Brother/Sister love

These two really do love each other. Blake is very sweet to Lacey and Lacey just eats up any attention her brother will give her. It is so cute to watch them together. Lacey will be six months this Thursday and it's hard to believe. Time has flown by fast. They are so much fun and bring so much joy to our lives. Blake is a laugh a minute and Lacey is just as cute as can be. I am trying to blog as much as I can but things have been a bit crazy with the hurricane. Blake's school finally got power and he started back today. Things are slowly getting back to normal. Before we know it the holidays will be here!!! I look forward that though. I LOVE the holidays!

We survived the hurricane

I thought I would post and let everyone know that we are doing fine. We evacuated to my parents and avoided the hurricane. The area we live in did get a hard hit but mostly fences, roof damage, trees uprooted etc. It's a mess but nothing like what the coastal counties experienced. There are some homes that have extensive damage. Our house did fine compared to others. We have damage on both sides of the fence and we think our house shifted a bit. We had our power restored within four days and headed back home after that. Things are slowly getting back to normal. There is a lot of work to be done but it will get there. We absolutely love our friends here and it was good to get back and see everyone. Thanks for the phone calls and e-mails. Keep the prayers coming for those who were less fortunate.

Funny book

Blake has a book called "Blue Hat Green Hat". Last night he was reading it with daddy and he thought it was so funny. Each page has animals wearing different colored clothing. At the end of each page there is a chicken wearing the piece of clothing on the wrong part of it's body. For example a shirt or pants are on it's head. Under the chicken it says "oops". So every time Tom would say oops Blake would start cracking up. You will also notice at one point that Blake is saying the color of each shirt....."blue shirt, green shirt, yellow shirt etc" It was too funny and Tom and I could not stop laughing about it.

A Blake day

This picture is of Blake on his first day of school which was yesterday. School is great and he loves it. It's the same school as last spring and summer camps so he had no problems.
I thought I would just paint a picture of what a day in the life of Blake is like. It was a pretty good day as the morning started. His best buddy came over and they had a ton of fun playing together. During lunch however Blake decided he would just throw his peanut butter sandwich on the floor and earn himself some minutes in time-out. After his nap he thought he would see how well his plastic fishing pole could knock picture frames off the end tables. The fishing pole has now become a decoration on the fireplace mantel where he can admire it and reflect on why it was put there in the first place. At dinner tonight he took his entire plate of chicken, pasta, and veggies chips and once again dumped it on the floor. This entitled him to some time in his room until daddy got home (about 20 min). Once his daddy was home I got a "sorry mama" with a little smirk across his face. I was holding Lacey and trying to get him to pick up some of the food and throw it away. As I am trying to stay serious Lacey starts laughing out loud at him which in turn causes Blake to lose focus. He then spent the rest of the evening pretending his stuffed dinosaur was a baby. He was walking around with it over his shoulder while patting his back. He then laid it on Lacey's play mat and acted like he was tickling the dinosaur. He actually does this with Lacey. Then that dinosaur had to kiss the other dinosaur he has. Once that was over, Blake felt that Lacey needed to kiss and have a few moments with the dinosaur. It didn't bother her one bit. Any attention she gets from her brother just makes her day. We ended the day at the bottom of the stairs saying our prayers and daddy thanked Jesus that mommy and Blake had made it through the day. For about half an hour after putting Blake to bed he went over all his ABC's out loud and finally fell asleep. I love my sweet precious boy!!!!!! There is never a dull moment around here.

Dancing Machine

Anyone who has been around Blake long enough knows that he loves to dance. I caught him dancing the other day and videoed him without him knowing. Watch the hip action in the beginning. I had Lacey in the b-journ carrier as I was filming and it was all I could do to keep from cracking up! You will see him get down on the floor and stand back up. The song he is dancing to is called "Get Knocked Down...Jump Back Up". It's a dance that we do in JUMP (the childrens ministry I lead at church). There is a part in the dance where we get down on the floor and stand back up :).

Just a few updates on the kids

Lacey is officially rolling over from back to tummy. She tries so hard and when she finally makes it she admires the world from her new view and then quickly realizes she is on her tummy. Since she hates her tummy she starts screaming until you put her on her back. From there it's back to turning over again. She is quite the little talker (not sure who she gets that from)and before bedtime she jabbers away and gives me lots of little sweet giggles. She is just precious!!!

Now for Blake! Well he now thinks he is Superman! I had two boxes of diapers that I came home with from the store the other day. He was standing on them one at a time, counting to seven, jumping off, and then throwing himself on the floor to roll around. I'm not sure why he counts to seven (he can count up to 13) but I told Tom I'm glad he counts to seven because that buys us some time to get to him. We then caught him stacking both boxes on top of each other ON THE COUCH and trying to climb up to the top.

Some of our very good friends just bought a house with a pool. We went yesterday for our first swim there. Up until now Blake has not been that interested in the pool. Well yesterday he changed his mind. Before I knew it he was standing on the edge counting (hence the whole jumping off the diaper boxes) and jumping to me. He had to be holding my hands the whole time but that is fine with me. We'd jump off and then he'd start saying choo-choo. Today we went back again and he actually floated in the water by himself with his floaties. I was so proud of him!!! Lacey even took her first dip in the pool yesterday.

Fun times we are having!

Blake's first soda

So Blake wanted some of Jenni's drink tonight after finishing off most of a chicken fajita taco and a tortilla or two. Thinking he would not like to carbonation in the Sprite, I let him have a sip. You can see from the result I was mistaken. Blake 1, Daddy 0.