"You Have a Growl in Your Bottom?"

...yep, this is what Julia said after my stomach growled this morning...sooooo confusing, this American language for a two and a half year old! For those of you who are saying, "uh-huh, SURE it was your stomach growling!"...I did NOT toot! I was really hungry!

Well, here are a few pictures from the last few weeks. Kristi and Brianna went to the water park with us last week. There are pics from mom's group at the water park too.

Lots has been going on. Julia is loving the summer. We pretty much go to the water park every week. It's awesome because she goes for free and I am only $2 to get in. If you are 3 and up, it's only $1.25! I think we can afford that!

Thanks everyone for posting comments about Julia and Johnathan's 5 month comparison pics. It's amazing the similarities when they are the same age.

He cut his first tooth on July 11th. And is now eating cereal, sweet potatoes and peas. Pictures of the lovely mess below. He's growing so much. And Julia is growing too. She has a mind of her own and the latest is that she always wants to dress herself. I have been trying to teach her how to match, but sometimes that doesn't go over too well! Red and white shirt with blue jeans shorts and a PURPLE bow may not pass on a fashion runway, but in Julia's world - it works!

Happy Fourth, Ten, now the Twentieth

We had our Ministry Appreciation get together at the Rough Riders game on the Fourth of July. It was Johnathan's first fireworks show and Julia LOVED them even more this year...wasn't as scared. Here are some pics from the day:

Five Month Comparisons

Johnathan turned a whoppin' 5 months on the 4th of July. My baby is growing up tooooo fast! He is now eating cereal and sweet potatoes and peas and LOVES to eat! HA! Just like his momma!

He is so laid back - is very content just hanging out. Really, the only time he cries is when he's tired, hungry or if Julia accidentally hugs him too hard. Julia is a great big sister. She loves Johnathan so much and is really sweet to him. She is always saying, "ohhh honey...you okay?" or "I need to give Bubba sugars!" or "Bubba's smilin' at me!" or "Bubba's talking to me!" She hugs and kisses him and wants to be everywhere he is.

I don't know much about "momma's boys", but I am definitely a "boy's momma"! (I made that up!)...something about a mother and her son. Now I can relate completely with my mother-in-law and her love for her sons. Thanks Sharon for...well...sharin' your son with some blonde from southeast Texas.

And of course Jason is amazing with him. He just smiles and smiles and smiles any time he hears his daddy's voice. They pal around and somehow Johnathan is silent when any kind of sports are on...like he's tuned in, taking note of all the stats!

Well, enjoy the pics. I think they look alike - you be the judge.

Julia at 5 months old in 2006 and Johnathan at 5 months old now:

Fourth Month Comparisons

June 4th: (4 months old)

The boy has gone from scrawny to buff! In fact the other day I was telling a friend how big he's gotten. I accidentally said, "Yeah, Johnathan has gotten so big, when he was younger, he was so raunchy..." They said, "Do you mean scrawny!?" Yeah...that's what I meant...! Here is Julia at four months in 2006 and Johnathan at four months old now:




























He weighed (at his 4 month appointment), 17 lbs and 26 inches long. He is right at Morgan's size....but now that he is almost 5 months, he probably weighs more like 18 or 19 lbs!

Okay, so when Jason got back, we accomplished the other two big things with Julia the first week in June and that was NO PACIES and going into her BIG GIRL BED. I made a little make-shift envelope with a bunch of babies I had cut out from magazines on the front. There were several who had pacies in their mouths, but there were FIVE who didn't (Julia had exactly five pacies to give up). We told Julia that there were five babies who needed pacies and would she be willing to give hers to them? Of course she was so excited to give the babies their pacies, but did NOT know what she was REALLY doing.

So we gathered all the pacies and put them in the mail box to "mail" to the "babies". I told her when she got up from her nap, we'd check the mail box again to see if the babies came and got them. We then went back upstairs and finished putting her big girl bed together. (We had bought two twin beds ((hand made from an old farm house)), mattresses and box springs for $70! Can you believe that?!)

Nap time...Hmmmmm, that was interesting without a pacie! Let's see, we put her down in her BIG GIRL BED with NO PACIE at 1:30...and at 4:00! (yes, THREE HOURS later!) there was finally no crying going on.....she slept for about 45 minutes. Horrible! Poor girl...can you imagine going your whole life (2 years) in the only bed you've ever known (she LOVED her crib) and always having a pacie in your mouth everytime you slept? Then to be ripped out of your crib and put into a regular bed with no pacie? I felt for the girl! Here she is asleep in her new bed:














Anyways, now it's fine. She has never asked for her pacie after that and she's only fallen out of her new bed four times (once between the wall and her bed!).

June 11th: Here the cousins are together. Shannon came over with Mallory and Morgan for a few hours when she came to visit her parents and sister. Johnathan and Morgan hung out on the couch for a bit and Mallory and Julia played dress up most of the time.













June 20-22nd: Johnathan has learned to turn over from his back to his belly over the weekend at BMom and Pop's house. Here are some pics the weekend we spent there:









































It was nice to see Brad, Shannon, Mallory and Morgan, BMom and Pop, Nanny and Tweetie and Charles.

June 26th - Here is Johnathan's first trip to the pool. Jason gave him a little, what Jason's calls, a "faux-hawk"! So cute!














June 29th - Johnathan was still in his cradle in our closet until June 29th (see here under Jason's shirts), but moved him into his "big boy crib" on June 29th (see here with his bear and NOT under any shirts anymore!)













We have Johnathan's schedule down pretty much. He eats at 8, noon, 4, and 8 and then sleeps through the night. He naps about an hour and a half after he has woken up each time and sleeps pretty much an hour to 2 and a half hours long. Soooo nice for mommy and daddy too!

That's it for June.

Catch Up (May)

First I am soooooo sorry for the tardiness in my blogging. I still have to blog all the way back to Mother's Day and soooo much has happened since then. I am going to start off with Mother's Day!

May 11th, Mother's Day:

We all went to church (Boppy, BMom, Pop, Nanny, and all four of us). Johnathan got dedicated that morning, which was so special. Then we took pics of all the moms together with their "child"... BMom and Jason, Pop and Nanny, me and mom, me and my kids, etc. Such a wonderful day. Here are pics of the dedication and the others:

May 17-22nd (Jason Gone to Venezuela):

I made it through the week without Jason. It was better than when Johnathan was littler. He has a schedule now and it was much easier to be alone with them both. I attended two Premier Jewelry parties and a Mary Kay party when he was gone. Poor Johnathan had to endure being around all of us loud women all week....

May 17th: Brianna came to spend time with us the Saturday Jason left. We went to the spray park (see pics here).














Brianna is 1 month younger than Julia and is potty trained, so OF COURSE Julia wanted to use the potty like Bri. This was NOT in my plans as I was trying to wait until the following week when she wasn't in school anymore. Well, yeah....no that didn't happen. So after a couple of panty throw aways, I had her potty trained by the time Jason got back from Venezuela...well, all but number two. We have number one down, but number two isn't happening yet. She gets two raisins when she goes potty. Sounds weird, but she is CRAZY about raisins...we have to limit her.

Jason was excited about her accomplishment when he got back from Ven, which by the way he said was one of the best trips he has been on. It was our first collegiate trip and the students really soaked in everything being taught to them through the leadership material as well as the door-to-door evangelism stuff too.

Here is a pic of Julia and Johnathan. And that's it for May!