Hatch the Little Man...

After getting to spend the day with Papa Doug, Hatcher came home with the perfect flowers for me....he was so proud of the fact that he picked them out all by himself....it was so cute seeing him at the door with them....it made me smile & just want to gobble him up! I am a blessed Mommy, indeed!!

Silliness is good for the soul...

On many occasions, when people have learned that I have four kids & that I choose to homeschool them, the question coming is usually, "how do you do it all?" Well, I don't.

But we all have our moments, our days, our weeks.....those times when you wonder why in the world you are doing what you are doing & you think you may go crazy while trying to accomplish what some may see as the mundane.

In those times, what do I do? Do I scream? Drink heavily? Eat chocolate? (I should pray, shouldn't I?) In those moments with my kids, I try to catch them off guard with silliness....Hatcher even told me earlier today, "You are more silly than Dad, Mom!" For those of you that know DJ, & on the converse, know me, know without a doubt that could NEVER be true!

Last week we had some of those above-mentioned "moments" that make me want to cry......but instead of crying, this is what I did:

I drew on my kids' stomachs....& the giggles that came out of that lifted my 'moment' & I was able to smile again.....

Pea Girl...

When I open the freezer & pull out the Sam's bag of frozen peas, chaos the size of Melissa Jack ensues.....why, you may wonder?  Because the funny girl LOVES to eat frozen peas (she has a thing for cooked broccoli too)........so, when she gets fussy while I'm making dinner, I pull out the frozen peas & all is peaceful in the Jacobsen world again.....

 

Always thinkin'....

It amazes me to no end that the brains of my children never seem to stop. Every corner you go around finds another idea, thought, question, invention, etc. I mean, if we adults used our brains half as much as our kids, think of the possibilities!!

Bergen is always thinking of something. Writing comics & stories, making up games, building things out of any piece of cardboard we haven't thrown away yet, leaving Lego & tinker toy structures everywhere for me to trip over or step on, & everyday there seems to be a new superhero walking around our house. The ideas never stop. He is like Kramer inventing a restaurant where you make your own pizza pie....or the oil tanker bladder! Don't even get me started on the coffee table book!

Recently, I found one such tinker toy invention & couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was. It wasn't the normal space craft or jet plane....no, this one was different. I had to get Bergen to explain it to me....here is he holding it up so you can see where it would go in his body.....

See.....he's always thinkin'...

Sacked out & oh so cool...

Not many people I know are as cool as Hatcher.....I mean seriously, with a name like that, you have to be cool, don't you? He always has his hands in his pockets & he LOVES to dance....as you can see here, he even looks cool while taking a snooze....

Notice how the earphones aren't even on his ears?

Go ahead.....ask....

What in the world am I doing??

Cutting onions, of course.....isn't this how everybody does it?

V-Day

So, I know Valentine's Day 2009 is over & gone, but I had to share a couple pictures...it was fun having it on a weekend so we could do family stuff...I made these most beautiful pancakes.....

Then, this picture of Melissa Jack looking at a card she got from her grandparents is just too sweet to not share......she is our honey bee...& here she is, in all her chocolate glory....this girls LOVES her sweets!

Fly like the wind...

"Mom, there is so much wind today, I just KNOW I can fly now...."

Bergen, 8 years old

Oh to be six...

Mallory has only been six for a little over a month now & it's been a whirl wind! Not only did she get her ears pierced, she also learned how to ride her bike without training wheels AND she lost her first tooth!!! So many changes in so little time....I can't wait for puberty! (groan)....

IF you are reading this & you are our family dentist (you know who you are), Mallory was very anxious for me to call you to inform you her tooth came out & that she would NOT need the shot. She wanted me to call you right after it happened.....it was 10 PM on a Sunday evening, so I got her to stop asking me (ha ha)....

Go Joon, go! (see movie "Benny & Joon").......