Jake the Great

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Jason's parents gave Jake a magic kit for Christmas. He, of course, needed an assistant...so he and I trotted off to the secret room to learn some tricks to perform for the family. After getting really frustrated with other tricks, he looked in the box and was delighted to find this rubber finger...FINALLY a trick he thinks he can handle!

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Here are some pics of the kids in their Halloween costumes...requested by MeeMaw Peterman. Because I'm a loser. :) Kidding, Mama! Sorry for the delay...

Jake was "Commander Cody." Who is, of COURSE, a clone trooper from Star Wars. Who else? I'm wondering how much longer Daddy will be able to enjoy Star Wars costumes?

Court was a cave girl...complete with attitude.

Hannah was Little Red Riding Hood. We didn't try the costume on until she got home from school, at which point Mommy PROMPTLY added the bottom ruffle to this dress. Um......yeah. For a CHILD! But she turned out very cute!

Tumbling!

Just have to brag on my oldest baby girl for a minute. We enrolled the girls in tumbling for the first time in their lives back at the end of August. Hannah has very rapidly progressed and she just promoted last night to "T3"!! I wasnt' there to watch last night, but I took these video clips last week before she promoted. I was really amazed watching her. Her coach told her she should start working on back handsprings and within about 10 minutes of working alone with the support and then on the inflatable floor, she was doing them on the regular gym floor! I tried to catch her doing the roundoff/back handspring combo, but she never did both with the camera rolling. The last one makes me laugh every time I watch it!

Bring Me Something!

This morning amidst all the pre-teen sisters' fighting, Jake complaining yet again of a tummy ache, and me sitting on the couch clinging desperately to my first cup of coffee, Courtney asked where I'm flying this afternoon. Here's the conversation that followed.

M: Flying a man home to Washington D.C. then flying right back.

C: Ooooo...bring me a bobble-head.

M: A bobble-head??? Of who?

C: Well, George Washington! (hear the "who else?" tone in her voice...how could I be so dumb, right?)

M: Baby, I'm not going to be there long enough to shop.

C: Or maybe a Mount Rushmore THERMOS! (we'd already argued for 15 minutes over why my travel coffee mug was NOT suitable to take chicken and stars soup to school for lunch. I won, but I'm just waiting for her to try it one day when I'm out of town.)

M: Courtney, Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota.

C: Oh. Well how about a Statue of Liberty figure for my room?

M: Baby that's in New York. And I'm not even going to get off the airplane today. We'll drop him off and turn right around and fly home.

C: Oh....ok.

Guess you can't blame her for trying! Sweet baby! She absolutely cracks me up! If you've ever read The Five Love Languages, you'll understand...her 'language' is giving and receiving gifts....mostly receiving at this age!

Traditions

This is one of my very favorite pictures of my boys. It was taken when Jake was about 16 months old. I'm a big mush-pot anyway, but the whole idea of Jase being able to pass on the Aggie traditions to our son just gives me super-duper warm fuzzies. Saturday, we took some friends up to a game so their daughter could check out campus. We had Jake with us and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to recreate the moment.

Election Day

In honor of Election Day, I decided to hold an election on "What's For Dinner?" Sounded like a great idea, right? One problem...Jake voted for taco soup, Hannah voted for chicken pot pie, and Courtney voted for Grandma Laird's noodles. Thinking I'm pretty smart, I email Daddy at work for a tie breaker. He voted for steak. I give up. The mommy union is going on strike and they can all eat corn dogs. :)

Peer Pressure

Seems like everyone is blogging now, so I'm going to jump in and give it a go. I'm always on here anyway reading up on my family and friends around the world. So here goes.

Warning...there is a distinct possibility I may be a complete idiot at this.