Kid Update

Well, I will get pics on as soon as I take them but the two kids are going to be pirates. They both got in their costumes yesterday for a spur of the moment idea of mine to have all the other neighbor kids come over and their parents. I had about a half hour to get ready and get the kids ready. We had a lot of fun. The kids made egg carton spiders, spiderwebs, and decorated cupcakes. We also went ahead and did dinner for everyone. Tomato alfredo spaghetti. Yummy!
Berk cut her two bottom teeth. She snorts when she wants something you have and isn't getting it. She also scrunches up her whole face into a smile when daddy gets home from work. She tries lettiong go of things she is standing up to occasionally. Jack is loving preschool. He recognizes quite a few of his letters and some numbers. He reads to Colby and I at night. He has this Cars book memorized and reads it to us everynight. He also loves his daddy time. He and Colby usually wrestle or run around the house after dinner and the other night Colby wasn't home and around that same time as usual Jack started going nuts. You could almost see a look in his eye like if he didn't get some energy out he was going to start using Berk as a wrestler. Needless to say, mommy and Jack wrestled and played. He is one tough kid. Seriously another year or two and he really could beat me I wouldn't have to pretend. He has started liking playing board games. He also remembers everything you tell him you'll do and repeats everything he hears. The other day he said "Holy Fetch" Colby and I don't say that so it must have been uncles he heard that from anyways, I laughed. Oh yeah the other day I finished getting ready and I had gotten in some nicer clothes than usual. He said "cute girl" I said what and he said "you're a cute girl" I thought it was pretty cute.
Things are great. I love being a sahm and wouldn't change it.

Thank You

Ok, so I really appreciate all the comments. I am up for any ideas just about anyways. The doctor said ger tonsils were a little big and red but it was fine as long as she wasn't running a fever. We've tried the teething orajel and tylenol. The other thing I thought of is that around the days she woke up we had fed her the baby food meats. The nurse I talked to said that her body may not be ready to digest that stuff yet. The other thing is that when I feed her she calms down but I don't want to be feeding her if she thinks she has to just to be comforted. I also don't want to starve her if she really is hungry. I thought about the night terrors but I have no way to know. Is there anything specific to watch for with those? And, is it normal for a kid around 7-8 mos to go through a growth spurt where they are hungry and need to eat in the middle of the night? Anyways, she slept good last night and her and Jackson have done very well during conference. Jackson was even so cute playing basketball with all of us and the Sharpe boys in between sessions. He would get down in his stance and side step and reach in and stay with his knees bent and arms out, so dang cute. They are great blessings in our lives.

Suggestions

Any suggestions or help about Berklee all of the sudden waking up in the middle of the night screaming and inconsolable please comment.

Also, suggestions on discipline that works and they learn from let me know. We do timeout but he just keeps doing some of the same things.

Update!

Well, I haven't posted for a while so thought I should. We don't have internet in Monument Valley yet so I really don't get to keep in touch with the outside world except by phone.

Berklee Updates:
She is crawling.
She pulls herself up to standing.
She wants to play with whatever toy her brother is playing with.
She sits up with no help.
She LOVES food (except the baby food meats she gags on them).
She was sleeping through the night until last week and now wakes up a lot (not really sure what's going on) any suggestions would be welcomed.
She has about 3 in. of hair.
She weighs 16 lbs.
She is 7 1/2 months old.
She is usually very pleasant.
She smiles and laughs a lot.
She loves her brother.

Jackson Updates:
He is 3 yrs old now. (Growing up way too fast)
He likes doing preschool at home most of the time.
He sings the ABC song to g without help.
He knows the sounds ABC and D make but loves making the b sound over and over.
He loves his train set from his b-day.
He also loves and whizzes through puzzles by himself.
He knows that we will live again.
He said today "I'm happy Jesus can be in my heart"
He's usually nice to his sister but when he isn't he does time out.
He doesn't understand why berklee doesn't do time out when she messes up his toys or pulls his hair.
He is so proud of berklee for sitting and crawling on her own.

There is so much more but that will do for now. I will try and get pics up from his b-day soon. BTW we are loving Monument Valley.

Colds, Posing, and Crawling

Okay, so I am finally posting some pictures. We took these yesterday at Grandpa and Grandma Sharpe's house. This is Jackson showing his peace sign and his rockin' sign at the same time. I was fairly impressed.
Jackson rockin' out with Carlos and Gio. He was headbanging too. Pretty funny.

Jackson posing for the camera. Oh yeah, if it looks like he has a runny nose he does. Sorry, he hates having it wiped constantly and both him and Berklee are suffering from colds right now.

His face is like that because as I snapped the picture he was saying "Pooose."

If you can tell, Berklee has a scrape on her nose. This is probably the first of many scrapes since she is now working on crawling. By the way, she was up on her hands and knees and took a spill onto the cement when she tried to move forward. Poor thing.

Proud brother and happy sister.

Berklee looking at a toy in the distance and deciding the best way to get it.

"Mom is this okay?" Okay, her face makes me think that is her question. It is more likely she's looking at me and thinking you're in trouble mom because I am about to start crawling. Hopefully we all make it through with only small scrapes and bruises like the one on her nose and nothing serious. By the way, if you couldn't tell I love my little babies. I can't believe how quickly they are growing up and wish they would slow down just a little.

Jackson is now 38 lbs and just keeps out growing all his clothes and will be 3 on Sept. 15. Berklee is now 6 months and weighs 15 lbs 4 oz and measures in at 27 in. She is just below the 50th percentile in weight and just above the 75th percentile in height. Surprisingly enough she has only gained 2 lbs since she was 2 months old. Oh yeah, little side note Berklee thinks she should be eating everything we eat. If someone is eating anything, she sits there and stares then if you don't give her any she starts to cry. So funny because Jackson was such a chunk and was never as preoccupied with food as Berklee is.

Jackson and Berklee Update

Okay, so both the kids have runny noses and are starting colds. Berklee hasn't ever been sick before so she is not happy about it. Anyways, add in her immunizations and she hasn't been the perfectly pleasant baby she has been but is still so dang cute. She scraped up her nose today taking a spill on the cement. She is getting super close to crawling and I have a feeling this scrape is the first of many.

Jackson today kept saying to everyone he saw "I'm excited" "I'm excited for football tonight!" Then as we were leaving football, he reminded me to buckle his legs even though he had buckled his arms. As I was buckling his legs in, I told him thank you and I was glad he reminded me because I don't want him to get hurt in a wreck. Then he took my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes and said "I understand mommy." It was all I could do to not bust up laughing because I always ask him if he understands after I've had to tell him about things he can't do.

Funny kids. We love them and enjoy everything about them. Update: we are actually getting along very well in Monument Valley and Jackson has already started to make some friends.

Jackson's Funnies

Okay, so Jackson is becoming and is a hillarious kid. I got thinking about some things he does and says and decided I would post some of his more recent sayings and things he does.

"That's a bad word dad"
"Don't say that word"
"Peace out dude"
"Rockin' (as he holds up his pinky and pointer finger like horns) so funny!
"Just relax mom"
"Gosh mom/dad"
"Freakin' heck"
"I love you mom/dad/Berklee"
"I'm crying mom/dad"
"It's ok Berk."

Anyways, lots more sayings but those are the ones I can think of.
Some things he has started to do:

He climbs up on the stool and makes his own toast.
He has started riding his bike really well.
He watered my flowers for me.
He thinks he should wrestle Berklee (she is a good sport and usually smiles the whole time).

He does plenty more but I cannot remember them right now. I will get a pic up soon sorry I'm really not good at that.