JackMan 2010

Here is almost 6 month old JackMan, he's like Batman, but cooler! We really haven't decided on a nickname for Jack. We often call him either JackMan or JackieBoy. Yep, one word, just like that.

Once Abbey's coordinating onesie is clean, I'll be doing 6 month photos of the two of them together. I'm hoping to get them interacting, which they do all the time now. Jack is a rather possesive little dude. Last night he was sitting in the exersaucer and I had Abbey on my knee so she could play too (we have our 2nd exersaucer on order, we wanted 2 different ones and had to resort to ordering it from Babies R Us to be able to accomplish that). Jack was fine playing with the cow, until Abbey was playing with the pig. Then he HAD to have it and pushed her hands away and took it from her. She grabbed his hand and started chewing on it. It seemed like she was saying "Take my toy? I'll eat your hand!"

These pics were all taken in my room using only all natural light. The only editing that has been done to them is that they were cropped and resized to 300 dpi. Jason told me that I seem to always get good pictures of the babies and that I should be a baby photographer. I don't know about that. I think it's easy to take photos of your own babies, it's getting other people's kids to sit there and look at you and not be scared of the weird lady with the black thingy sticking out of her face that is the hard part. I don't have anyone local that I could try out the theory of being able to photograph other people's babies as it is. We all know that it's even more difficult when older kids are involved. I think I'll just stick to my own kids.

The New Year

Has come and gone and I'm a slacker. Oh wait, I'm NOT a slacker, I've just had a busy "real life" lately. Now that the holidays are gone things might settle down. Though they may not. The twins are 5 1/2 months old which means they are awake more durning the day which means they need and want more during the day which, in turn, means I have less time to do things on the computer.

Anyone have New Year's Resolutions? Have you broken them off yet? I wouldn't say that mine were "resolutions" really. Just goals. I've decided that this is my year to be more actively involved in life. I have 3 Big C's and an E and I think everything stems off of them. Cooking, Cleaning, Crafting, & Exercise. Just to do them more. The Cooking and Exercise makes for a healthier me, and a healthier family. I know that once it gets warmer, I'll drag the family along. As it is, I'm trying to organize a Walking Club with our homeschool group to start up once the temps are more consistently in the 40's, so mid to end of March. I'm also trying to organize a Craft Club, to do twice a month. The big inhibitor in that one is finding a location, though I think we may be able to use a room at one of the library branches.

Jason is being considered for a move to a different department at WalMart. It would be full time and quite possibly 3rd shift. The 3rd shift would be nice simply because it would mean an extra $1 an hour. He keeps getting talked to about it, but it hasn't happened yet. He keeps mentioning it to let "The Powers That Be" know that he is still interested. We are hoping that that takes place soon.

I have pictures from Christmas to post. And some that I did of Abbey. And some of Jack. It just seems like I've been out of it for quite some time now and I'm trying to find the swing of things again.

In my crafting goal, I finished a hat I was knitting for Abbey. It's made out of Pink Fun Fur. It's a little on the big side, and very stretchy, but very cute. So I'll leave you with the pics of her for right now. Enjoy. Prayers and blessings and I hope you all are getting back in to the swing as well.