JAKOB TURNS 4!!

Jakob had a great birthday with his cousins. We are glad they are so close. This is my awesome train cake. We celebrated on the 21st so on the 23rd his actual birthday Scott said "Happy Birthday Jakob" Jakob replied "now I 5?!" He thought when we had cake he turned 4 and when we said Happy Birthday again he was already 5!

LET THE AWKWARD STAGE BEGIN!

This morning Kellen said "I bit my tooth and it hurt", like any good parent Scott said "Oh you bit your cheek? Are you ok?" Kellen insisted that he bit his tooth and we all went on with our day. When Kellen got home from school, again with the biting his tooth thing, like any dumb parent I had no idea what he was talking about and went on with my day. About an hour later it finally dawned on me that just maybe Kellen had a loose tooth. Of course through out the day Kellen had been playing with his tooth with his tongue and by the time I checked it out his tooth was super loose. So we all got excited, Kellen asked how we could get it out I told him...
Go get an apple and take a few bites! Like any good kid he listened and 2 bites later...
He spit his first lost baby tooth out into his hand.
I know it's hard to tell where the tooth came from with his gap, but it is the hole on the right. The tooth to the left of the center one is also loose; thus bringing us back to the title of this post...LET THE AWKWARD STAGE BEGIN!

Kellen is very excited for the Tooth Fairy to come and thanks to the movie, Santa Clause 2, he thinks the Tooth Fairy is a man! He is so stinkin' cute and innocent!

MeRrY ChRiStMaS!!

Ok Ok I am so sorry to all of you. Christmas cards and letters have been a tradition for a few years now and this year we just didn't get to them. I think posting a "Merry Christmas" on our blog is like the lamest thing ever, but it's all you're getting this year. And you don't even get a picture, again I am sorry. I was going to post a video of Kellen singing the 12 Days of Christmas. It was really cute, but of course I can't figure out how to blog a video. So you just get to read. There are a few reasons for the lack of card this year.
1) No New Family Picture
2) We were quite busy (I know everyone is)
3) Scott broke his hand.
Yes, Scott broke his hand a few weeks ago and so could not type up a letter. We all know I like to think I am as funny as Scott, but we all know (including myself) that I am not. So I did not attempt the Whitemarsh letter. However, I could not go without doing something, so here it is.

Scott breaking his hand is probably the most exciting thing anyways and that is not very exciting. He is still able to work, which we are so, so, so thankful for. He broke it doing an adjustment. I guess the correct term would be fractured. It did not completely break or shift the bone, again we are so thankful for that. He is stabelizing it with a brace and taking x-rays every couple weeks to check the progress. It is nice having your own x-ray machine. He didn't have to go anywhere to have them done. The business is doing well. We are able to take care of our family and pay our bills. We did hire a receptionist this year, cutting my time at the office way down.

I am only in the office on Fridays to pay bills and do that boring stuff we don't want to pay anyone else to do. So yes, I am now a PTA mom. I go in with Kellen every Tuesday to help with a math masters game day and I go in Wednesdays to help with Jr. Joggers. Kellen is in Kindergarten but he stays with me and participates with 1st and 2nd graders. I have been going to the gym and have lost some weight. We will see how the holidays treat me. I still enjoy the good food!

Kellen is in Kindergarten and loves it. He is happy everyday after school and still looks forward to going. I know this will not last forever. I am enjoying it while it does. He is very helpful, he will do anything if there is a reward attached. He is very sweet and tender most of the time. He does enjoy making Jakob scream when he can.

Jakob goes to preschool 3 days a week with "iis eee" (Mrs. B). He loves "eeeool" (preschool). He too looks forward to going and gets very mad on the 2 days he doesn't get to go to school and Kellen does. He goes to speech once a week at the "ig ool" (big school) or "kaka ool" (Kellen's school). We have seen a huge imporvement with his confidence and language. He is really trying more. He has more and more to say everyday and now I can't get him to be quiet. I still don't understand it all but he is making an effort!

That is us, if you have been cheking out the blog you have seen our year for the most part. We do hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas, and thank you to those that got around to your letters. We do enjoy them .

Our Fall

Last year when the Halloween stuff was on clearance I bought these pumpkin faces. The boys mixed and matched and stuck them in their pumpkins, it was a lot easier than craving! Kellen and Scott did carve one together.
Both boys got to go to the pumpkin patch with their classes. I got to go with both, however Kellen's pumpkin patch pictures are already on a CD along with his birthday pics, we recently moved so I am not sure where they are so no posts for those things this year. Anyways so this is Jakob on the hay bail pyramid in the tunnel that went through.
This is Jakob's pumpkin he picked from the pumpkin patch.
Our church had a carnival before the trunk-or-treat, so this is us at the carnival. Scott's parents got to come over for our nieces baptism, also on Halloween day, so we had a busy day with family, it was great times.
Kellen was a Seahawks football player, he was doing all he could to get the good vibes out for the team, however it has not worked as Scott planned.
This year Jakob new what he wanted to be. He wanted to be a "red race ca" and because he could say it and I could understand it, I did my best to fulfill his wish. So here he is. Yes, Jakob is really coming along with his talking. Preschool and speech are really making a difference, his confidence has really grown.
Here are my boys after their buckets were full and their feet tired. I do have to put a shout out to the good candy this year. I don't know if the sales were better on the good candy or what, but this year was good. Not a lot of crap and of course that is what is important to the kids, not the parents, I promise.
So we moved again. No we did not buy yet, we just moved into something a little bigger and more updates. Something to be a little more cozy in for a few years. We have decided not to buy until we have the business paid off in 3 years. So the first few days we were in the new place Kellen was raking leaves, and the best part is he just did it. Apparently he enjoys it.
The first day was the big piles and now he is lucky to get a little grocery bag full, but I encourage it. Jakob can't be bothered.

What have we been up too??

So because Scott and I spent our first summer married as Ice Cream truck drivers, I had to let the boys go out and choose an ice cream.
Jakob chose the "banana rocket" ice cream stick, it was huge.
Kellen chose a classic, the ice cream sandwich.
So this year we didn't get to go to the BIG fair in Puyallup, we settled for the little Benton-Franklin County Fair. The boys didn't care they had fun, however Scott was a little disappointed.
So Grandma Whitemarsh had a brilliant idea. She put together little crafts for the kids and then they had them to do over the summer when they were so bored. The boys loved them. Thanks Grandma!!
At the fair we got a pass for a free game. So we took the boys bowling, which they absolutely love. I think since the whole Wii Sports game they think they are pros.
Kellen may not be a pro, however he was beating me until the very end I ended up with 2 more. Umm yeah I suck, Ricks College bowling class did not stay with me.
We went to a Hot Air Balloon light show. Not as cool as we thought it would be, but Kellen liked it and that was worth it.
Jakob did not. He hid his face the whole time, when we were walking away he finally wanted to look at the balloons. I think he was afraid they were going to be like fireworks, which he hates.