Jacob really wanted to read his tractor book and Megan is learning how to read so she offered to read the book to him. Both kids were ecstatic with the idea and I loved seeing it happen!
Balloon time, the kids found a balloon and had a blast taking turns throwing it in the air and chasing after it! Jacob squeals and gets on his tip toes each time he throws!
Action shot!
Everyone helping make the snowman!
Megan and Daddy taking a break for a picture!
Megan working really hard on the Snowman's head!
We used extra tile dad gave the kids to play with to make the face and buttons. Megan put them on and Jacob took them off!
Ta-Da! The snowman is complete...
The next day...the snowman isn't doing so well, he stayed up too late doing what snowmen do at night!!
Two days later...65 degrees, two kids with weapons, and this is what's left of the snowman!
Megan loves nature and the outdoors and would rather "work" than play!
Jacob was a beast with his rake and we tried to stay clear!
The kids taking a break to play in the leaves!
Jacob raking with all his might! 
I've talked about making our blog into a book for a long time...I finally got around to doing it because winkflash had a great sale, 100 pages for $30. So, I decided to do 2010 and it's actually finished and ordered!!! Now I just need to work on 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009...o my! I love it though because we don't print pictures and we didn't keep baby books so this is our record of everything to do with the kids!
So in this past week Megan and Jacob have been playing together more and more. They really like to run up and down our hallway back and forth. One of their favorite games is to "catch a butterfly" and run up and down with the catch. So far we haven't had any injuries but it's only a matter of time! Tonight they were having an especially fun time running and squealing before bed!Jacob is officially 2 years old now! He is growing like crazy and is huge for his age. He wears a 3T/4T, size 9 shoe, and is just a big kid. His shoes are the most annoying because he goes through them so quickly. He had his well check today and he is off the charts for height so the Dr. put it at 99th and 50th for weight.
He continues to work on talking and has about 15 words he says regularly, he seems to be catching up with language every day. Last night we officially got rid of the pacifier. We will see how this plays out with car rides and church but we know it's for the best. Poor Jacob has all kinds of transitions, no paci, big boy bed in Megan's room soon, and he is showing some interest in potty training (we are holding off on this one until summer!). He is "all boy" as they say and really enjoys his cars, train, and tractors...basically anything with wheels! His other favorite thing is to snatch the only Tinkerbell spoon so that Megan can't have it...he's already showing what a fun brother he can be!
As for the party, we had a tractor theme. We had family and friends over and Jacob seemed to really enjoy himself. Megan had a blast too because she had 3 of her friends there too. The girls played dress up and stayed busy the whole time.
Here is Jacob on his prized possession...his new bike. We were on the fence with this purchase but he absoluntely loves it. It's called a balance bike and kids learn to use their balance and they say the transition to a real bike is a lot easier than the transition from training wheels...we'll see! After getting his bike he spent the rest of the day on it riding it all over the house. The next day we took the kids to the track across the street and he rode his bike around once...probably twice if you add up the back and forth business he did! I'll try to get a picture of him carrying his bike too, it's crazy to see!
I forgot about the party favors and Megan found them after all the kids had left...so the big kids decided to have a little fun too...more pictures to come of this because it was hilarious!
Jacob and his friend Sophie sharing a cute kiss! They've never done that before (that I know of!) but the kids were all laughing and cheering so they did this repeatedly!
Here are a few of the kiddos at the party enjoying cake!
OK, so the cake...I usually go all out for the cake and I had grand plans of making a hay ride trailor attached to Jacob's actual tractor. The plan was to make the trailor and hay bales and put pictures of all the kids in attendance on the hay ride...but as it turns out I just didn't have the energy for all of that so Jacob has a different cake, it's still cute but I owe him big next year!
