Little Fish

We are raising a fish apparently! We have been spending a lot of time at the pool since it opened on May 1st. We try to make it everyday, but we have had a few days we haven't gone. He loves it though and once we get down to the pool we can't get him out. The first time I took him he didn't want to let go of me and I was worried that he forgot how to swim and was scared of the water. But by the next time he was willing to swim from me to the step and the next time he was jumping from the step and swimming to me. Now he is all over the pool. He swim about half the width of the pool well. So we are going to work on taking a breath so he can keep going! We bought him a noodle this year and he can get around the pool no problem with that, so I know he just needs to be able to get up for a breath so swim further.

With as much as he is swimming I fully expect him to make the Olympic team this summer!

Loves his noodle

Jumping to Grammy!

He loves being thrown...but a 30lb squirmy kid is hard to catch and he does lots of cannonballs when we do this

Teacher of the Year

Last Thursday was the Teacher of the Year gala. Josh was nominated for teacher of the year for his campus this year. He had to write an essay and was interviewed by a panel during this semester. He apparently made a great impression on the panel because one of the contacted his principal to ask her questions about him. (I guess they thought he wasn't serious about his brief wrestling "career" and wondered if he had any tatoos.) Unfortunately, Josh didn't win (boo!) but 2 men did win, which apparently hasn't ever happened before. But it was a fun night. Grammy hung out with Jake for the evening and he was very sad the next morning when she was not still here when he woke up.

Josh with his principal and assistant principal

Being announced as a nominee

Movie Star in the Making

Jake made his movie debut today. A few weeks ago he did a little screen test at the local library to be in on of their signing films and we got an email saying he was chosen to be in one of the videos a few days later. So the filming date finally came today. We started out a little rough, but once we got outside and started taping he did great. They grouped the kids into two groups, mising up the ages. We think Jake was the youngest one there, so they told us we could be in the film and stand with him, but we just partnered him up with one of the older girls and he just held her hand and followed her around most of the time. It was so cute. The video won't be ready until the end of August, but when it is I will share it.

Hanging out with his buddy and listening to the director

Waiting for their cue

Playing for the camera

Playing in the water...so cute the camera man made sure to get some good shots of him doing this, hopefully they make the film!

Flying Very High in the Sky

Josh has always thrown Jake up in the air. He has always loved it. But recently he has decided that he loves it and must do it, over and over and over. And of course because he tells what to do he know tells us, well mostly Josh, that he wants to fly very high in the sky. Unfortunately for Josh, once he starts flying he has no desire to stop. So he gets a good workout anytime Jake asks. It is amazingly cute how much he enjoys it though!

Sick Baby

As I said in the last post, we have a mildly sick baby on our hands. So far we have been lucky in that none of his illnesses have been anything that we needed to see the doctor for. But on Friday Jake started to have some drainage from his eyes. After nap time though he woke up with one of his eyes all goopy. Intially I thought pink eye, but his eye wasn't pink so we decided to wait until Saturday and see how he was. He did not sleep well Saturday night and got less than 9 hours of sleep (instead of his normal 10.5-11.5). So we called the doctor's office first thing Saturday morning and got in for the first appointment of the morning. Unfortunately the doctor that we saw was the doctor that we switched from when Jake was 2 months old because she was so alarmist about everything. But she said that it didn't look like pink eye, but a sinus infection that has his sinuses so clogged up that he has stuff coming out of his eyes.

Poor dude. Fortunately, he isn't really feeling too bad most of the time. But he is on an antibiotic and eye drops. He takes the meds fine, but we had to do some fancy talking and decided that his eye drops are now Magic Mickey Drops. He tolerates them much better knowing that. Hopefully he will be all better in the next few days and we can get over this first real illness and avoid another one anytime soon!

And for some more excited things, pictures! These are random pictures from the past month or so.

 Wearing Grammy's shoes

Helping daddy hang some shelving

Help! Help momma! I stuck! (Yes, I took a picture before I helped him get unstuck)

Happy Mother's Day

We had a lovely, relaxing day today to celebrate Mother's Day. We have a mildly sick baby and the doctor said to keep him away from other kids for a couple days so we skipped churched this morning and headed straight to breakfast with Grammy. After breakfast we headed home and just hung out the rest of the day. I am so blessed to be a momma to such an amazing little boy (who woke me up with an adorable "Happy Mother's Day Momma!") . It has been the greatest privilage to be his momma. I have been so blessed to have a wonderful mother as well. She has been great example of how to be a good momma to my baby.  So Happy Mother's Day to you mothers, moms, mommies, and mommas!

He definitely doesn't look any sort of sick making his cheese face!

With both my babies

Little Chef

 Jake has been such a little helper lately, but his favorite place to help has been the kitchen. Anytime we are in the kitchen doing something Jake comes running, yelling "Wanna help!" He has a chair that he pulls up to the counter and hops on up there. We usually let him help, especially when it is stirring or pouring ingredients in.

Making pancakes

I'm pretty sure this is his favorite part of helping!

Making muffins

Peeling garlic

Oh, hi Cosmo. She has recently discovered how to get in the highchair, which leads to the table.