Jake has announced his marriage interest

Out of the blue this morning, Jake said, "I want to marry Bekah or Laura or Elena or Kayla or Reyna. Oh or Miss Sonya."

Drew: "who did you say?"

Jake: "All of the girls."

Jake's Nicknames for Drew

From a while ago: "One Tiny House"

Lately, he's Baby Cupcake (cupcake is the girl character from a show he watches called Puppy pals). Jake says Drew is Baby Cupcake because she can't run fast.

He called Drew something else completely random this morning, but we can't remember what it was. 

SNOW!!!

This picture was taken at 12:15 while the rest of the kids in the area were still sitting in class. Drew officially announced (because of this) that he has decided that he wants to get a good job so his wife can homeschool his kids. 

This is Jake's first time getting to play in the snow!

Stink bug

Jake: Kate, I want to call you Sissy.

Kate: Ok, what do you want to call Drew?

Jake: Stink bug.

Morning soccer

Reading time with Jake

Now that he is sounding out letters, Jake is starting to slowly fit them together into words. Reading a Froggy book tonight, he was able to see and say words like go, zap, and zip.

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As Drew is going to bed...

He tells Jake "good night".
Sherri tells Jake to say see you later alligator
Jake says "see you later you old codfish".

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Never mind. 2 down. 1 to go.

She's coming for you, Granddad!

One down. 2 to go.

3rd birthday and 1st soccer practice

Drew and Jake - brotherly love

Eclipse viewing

Eclipse viewing

The many faces of Jake

Jake's reading spot

He set this up while we were working out. Notice the hand towel on his legs.

Brothers

I went in to take a picture of Ben reading to Jake, but this happened instead.

Bedtime

Jake decided to wear Kate's shorts

Every morning...

Every morning, Jake walks in the door with an armful of stuffed animals and says, "I've got friends!" He hands one to everyone in the room and saves one for himself.

Drew playing tennis

Gwinnett braves game with Seth

Mmmmm, pizza?

We ate at Stevi B's last night.  As we are wont to do, we custom ordered our own: in this case the plan was to be chicken/mushroom/onion.

Either the noise of the restaurant or through a lack of critical listening skills, the mushroom portion of the order was apparently misheard as mustard.  Amazingly, they both had mustard on tap and didn't bat an eye at including it.  So, unbeknownst to us, out came our chicken/mustard/onion pizza.

Kate was the unlucky person to make this discovery, though it did take her over half of her piece to come to that conclusion.  Needless to say, the rest of the pizza was left untouched.

Kate after the tourney

Her team won the loser's bracket which isn't bad since we played in the 8th grade league and our starters are 2 sixth graders and 3 seventh graders.  Kate generally plays point guard since everyone else is either too scared or nervous.  Or bad.  She played really well, scored 4 points per game, made 80% of her free throws, led in assists and is easily the best at boxing out and help D.  She's a beast and has no fear of attacking, getting hammered repeatedly, and actually getting helped by the refs once in a blue moon.

Pics at Davidson

Ben was home. Kate was with her pals at the gym.

Kate and hoops

Kate's first out of state hoops tourney. Charlotte. Playing in an eighth grade tourney.

Long day

Sometimes sleep wins

Jake wrote a J

He was trying to write on the dry erase board with a highlighter. When I told him to stop, he said he wanted to write a J. I got him a green colored pencil and paper and went on teaching the older kids. He held up the paper to show me this. We have NEVER tried to write any letters on paper before. He has a couple of apps where he can trace the letter shape, but he hasn't done those in weeks.

Kate at basketball practice

Jake gets to meet his new car bed

New car bed for Jake.

Kate wins first place

First real Bball trophy playing in the eighth grade division as a sixth grader.

Stone mountain

Jakes first solo climb up to smiley rock. Ben and mom were far ahead doing a s one mountain climb.

Jake and a giant turtle shell.

Anything can be a reading nook

Puzzle Man

Jake is asleep on Kate while Mom and Dad are upstairs with a stomach bug

Another good picture taking face from drew

Drew's picture taking face

Who is well on his way to being potty trained?

This guy. We aren't totally there, but he says, "me not need pull up." Mom and Dad have taken a WAY more relaxed approach to training Jake mainly because we aren't in a hurry to make a ton of bathroom trips at sporting events. 

Today, Kate told Jake to use to potty and he said, "Yes sir, mr president sir".

Drews first tennis match ever

Playing #1 singles

This happened at our house tonight..

We may or may not have been imitating Ben during a kitchen dance party.

Jake and Reagan.

Tourney finalists

Ben's first legit medal. Earned with the 09 A team playing in an 08 tourney.

State tourney team building.

Football

Kate: "Hey Jake, do you want me to coach you in soccer?"

Jake: "No, you coach me in football."