Fun Sunday Evening

Life is going well for us here. Rachel is growing and getting smarter by the second and she'll be the first to tell you shes a genius. Jaki is starting to sleep for longer periods of time. I had a wonderful surprise one night this week when I woke up after she had been asleep for 7 hours! Since then shes had a couple 5-in-a-rowers, but no more 7's yet. She is such a wonderful baby! Jeff is still quite busy with his homework, but still finds time to hold and play with Jaki and wrestle Rachel (her very favorite thing). I am just having fun with my girls!


First of all, here is Jaki's close-up for Celeste. Isn't she so dang cute?





Hanging out with Aunt Jeanae. She came over and brought ice cream Sunday night. We love it when she comes over!








Rachel lined up all of her "friends" and posed for this picture





Rachel wanted to get out my guitars. She had quite a bit of fun playing them
and especially learning how to say ukulele




Isn't she a natural? She really does know it is a violin, she just forgets and calls it a guitar every now and then. It would probably help her remember a little better if I would play it more often.

Halloween fun

It seems I have some more time, so here is a little of our Halloween.

Rachel loved carving pumpkins, but it actually took quite a bit of talking into to get her to put her hand inside and get the guts out.

It seems I've let myself go since having two kids-haha, just kidding. Just before our trunk-or-treat party I realized I didn't have any halloween candy, so I ran to the store and found these teeth and scars so that I wouldn't have to go to the halloween party naked.

Rachel was a beaver for Halloween. Jaki was a banana, but didn't go trick-or-treating so I never got a picture of her in the costume. I'll have to put her back in the costume and take a picture just to show how cute she was.

So this one isn't Halloween, but here is a picture of Jaki with Grandpa Charlie. He and Grandpa Ron came up for the week/weeks and it has been fun to have them with us.

Again, not Halloween, but Jaki just had such a cute pose last night and it shows off her cute cheeks so well that I had to take a picture of it.

One month old!

So Jaki is sleeping and Rachel is watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (her very favorite show) so I thought I might try to post some more pictures to let you see how the Larson household is doing.

As you can see from my title, Jaki is now one month old! I can't believe how fast the time has flown by. She has grown so much! Here is a little of what we have been up to...

Poor Jeff was so busy the week we brought Jaki home. He had 6 tests within a week's period of time, and his tests involve major study sessions. He works so dang hard at school. This semester is supposed to be the busiest one of the program. We sure hope that is true, because I don't know if he, I, or the girls would be able to take anything harder. Between being treasurer of our HOA, school, working on a Mini-Baja team at school (designing and building a car-of-sorts), school, work, and school - oh yeah, and homework, he has very little free time. This picture is probably one of the 5 hours of sleep he got during that first week with Jaki home.

I love this picture! Rachel has reacted a lot better to Jaki invading her space than I thought she would. She loves to give her kisses and snuggle her and anytime I lay Jaki on the couch to sleep Rachel wants to lay by her. It often wakes Jaki up, making me a little frustrated, but I hope I'm not keeping her from loving her sister too much. It seems that since Jaki has been home Rachel has grown so much. She talks so much more now! I was afraid her potty-training would take a step backwards, but she actually has been doing quite well. In fact, now she will tell me she needs to go pee, I tell her to go get on the toilet, and then a minute or two later she just tells me "Momma, I'm ready for wipe." It has been quite nice. Rachel has missed the attention she used to get from me, but so far we are doing well and the more practice we get the better we do.

The week after my mom left Ron, Matt and Debbie came up and stayed with us for a few days. It was sure fun to have them here and Rachel loved the attention they gave to her.

Grandma Debbie and the girls. I thought I had gotten pictures of Matt with his nieces, but I guess I didn't. We'll have to get those pictures at Thanksgiving time.

If Jaki keeps sleeping I'll do another post about Halloween, but we'll just have to see if that happens or not.