A few pictures from February

I can't believe that the first of March is tomorrow! I haven't had my camera out as much as I usually do, but here are a couple of pics of the kids from this last month.

Jacob and Julianne: Justin was shocked at how much Julianne looks like him at that age!


Latham came over to play one morning and he and Julianne had SO much fun! They had a great time running around and played with cars, trains, kitchen stuff and books!


Julianne loves to play IN the toy chest, just like Jacob did (when he could fit!)


They love to brush their teeth together although it can get pretty messy sometimes!


One morning Justin found Julianne in her bed like this! I had put new pj's on her the night before that apparently are very easy to take off! My little jaybird... :)

Look Momma, no more training wheels!!!

After weeks of bending his training wheels up higher and higher, Jacob finally decided that they were in the way and he wanted to take them off. We have been encouraging him and telling him that whenever he was ready, we would go ahead and take them off. Justin was still at work so I was going to wait, but Jacob insisted and I was afraid that he would change his mind...so I found a wrench and somehow figured out how they came off. I had to steady him upright because his toes barely touch the ground and he literally took off while I was standing there. I didn't even have to run with him!!! You could tell how excited he was! You can see all of the neighbor kids in the video but you can't hear them cheering him on and telling him how "awesome" he was doing! Of course, we called Justin and told him and Jacob was so excited to show Daddy what he could finally do!!

This little light of mine...

We just thought this was hilarious!!

I don't even know where to start!

You may all breathe a sigh of relief that you will not have to look at the same December pictures when you visit our blog now! It's not even that I've been too busy to update, it's just that so much has happened since my last post that I don't even know where to start!

Here's a little of what the Patterson Four have been up to:

Well, Christmas, of course! As always, surrounded by our family is our favorite way to spend the Holidays...Playing guitar with Uncle Steven

Pops reading to Julianne


A bike for Jacob and a slide for Julianne!!


Reading her new pop-up bible story book


Trying out his new wheels


A fire truck on Oma's street was pretty exciting!

After Christmas, the entire Patterson Clan (all 11 of us) headed to Disney World to ring in the new year! We had so much fun, and I really feel like we did almost everything that we wanted to do! I will admit that I got a little teary-eyed when we were on the boat from our resort to Magic Kingdom and I got a little glimpse of Cinderella's castle over the treetops! It really is a magical place!!
Our favorite things:

Justin - Mt. Everest in Animal Kingdom and Big Thunder Mountain in Magic Kingdom (he and Jacob rode Thunder Mountain AT LEAST 4 times in one day...)
Kristen - Soarin' at Epcot and Mt. Everest (even though it made me kind of sick to my stomach)
Jacob - "being at our cabin" (I guess because he got to sleep :) ) and Splash Mountain in MK
Julianne liked the Merry-Go-Round in MK and the live Finding Nemo show in AK.

Goofy!

in Italy (Epcot)


Pizza Planet!


Latham and Jacob giving Eeyore some lovin'


Warming up to Piglet at the Crystal Palace


Our last day...boo hoo.


Jacob and Cinderella's Castle


The cousins looking at (picking) flowers right before we left for the airport

A December to Remember

I know that our 3 (!) Christmas celebrations will merit their own post, but I thought that I would share some of what we have been up to this December...

Our little star, Jacob, had a Christmas Program at his preschool on the 4th. Justin, Julianne and I were in the front row to receive the repeated waves and "hi, mom!" - "hi, dad!" greetings. He did great! He knew most of the words (they sang 6 songs) and even belted out "Feliz Navidad" in Spanish! Julianne loved to watch all of the kids sing and dance!
The kids have been really into coloring/art projects lately. So, we did a bunch of this...

We went with Justin's parents to see all of the Christmas lights on the Waterway and at Market Street this past weekend. It was beautiful! It was a balmy 78 degrees that night, but it still put us in the Christmas Spirit! Julianne got to ride on Justin and Pops' shoulders for a long time on the way back to the car. She thought it was sooo much fun! Especially when Pops would run around in circles and Daddy would duck under tree branches :). Jacob walked almost the whole time and was EXHAUSTED by the time we got home!

I had every intention of sending out Chrismas cards this year. It just never made it onto my priority list :) Here is what you WOULD have recieved in the mail...Merry Christmas from the Patterson's!!

Sleepy girl

Julianne falls asleep in her high chair on most days. I just can't seem to feed her early enough! We had lunch today at 11:20am and she still started nodding off. I managed to prop the camera up on the counter to record her - Jacob couldn't stop laughing at her! Watching the video made me giggle, too!

New BlogShop

Hi Everyone! I just started an online "store" for some of the things that I have been making - http://kristensfaves.blogspot.com
Go check it out!!