Jake going ballistic

Here is a video of Jake going ballistic for an apple (which he couldn't have since he already had way too much fruit including apples and had serious diaper rash).

He happily ended up with a Nutrigrain bar.  I think he always wants apples for three reasons: he can get them out of the fridge himself, he likes them and it's one of the only words he can say.

http://youtu.be/GIGGnCWvswQ

Happy Birthday!

Grace turned six on Monday and Jake turned two on Tuesday.  It's been a five day birthday celebration starting with cookies at school on Friday (since there was no school Monday), birthday party/sleepover on Saturday, friends and Grandpa on Sunday, Red Robin on Monday for Grace's real Birthday, and presents for Jake on Tuesday, not to mention Thanksgiving tomorrow!  It's been fun, but exhausting.

I made a trade with a friend to watch her kids for 24 hours (noon Saturday until noon on Sunday) and she is going to watch mine in a couple weeks.  Since I was watching her kids close to Grace's birthday I also decided to have a little party while they were here.  So we had a little party Saturday night with the 3 boys, plus two of Grace's girlfriends from school.  It was pretty crazy, but I think they had a great time.  We played pin the tail on the donkey and freeze dancing.  The sleepover also went really well, the boys were great.  It was a good sign that they didn't want to leave when their parents came to pick them up (Matt and I, on the other hand, were counting the minutes until they got here).  Of course we let them do pretty much whatever (as long as it was safe) including lots of TV.

Leaves, Leaves, Leaves!!

We have a lot of trees in our front yard! We probably have more leaves in our yard than every other house on the street combined.  So last Saturday, on a nice day (meaning it wasn't raining) Matt went outside with the kids to rake.  The kids had a blast.  They were outside for about an hour and didn't stop moving for more than a second.