funny (to me)

This is probably only funny or amusing to me, but I'm posting it because I want to remember it.  Yesterday, when I got home from school, I quickly changed out of my school clothes and into my pajamas even though it was only 5:00 because that is how the Jacobs family rolls!  I made a dash to the chair because if Carter sees you standing he starts screaming and wants to be held.  Unfortunately, I was not quick enough!  I had been caught!  And, the screaming began.  Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a bag of veggie sticks sitting on the floor (probably left there from a similar incident). I grabbed it and held one out to Carter.  He crawled toward me screaming mad because I hadn't picked him up, pulled up on the chair, stopped crying, smiled, swung his leg up, and pulled himself on the chair.  (He has never done that before.)  He sat beside me as happy as could be snacking on veggie sticks.  I have only one word: BIPOLAR.

Grace must of been tired of drinking her capri suns at room temperature because when I opened the frig to start dinner last night, this is what I saw.  They were lined up and stuck in every random spot in the frig.  I have only one word: INDEPENDENT.

I LOVE them both so much, but these two kiddos are so different!

Happy Groundhog Day!

art party {part 2}

**WARNING: picture overload**

Grace had been looking forward to her art party for a long time and the day finally arrived!  She had so much fun...she loved having all of her friends and family over and eating cake!  

Once all the kids got there, they put on their art smocks (that the awesome Steph made) and got to work painting their canvas.  

I think they had fun being little artists and their art was unique and special just like each of them!

Isabelle

Lily

Tripp

Aubrey

Andrew

The Birthday Girl

Next, the kids ate a little snack.

Carter was excited that all the food and drinks were on his level...I'm not sure how many plates he ate off of or how many Capri Suns he sucked down!

Then the chaos started...gift time!

These kids knew what to do and needed absolutely no help from me...all I could see were the backs of heads and gift wrap flying!

Finally, it was time to eat cake!

Happy Birthday, Sweet Girl!

Make a wish!

And take a bite!  Wait, what?  Oh no!  She did not just do that!?!  Ha!  Oh, well!

Awesomeness!!!

"Hey, Momma, take a picture of this."

The cake tasted just as good as it looked!

Even Carter thought so!

Note to self:  Do not leave your one year old alone with your dad when there is birthday cake around unless you enjoy rocking a screaming baby with a tummy ache all night and changing colorful poopy diapers. (at least dad took his shirt off)

Since he was already undressed, the babies painted their canvas!

Everything was going well...at first...Carter was painting beautifully...

...Charlie was being creative...

...then he was DONE but, not before he tried to eat the paint...

...and Charlie found a new canvas to paint...his leg!  So, we threw (literally) them in the tub!

We had a fun, messy, creative day celebrating our sweet girl!!!

You can read about the party details here.

art party {part 1}

We had Grace's 4th birthday party this weekend...finally.  Grace has been waiting a whole month for her art party!  When she woke up on Saturday morning, she was so excited!  She sounded like an entire herd of elephants...just running through the house!

I made the invitations with my silhoutte.

Welcome to the party!

This balloon wreath hung on the front door.  Steph made it for Charlie's birthday and I just changed out the ribbon and sign and it was perfect for Grace's party too!

We decorated with all the colors of the rainbow...Grace keeps telling me that she doesn't like pink anymore that she only likes the colors of the rainbows.  I wonder how long that will last?

This was a pretty simple party to decorate.  I used Grace's art supplies and some jars.  I only had to buy some streamers and a couple of sheets of scrapbook paper.  

the food table for the starving artists...rainbow colored food (of course)

the cake table...rainbow streamer banner and oh yeah, a rainbow cake!

Don't you love it?!?  The wonderful and awesome  Steph made it!  Didn't she do a great job?  I just want to stare at it all day!

the living room/art room

the kids got to paint their own canvas and they all did a great job (pics coming soon)

They also got to take home their very own personalized art smock!  (Yep, you guessed it Steph made those too!  Everyone should be so blessed to have a Steph in their lives!)

{come back later this week

for part 2}