What is going on?

Well the last week has gotten away from me. I didn't even write down much to blog about. Lets see where Miss Ella is....

She has now figured out her knees for crawling. She also can totally sit up all the time by herself. If I am sitting on the floor with her she can pull up on me to a stand. I know it will just be a matter of time before she is pulling up on things. I am a little worried about her hurting herself. She knows how to walk with her feet so I think once she pulls up she will start taking off and just crash. She has gotten quite impatient. She really wants to be able to see me and if she can't she starts crawling and whining to find me.

She is eating more solids now. She is getting difficult with spooning baby food, so this week I added peas, carrots, pancakes, and bananas. I will spoon something in while she is eating those.

Ella like to chew on velcro...not the soft fuzzy side, but the rough, prickly side. She also has started to snort. When she gets excited she does this breathing thing and out comes a snort. It is so cute!!

She seems to have caught her brothers cold so now she is miserable. I just broke out the steriods cause I didn't like the sound of her cough. Great..she was miserable and sick for her first Christmas and now it is Easter. I sure hope she feels better by Sunday!

A few things about Jack...

The other day Jack was talking about being a weather man and I said they are never right. He said “its tough being a weatherman”

For his birthday party coming up we decided he can have 3 boys sleepover. He knew 2 that he wanted but couldn't decided between two other boys. Then I asked him one final time and he said Owen, Michael, Matthew with a little side of Jimbo. It was just so funny that we said OK he can have 4 sleep over.

I was playing on the floow with Ella and had my butt up in the air. He came up behind me and said "Mom your butt is an instrument. It is my bongos cause it vibrates so much" Gee thanks Jack!!!

Jack is so into Army stuff right now. He has all the toys and is getting more for his birthday. He loves to play it with his friends and had an American flag that he waves around everywhere. He like to hear all kinds of information about it. I even let him watch Pear Harbour one day when it was on. I think that if he is going to play war that he really should understand some of it.



Ok I am just going to post this cause I keep getting pulled away!

Wake Up Jack!

Just to preface, Jack’s alarm goes off at 7AM. He has to get his coat and shoes on at 8:10 and out the door for the bus.

Me Jack, it is 7:15 time to wake up
Jack some sort of whiny/grunt noise comes out
Me Ok I am going to brush my teeth, you have a few more minutes
--come back a few minutes later---

Me Get up sweetie
Jack I don’t wanna go to school
Me I don’t care..get up
Jack can we snuggle
Me I can’t sweetie, Ella is up
--by now Ella is usually up—

A few minutes later (imagine it in the voice of the guy that says “2 hours later on Spongebob)

Me JACK
Me Jack please get out of bed
ME Jack carter, it is now 7:30 and you have to get out of bed
Jack Waaaahhh
Me really, if you don’t get out of bed right now…(insert some sort of threat)

5 min will go by at which point I am now down stairs making coffee and his lunch

Me Jack are you getting dressed
Jack NO
Me get dressed NOW and don’t forget to brush your teeth

5 more minutes go by
Me Jack did you brush your teeth yet
Jack NO
Me seriously what is your problem. If you are not down here in 5 min (insert some sort of threat)

He finally comes down.

Me what do you want for breakfast
Jack I have no idea can I play my touch?
Me NO

This is almost how it is almost EVERY morning. I am so sick of listening to myself talk by the time he leaves. I can’t get him out of the door quick enough. Once in a blue moon he will wake up and get out of bed and decide to race the clock. I wait to have my coffee until he leaves because I want to enjoy it.

Spring Break

We had a nice week. First, Jack and I got along great!. We usually bump heads a lot. He actually listened to me in the morning when I told him to get dressed and brush his teeth. This is no easy feat! I made sure I told him about the day ahead of time and that seemed to help. I thought the week was going to be worse. Monday was a stay at home day. He had a friend over most of the day to play. Tuesday I went to lunch for my sister’s birthday so Grandma and Grandpa came over to babysit. Wed we went to Cantigny. They have a war museum and tanks you can climb on. We went last summer and he loved it. However the museum was closed. So I figured it was a good day to go. The weather was actually kinda nice so he was able to climb on the tanks a bit.





Thursday was another stay at home day. He actually went over to friends so was gone most of the afternoon. Friday we went with some friends to McDonalds then to see HOP. It was super cute.

Today we start spring hockey. This is a bit different as there won’t be a set team. They just practice for 45 min. then scrimmage for 45 min. It is at the worst time. 1:30 to 3:00. That is right when Ella needs to nap so I don’t know how many of them I will make it to. Tonight he is having his first sleepover at our house. I hope it goes well. I just don’t want them horsing around to much that they wake Ella up.

The weather has been really cold again the last 2 weeks. I am so ready for it to be warm. I need to get out and do some yard work. I kina wish I would have paid for spring cleanup. With the baby, I don’t know why I didn’t. Ok I just called the guy to do it. Hopefully he can get out here this week. Yes, I am lazy!

Thursday Thoughts

This is a post I started last week. I never posted it..... Jack has a friend over and they are upstairs making all kids of noise, very loud. Ella is at the bottom of the stairs in her walker just looking up the stairs and screeching. I know she wants to play with them so bad. Once this girl figures out how to actually move I am in trouble. I am not looking forward to putting up all the gates again. They are such a pain in the butt. Ella does pretty good with sitting and playing on her own these days. Her favorite thing to play with is a container filled with toys and balls. She likes to pull them all out or even dump them out. Then she bangs on the container. Once she falls over it is just a roll fest. She goes all over. From time to time she does get up on her knees, but quickly falls again. I think this week she may master the sitting up from a lay down position. She is almost there. She just gets stuck on her arm and doesn’t know how to bring it closer. UPDATE TO TODAY... Ella is now an inchworm. She can totally get across the room. She pushes with her toes and then her butt goes up a little then she army crawls with her arms. It is very cute, but it takes her a while so she seems to give up a lot! So she still isn't sitting up on her own from the lay down position. She is still stuck in that tripod position. I know she will get it any day now. Looks like I will be doing lots of baby proofing this weekend. She is already starting to get a little temper. She knows what she wants. She loves the remote. When I tell her no and hide it she starts to grut and get mad. She also does this when you feed her. I don't think she is a big fan of the baby food anymore. She just stares at us when we have our food. Then I give her this stuff on a spoon and she is like what the? She gets so mad too. Here is what she does. This is from my iphone which is why the video is skinny.

My new Look!

So what do you think? I wanted something springy and flowery! Thank you to The Cutest Blog on the Block for designing my nice header and the free background! I have don't know how to get the post title color to change. I would think it would be somethind simple, but I can't find it. I also have to figure out how to change the picture when I want to!

Jacks New Room

I re-did Jacks room on Tuesday. Previously he had trucks on the wall. It was really cute. But he needed it done for awhile now. Since he is into hockey, we decided on a Blackhawks room. However, Jack didn’t want his room repainted. Score for me!! The paint still looked good except where we had to take down a few things. So my dad came over to do a few touch ups. My mom bought Jack the Patrick Kane Fathead and Blackhawk logos for Christmas. Yes I know it is March, I have a baby remember? So finally my Mom and Dad came over to help. Mom watched Ella while Dad and I went to work. We rearranged the whole room. It looks so much bigger!! We needed to find more space since Jack will have to keep more toys up there once Ella starts crawling. Then we hung all the Blackhawk stuff. I need one more picture for over his bed and maybe a shelf. It looks very cool. My son is a horrible pack rat so I was able to organize a few things and get rid of some. He didn’t know I was doing it on Tues. When he came home from school I said “do you want your surprise?” He said yes (of course) and held out his hands. So I said follow me. As we started up the stairs he said “oh I know, Blackhawk stuff!!” I have a video of his reaction which I have been trying to get to work but I can't so I will try again later. That evening as he was getting in bed he was so excited to sleep in there. He just said “ I feel like a king!” How cute!

Ok I think I got the video to work

A New Beginning!

I decided to start blogging again. I went back and read my whole blog back to 2007 and loved the things that I wrote about Jack. I want to be able to remember those fun things about Ella. So even if no one is reading this, I have it captured for me. I actually found a place that can print out your blog into a book. So everything before this post will be in a book. It is so cool!

Well since my last post, our family has grown. We now have beautiful Ella Rose who was born on July 27, 2010. She is an absolute joy to our entire family. I can’t imagine HER not being our daughter. Our 5 year rollercoaster journey led us to her. Ella was meant to be our daughter. I will detail our journey in another post.
This is her 7 month picture!

She is really starting the fun stage; sitting up, rolling all over and just talking up a storm. She is such a happy baby. She will be 8 months next week. She loves her walker and those baby puffs you eat. I keep saying she is like a dog. If I kept feeding them to her she would just keep eating them.

Jack is in 1st grade and as much I he says he doesn’t want to go to school, I know he loves it. He loves to play with kids. He of course hates homework. We have had Jack in hockey the last year. He really likes it. Our fall season just ended and we are starting the spring season in a couple of weeks. We ended our season with a Mother/Son game. That was so much fun!!! I have to say us Moms did a pretty good job!

I am having a new design done for the blog. It should be completed soon!!!