Where is my sweet Jack?

I think we have hit the "terrible two's". Jack has turned into the devil child this week. His teachers have been sending home notes about him not listening, and today while Jon was picking them up from daycare he ran away in the parking lot! Jon was furious to say the least. When they got home Jon took away all the movies and took the TV out of Jack's room. Who knows when, or if, he will ever get the TV back. If he is good he might get Mary Poppins back over the weekend since he spent part of dinner telling us "I love Mary Poppins." Of course, this was then followed by "I love birthday cake" so who knows! He has not been sleeping well at night, so hopefully we can get him back on track and then maybe his attitude will change. I HOPE!

Here is a picture from our Potty Weekend. I thought this was pretty funny, and a typical male!

Big Boy Bed

The weekend after New Year's Jack started to attempt to climb out of his crib so Jon and I decided it was time for the "big boy" bed. We went to Target (a.k.a Targa) and bought new sheets and a comforter, etc. We tried to get Jack very excited about it. He was very excited about sleeping in the big bed, especially when he realized he could get out! We are still working on keeping him in the bed. He is getting better. I have been using the "super nanny" technique of putting him back in the bed and not saying anything when he gets up. It is working pretty good so far. He woke up the other night (4am) and wouldn't go back to sleep. I refused to sleep in his bed, so I told him to stay there and not cry and wake up Ben. I told him mommy would be "right back." He obviously was waiting on me, because when I went to get Ben up at 6:15 I found Jack asleep on the floor in the hall. I am probably going to end up on the bad mommy list for that one, but oh well. We all slept and sometimes that is more important!

What a Weekend...

This has been a very fun weekend. Friday night we had to pick the boys up from Gran's house. Aunt Millie and Gran kept the boys all day Friday since Ben was recovering from his ear infection. I think that Aunt Millie was in 7th Heaven.

Jon and I had our first night out Saturday without the boys. We went to Russell's 30th Birthday at the "swamp". It was a lot of fun. The Dean Dollar Band was there, and Marianne a.k.a Mamma (Dean's wife) was the life of the party, at least until 10:00 when she passed out. As you can see from the picture below, she was having the time of her life. Someone very wisely got her off of the stage and unplugged her microphone. Not sure who that was exactly, but I think they deserve a pat on the back.

Jon and I had a great time. It was good to see Kayli and the rest of the Merritt gang. Always fun hanging out with them. We even got to take a lovely and scenic ride through Lugoff a.k.a THE LUG. Jon and I were not exactly the nightowls that we used to be. I think we were home in Lexington around 11:15 PM. That is about 3 hours past our normal bedtime, so I think we did pretty good.

Mamma - I think the picture says it all...

Jack and Ben got to stay at Gran and DoDa's house. That is always fun for the boys. Not sure about Gran and DoDa. Ben was recovering from his ear infection, but I think that he was well on the road to recovery. Gran said he was being sweet as ususal. He has now been nicknamed "Lumpy", short for sugarlump, so I think he is doing OK. Jack was of course his normal self...hilarious. He got to pick and eat lots of blueberries in Gran's backyard, he is becoming a pro at holding the basket for the blueberries. He has also figured out...one for me...one for the dog... Jack also got to experience one of the joys of being in the country...skinny dipping. As you can see from the pictures the sun was shining, but the moon was up!!