Hurry… Before December Comes!!!

We had a GREAT Thanksgiving!!! Tons of food (3 turkeys and a ham!), awesome friends, and of course, spending time with my incredible family! My camera battery died half way through the day but I did manage to get a few good pictures. We were so lucky that Jacob was able to make it home from training in time. This was our first Thanksgiving together since Korbin was born! And will be our last until 2011!


We also decorated for Christmas! Just to help get into the spirit of things (since we’ll be in Arizona the week before and after Christmas). I made my first Advent Calendar (I'm kinda cheating since Korbin is only 2 1/2 so he'll just peel the days off instead of having something to do each day), Jacob put up and decorated the tree, and Korbin colored snowmen, gingerbread men & Christmas trees. We also colored on & cut coffee filters to make snowflakes that we hung to the ceiling but I don’t have a picture of that. Its so fun now that Korbin sort of understands what is going on!

From the mouth of babes...

Or in my case, babe. I realized last night that Korbin has a few words or phrases that he seemed to pick up from who knows where.

~"Always": While throwing a fit about putting his jammies on he said, "But I ALWAYS wear my pajamas" or when I was putting his diaper on, "I ALWAYS poop on the potty!" (Which, unfortunately, isn't true lately.)

~"Friend": He says, "Here's my friend shirt/Uncle Tyler/Daddy/etc. Talk to him." I think he got this from the Disney channel. The monkey puppets Ooh and Aah say, "Our friends...."

~"So": As in, "I am SO sorry, mommy" for the silliest things! "So" came from me :( I smashed his fingers in the car door last week and I kept saying, "I'm SO sorry baby!"

~And everyone close to him knows this one... "What you're doing?" every 5 minutes! This one came about when Tyler & I were moving stuff from Az to Co. 16+ hours in a truck with a 2 year old and a dead DVD player!

It's A......

GIRL!!!!!

Today I found out that Jacob and I are having a girl! Unfortunately the ultrasound tech wasn't very nice and didn't give me any good pictures. Oh well. Like my mom said, the real thing is better.

Jacob has been in California since October 29th and unreachable since November 5th, so he doesn't know yet! Hopefully I'll get to talk to him this week and he'll be home some time next week. But nothing is ever what they say with the Army. A tough fact to get used to. Korbin is missing his daddy like crazy! He asks almost every day where daddy is. :( I don't know how he's going to handle deployment. How do you explain that to a toddler?

Santa?!?! Already?

Mr. Potato Head pieces make a great mask!

Harmonica

This is a video of Korbin playing the harmonica for Baby J!!! So cute!!!

Just my cute little boy!

I LOVE THIS GUY!!!