Jack has officially said his first word.  Ready for it?  Touchdown! Yes, he’s being working on Mom and Dad but the first recognizable word is touchdown.  Can anybody guess what we were watching today and what Anna calls any sport she sees on tv?  That’s all.  Thought you all might enjoy this new development.

 Yup.  That's right.  A year ago today we welcomed Jack to our family.  As I was saying good night to my little handsome man I could not believe it has been a year already.  A year later finds him eating the same foods as we eat, taking only a couple of bottles a day, walking more than crawling, starting to talk, and, one of my favorites, holding his ground against Anna but also accepting her loving hugs and smoochies when she's apologizing.

Of course we had a party for him and Anna.  I can't speak for everybody that was there but I'd like to think that everybody had an enjoyable afternoon of watching the kids play and breakdown because they had late starts to their naps.  

Of course we have pictures from the even to share with you but there have been techinical difficulties to posting them and once my computer has a working operating system on it and I have a spare bit of time I'll share with you all the fun we had today.

And once again, Happy Birthday Jack!!!!

I know it might sound conceited to say our kids are awesome, but I’ve heard others say they pray their kids will be like ours, so that doesn’t make it conceited, right?  Either way, our kids are awesome and amazing and God has truly blessed our lives with them.

A little history for everybody before the picture.

Info Bit 1 - About two weeks ago it was determined that it was time for a more severe form of punishment for The Girl after she’s done something egregious (read as push her brother over again).  We had been putting her in a time out like situation in the recliner but after about 2 months that wasn’t working anymore.  So before his trip Damion started putting her in the corner, facing the wall and she sits there for about 30 seconds and then after a slight discussion of what she did wrong she’s off on her way.  It appears to be working so far.  Jack has been pushed over free for about four days now.

Info Bit 2 – This week Damion has decided to change up Anna’s bed time routine.  She has to pick up toys in the living room at some point after getting her pj’s on.  Then as he’s carrying her to bed they look in the garage to make sure the doors are closed and all the lights are off.

With that said, here’s the picture……..

We saw this last night after the kids had gone to bed.  Damion said he had nothing to do with it but that Anna had put them away.  After seeing this I couldn’t help but wonder, what did these animals do to get put in the corner?