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Updates...

I just thought I'd write a little bit about our Jake who is learning and growing SO fast. He just turned 9 months and has been wearing 18 month clothing for a while now. He's pretty big, and I'm sure it has NOTHING to do with his enormous appetite. Before bed last night he was acting hungry so I thought I'd give him a snack, he managed to eat almost an entire banana by himself, along with a gogurt and the rest of Claire's gogurt. I swear Jake eats more than Claire! He's also doing somethings that I guess I forgot happen so early, he will stand at the gate and whine for me "mama, mama", he also knows how to wave and today I caught him trying to put the charger plug in the back of the laptop which he's seen me do. He's getting around and learning he needs to move quickly in order to get into trouble, he gets his tongue sticking out in determination. He's also cut his top tooth! I can't believe how big he's getting!

Oh and I had to mention something cute Claire said yesterday, we were out shopping and she saw this cute Dora the Explorer night gown. "Oh mom, that's dorable!" and it was -- very dorable.

Virginia

So this past week I packed up the kids and we headed to Virginia to visit my family there. I had found an awesome deal on a flight that I just couldn't pass up. Luckily my Granny decided to come with to help with the kids. We had a pretty fun, relaxing trip. Both the kids did remarkably well on both flights (minus a few potty incidents and a few spilled drinks). On our way home we hit a bit of turbulance which just made Claire giggle and giggle and when we finally landed she shouted out "Yeah, you did it airplane, you did it!" She had a few rows behind us chuckling at that.
Unfortunately we happened to be there during the worst snow storm of the season for them, which shut everything down for a few days, so we weren't able to go into D.C. like I had hoped, but we were able to make it to Colonial Williamsburg, and Virginia Beach. And of course I was able to make the rounds to all of my favorite places to eat out there that I miss terribly, including some good ole home cooking!
We had lots of fun and of course it went by way too quickly. Claire had fun getting some piano lessons from Nana and can now play "hot cross buns" on the piano,



Jake had fun with all of my mom's music instruments too, he also made good friends with Nana and Papa Ray. Unfortunately Claire didn't warm up to Papa Ray - sorry Dad!
Thanks for having us - it's your turn now!

Mailer Envelopes

I found mail envelopes made out of recycled paper at Wal-mart, they're the same price as the regular, may as well right??

Birthdays...

As many of you know we have a ton of birthdays in our family around Jan-Feb. So I thought I'd do a shout out of Happy Birthdays (a little late) to my family, who I've been thinking about.

Happy Birthday to: Rowan, Marshall, Tiffany, Jocelyn, Ashley and CHRIS - who turned the big 2-8. Oh golly I love ya!


Love you guys.

Also a BIG Happy Anniversary to MOM and DAD tomorrow. Love ya too!

My princess...

ME: Claire do you know how to SPELL your name?

Claire: Yeah. I'll go get my wand.

Winner!

Congrats to Tess!

Just email me your address and I'll send off your new waterbottle!!

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