The Babies Have Come!

Here's the "Before" picture of Della, me, Rachel, and Sara back in November, with our babies growing in us!



The "After" picture: Della had baby Clara, I had baby Isaac, Rachel had baby Benjamin, and Sara had baby Abigail.

Isaac has begun to suck his thumb, but not consistently yet. He's still learning how to find it on a regular basis. But here was the first time he sucked his thumb to put himself to sleep! It was great!

Isaac and December have both had their pictures taken -- Isaac's 3-month picture and December's 3-year picture. I can't WAIT to get them back! They both did really well at them, although Isaac was tired and wanted to go to sleep, and December was nervous about the new person/bright lights. But they both did some good smiles, and I'm really happy with how it all went! We just have to wait a while to get the pictures back...that's the hard part, waiting.

I'm excited about today, because we're going to the mall with Naomi and her two kids, Noah and Isaac, and we're going to get Naomi's ears pierced! It'll be so fun! And my watch battery needs to be looked at, so I'll do that while we're there, too. Not as fun, but necessary! Brad is doing well at school, although this semester is the most difficult of the entire three years of seminary -- so the seasoned students say. It's true. Brad's got six papers due this semester, and they're not the tiny little 5-pagers, either! It seems like the professors like to give papers that need to be anywhere between 15 and 20 pages in length. Yikes! I'm very impressed that Brad is able to write these things! He is very smart.

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!