Police Officer Mr. Jayce

Jayce hopped in the car from school the other day and said (with his handmade police hat on),
"Hello mama, I am police officer Mr. Jayce!" We have been Mr. Jayce for quite some time but now we have added a few credentials to the name! He is really interested in police officers, always talking about them. Not sure if that's a good thing or not?!

Jayce is full of life at 4 I must say! That might be another reason I've not had much time for blogging lately... He had dropped and then picked up his nap again, but we're back to no nap... It's a hard stage because he is getting a bit grumpy and I know he still needs the rest, yet he fights it so bad and it takes me lying down with him for an hour and a half to get him to sleep. By that time, Gabe is usually up and I can't get anything done, so I think we'll just stick this out and hope he adjusts to less sleep soon... He is SUCH a sweet boy when he has his rest! Maybe he'll catch up this summer...

Jayce's favorite thing to do is still to walk around with his backpack filled with everything you could imagine... hair gel, pullups for bedtime, his animals, snacks, toothbrush...even put a ladybug in there last week... he's something!

Gabe at 21 months

What? We are in the 20's almost 2???? Mr. Gabe is a mess these days. He LOVES strawberries as you can see here! We had a great time with our best friend Wallace, "Wally" at the strawberry patch last week! Thanks Tara for the cute pic!

Gabe's favorite things to say right now are: MINE, re-al (for cereal), baa (for granola bar), appy (for apple),
"Hey", "Hewo," "See yall," "go Outside," "Upstairs," "Bonk Bonk, Ewwie," (his cousins), "where's Wally, daddy, Jayce, bubby, etc..." Ro-Ro (for Mrs. Rosa at the gym), wee wee (yes, big bubby taught him that one)... they are such boys! "whew-wee" when he has a stinky or is about to do one(he actually cares and tells us when he has one, UNLIKE Jayce did), "I see Jayce or I wan see Jayce" "bye bye or night night or hey mommy!"

BIG highlight of our day, or YEAR for that matter- Gabe and I ran 3 errands today with loud talking, singing happy birthday to you , but NO SCREAMING throughout the store! WOW! This is big people!

Also, we have switched his car seat to the middle seat so he sits beside Jayce and it has cut our crying/screaming time down in the car drastically!

The past two days I have gone back to letting Gabe feed himself his yogurt or applesauce and, while it is pretty messy, he actually does get a good bit in his mouth and it's about the only thing that will keep him entertained for longer than 2 minutes, so I'll deal with the mess!

Gabe is just as social as Jayce has always been, he LOVES people! We cannot go anywhere without him trying to greet (often 5-10 times) each person we pass and waving excitedly at them! Everyone says, what a pretty girl!!! Yes, probably time for the first hair cut...we are getting a little mullet... I just need to get a few more good pics first!

Easter and Spring Break

So, I have been HORRIBLE updating the blog lately! It's been super busy around here! Now that I am "working" part time with my ebay store selling these personalized house flags, I am using all my free time doing that it seems. But, I promise to try to do better with updates here...

We had an awesome Easter! We had church that morning and the boys each had a chance to have their pictures made there. Jayce's turned out super cute, but Gabe was 1/2 children in our church (A BIG CHURCH) who would not allow them to have their picture made... His teachers could not believe he was so uncooperative, but he did NOT want to pose for that camera! Oh well, at least we got a few... This was Jayce's first year in a big boy outfit and he did look super handsome, although by these pictures he had lost his tie and his shirt tail had made it's way out of his pants, and I was too darn tired to fix it!!!! Anyhow, both boys were super handsome in their Easter outfits from Nanny! We had our annual lunch and egg hunt with the "cuzzies" and Jayce was super at getting eggs this year! Gabe was not really into it quite yet!

Spring Break-went to Hilton Head with daddy for a few days and FROZE but had a great time! The boys even ran in and out of the water, crazy!

So hard to believe school is almost out and summer is here! We have been spending our afternoons running through sprinklers and playing with the water hose, amazing the entertainment it provides!