Jack fishing

Jack's first fishing trip. He didn't catch anything but I think he lasted a good 20 minutes, which is pretty long for him.

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Jacob- 4, Jack 2 1/2, Amelia 10 mths

Heat-seeking Amelia

Amelia is a heat-seeking missile when it comes to her Uppa! Any time he is in the room she crawls over to him and wants him to pick her up. When she is in the back of his truck she walks around the back holding onto the sides to get to him. If he moves, she follows right along with him. She only wants him to hold her. The other night while we were Skypeing Umma and Uppa Amelia was in the background kinda watching. As soon as she saw Uppa on the screen she couldn't get around Jack fast enough! She wanted to see him, to get to him. How funny she is.

Jacob's patience

Jacob is probably the second most patient person I know, next to Uppa. We went to fundraiser yesterday called Kids Dig Rigs. It is at a park where tons of heavy equipment is. The kids are welcome to climb up in the cabs, honk horns and inspect all of it. Well needless to say it is very popular. Each rig had a small to big line of kids to get into the cabs. Jacob wanted to get into each tractor cab, even though they are all pretty much the same. Dan wanted to go look at other things after the two but Jacob was insistent we stand in line. He was willing to stand patiently for up to 10 minutes to wait his turn to look in each cab. For a 4 year old that is really impressive and apparently even his 33 year old Dad didn't have that much patience.

Jacob's compassion

Jacob is one of the kindest most compassionate people I know and he's only 4. Today while I was giving Amelia and Jack a bath he asked if he could have a snack. In the middle of the bath, I told him he can go and get one himself. Several minutes later I stand at the top of the stairs to yell down to Jacob about his snack. He yells back he hadn't gotten one yet because the dog was sad and he was sitting by it. Well after the bath I come down stairs to find  that Jacob had pushed the dog kennel over to the chair he was going to sit in so it wouldn't be lonely before he got himself something to eat. It is so impressive to see that he would be so empathetic toward another living thing. He put off his own snack to make sure the dog was comforted first. What a great kid!

Balloon Festival

Today we went to the Walla Walla hot air balloon festival. It was a beautiful day to start. The kids went on lots of bounce houses, part of the kid zone. Jacob went on a mini-hot air balloon ride. He rode in a little seat up in the air and then it dropped it down. He thought it was fun. Jack tried but the guy running the ride freaked him out so he wouldn't go on it.
The best part of the day was the actual hot air balloons. We watched one get rolled out and blown up. The boys and I went closer to investigate and ended up getting a number to get a free ride, well a tethered up and down ride. The coolest part was when the balloon was being blown up the pilot invited all the kids to take their shoes off and go inside the balloon! That was so neat. The balloon was a rainbow color, it was so bright in there. Just like being inside a gaint bounce house. The boys were smiling and running around inside the balloon!
When it came to the ride Jacob was the only one that went up. The burner was too loud for Jack. Jacob stood in the basket with his hands over his ears the whole time. He didn't smile once. I am not sure if it was all that fun for him, oh well.
On the way out Uppa and Umma bought each of the boys a toy. Jack picked out a blinking sword and Jacob picked out a tiny hamster that moves. I think the little toys were the best part of the day for them.
Amelia of course just went with the flow, being passed around as we went. Her favorite packer was of course Uppa.

Spring Fun

Some spring fun. Jack's way of saying cheese is that goofy look on his face. Jacob of course has the smile down. He is such a cheese-head about getting his picture taken.
Jack loves to spray the hose or anyone that will let him but he HATES to be wet. I believe the water is too cold for him. The instant Jacob gets him wet he starts bawling, and anytime his clothes get the tiniest bit wet he wants to change them.
Jacob on the other hand loves getting wet. He'll spray himself with the hose and he doesn't mind being wet or dirty or cold.

Amelia is turning out to be a water girl. Any time she spots a puddle of water she is crawling towards

it. Here she is screaming and splashing herself.

Sitting down

When Jacob was a baby we got in the habit of just sitting down in some random place on the floor and enjoying each other's company and watching him just be a baby. When Jack came along we did the same thing. Now that Amelia is in the picture we don't do it nearly as often but we should. Last night after bath instead of pushing on through the bedtime routine of pajamas, brushing teeth and such I sat down in the hallway. Dad sat down next to me and all the kids ran around naked having fun. It was so fun just taking the moment of being a family.

Fun

Tonight we were outside running around in the spring evening. I was chasing the boys around the yard. They would stop, hands in their ears saying, "nanana you can't get me!" So fun. They were running as fast as they could, I was running as fast as my skirt would let me. I thought to myself as I was running after Jacob, how long would it be before he could out run me? I guess only time will tell.