2 Year Check-Up

Jeremy making silly faces at himself in the mirror

Boys were sick earlier this year, for often and on for most this year, so our 2 year check-up is a couple months late. Boys are looking good though!

Quick Stats
Jeremy: Height 38.25" (100th percentile) - Weight 32lbs 8oz (90th percentile)
Jordan: Height 38.50" (110th percentile) - Weight 31lbs 6oz (80th percentile)

We think they were a little off with the height measurement for one of the boys. We think Jeremy is just a smidge taller, don't think Jordan is the taller one. Any who, boys did really well. Jeremy got checked out first, heartbeat, reflexes (he was a little tense and took a while to get a response) and then Doc Enders shined her light in his ears to see his choo-choo train. He thought that was just terrific. After that, Jordan couldn't sit still and had a hard time waiting for his turn and wanting her to see the choo-choo train in his head too. After the ears, Jeremy had to open up his mouth really wide so Doc could take a peek. He still has 2 molars that need to come out.

Jordan has easy access to his diaper now

Jordan finally got his turn and was so happy. After she checked out his choo-choo and he opened up his mouth on his own. He has a couple molars waiting to come out as well. After that doc gave them a couple Thomas the Train stickers and that just made their day. At this point we'd been in the room for a long time, so the boys were starting to get bored. Thats when we whupped out the iPhones. 3G connection was horrible, so no Netflix, but plenty of kids games available while we wait for the difficult part: blood drawn and shots, 3 shots to be exact! Last time Jordan didn't cry when getting his blood drawn. This time was another piece of cake. Told him what they were going to do and he just watched them poke him, didn't even flinch. Then I showed him how the vial was filling up and told him that it was his blood coming out of his arm. Then they swapped and filled up a second vial and he was done. Jeremy was next, he was still playing on the iPhone while they drew blood, but after a second started watching the blood coming out too and did not cry. The 3 techs in the room were blown away and could not stop gushing over how great they did, they never had 2 year olds do as good as these guys (daddy is pretty proud of his boys).

Then the world as we knew it came crashing down. Having blood taken out is cool, have a big needle stuck in the meat of your thigh and hot burning lava injected is a whole other story. The tech did really good though, she got all 3 shots in super fast and covered with band-aids. But the damage was done. You could tell by their cry's that it was really painful. Jeremy couldn't even cry for like 5 seconds...he was in shock just trying to breathe enough to be able to let out a cry. They are all good now and hopefully won't get any fevers.

The blood is being tested for an old iron deficiency problem that shouldn't be a problem anymore and for food allergies.

JAG Vids: February 2011

Alrighty, a couple more videos of the boys. Got one of each boy for you!

Earlier last month Jordan was playing with the spray bottle Momma uses to wet their hair and comb it. We was so happy to figure out how to spray water...even if it was pointed at his own face!




About a week ago, Jeremy figured out how to be sad any time he wants to. We were all out in the backyard putting up Poppi's birdhouse in the tree. Holly went back in to change Jeremy's diaper and he just start fake crying on his own.



Jeremy has always worked hard on making faces and noises, even when no one is watching. Trip down memory lane...



and...

JAG Vids

These were uploaded to youtube a while back. In case you haven't seen them yet, here they are.

This first one is Jeremy rocking out on the new axe he got for his birhtday.


One of the boys favorite cartoons is the Mickey Mouse clubhouse cartoon. At the end of the show they always do the "hotdog dance" and dance around. Goofy has the best dance of them all...very technical dance. His musicality is unrivaled by any other cartoon. Jordan does his best impression here.


Finally, this video is from Syd's and Nick's birthday. A set of twins Holly took care of for a long time. They are pretty big kids now and their party was at a gymnastics place. I gotta say, I probably had just as much fun as any other kid there. Poor Jeremy was feeling yucky that day and just hung on to mom the whole time. Jordan was running wild though...

JAG 2nd Birthday

Happy birthday boys! To kick off the beginning of the year we took the boys back for some pro pictures. There are some pretty nice shots of the boys. They did really well listening to the nice camera lady and following directions.

There is a link to all the pictures down below. We would like to be able to order prints for family...but it got expensive quick. Kodak Gallery does a good job if you want to order from them. If you want any of the digital images, just let me know.

Two Sundays ago, the 23rd, we had a small family birthday party. The boys have been big on choo choo trains, so Holly made a them a choo choo train cake. They each also got their own engine car piece of cake to chow down on. Jeremy was trying to eat and keep his hands clean at the same time, poor little guy had a slow start but caught up quick. Jordan wasted no time diving in face first.

After quick it was show time, time to unwrap gifts. We saved the best for last. Second to last gift were construction hats...to go with the Handy Manny tool box with dancing tools! As expected, they were and still are a hit. Check out our Kodak Gallery photo albums. This first album has the professional pics, check it out HERE. Pics from their birthday party can be found HERE.

And last but not least...some videos! First video is from their birthday party eating their cake. The second video is of them opening all their presents. The last video is from the 26th, their actual birthday when they got cookies delivered from Tiff's! The awesome Jessi and Adam sent them over for them.

Hallelujah! What A Savior

Have I got the best Christmas presents for y'all! You don't even have to get me anything in return because thats just the way I roll. The Austin Stone is going through a series with the same title as this post. Check it out here: http://www.austinstone.org/resources/sermons/category/hallelujah_what_a_savior/
Learn what "hallelujah", how the three shepherds must have felt and about the one place in the bible where the word hallelujah is used and where you specifically might be mentioned in the bible. Trust me, this is a great series.

One of our worship leaders, Aaron Ivey, also teamed up with some of the pastors and staff and came up with a new Christmas worship song that is simply amazing. They have also made it free for download on the church website: http://files.austinstone.org/audio/mp3/Hallelujah,_What_A_Savior.zip
It is a zip file with 2 mp3s (original and acoustic version). If you feel like it, you can also get it HERE and leave a tip (or not, still free) for the artist. Finally, you can also get it from the artist's website here: http://aaronivey.com/
Either way, you won't be disappointed.


And last but not least...the History of Redemption. I could tell you about it, but there is already a great website that'll do the trick. Check it out: http://www.historyofredemption.org/
While you are there, don't miss the link to watch the sermon...it's God's story, a full sermon/story of the bible from cover to cover straight from scripture. I've said too much already, click the link and give yourself just a little time to watch/hear an amazing story. By the way, if you are still looking for a last minute gift, the History of Redemption would be prefect! Great story, great art and it comes with a disc to help memorize the scripture.

Merry Christmas!