Want to know what a Trillion Dollars looks like?

You won't believe your eyes! Go to the link below and find out. I think we hear the word "Trillion" and think, "oh, that's just a little more than a Billion." Of course, all these numbers really mean nothing to us, but when you see it rendered in 3D...

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Let me know what you think,
Brad

The Completed Monopoly Bathroom

Last weekend, I was really excited to get out of the apartment after being locked up in it all week, and so I went to the park with December and Isaac -- that made them quite happy -- and then we went shopping! And that made me very happy! We went and picked up the Monopoly board game, and then we went to Michaels to get some supplies -- a clock kit and a frame. And then I had everything I needed to make the Monopoly clock!

Making the clock was really alot of fun!

With the shadow-box frame, I used some of the pieces from the board game and put them in it...

This was great fun, too. I've decided that I like theme rooms, and I think it'd be great, whenever I have a house, to do a different theme in every room. Ha! That'd either be really neat...or really tacky. Not sure which. But theme rooms are so fun to get stuff for! Like the Monopoly bathroom, or December's room, which is a butterfly & flower theme.

A sleeping boy. This is the position I most commonly find Isaac when he's sleeping -- it's his favorite way to sleep!

Isaac, getting in some tummy time. We usually like to lay in front of him while he's doing tummy time, like December's doing here, to give him something to look at and some incentive to hold his head higher. I love this outfit that my Uncle John and Aunt Dawn gave to Isaac -- that bear on the bum is super cute!

Brad was changing Isaac's diaper, and December was inspired to be like Isaac and have no pants on, too. Here December and Daddy are playing with the little ponies. In this picture, the ponies are in church. There's a piano at the front of the church, the ponies are the congregation, and the little bear at the front is the preacher. I was making dinner in the kitchen and their conversation was floating over to me. It was pretty funny, listening to how they were pretending church -- they sang some songs that we actually sing in our church, and then Daddy made the bear give a little sermon. Pretty cute!

Hanging Out at Home

This week, we've been trapped in our apartment. They've been redoing our deck -- cleaning it, putting on a tar, waterproof coat, recementing it, painting it, etc. Every day, Monday through Friday, they put on a new layer. AND since there is only one door in and out of our apartment (which enters onto the deck), we're trapped inside. So, besides staring out the window and watching paint dry, we've been trying to make our own fun at home!

December, above, and Isaac playing on our bed. Here Isaac is wearing his Canada shirt and looking mighty cute in it!

December giving Isaac a kiss

December reading Isaac a book about fairies (he loved hearing about all of those pink fairies, I'm sure). She's got the book memorized and is saying it to him. This book is from the public library, and it made me laugh when we went there because out of the entire floor that they have dedicated to children's books, December picked out the two most pink, girly books they had. She chose this one, about fairies, and another one, about babies dressed up in pink angel costumes.

Isaac being a true Californian with his flower shirt. He's finding his thumb more and more often, and he likes it -- although he's still not completely sure what to do with it and it still gags him every now and then.


December thoroughly enjoyed a piece of her leftover chocolate birthday cake...

Again, one of the rare times December wanted to hold Isaac. She still takes his rejection very personally and completely melts down if he starts to cry while she's holding him.

A happy boy

It's the Jones' children bath time! Lately I've been giving them both baths at the same time, and it seems to work really well!

Brad is the only one at church right now...December has been throwing up yesterday and today, and I'm not sure what she's got. While I feel awful for December when she throws up, I really appreciated the long nap she took yesterday! It was absolutely wonderful. Her naps are pretty irregular these days, if she takes one at all, so to have her take a nice, looong nap was awesome!

December's 3rd Birthday!

December is now 3 years old! We had her birthday party last Thursday, and it was princess themed. So she had Cinderella plates, the dessert plates were all of the Disney princesses, and there were tons of pink and purple balloons that had princess stickers all over them. December was super excited when we went to the party store and picked all of this out, as you might imagine!

The cake I made her was a princess castle -- a very PINK castle, as you can tell!

I looked up castle cakes online, and there was a how-to video for this one, which was quite helpful!

For dinner, we had December's favorite things: hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, and chips. For the hot dogs, we got every topping that we could think of -- chili, cheese, relish, mustard, onions, banana peppers, etc. There were 12 adults and 11 children at the party (some toddlers and some babies). Here you can see some of December's friends. December's in the front, and then from left to right are Noah, Samuel, and Andrew.

Do you remember the picture from earlier in the blog with the four pregnant girls standing in a line? Well, here's our four babies! Left to right (youngest to oldest): Abigail (only 9 days old in this picture), Benjamin (born Christmas Eve, I believe), Clara (born 3 days after Isaac), and Isaac.



Clara and Isaac holding hands (or, rather, holding fists...)

December playing with the My Little Ponies she got from Uncle Jeff, Auntie Erin, Caden, and Cayleigh for her birthday. She LOVES these ponies and plays with them constantly every day! She takes them from room to room (here she's in the bathroom with them) and plays for hours. She got a My Little Ponies dvd from Auntie Kelli at Christmas, and has learned the names of all of them...hm. Now I'm thinking I should have done a My Little Pony party! :o)

Here's December's new tricycle! She likes it alot, but she's still learning the pedalling motion...