Opening Day 2008

Go Cardinals : )

Havin' Fun!

While we were in Tower Hill this past weekend, David ran up to our house in Rochester to pick up a few more things to tie us over until we close and move. One of those was this exersaucer for Kinsey. I put her in it this morning . . . . I think she likes it : )

Snapshots from a GREAT Easter Weekend

We had a great Easter weekend. After church on Sunday, we headed down to Tower Hill until Tuesday night. Enjoy some video and snapshots from our fun weekend!


Boy, how time flies! Kinsey is growing SO fast! Here she is with her cousin Luke Ritchie (David's sister's youngest). She is 4 1/2 months and he is around 3 weeks.

It just isn't Easter with out a marshmallow Peep from Great-Grandma Jackson : ) Right?

Here is Jackson with his Easter basket (and new Cardinal's hat) on Easter morning at our house. Claire and Blake (my sister's kids) at Great-Grandma & Grandpa's Easter egg hunt. And then the kids spending time with Grammy and Papa.

Easter Egg Hunt

Our church had an Easter Egg Hunt this morning. Here is Jackson with his friends, Jozie Samuels and Nathan Mann.


Jackson liked to pick up all the eggs, but before they made it to the basket he had to check and make sure there was really candy inside. I had to remind him several times that we had to just pick up the eggs right now and we would eat the candy later. He sampled some anyway!

Here is Jackson with his friend Nathan. These two LOVE to play together and just squeal and run around when they see one another. We told them to put their arms around each other for this picture and instead they put their arms around themselves! They are so funny . . . . see video below.

Happy Easter!

Coloring Eggs

We colored Easter eggs with Jackson on Saturday morning. He was very intrigued for about 4-5 eggs and then he was done. : ) At first, he thought all of the colored water was a "yummy-licious" drink (one of his new favorite words). He also enjoyed decorating the eggs with the stickers.

I was explaining to him that today was Palm Sunday and that Jesus rode into town on a donkey. He said, "no mommy, he rode on a camel". I tried to say that no the Bible said it was a donkey, but I don't think he was convinced that I was right!

Let it Roll . . . .

Fun with the Jarrett Kids!

Kinsey is enjoying playing on the floor SO much more these days! Especially now that she can roll easily from her belly to her back . . . going the other way is a little more rare, but has been done. Jackson sometimes likes to "help" her roll over too, which is a little scary! What can I say, he likes to help : )

Jackson is 2 . . . . enough said : ) Just kidding! He has his days, we'll just leave it at that. We decided to check out the park yesterday morning, since it was SO warm outside. He loved climbing everywhere and going down all of the slides. I thought he might be a little timid about going down some of the tunnel slides (especially the really tall one), but he wasn't at all. Boy, how things have changed from last summer! Kinsey slept through the whole experience : )

Kisses

Kinsey Grace-4 Month Checkup

We took Kinsey for her 4 month checkup today. She was 13 lbs., 2 oz (50%) and 25 inches long (80%). The doctor said she was doing GREAT and was surprised at how strong she is. He said it won't be long before she'll be all over the place!! I don't know if I'm ready for that quite yet : )

House Update: We have the contracts in hand and have officially sold our house. Only bad part . . . we're not sure about a house here now. We went back to look at the house we had made an offer on and there were a few issues that have now made us very apprehensive. So we are continuing to look . . . but it seems that every time we find something that fits us, there is one MAJOR thing wrong with it. And it is compounded by the fact that the house we REALLY wanted that would have been PERFECT just closed and sold for the exact amount that we wanted to buy it for!!!! So we are going to continue looking! Please pray for us . . . it is pretty stressful and we are anxious to finally be settled.

Kinsey Grace-4 Months

Kinsey is 4 months old today! We take her to the doctor for her well-baby visit tomorrow morning. So we'll have actual stats then. But as you can see, she is growing like crazy!

She rolled from her belly to her back on Friday, February 15th at Grammy & Papa's house. And from her back to belly just this past Sunday (3/2). I am pretty sure she will be getting one of her bottom teeth VERY SOON! Her mouth is a faucet and I can feel a little bump on her bottom gums, but nothing has broke through yet.

We are having her 4 month pictures taken on Saturday morning. So hopefully she is smiley then : )

Quick Update

Just wanted to give a quick family update . . . .

Things have been a little crazy around here, but then again when aren't they : ) David got the bronchitis stuff Jackson had and spent a couple days last week in bed. He still has a lingering cough, but seems to feel much better this week. Jackson got over his sickness, but then started running a fever again on Saturday of 102. So we went back to the doctor to discover that he now has a sinus infection. Back on antibiotics! Of course, most of the time you wouldn't even know he feels bad, as you can see (trying to walk in my boots).

Kinsey is getting bigger every day . . . . she finally is starting to like bathtime! You would have never gotten this smile during bath time even a few weeks ago. She screams through them until just recently. Now she smiles and kicks her feet. I think she likes to splash us! She will be 4 months old on the 6th of this month!!

We are finishing up the paperwork on selling our house. And working out the final negotiations on our house here in Salem. So hopefully we'll have everything in place soon! Looks like we'll finally be "home" sometime after April 15th.