Jamal is 6 months old!

Jamal is 6 months old today! So what has he been up to?



Well..
He drinks 6 ounce bottles
3 jars of baby food a day
He eats Gerber star puffs and mum mum rusk crackers
He has also tried real green beans and mashed potatoes
Jamal still sleeps through the night
Takes 2 naps a day
Loves playing with all his new toys!
He can sit up unassisted for a little while but we also use the boppy pillow to give him extra support
He can roll with a little help
Jamal scoots around his crib. He's never facing the same direction as when we put him down for bed.
He loves to be outside and sits quietly in his stroller.
He can now hold a pacifier in his mouth
He can say "mama" but only when he's crying for a bottle
Jamal makes the cutest little clucking noise.
and he loves the attention he gets from his brothers




Tomorrow is Ronde's 3rd Birthday. Well he is actually born on a leap year so his birthday is February 29th. But since he officially turns 3 years old on March 1st this year, that's when we will celebrate it. So I will have a bunch of updates soon!

I love my boys

After the kids are in bed every night...I always start to miss their little faces and can't wait till morning to see them. Jamal has grown so fast. I can hardly believe he will be 6 months old at the end of the month. Ronde is turning 3 on the "29th" but we are celebrating it on Saturday the 26th. In case you forgot, he's my leap year baby.
My Nikon camera broke. Thankfully I have a 3 year warranty and just need to send it in the mail to have it fixed. That is mainly the reason I haven't been keeping up with my blog :( I found a really great photographer out here for family portraits. I went and bought all of our outfits for the portraits and then the photographer emailed me saying she doesn't have an appointment available till July 30th!!! That's crazy! So I will be buying a tripod and taking our own family portraits!




The most perfect little lips and eyebrows!


Jamal can say "mama" now but he'll only do it when he's crying..ha! AJ had been super sick with a stomach virus for nearly a week. Poor baby just kept throwing up every night and would hardly eat anything. He's better now and back to his normal self. He won't stop eating!

A day at the park and the house

Today was in the 60's but still a little windy. Andre came up with the idea of taking the boys to the park so they could ride their bikes. Once we got to the park, we realized that AJ's bike tires were low on air so it made it too difficult to ride his bike. We took them the the playground instead. The boys enjoyed running through whatever snow was left on the ground. Ronde was being sweet and pushed Jamal and I on the swing. Jamal was so content being held in my arms and as soon as I put him back in his stroller, he would cry.

On a side note...we decided to back out of the house contract because we found out that the neighborhood was high crime. We called base housing and put our names on the waiting list and found out that we are number 11 in line for a house. I think this will work out better for us because I don't want to buy a house in Oklahoma and go through the trouble of selling it in a few years. The market is not looking good out here.

Jamal's First Snow

The snow is melting fast and I realized that I haven't gotten one picture of Jamal out in the snow. We took all the boys outside to build snowmen and throw snowballs. We are expecting more snow tomorrow!

Show Us Your Life - What I feed my kids

Kelly's Korner - Show us your life, this weeks it's what you feed your kids. I wanted to share what my boys eat around here and some random pictures.

Breakfast - Oatmeal, healthy cereal like frosted mini wheats or cheerios, pancakes (sometimes I make blueberry pancakes), smokey sausages, pigs in a blanket, grits, bacon, smoothies, and eggs

Lunch - AJ is obsessed with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He wants them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I will only let him eat it for lunch though. My boys only eat whole grain bread. They eat string cheese, crackers, bananas, apples, macaroni and cheese, Spaghetti O's, drinkable yogurt, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, left over dinners, and pizza. I know, healthy right..ha!

(AJ's chore..putting the trash bag in the trash can)

Dinner - I usually don't mind what the kids eat for lunch because I know they always eat a healthy breakfast and dinner. We make a lot of chicken in all sorts of ways. We eat curry chicken at least once a week, because it's cheap, with carrots, potatoes, and tomatoes in it with rice or dumplings. Recently I've cooked chicken and broccoli stir fry (Chinese style) with rice, Chicken enchiladas, pork chops with mashed potatoes or fried potatoes and cabbage, my boys love couscous, and I also steam a mix of veggies then stir fry them in olive oil and fresh garlic..so good!!

More snow pics

I'm loving this snow. The kids are too! Every time we go outside to play in it, someone asks Andre if he could help push the car or truck out of the snow. He's helped 4 neighbors getting their cars unstuck and pushing them down the road. What a work out!




Andre was skating down the sidewalk...haha!

Out in the snow we go!

Snowed In

So we are in the middle of our first blizzard this winter. I've never seen so much snow in my life! I do wish I was back in Hawaii or Florida at this point! Last night, I had to send my hubby to Walmart at midnight to stock up on diapers, formula, and food because I didn't think we would be able to make it out the next morning. Boy was I right, we are snowed in! It's 9 degrees and super windy! Andre picked up Jamal a new exersaucer. I was up at 2am putting it together so he would have it to play in the next morning. That's love..haha! So here he is playing in it..

These are some random photos from this weekend...Jamal always squints in the pictures because my flash is so bright on my camera..




My boys are so goofy!