Cleaning and Swimming!

It's really not fun at all to clean, but you couldn't tell Jordan that. He loves to "help" us with the vacuuming, if we let him. He was wanting to help this morning when I was vacuuming quick but I wanted to get it done quickly, so he went and found his own version of a vacuum (one of the attachments) and was going to town vacuuming the floor. Then he was trying to help me hold the cord for a while too, but that got boring pretty fast!

You can see his makeshift "vacuum" sitting behind him. He threw it down and reached for the big vacuum as soon as I let go of it to take his picture!

Where does all this cord go anyway?

They had lots of fun swimming at the pool. Jason said Meggan was just jumping in like crazy! She is really loving to go swimming, and is becoming the fish I always suspected she would be at some point!!!

All ready to go with the flip-flops bag that Dawny & Jer gave her for one of her birthdays! She informed me that she's carrying it "like Aunt Julia" ... my brother's wife does usually have a purse and/or diaper bag that she puts diagonal like that (she's SOOOOO observant!).

Thank goodness Uncle Jer ended up coming to the pool with them - that way Daddy could take a few pictures of her high-flying jumps into the pool and Micah didn't have to try and catch them both at the same time! She was pretty comfortable today...


Maggie is splashing the heck out of her daddy! That's always fun; right? :)

We were at church for ChristCare Group and then the chili cook-off (yum!) and it ended in Meggan going home with Micah and Angi to spend the night at Maggie's house! Oh, those two ... I don't know what we're going to do with them. And when they look at us in the eye and beg "PLEEEEEEEEEEASE" with those blue eyes, it's just hard to say no. :)

Hope you enjoyed the pictures! Good night.

So Quiet...

It's just after 1:00 on Saturday afternoon. It is really quiet in our house right now. The reasons being that I just laid Jordan down for hopefully a good nap until we're ready to head out the door for ChristCare Group starting at 4:00; that Jason and Meggan just left to go BACK to the YMCA (we were there this morning for aerobics class and the guys were running) and they are going to go swimming (I am SOOOO happy they are spending some daddy/daughter time together - and they're both loving it); and so now it's just me and Boe, one of which is getting ready to do some work. You might still be wondering who, but I will just tell you that I am going to fire up the laptop here in a couple minutes and get some pages done, whether I want to or not!

Jason has the camera with him at the YMCA. This will be the first time Meggan has gotten to go swimming there since we joined a few weeks ago. She has been DYING to get in the pool, and we have been taking her to the kids' room while we workout on Saturday mornings and then letting them play in the big play room and then leaving again. She has now informed me that she would like to take swimming lessons there. They have a session starting towards the end of February, and we may just go ahead and put her in them - it won't hurt for her to have some time in the water without Mommy or Daddy right there! Micah and Maggie are going to meet them there - and they should all have a blast!!!

I promise that I will post pictures later tonight. She informed me that she's going to do a dive... :)

Finally More Pictures!

So when I say blogging hiatus, I guess I mean it! For those of you who check in every day or every other day or so, I apologize that you aren't getting to see lots of posts - but especially that you aren't getting to see pictures! I know that is really nice (especially for those far away) to keep up with the kids and get to see what silly things they're up to.

Tonight we had Meggan's parent-teacher conference. She has mastered all the skills of Pre K-4 and they are just this week starting reading group ... that's right, their preschool learns to READ at 4 years old. This should be fun - she is really excited about it! Her printing is beautiful and she is very well behaved, so that was a great report!

Then I took off to go to water aerobics (yes, Dawn and I have decided to try that out a couple nights a week) and Jason brought the kids back home. I put him in charge of taking a few pictures before the kids went to bed so I could post some (finally)!

Quite the combination, I know ... a pink Tinkerbell rolling backpack and some cologne. He loves to carry that stuff around!

Looks like she didn't want to take a break from coloring to take a picture!

Playing together before the wresting started!

This is how they wrestle. She LOVES it when he does this (she'll lay down on her stomach so that he will come up and jump on her back)! She makes a big deal out of it and then he thinks it's the greatest thing ever too! :)

He SO is going to antagonize her when he gets a little older (and bigger)! We keep telling her he's going to get bigger (she only has him by not even 15 pounds right now and is almost 3 1/2 years older)!

Hope everyone is having a good week so far! Have a great Wednesday!

Refreshing!

It has been a refreshing week! We haven't been doing much of anything since I blogged last time, but I can't say that has bothered us one bit!!! Of course, Meggan had dance class on Monday evening and choir practice on Wednesday evening, but other than that, we've just been hanging out at home in the evenings this week and it has been fun!

It's Sunday afternoon at 1:00. We went to church this morning and Meggan sang with the Cherub Choir and now Jordan is down for his nap and Jason and Meggan went to Target together. Oh, how it warms my heart that those two are spending some daddy/daughter time together! She is off of school tomorrow because of MLK Day and Jason is off of work because the bank is also closed, and I think they are going to try and go to a movie together or go to the YMCA and go swimming together - and I am excited for them!!! She has always kind of been my little shadow and has to go wherever I go or stay home whenever I stay home, plus Jason has lots of times especially lately been the one staying behind while Jordan takes his nap, so this is a nice change of pace for me ... and for them! I hope they have fun and get to just enjoy each other's company!

On another note: We are trying to get Meggan to go to sleep in her bed. It hasn't been very successful the last two nights, and we kind of lost our patience last night and she had movies taken away for today and she had some of her Barbies taken away only to have to go even farther and say she can't have sleepovers for at least a week or two. We thought maybe we just have to find what truly means something to her.

If she would just close her eyes, she would be gone in about 2 minutes. It's so hard to get through to her that she is a big girl and doesn't need to be scared, etc., etc., but you know how those 4 1/2-year-olds can be ... they pull out all the stops. She has ALWAYS fought sleep anyway. As I've said before, Jordan is most definitely our good sleeper! This has been a long battle with her (she climbed out of her crib at 19 months), and now she will be 5 years old and it's just time for her to sleep in her own bed! It's just so hard because you just get so tired and just want to go to sleep, but we will fight on ...

That's about it this week. I know I don't have any pictures to post this time around, but that's because we haven't been up to much this week. I can't even just snap a quick picture of the kids to post right now because one is sleeping and the other is on a "date" with Daddy!

I just wanted to update quick and let everyone know we're still alive. It was a good week to just come home from work and stay inside for the evenings! Hope everyone else is enjoying their weekend! :)

Blogging Hiatus...

This morning I have come to the very REAL realization that I am trying to do too much. As of this moment I am declaring a hiatus for myself from daily blogging. I love updating the blog once a day and putting the pictures up and showing what we've been up to or just one or two fun things that stuck out in the day or that I've been feeling, but here's how I'm feeling today:

Being on the computer takes up precious time.
Precious moments to be enjoyed with the kids,
precious moments to have a conversation with my husband,
even precious time to get some pages of a transcript done,
just precious time that gets eaten away and then it's gone.

My resolutions are not being fulfilled when I'm on the computer. I can't TALK more with Jason, can't INTERACT more with Meggan, can't PLAY more with Jordan, and I definitely don't FEEL better about myself when I fall into bed at night having not done these things when I had the chance to.

I will still be blogging - it just won't be daily. Maybe we will all put our heads together (and hopefully Jordan won't head-butt us too hard because he thinks we're wrestling!) and pick the best things from our couple days or our week and post it when the time is right! Our family just means too much to give up those few hours we have to truly enojy each other!

Enjoy your Tuesday ... you won't hear from me again until at least Thursday! :)

Spaghetti!

Tonight when we got home from dance class, Jason had made spaghetti for supper. Both of our kids love spaghetti and it was getting close to 7:00 and they were hungry, so they were excited when they saw it was spaghetti supper tonight! I just can't wait until Jordan eats his spaghetti (and pretty much any other food) with some kind of a utensil ...

Yes, she still had her leotard on! She's also wearing pajama pants ... it was pajama day at school for Spirit Week (she LOVED it)!

One day he might eat as neatly as Meggan (we're not holding our breath though)!

Trying to be like Sissy (we call her the coloring machine)!

And then he realized I was taking their picture and totally hammed it up for the camera!

We love these two so much!!!

Ice Skating!

Well, so much for a relaxing Sunday after church, but that's the way we like it these days! Fun times with friends is always an even better way to spend the day!

We went to church and Sunday school like usual starting at 8:00 (Mom dropped Meggan off around 9:30 in time for her to go to Sunday school), and after Meggan got done at Sunday school, our friends asked us if we wanted to have some lunch. We decided on Panera (yummy!) and headed there around 11:00. By the time lunch was finished, Meggan and Maggie had come up with a great plan for Maggie to come to our house and play. So we headed home with the three kids, and Meggan and Maggie played for a few hours while Jordan took a nap for 3 1/2 hours until Angi picked Maggie up around 3:00. She mentioned they were going to go ice skating, and then called a while later to ask if we wanted to join them - so off we went to the ice skating rink. This was Meggan's first time ice skating, and she didn't do too bad!

Since my lower back has been bothering me for a while now - the chiropractor said it's out of alignment, and I'm heading back for my first adjustment in the morning - Jason was "stuck" to be the one out on the ice with Meggan having some fun father/daughter time!

Daddy and Meggan just starting out!

Balance...

Taking a break!

Micah busting a move and Maggie holding on for dear life!

Meggan's favorite part was when two people would hold her hands and skate faster with her (that's Jason, Meggan, and Angi up there a little ways)!

Jordan did go out and stand on the ice with Jason, but he really wasn't a big fan. I didn't catch a good picture of it, but he and Faith WERE both there in case you were wondering! :)

Finished the night off with a trip to the Cheesecake Factory, so it was quite the day!!! We won't be looking to go out to eat this week for sure...

Hope your Monday is a good one!