Slacking :)

Justin has been busy with finals and hogging the computer (the nerve) and is now officially a fourth year!! Yay! We are super excited and cannot believe our final year is here. Justin has put in a LOT of hard work and is happy the end is finally in sight.

Anderson is growing like a weed! I keep telling him to stop but he won't listen to me. Probably something he learned from his older brother. :) He will no longer sit in his little chair in the bath and is constantly wanting to move and roll around, so now we have to let him be free to move and wiggle with just a tiny bit of water. He was pretty excited the first time I put him in there on on his belly. He loved it! (Excuse the nakey bum shot...I couldn't resist!)

He is now sitting up and eating LOTS of solid foods. Now that he decided something besides a bottle would be okay, he will eat anything I give him. He really likes the bitter biscuits and will sit in his chair chewing on it for a long time. It's so nice to give me some time to make dinner or other things I need to get done.

He is a great baby. Sleeps all night, eats great, hangs out, and is ALWAYS smiling! :) I could handle another one, as long as they are just like Anderson.

The other day we were driving back from Chagrin Falls and noticed this sign off the side of the road. We stopped and it was the birth place of Pres. Garfield. It said he was the last of the "log cabin Presidents". He was elected president and then died the following year.

I meet with a group of girls once a month to play bunko and chat and this was our last time before a bunch of them were graduating and moving to other parts of the country. We had so much fun! It's nice to have a little outlet every once in a while from the kiddos.

Jack is also getting as big as ever. He's sassy as ever too! Man, he has an attitude but he is pretty darn cute too. :) I think he was sent here to teach us patience.

Desperate to come up with some solutions to the sass, we made this little naughty/nice chart to help him keep track of how he is doing. 3 naughty stickers and he sits on his bed for 10 minutes. 3 nice stickers and he gets a little treat. It's working okay so far. Sometimes he is terrified to get a naughty sticker, and sometimes I think he could care less...go figure!

He also helped us come up with our house rules so he knows exactly what is okay and what is not. He was very quick to come up with most of these! He's probably regretting it now. We talked about how we need to choose the right and now he is always telling us if he is choosing the right or choosing the "bad". He will say, "Mom, I was being really rude. I was not choosing the right." I guess it's good that he at least knows what is right and what is wrong. It's a work in progress!!

He loves blankets and loves to cuddle up anywhere he can think of, including his basket. Although he is sassy and doesn't always make the best decisions, he sure is cute and we love his personality. He is so smart and is always surprising us with what he knows. He tells us that he loves us all the time and loves for us to hold him all wrapped up in his blankey. Despite the sass, I think we'll keep him. :)

And last but not least, my parents got their mission call....they will spending the next 2 years in the New York, New York South mission which covers Long Island and also Bermuda. They are so excited and we can't wait for them to be on our side of the country now!! They actually got here last night and will be visiting with us for the week so we have a lot of fun to be had!!