane is a little terror in his walker! I am so happy that he is not walking on his own yet. I am trying to prepare for that day. He is a very vocal child so when he gets quiet i know he is up to something no good. Yesterday when he got quiet i went to check on him and he was soaking wet with the tray of his walker full of water. He looked up smiling and continued to splash around. He had stood on his tip toes and had grabbed a glass of water off the table and neatly dumped it out on his tray. Some how none of it got on the floor. He was happy as could be. All i could do was laugh and once again realize he is nothing like his older brother who always seemed to wisely consider what he did before he did it even as a baby.

Children are a treasure :O)

Today was a big day for us :O) We put Zane in the walker for the first time today. He took off like he had been in it many times before. Made it all the way across the living room into the kitchen where he promptly grabbed the toaster (which is kept down low in storage) I managed to get it away before he threw it...what he does with everything now days! He heads strait for the kitchen table and grabs at the table cloth i move him away and right back he goes. All is quite for a minute and the next thing i know he has pulled a string out of the table cloth and rapped it so tightly around his hand that it was turning a pretty bright red color. For sanity sake i took him out and put him in his chair so i could finish cooking dinner. I think i have my hands full with this one :O) In other big news...Jordan read his first entire book by himself today! I am so very proud of him! Thinking back to what a hard time i had learning to read it makes me so happy watching him and knowing that is one area where he is nothing like me :) He was beaming! At the end of the book he said "Wait a minute, I guess i do know how to read." All week he had been talking about how his friend at school already knew how to read and that he wanted to do that, so he is rejoicing because now he gets his own books every time he finishes one.

Baby Z

Zane is such a big boy now. 6 months old and sitting on his own! So happy to being doing so!! He eats tons of food and is now trying to say "Brother" He says "Bru" with a very pronounced "B" sound. If you ask him were Brother is he smiles looks around and says "Bru" (u as in under, not sure how to spell what he was saying :P ) Anyhow he has been doing the same thing with Mama and Dada for a couple weeks now. And when i ask him if he wants food and i do the sign for eat he smiles and bobs up and down and waves his arms wildly when he is hungry. He is also VERY ticklish! I can't even change his clothes without making him laugh. (Most of this is an update for me so i wont forget babie moments as they fly by.) As far as Jordans tooth goes, he put a shark tooth that his Auntie Ti gave him in his toothfairy box last night. He got a dollar and was very happy for it, but he tells me in the morning, "Mom don't lie to me, there is no toothfairy! You stuck the dollar in there for me, or Daddy did. Thank you!" He was just as happy knowing it was me so it all worked out. :)

Tooth Sandwich

Yummy!!...well Jordan lost his first tooth today. Sadly he was eating a sandwich when it happened and he swallowed it. He was very upset ,more at the fact that there was blood on his sandwich than anything, but worried what the tooth would do in his belly. I told him it would be a funny story to gross people out with and to just tell his friends that it tasted great :) So tonight he told his Dad, "guess what i had today... a tooth sandwich!" and then showed him the spot were his tooth had been. Sadly he couldn't keep a brave face in front of Daddy and broke down in tears. He ran away because he was embarrassed and ran strait into the corner of the wall with his face. Needless to say there were more tears, but he is hoping to be able to show a brave face at school tomorrow! Poor baby! He really wanted to take his tooth to show and tell at school! :(

Oh yah and the pictures...He started shaving already....man he is growing up fast! LOL Actually he got a fake shaver and cream so he could be like Daddy and Nate is showing him how to use it. :)

Loose Tooth

Nothing makes you realize your child is getting older (and you) when they get there first loose tooth. My baby is no long a baby! He has his first loose tooth!!

He speaks :O)

Ok so since Zane was about 5 weeks old he has said what sounds like "hi". Whenever we would say it over and over to him he would end up saying it...not really directed at us. Of course he is a small baby. Well he is 5 months now and yesterday he said "Mama"!! At first i was like what no way... but he has said it 7 times since yesterday and every time he has been with someone else looking my way or when i put him down. I'm sure he doesnt know what he is saying but he is still saying it!! I take great pride....a word is a word right. Or is it only counted when they really know what they are saying? That is what one of my sisters thinks. Like its not a word if they aren't pointing at it and saying it or something. Though i know what she means but still sheesh don't ruin my mommy moment. I didnt count hi. Even though that is something we said over and over to him and he can still say/repeat whatever.

Anyhow it was exciting for me! At least i know he wont have trouble putting words together!

Tired and uninspired

I keep looking at my blog and trying to write something but i feel so drained. Like i just got a years worth of crazy dumped on me in just a couple weeks time. I really wish i had a picture of what i looked like. Just a little look into one day/night i had(pretty much how my entire week has been)... I have been up all night with a sick baby who only wants to sleep while being held. I would rock him, feed him and sneak him back in bed only to hear him 20min. later. He has a very bad cold so he can't breath well laying down. I got up over 25 times (not joking at all). The three times i actually get him to sleep for a hour Jordan
comes in ALL THREE TIMES, and says he is having a night mere and needs me to pray with him. While all this is going on every time i would get back into bed Nate ,bless his sweet heart, would start talking in his sleep and try to hug me. (Something i usually love about sleeping with him.) Lately i just feel like "If another person touches me I'm going to lose it!" By 4am i was done! No point in even getting back in bed, so i turn on a movie. 6am rolls around and just as I'm laying Zane in bed Jordan wakes up bright and cheery. So thinking i could distract him and maybe get another hour of sleep i tell him he can play his game on his Nintendo. I have been sleeping for no more than 15 min. when he shrieks. I go running to his aid only to find his game isn't working and can i please help him fix it. I fix it, get back in bed, get another hug from my loving husband who gets up 20 min. later. Now im awake and it's time to start my day. (Which constited of me being so tired i couldnt think strait so i pretty much cleaned, and put things away were they were NOT supposed to go.) Zane,who is teething like crazy, does this lunging biting combo while growling feercely ...poor child. Between that and spitting up on me all day I changed my clothes three times and then gave up. The major time he puked so much on me it went down my shirt, pooled in my bra and then down my stomach into my pants. It was lovely. I get up to change and my sweet angel grabs a handfull of my hair and pulls (hard enough to pull some out) while lunging at my face and taking a bite on my chin. It was at this moment that i looked down thinking ...well...absolutly nothing, i was so tired i didn't even care anymore. Zane looks up at me and grins. I just started laughing, changed for the third time and made my 6th cup of coffee, it was only 9am and i had a whole wonderful day ahead of me!

The saddest part of this story is that this is pretty much all i can remeber on a loop for the last 3 weeks! Last night was the first night i got sleep, i feel the cloud lifting! Yeah! I love my life and my family. Even the little puke who is determind to make me look/feel like a frazzled house wife. I love you Zane!!