What They've Said

Kate was coloring a picture of a princess that had a dress with spaghetti straps.  She said, "Mom, I made her dress modest.  It doesn't have those... you know... noodles."

Jack has been telling me that Heavenly Father told him to do it (about a lot of things, both good and bad).

I was putting Ty in the jogging stroller yesterday so we could go on a walk.  Kate said, "Why do they call it a jogging stroller if you only walk with it?"

Jack told me this story last night, "When I was in high school, I was playing basketball, football, and baseball.  Then I fell and got a bruise.  Then I got a trophy!"

Ty likes to say, "dadadadadada" and "hi hi hi hi hi."

Kate likes to spell our names when she talks to us.  She says, M. O. M." a lot.  I guess it's helping Jack learn how to spell. :)

Jack:  I'm going to run in space. (place)

Soccer

Today was the end of another soccer season.  For practice tonight the kids played two different games.

GAME #1 -- against their own teammates (the red team vs. the rainbow (non-red) team

Kate has improved a lot in the last little while.  She's been a little more aggressive and seems like she's enjoying soccer a little more. :)

GAME #2 -- Kate's team vs. Jack and other siblings and parents

Jack is a very intense soccer player.  He's not afraid to get in there with everyone to try to get the ball.  And, he's not afraid to fall down (he did that a lot tonight).

At the end of the game, Jack came up to me and asked, "Who got the trophy?"

He's been playing with Kate's soccer trophy that she got when she played in Salt Lake.  When I told him that no one won, because it was just for fun, he asked, "We have to play one more game?"

Dave wasn't at the last practice, so we took a team picture at our end of season soccer party.

10 Months!

Ty is already 10 months old!  Here are a few more things that he can do since I posted last.

He can DANCE!  It's so cute.  He's got some good dance moves while sitting up (head and hand shaking and bouncing) and while laying down (lifting his bum up and down)

While he's not crawling yet, he can get where he needs to go by rolling and scooting on his bum.  And he can sit back up after he's been lying down (that's what he's doing in the picture).

He's starting to make sounds like "dada" and hi.  He can clap and wave too.

And he can smile even though he's cutting one of his top teeth (tooth #3 for him).

Jack's Birthday

Jack's birthday seemed more like Christmas.  He was SO excited!  He couldn't wait to go to bed the night before his birthday.  And he woke up early on his birthday and was dancing around with excitement until we all went downstairs.  We decorated the downstairs with balloons and crepe paper and Kate made him a birthday banner.

Jack got to open his presents first thing in the morning.

Baseball and Mitt (or net like Jack calls it)

Soccer ball from Kate and Ty

Construction Set for his GeoTrax train set from Grandma and Grandpa Cox

CARS Color Wonder Coloring Book from Kate

He also got a new basketball tshirt -- but who wants to take a picture holding a shirt?

Playing with his GeoTrax construction thing.  He LOVES it!

Jack wanted a football cake this year.  I asked Jack what he wanted for lunch and he said cake.  So, we had cake for lunch. (Only on his birthday though!)

 After a birthday dinner at McDonald's we went to Dave's softball game.  It was a fun day!

He's 4

Here's how Jack started out (4 Days Old)

1st Birthday

2nd Birthday

3rd Birthday

4th Birthday (TODAY!)