Jake's First Week of School

Jake's first week of school had a few ups and a few downs.  When I first dropped him off on Monday I was running a little bit late so I was in a hurry.  I left him in the room crying his eyes out.  It killed me but I knew I was only going to be a few feet away.  For those of you that don't know, Jake gets to go to school with me this year.  We have a really cool program called Pegasus for 3 & 4 year old teachers' kids. So he's right down the hall from me all day long.  I was curious as to how it would be when he saw me in the hall or cafeteria or somewhere and not be able to come with me.  To my surprise, he does just fine.  He says hi to me and then gets back to what he is supposed to do.  I saw him yesterday walking down the hall with his hands behind his back and a "bubble" in his mouth.  (you fellow teachers will appreciate that) It was the cutest thing ever.  I guess I'm gonna have to start carrying around a camera everytime I leave my room :)  

There were some mornings when he was real excited about going to school and there were others when he wanted to go to school but to Mommy's classroom.  There were more times than not that he threw a fit with I picked him up.  He did NOT want to leave.  He was too "busy making something." It did a little number on me but I was glad that he enjoyed his class.  Yesterday, when I poked my head in on nap time Mrs. Granger said that Jake wanted a pillow for nap time.  They had been giving him this pillow b/c he said it was his.  It wasn't...Jake lied.   It was Cody's, so they gave it back to him and Jake was very upset.  So Grammy will be taking him to Wal-Mart to get a pillow for school (Mom and Dad are leaving for Austin for Luke's 30th :))  Thanks Grammy!!!

Here is Jake the first day of school when I picked him up. I dropped him off crying and picked him up smiling..."It's a Beautiful Day" 

Jake with his teacher Mrs. Granger.  She is the best and loves those kiddos like her own.

Mrs. Granger, Jake and Ms. Lisa

Ms. Lisa always teases that she's going to take Jake home with her...Jake agrees. 

Happy 60th PAPA!!

Our Papa turned 60 this past weekend and we had a SURPRISE party for him at the bay.  I tell you what...it is sooo hard to keep an exciting secret from someone when you're with them ALL day.  I think Mom and I put our foot in our mouth more then once but luckly Dad wasn't paying too much attention to us :) 

 We had both of his brothers (one from Dallas and the other from Galveston) bring their families to the bay Friday night and meet us at Trans (Dad's favorite Firday night dinner spot).  It worked out perfect...and I think it took Dad a few minutes to register who he was actually seeing.  Another GREAT surprise was that Julie flew in from North Carolina and meet us there too.  We only get to see her a few times a year, so it was VERY nice weekend. 

Jake sporting Papa's "60" glasses.

Luke and Julie on Dad's Birthday Present from his family

Jake's helping Papa blow out his 60 candles.

Now he's licking EVERY one of them

Headed to shell beach for the first time this summer.

Papa and his 2 favorite people riding in his new golfcart

Miller, Jake and Uncle "Awesome"

"Best Friends"

A special thanks to all the Leslie's for coming from all over TX to celebrate Dad's Birthday.  Thanks to Aunt Mary and Uncle Danger for joining in the surprise.  And thanks to all Dad's friends for making this past weekend so special. 

HNMS at Sugar Land

Last Saturday we took Jake to the Natural Museum of Science right here in Sugar Land.  I really didn't know what to expect because it's pretty new and kinda small.  It turned out to be great and perfect for Jake.  Considering we were there on a Saturday morning (11ish), we had the museum pretty much to ourselves.  There were just a handful of other people there so we got to do whatever we wanted without any lines. 

Jake is really into things that are real and fake. 

 He told me, "Don't worry Mom, he's not real.  He won't eat you!"

Do you see the frog in the aquarium?

Jake is mixing colors to make new colors.  He thought that was the "coolest thing ever!!"

Triceritops was a little scary

Our very own paleontologist!!

"It taste like butterfly...YUM!!!"

Chuck E. Cheese

I know , know!!  Jake is having his 3rd birthday (in a few weeks) at Chuck E Cheese but two of his girlfriends (Adde and Clare) came to town and he wanted to spend some quality time at CEC with them before the big party.

This is how I found him right before we left..."Can you see, you may need to scoot at little closer!"

Hold on tight girls, this is gonna be a rough ride. 

(It actually was kinda scary, Brit and I were looking for seatbelts and the kids were looking for a way out.)

He is NOT real, Mom??

"This is such a beautiful place!"

Here are the girls eating their 3rd or 4th piece of pizza while Jake only had 1 or 2 bites.  They are such good eaters!

Dancing and watching himself on the TV.

Adde and Clare are joining him.."Oh yes, he can handle two at a time."

Go Speed Racer!!

Jake with his scary little friends...Tellytubbies are a little freaky!

Thanks Adde and Clare for spending the day with me...see you at YOUR birthday party!

One for You and One for Me!!

We had our annual Yockey family weekend at the bay and as you can see we had a few unexpected guests. (the frogs) Trey and I try to get Cheryl, Dustin and Alex down to the bay at least once every summer.  This year is was a little bitter-sweet.  Although we had a really nice time, we were missing one of our favorite people...our PeePaw.  We miss him everyday.  Especially when we do the things that we used to do with him. 

Look Mommy, I found TWO frogs!

One for you and One for me!!!!

Look, they can do a balancing trick.

Jake found another, now he has 3!!

Helping Nana make homemade vanilla icecream.  Is it ready yet?  Is is ready yet?

Helping Papa clean the crabs for dinner.

I'll take this one, it's BIG!!!

North Carolina or BUST!!!

Last week I finally made it out to see Julie (after almost 4 years) and had a BLAST.  I definitely have to make it back more sooner than later.  She lives in a cute, little town 20 minutes from the beach, Wilmington.  How lucky is she?  And it's not the Gulf Coast beach that we're used to down here.  It's the Atlantic coastline which is absolutely beautiful.  The sights, the smell, the taste is all completely different but wonderful.  My sister Kendra and cousin Meredith also went so it was a kid free, husband free weekend and it was REALLY nice. 

We we're having so much fun that I didn't stop to take many pictures so here are a few.

Here we are feeding the seagulls.  They will eat right out of your hand and try to take your fingers with the cheetos!

There were so many of them and YES! we had a few items that were pooped on but luckly not any of us.

Tiki Hut for dinner after a long day at the beach!!

Thanks Julie for such a wonderful weekend. 

We had a blast and can't wait to do it again!

4th of July

We headed to the bay for the 4th of July weekend.  We were going down there on Thursday but decided to hang back until Friday morning because of Alex. Good thing because it rained all day Thursday and off and on all day on Friday but the rest of the weekend was beautifully HOT. There were so many kiddos down there that I think at one time I counted 11 kids playing on our waterslide.  Everyone but Jake had a blast on the slide.  Don't know why, but he wanted to do anything but play with his friends.  Why is it that he will play, play, play all day long and as soon as friends come over he wants nothing to do with it?  Don't tell me he's gonna be one of those kids who only hangs out with adults.  Maybe he needs a little sister or brother?? :)   

Here's Jake avoiding the waterslide.

Our new little bay neighbor Owen...aka, Mr. Personality!!!

Okay so maybe he finally ventured over to the slide.

 (with his best bud "Wheel" and Owen's sister Clare)

Ty (Audra and Doug's oldest) could not get enough.  His Daddy would throw him up to the top and he never stopped smiling. 

I'll have this bowl of marshmellows...oh, and this one too.

Ty and Jake checking the crab traps with Ty's Daddy! How many??? 9, 10, 13, 20....

Jake fishing for Nemo off the pier.

Finally time for bath!

Jake, Ty and Coy (Ty's little brother)

Jake and Miller taking their annual 4th of July picture in their bay chairs!

Have you ever seen a more precious face??

Jake and Miller with their Papa taking a ride!!