I am so proud of Luis! He has lost 10 pounds so far. He has been working out really hard and dieting for about 3 weeks... since the first home interview when we realized training might be closer than we thought!

Funny Story! Jackson was in the bath and I was sitting there with Jake in my lap. Jackson was throwing his rubber duckie up in the air and letting it splash in the water. Jake loves watching Jackson and thinks he is pretty funny. Well, Jackson threw the duck against the wall and it bounced off and hit him in the forehead. Jake started cracking up! How does he know at 5 months that that is funnier than the duck landing in the water? Jackson loved having Jake laugh so hard so he kept throwing the duck at the wall and letting it hit him! It was hilarious and Jake thought it was SO funny! I wish I got it on camera!

Here are some cute pictures of the boys!

Sickness and Injuries

Well, we have had a very eventful week! On Thursday, week before last, Jackson got sick and had a very figh fever (104.8). I was freaking out and took him to the clinic where the doctor said he had a throat infection. He got on antibiotics immediately and he was doing much better. But on Saturday, I GOT SICK! Not fun being sick with a fever and headache and muscle soreness and trying to take care of a toddler and baby! Anyways, Lew didn't think it was what Jackson had so I didn't go to the doctor. We decided it was a viral infection, not bacterial. On Wednesday this past week Jacob got sick with a fever and we were pretty sure he had what I had. Poor baby was so miserable. He is all better now and he didn't have to go to the doctor either, but we did have a horrible night with almost NO sleep.

Then last night Luis and Jackson were wrestling and Jackson fell and smacked his face on the tile and cut his lip. Now he has a swollen upper lip and he looks so sad. Then today at church he had 2 accidents and ended up barefoot in a pair of overalls that we found in the primary closet that were WAY too small. It was funny, I should have taken a picture! One of the young men opened the foyer door right into Jackson's foot and cut it open and it was all bloody. The poor thing just had a really bad day today!

Jacob at 5 months

He is so big! He loves to stand up! His eyes are half brown and half blue now. Isn't he just so cute!?

Final Haircut!

So this is the "fix" that we ended up with after my horrible haircut. I am very happy with it because I thought I was going to have to cut it even shorter, but Silvia's friend managed to save it!



Jacob fell asleep in his exersaucer! I was reading and Jackson was just playing and it was about 8pm, so I knew they were both tired. Jacob was getting fussy and I decided I would finish my chapter and then go make a bottle. Well I realized it had gotten quite and I looked up to see him sound asleep, sucking his thumb with his face smashed into the saucer! It was so cute, but sad!

Secret Service update... SURPRISE!

Well, I was shocked to get a phone call from my friend this morning. Her husband is the agent that has been helping Luis stay informed about this whole process. She frantically told me that the Secret Service has been trying to get ahold of Luis all weekend and is about to DROP his entire application because they can't get in touch! (Luis had no voicemails, by the way!) Apparently, they were pretty upset about it. So Luis immediately called in. They needed some additional references and info to complete his background check. So Luis got ready and went straight to his office to prepare the information. Almost right after he got there... Agent Rico, the agent from San Antonio that is running his background check, showed up at his office door! SURPRISE! They had told Luis to drop off the info at the local office at 2... but I guess the agent had another idea! Things turned out ok... they aren't dropping his application. In fact, they told him he will most likely be in training within the next 60 days! (If everything continues to go well!) We had a big scare... but it turned out ok. So tomorrow, agent Rico is coming by the house to meet me and he wants Silvia and Lew to be there too! I am so nervous! I think things will be ok... but he did say that of all the gov't agencies the Secret Service has the highest divorce rate... not appealing, but I think Luis and I are pretty strong, so I am not too concerned about that statistic. I'm sure it's because how often the agents are away from home.

So that's the update... exciting... I think the whole process is almost over! Wish us luck and keep us in your prayers!

So many things going on...

I'm on Luis' laptop so I am not going to organize the pictures to go with the explanations... you can figure it out! There are so many things going on, at least it feels that way, but now that I am sitting down writing this, I can't think of any!
Just want to say that Jackson is doing AMAZING with the potty training! We had a playgroup this morning at the fire station and the kids got a tour and they were able to get up on the truck and everything. Jackson and I stayed for about 10 minutes. He was crying and throwing a fit the whole time... so I took him home. I was bummed because I really thought he'd love it. He is talking a lot now... saying a bunch of words. He can say or has words for cracker, cookie, candy, car, owie, wow, poo poo and pee pee, please, mommy, milk, meow, moo, quack, honk honk and beep beep. I am probably forgetting some.
I tried feeding Jacob solid foods yesterday, as you can see from the messy face picture. He wasn't interested and kept pushing it out with his tongue. So I will try it in 2 weeks again. I am giving him rice cereal in his bottle though, and he seems to like that, he just isn't ready for spoon feeding. I am proud that I was able to wait til this weekend's memorial day sales to buy te high chair because I got 20% off! So Dad's gift card covered all of it!
Today was a great bday! We all went out for BBQ for lunch and then Silvia took me shopping and bought me a couple shirts. Any minute Lew is going to get home from work and we are going to eat cake and watch "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"... because he was shocked I had never seen it before! I got a disaster of a haircut. I brought a picture and somehow left with nothing like the picture... don't know how that happened. It looks ok when I straighten it... but it is obviously not what I wanted. My friend even noticed how bad it was! So the only option is to cut it short I think. So I am going to do that tomorrow and will post a picture then. I let my hair air dry and I couldn't help but laugh when I saw it... it reminded me of Mom and Elyse's hair in the 70's! Do you see it???