New Year - New Firsts

It is now 2011 - Jake and Henry continue to amaze us, and amuse us, with the things they do each day. Jake is on letter N at school and got a good report this week from this teachers on his progress. He has quite the imagination and likes to play all sorts of scenarios from hunting, to farming, to monster trucks, to scooby doo. He especially tells the best Hunting "stories" using things he has heard Steve talk about. He and Henry played "mountain lion" the other day and Henry made me laugh so hard because he pretended like he was using a grunt call and made grunt noises - even a 20 month old is picking up on hunting techniques!

Jake is wearing a size 7 clothes and 13 shoe - he is growing and is about 60lbs now! Probably 45 inches....he was good at school this week and got to get his reward: a slurpee and a redbox movie rental :) Jake has started to like to watch more grownup tv but thankfully still watches cartoons too. I don't want him to growup too fast so I encourage cartoons over the hunting or speed channels. He is also really into MARIO BROTHERS, his new wii game. He is very good! Very smart when it comes to the choices he has to make and he has a great memory! We play together and it is fun!

Henry has started singing songs. He knows various parts and will chime in when he can. It is precious. He knows the "meow-meow" part in "Kitty Cat's Picnic" (which he calls Patch) and parts of "Up on the HouseTop" which he calls "caws" (for Santa Claus)- He continues to love to play with Jake, wear our clothes and shoes around the house, and drink lots of "milk" (bottles)- He is a rough and tumble, like Jake, so keeps a bruise on him at all times. He has had several cases of hives and we are not sure of the cause. But none the past 3 weeks. Jake has managed to stay healthy all Winter other than a few sniffles - fingers crossed for the next few months!