Soccer Season

Tuesday night Jacob had his first game. It was so funny to watch a bunch of 4 year olds play!

They began with stretches and then started the game with 5 from each team facing each other. They put the ball in the middle of them and blew the whistle. The other team started to go for the ball and kicked it. Our guys all stood there in a line and stared at it before they realized they needed to go after it too. Once they got the hang of it they were pretty good--for 4 year olds!

Prayers

Tonight getting Jacob ready for bed, we knelt down to say prayers. His prayers, if he had his way would be, "Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for the day. Please bless us. In the name...." We are trying to get him to expand what he says. Even at the table when we are blessing the food and the food is sitting right there in front of him he says,"Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for the day. Please bless us. In the name...." He also does not like us to interject and have him add things to his prayers.

So tonight I asked him to think of something to be thankful for and something to ask for. He said, "Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for today. Please help Mom to be not be so demanding. In the name..."

Jason told me that earlier in the evening Jacob was outside with Jason and he told him, "Dad why don't you go back inside and stop bothering me" (he is young enough that we follow him around outside). Then they came inside and Jason told him to take off his shoes. Jacob started to say, "Dad help me take off my shoes they are double knotted!" "Dad, get me some milk and some juice!" "Dad pull of my socks!" (They had been playing soccer.) Jason told him, "Jake you need to stop being so demanding." Jacob asked what demanding was. Jason told him it was being bossy and told him if he wanted things he needed to ask nicely.

So I'm guessing I need to start asking him to do things more nicely?????
Ah, children.

Been a While

For the few who read my blog...sorry it has taken me a while to get back to this!!

March started out with snow and Jacob had a great time sledding with his cousins.









Then we had birthdays. First mine...here are Dad and Jacob bringing me my presents.. Then I let Jacob be the photographer while I opened.
Later in the month we celebrated Jacob's birthday.
Earlier in the day he had a friends party at Jungle Jim's. The boy next door, Bridger, has his birthday the day after Jacob, so we did a double birthday party together.




I think the boys had fun.

That night we celebrated at home and with my family.

Big day for one little boy! Can't believe he is 4!!!

This month we have gone to the library; had playgroups at the dinosaur museum, Discovery Gateway, at home; and went to the zoo!





It was warm enough, later in the month, to roast marshmallows and have smores!

One morning dad and Jacob cooked breakfast outside.
Jacob loved it.

It is a good thing I took pictures or I would never remember what we did! My mind is going..that is what happens at 48!

How Did I Get Into this Demographic???

I received a survey about the presidential election and started to fill it out. I marked the age demographic and stared at it....when did I hit this? Seems so weird to SEE that this is where I fit! This is the "getting older" group. :) But then I looked below the age question to "From what media source do you regularly receive your political information?" and look at what I checked...news from mainstream media feeds. I guess I am in that demographic! Strange since I only feel like I'm in my 30's. :)

6th Anniversary

This past Saturday was our 6th anniversary. It fell on a Saturday, the same day as six years ago when we were married.

Jason arranged for his Dad and Mary Sue to take Jacob overnight and booked the same room we had on the first night of our honeymoon. It was so fun!

We stayed at the Castle Creek Inn, in the Rapunzel room.
Jason had them put 3 red roses in the room for me...they were beautiful! You can see them on the mantel here, and on our table at home.


After arriving at our room we went to dinner at Asian Star. Then we came back to the room, got on our P.J.'s and watched a video. It was so fun to just relax, not needing to worry about getting back for the babysitter....just time to ourselves.

Sunday morning we picked Jacob up by 9 a.m. since Jason's parents had 9 a.m. church. Oh, it was so nice getting away--even if it was just for a few hours!! Jason was so wonderful to plan it all. I absolutely LOVED it!!

Friends and Birthday Parties

Because Jacob is an only child I try to have friends over quite a bit. Some days it makes it easier for me (someone else is there to play with him rather than me) and some days it is a little more work than I planned for (3 year olds do not always agree on everything). Jacob has a variety of friends to play with. There are 11 boys in his Sunbeam class and they are all great kids.

Last week a friend came over and they were doing fine, but then one decided he wanted to play downstairs and the other wanted to play upstairs. They ended up upstairs in Jacob's room. Neither of them were very chatty about how to solve the problem. So I brought out the camera (originally because they both looked so funny like this) and it changed their attitude in minutes.
It was so funny!














Last Saturday Jacob was invited to 2 birthday parties. One in the morning at Jungle Jim's and the other in the afternoon at The Little Gym. I didn't get pictures of the afternoon, but he had a great time at both! After seeing them drive, I'm really glad they don't drive yet!!!

New Year

Happy New Year!!
For New Year's Eve we went over to Matt and Terri's house--a couple we knew from the singles ward. They got married about 8 months before we did and it was at their reception that Jason and I first held hands publicly. :) Jason is going to love that I added this little tidbit of information!

They had us and another couple over. Between us there were 6 little boys (under 5) and 1 little girl to play with. Jacob loved it. About 10 p.m. we pretended it was the New Year, went outside and did a few fireworks and then came back inside and drank sparkling cider. We had a really fun time!

During the break we also got a chance to see Tamsin and her daughter Emma. They moved about a year ago and came to visit her family for Christmas. It was so fun to see them. Here are a few pictures Jacob took.




Since then we've mainly been playing with friends.
What will 2012 bring us????