The Bowling THREE

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Here comes Santa Claus

This year has been a lot of fun getting ready for Christmas. I think this is the first year Jack has really gotten into it and has really understook. He wrote a letter to Santa the other week and recieved one back just the other day in the mail and he was SOOOOOOOO excited. Jack thought it was so awesome that Santa knew that him and his daddy liked Michigan football and that he was obsessed with Toy Story 3 AND that he was a big brother to Brooke.

This year Jack and Brooke want to leave Santa some chicken nuggets, cookies and carrots. And maybe some lemonade. I will see if he will go for a glass of wine too in case Mrs. Claus comes along for the ride!! ;-)

Updates on the kiddos:

Well about 3 weeks ago we all had the stomach bug. Brooke and I never puked but the boys did. It was NOT fun. It was Jack's first experience EVER with the stomach flu and he was certainly traumatized by it. He wanted his "puke bucket" around for about a week after. Then that all turned into the upper respiratory stuff. I think Brooke and I had it the worst. Guess that's what we get for not puking huh?!!? Brooke ended up at the dr 3 times in one week. First time for ear and pink eye. Then 2 days later back because she was not getting better and wheezing. Diagnosed with bronchiolitis (RSV basically) and then back the next day because she is allergic to the meds they put her on. Then finally on Friday we tried out the chiropractor with her. Then last week I got it. Needless to say it sounds like a TB ward at our house with all the left over coughing going on!!!!!!!!

Brooke is now about 22lbs and Jack is 44 lbs. It's so crazy how they grow so fast.

New things that Brooke is doing: CRAWLING fast everywhere. Pulling to stand. Cruising the couches. Eating everything in sight. Pulling Christmas ornaments off the tree and dancing.

New things that Jack is doing: Writing ALL his letters...upper and lowercase, all numbers, spelling 3 letter words and some 4 letter words. He is WAY into art stuff right now and toy story. LOVES LOVES LOVES to dance and is learning lots of new Christmas songs everyday. He sat with my mom's pastor at their church the other day and together they were singing "jingle bells, batman smells......." Gotta love em'!!!!

That's about it for now!!!!!

love

from the BOWLING'S

Sunday, November 7, 2010

What have our kiddos been up to????

Do these faces say it all??!?!?!

WOW!!!! Brooke was one busy chica this weekend.

First she started crawling on all fours on Friday and by Sunday she figured out that there were different rooms in the house she could get too all on her own

Saturday she figured out how to stand up in her bed (we had to lower the mattress)

Sunday she learned how to stand up at the fireplace (good things is a little padded on the corners)

Sunday....she FINALLY cut a tooth....just a teeny tiny part of it!!!

She will be 9 months old this coming weekend. HOW DID THE HAPPEN?!?!!?

(She was 21 lbs at her dr appt last week for an ear infection.)

JACK WAS 21 lbs at 20 months old. CRAZY!!!!!!!!

And speaking of Jack...he is one smart cookie.

He is SOOOO into spelling and writing and reading right now it's nutso. He can spell so many things:

Lindsay, Matt, Mimi, Dad, Mom, Brooke, Bowling, water, dog, cat, hat, van, toy story, klein, Jaime, Eva, Ava, Raj, Zoey, Kira (all the kids in his class at school).

He can read words in books like dog, cat, hat, car.

He is just so awesome. He loves to play school and we do it often. I am afraid kindergarden will be borning to him. Too bad he couldn't have gone this past fall. And speaking of fall..........he is going to be 5 in 3 weeks. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!?!?!?

HOLY COW!!! TIME FLIES WHEN YOU ARE HAVING FUN!!!!