Updates And Some News

As usual, I'm a little behind posting here, but I'll try to post at least a few highlights...

Miranda celebrated her 5th birthday(Jan. 29) and thankfully Jake and Grandma Dorothy pulled off a wonderful princess party for her while I hid away in my room with an eye infection. From all the pictures I saw and giggling girls I could hear, I'm convinced that all the princesses had a great time!

Miranda is SO ready to go to Kindergarten and asks me every day when she can go. We picked up her registration materials the other day and when she told her friend Tawny that she was going to school soon, her friend gave her a big hug and said "I'm so proud of you!" Yeah, it was the cutest thing ever...

Patrick is now almost officially potty trained, thanks to my mom sending down a pack of Spiderman underwear. Apparently the Cars ones I had were not cool enough for him. He needs very little assistance now and hasn't had an accident in over two weeks. His little church friends must be potty training too because he tells me what kind of underwear they all wear. Even the girls. Yep, I'm lucky enough to know what 3 yr. old girl in his class wears Tinkerbell undies.

He is very excited to be a big brother and to move into the big boy bed in his room. He is the sweetest kid and hugs and kisses my tummy and tells baby Geoffrey hello all the time. Though he is so good and cute as can be, he can be quite the stubborn kid. He insists on wearing his shoes on the wrong feet(see above pic) and will not wear jammies if the bottoms do match the top. He is very particular about this and would rather wear his day clothes than non-matching pj's...

This is Maddy in her Hannah Montana outfit for "celebrity day" at school. I had something a little wilder picked out, but in true Maddy fashion she picked the conservative and 'safe' option. (The one she could dismantle pretty quickly if her friends didn't dress up). Silly, sweet girl.

Maddy is loving 2nd grade and has been on the honor roll every quarter so far. She would also love to have her friends move right in with us. It's hard for her to go one day without friend time, but since she has great friends, I have no problem with this. It also helps that she knows that she has to have her homework and chores done before friends come over, so there is never a fight about those things. That, I love! This still doesn't work for Miranda, so I need to come up with another plan for that girl.

Nothing really new going on for me. Just getting bigger and more uncomfortable every day! Thank goodness that we have a lot going on, so the pregnancy seems to be going really quickly. Yay for that!

I'm sure many of you have heard, but Jake has chosen to be baptized this month and we couldn't be happier about his decision. He is really excited and I'm sure he wanted to post about it, but by the time he got around to blogging it, it would be old news. (No offense Jake, we all know you are a busy guy.)

To him, baptism seems like the most natural thing in the world as he has basically been active in the church for a while now and this is the next logical step. But I have to say, it is very strange for me to get used to seeing scriptures left out on the breakfast table when I get up, and even stranger to hear him humming church hymns to himself on Sunday mornings. Not strange in a bad way mind you, just not typical of the rock star I married 10 years ago!

For those of you who would like to attend, the baptism will take place on Sat. April 18th at 4pm. and you can call or email for the address if you are interested in coming. I know it's weird to be blogging about this, but I'm sure we would forget to share the news with all of you, so consider this an official invite. Thanks to all of you who have already called, emailed and shown your support to Jake and our family. We love and appreciate all of you, both near and far...