Living in Georgia

I'm really tired so this will be short. I just needed to post some photos to keep Jason happy!. This is a photo of Jack, who dressed himself yesterday. We temps that got into the mid 50s and he picked out shorts to wear. And I couldn't get him to reconsider, no matter how much I protested. But what I really enjoyed was the bandanna around the neck. Very classy! This is Ethan crawling around getting into things. You can see how much he wants to start walking. He's now crawling with one leg up on his foot. He looks like such a big boy these days. I love the fact that these boys can now play so well together and I don't have to supervise. In fact, more often than not I hear, Mommy, can you move Ethan in here with me? It's great! Today Jack was pushing Ethan around the house on the push toy. Ethan loved it! Here is Ethan in his rock star sunglasses! Good night peeps!!

These are a few photos from our quick trip to Fayetteville, NC last week. We didn't do much while we were there, since it was only four days. But the boys had fun playing. Jack loved sitting on the steps by the front door looking out towards the railroad tracks. He also loved running down the hallway to look into the parking lot to see if Daddy was home yet. One day he did that while I was doing the dishes and when I turned around, Ethan was halfway down the hallway too! Can't keep my eyes off these two. It was raining the first couple days, so the boys and I spent a lot of time watching stuff on YouTube. Jack is really into science right now and the group They Might Be Giants has a lot of kid friendly music videos that deal with science and space so we watched a lot of those. We also got the boys hair cut, finally! Aren't they cute? This is them playing "capture Ethan" in the hallway. It wa so cute. In other family news, as many of you already know, we a...

Sorry I've been gone so long. We've been enjoying some time with Jason before he's gone until Thanksgiving. He came home for a week and then we headed up to North Carolina for a week. However, due to the Columbus Day holiday, he had a four day weekend so we came back home Thursday night so he could spend a few more days at home. He left this afternoon and it was very sad for us all. But we're excited that he finally gets to start his training this week, and he got his language changed from Arabic to Spanish, so he'll be done four months earlier!!! While he was home we took the boys to the aquarium. It was Ethan's first trip and he LOVED it! He was all smiles and wanted to reach out and touch everything. I've never seen him more happy or excited. It was a great trip, hope you enjoy the photos. Attack of the jellyfish! These are just a couple photos of the boys playing on the playset. This was Ethan's first time on the tire swing and, as you can ...

I had no photos of the boys to blog but Jason called asked for more photos and they looked so cute out of the bathtub tonight that I grabbed the camera and started snapping away! Every night Jack likes to read Ethan stories and Ethan gets the biggest kick out of it, except that Ethan loved to turn the pages and Jack doesn't let him. But Ethan really gets a kick out of seeing Jack in his bath towels. Ethan is now trying to say dog. He basically says do but he tries to repeat it when you say it and today when our speech therapist was here she asked him where the dogs were and he pointed to them and say do. It's very exciting to see the big changes in him. He's going to be walking and talking in no time!! Jack and I have started a new nightly routine, he rocks in the rocking chair for a few minutes and then I sit with him and rock him before heading into his room to read stories. When he was a baby, we had to rock every night and naptime forever to get him ready for bed, ...

We haven't left the house in two days thanks to the 15+ inches of rain we've gotten since Saturday! And Jack's preschool was canceled tomorrow due to the rain too (the first time they've ever closed due to rain). I haven't been on the roads, but from everything I've seen on the TV and read on the internet, it's horrible out there (roads washed away, flooding everywhere, etc.). Here are a few photos of our yard so you can see how much water we've gotten out here. Luckily we've had no flooding in our basement but in our old neighborhood, a lot of the houses are flooded and cars ruined. People couldn't even leave the neighborhood because of water covering the roadways. Across the street the little creek has turned into a fast moving river. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for our neighbors that it doesn't rise anymore and get into their basements. We're supposed to get more rain tonight but so far we've had a few hours of nothing,...