Earring Fetish

Are these not the cutest earrings that you have ever seen! I found them as I was searching for jewelry one night. They are hand made by a local artist here in Columbus...Anne Holman. Check out her website at www.anneholman.com She has some really neat items!

SHE SPEAKS!

Kaitrin said her first meaningful phrase! It has been a long week with Kaitrin being sick and Jacob being attention starved and us working...crazy week! After the trip to the hospital and getting Jacob, Mike and I sunk into the couch in the family room and watched the kids play. Kaitrin was playing with Jacob's Rock em Sock em game. Jacob was running around...probably ready to break something as usual. As Kaitrin was playing the game, she was sliding it closer and closer to the edge of the table...and pushed it off and onto the floor. What came out of her mouth, in perfect timing, and perfectly sounded out? "UH-OH" After a moment of 'did that come out of our child?', we just laughed and laughed.

And my mom thought my tatoos were bad...

It's a tatoo craze! Jacob used to be into stickers. Stickers were everywhere in our house: walls, carpet, all the way up the stairs...
We have now evolved into tatoos, and TONS of them! It all started with a trip to the Reading Festival where he was lucky enough to get a Columbus Police Badge tatoo. Then, his new friend Jake C had some. These two events have led to two armfuls of tatoos - spiderman, spiderweb, police badge, cars, batman, spongebob, and a mask. He is so very colorful...and really needs a bath!

The Toughest Job - Being a Father

And Mike found out this week that the toughest job isn't running the largest region in the mid-west! Poor Kaitrin had a 104 fever all week. Fever's are scary to begin with, but on top of not knowing why and for five days AND dealing with Jacob too...bless the man's heart for still being sane. Kaitrin had blood work and urine cultures only for her fever to break Friday night. But Mike hung in there like a trooper!

Texas Hold What?

I'm not really sure how I missed the beginings of this, but here goes my recollection. I was putting Kaitrin to bed and heard Jacob and Mike playing a game. I figured it was Clue Jr or Candyland...to which Jacob is a fabulous cheater. As I came down the stairs, I hear Mike saying, "No, it goes Jack, Queen, King." Huh? "Hey guys, what are you playing", I ask as I round the corner. "Texas Holdem, Mommy", Jacob says proudly, "And I have all of Daddy's chips." Yeesh, he can read, he can add, and he can play Texas Holdem and Five Card Stud. He will be the hit of Kindergarten!