Jared brought home a gingerbread house kit to decorate and take back to work to put on display. We enjoyed putting it together! Jared did most of it but Joey and I put on a few of the decorations!

Trying to keep Joey from eating the candies!

Looks good enough to eat!

To much work for this litte elf!

In case you needed proof...

I don't have much to say about the next few photos other then it just is proof in pictures of what a goofball my little boy is. He always keeps me on my toes and laughing!

And some wonder why I call my children monkeys.

Playing Together?

Joey is struggling with his sister enjoying his old toys. He kept ripping off Jeanie's ball and taking off with it. We had an extra from the Reece's set that we must have brought with us in the move. I kind of felt like I had some cats rather then kids!

SNOW?!

We were heading out to run some errands after it had snowed. We had forgotten that Joey probably had forgotten all about Snow. When we opened the door and he went outside he was SO amazed by the Snow!

Got Milk?

Most of you know that Jeanie is a big time 'spitter-upper' always seeming to lose most of everything she just drank down. This last weekend I finally realized that I needed to give up dairy or at least cut down dramatically. I should have realized that it was the milk I was taking in sooner. Now, a few years ago giving up milk would not have been a big deal, but since I have married into the Reece family I have grown to have a deep love and appreciation for it. They taught me the wonderful world and wonder of dunking and glasses of milk to compliment many tasty treats. Today as I sat across the table and watched Joey, gladly dipping and sloshing his milk as he ate his cereal straw and Jared in the kitchen making a yummy morning shake I looked down at my bowel of cereal drenched in my soy 'milk'. It was almost depressing. Almost wish I had never been intruduced to the wonderful world of milk since now I have to leave it for awhile! Sigh. Oh well- it is worth it. Jeanie still spits up a lot more then I would care for but it is not nearly as much except for the few times that I 'fell of the wagon' and had more cheese or milk that I ought. Anyhow... kind of a weird post I know!

CARS!!!!!!

Joey loves CARS! He loves to play with his cars all over the place! His favorite movie and only movie he will really watch anyway is, CARS! It sometimes tends to be an almost daily viewing. The funniest thing about it is I think he is starting to act out some of the scenes that he sees on the show. The other day Joey was 'helping' me with dishes at the sink and he decided he needed to wash his cars also. He would climb down and grab a car give it a good washing using the sprayer and everything and then set the dripping car down onto the chair he was standing on and go over to his stash and wash another one.. one by one. I then just followed him around with the camera and snapped pictures of him as he played with his cars and trucks.

As we were in the middle of doing the dishes please excuse the dirty sink with the lovely corn flakes stuck to the side of the facet. I hadn't scrubbed the sink yet!!

A couple of the scenes I think he is acting out. Washing the cars- there is a couple scenes where the big fire truck sprays down Lightening McQueen.. I think that he is acting that out, or that he has just observed daddy wash the car.

There is a scene were Lightening bounces off the tires of an over turned car, he does that a lot now... over turns one of vehicles and drives a car on the over turned ones wheels.

Joey likes to set the CAT under the rug to produce a hill to drve the cars on. Another scene I think he is doing here is the scene at the end where Lightening pushes the vetern race car to the finish line!

Joey loves this little nook between the couches. Guess he has decided that it is his little fort! Goof ball. Please excuse the youngsters lack of pants... Most of his pants are to big for him so he ends of losing his britches pretty often!

My Wrap!

Today I thought I would write a post about my wrap. This wrap has incited many comments about its looks and practicality. My sister asked me if I felt like a jedi knight (I guess because of all the criss-crossing of fabric or something) and others think it looks like something that someone from a 3rd world country would wear, but I love this thing! I absolutly hate carrying around a car seat, it is to big for my short stature and I end up hitting it agaisnt my legs and jostling the poor baby all over the place. Although at times it is not the most flattering to me shape wise, I think in these pics it makes me look pregnant again, but It is so comfortable to wear and easy too. We had a baby carrier before that we used occasionally with Joey but it had so many different straps and and buckles that is was to complicated. It is surprising when I go out how many people ask me about my wrap. Amazed that it is just 16 feet of cloth! We added the cute front panel to dress it up a bit. There is a bunch of different ways to wrap it and set baby in it according to thier age and size. This wrap has been my life saver at parks and in grocery stores. Jeanie is happy and content being next to mommy and having a nice little perch to look around and it leaves my arms free to shop and/or fool around with Joey! These aren't the most flattering pics of me nor does it give the wrap its justice... but I had a hard time setting the timer and placing myself correctly for the camera!