Jude's a big boy!

That's right. As of Friday night, Jude is pacifier-free. I took him to the store to pick out a toy to trade for his paci. He picked out these cute little Woody and Buzz LightYear figures. When we got home, he threw his paci in the trash. He's been going to sleep pretty well at night without it. No crying, just asking for his paci. Nap time, he has a harder time. I'm pretty sure it's because at night he has Carter with him to keep him company but at nap time he's all alone. But still, all things considered, he's doing really amazing.
Now here's the pictures I took this morning of him with his new toys. The first one is not so bad, just no smile.

Then he got scared of the flash. I kept telling him to open his eyes and this is what I got.

And this

So I turned the flash off, but he didn't believe me the first time.

Then he was ok but still no smile. And it's a little blurry with no flash

And he's done.

Good job Jude! You're a big boy!

Now for that potty-training thing.....

The last couple months

Life has been crazy around here! I know my other blog is probably more interesting right now, but here's some pictures I wanted to share. (Nevermind the hole in my armpit (kinda embarrassing) or the Obama chia pet in the background.) My sweet Carter giving me a kiss. I love him.

A lot of our time is spent like this, at the hospital clinic. Not very fun, but it must be done.

Little Vienna Dear is almost 2 months old already!!! She is such a little sweetie.

I can't believe how old she's looking! She is still pretty tiny, but her face just looks so mature.

I love the look she's giving my mom in this one.

She LOVES her daddy! It's really cute to watch them together. She just lights up when he comes near her.

Little Angel

Jude discovered he can touch his nose with his tongue.

Jude loves to share things with Vienna. It's very cute. These are his car stickers all over her.

Uncle Jerry has made several appearances. He brought this helicopter to show the boys. They love when he comes to visit!

She smiles all the time now. So fun!

Jude's crazy

I love this picture. Carter LOVES Vienna so much. I'm sure they were best friends in heaven.

Jude hugging Grandma goodbye.

He's always trying to help her. Jude really loves her and tries to help her all the time too. They are both such sweeties.

I can't believe she's big enough to sit in this swing already!

Jude had a little run-in with our door. He went running out of our bedroom one morning while it was still dark and the door was only partly open. He ran straight into it.

Whenever I lay Vienna down on her stomach like this, the boys lay down and start chanting, "tummy time, tummy time!"

I love her hair! She is just so cute, I can't get over it.
Sorry for the picture overload. I don't have the energy to separate them all into different posts and such so I just plopped them all here for you to enjoy.

One month old!

Wowzers, time is just flying by. Vienna is a month old already!! She's our little angel baby. She has been so amazingly good her entire life :) But especially this last week, spending so much time in the hospital. She is so content and still sleeps a lot. A week ago, she smiled at me for the first time! She is just such a happy baby, we are seeing smiles more and more. She's been getting all sorts of attention from all the doctors and nurses. They loved to come ooh and aah over her and tell us how pretty she is. Like we don't already know that. In a nutshell, she's amazing and we love her so much.

I tried to capture a smile. You know how those first smiles are.... very elusive. And sorry about the hairy legs in the background. No, they're NOT mine.

We got kinda bored at the hospital...

She's such a sweetheart.

I can't think of an adequate title for this post so it will remain title-less. Late Thursday night, Carter was diagnosed with leukemia. He's been in the hospital ever since and has started chemotherapy. Everything's going well so far. I've started another blog for updates and to tell Carter's story to all interested. Feel free to check it out, I plan on updating it often.

http://cartersmightyfight.blogspot.com/

Merry Christmas!!

Carter and Jude each opened the gifts they had picked out for each other on Christmas Eve. Carter got a transformer from Jude and Jude got a Lightening McQueen that changes colors in water from Carter. Carter likes his transformer alright but they fought over the car all night.

(and who's the lame family that didn't decorate their Christmas tree?? Oh yeah, that was us.)

This is Jude showing Daddy his new car.

Christmas was so fun this year! Grandpa Harris and Aunt April came to spend the Holiday with us. The boys loved opening all their gifts. After opening each one, they wanted to stop and play with it. That was fine with me because it made the gift-opening last a little longer, which is always good. We didn't even get to the stockings until about noon! Carter loves trains and he cried when we "didn't buy" this train set for him about a month ago. He was very excited that Santa brought it to him.

This boy is a puzzle whiz. He is so good at them! I was thinking we should've given him some more for Christmas but Grandma and Grandpa were on top of it!

As you may remember, Jude loves cars. We have a great video of him opening these cars and doing a happy dance while yelling, "CARS CARS CARS!!!" Pretty dang cute.

And the new car track for all those cars.

Vienna just loved her first Christmas :)

Jude got some new animal magnets. I know I haven't posted much about our new house so here's another little glimpse. Before we painted the boys room, we put a magnetic paint on the wall underneath their window. After about three coats you just paint over it with your wall color. It's pretty cool and the boys love it. The only problem is that the heater vent in the floor is right below it and Jude thinks it's a great game to put things down there. So hopefully the magnets aren't his next victim. But if they are, at least they'll have some good company down at the bottom, wherever all the other stuff ended up. It's a good thing he's so cute....

AWWW!!

We hope you all had a great Christmas!

Grandma's visit

My mom is the best. Ever. She came for about 10 days after Vienna was born to help out. We all LOVED having her here and missed Grandpa. And now we're missing both of them.

Carter loves to be on the counter when I'm cooking or cleaning. My mom was nice enough to let him up there and "help" her. I think he was fishing in the dishwater in this picture.

Look how happy Jude was to be playing with Grandma.

She took the boys on a lot of walks and bike rides. Even in the rain! What a trooper.

Outside on one of their walks.

They loved having Grandma read to them before bed.

She helped Carter make this reindeer by tracing his hands and foot for the antlers and face. He wanted it on the fridge and, as you can see, did not want it to fall off. You can hardly tell that it's a reindeer under all those magnets!

Carter took this picture of us on the day she left. Thanks again Mom! I don't know what we would've done without your help and support! We love you!!