Ok, so here is the story. JC had been giving Drew kisses, it was so sweet. So I sent Jim to get the camera and try to get it on video to blog it. Well Drew decided to get silly as soon as the camera was brought out. Some may not find this all together that amusing but as the parents we simply saw the beauty in the fact that one day this will completely embarrass him. I can see myself now showing his friends and girlfriends all these horribly embarrassing videos of him. That will be justification for all the inappropriate things he has done or said that have embarrassed me! Call me mean or cynical if you want, but that is my silver lining!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Too Much Time Between Blogs
Well, as you can see it has been busy! I did not mean for this much time to pass before blogging again, so I have much to try to catch you up on!
First the good stuff!
Sunday we had a baby dedication service for JC and one other baby in the church. It was a very special day to Jim and I. I think perhaps even more so now that Drew is getting more and more close to making a decision to trust Christ as his personal Savior.
I wish we had gotten a better picture of all of us together, but I will try to make that happen during the holidays.
Christmas has arrived at the Mayos!!
I know some of you are saying it isn't even Thanksgiving yet. I realize that. Traditionally we have taken today, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, as our day to do the decorating. However this year Jim and I both just felt the need to get it done this weekend while we were home and had the free time. We had a good time getting it done and feel like now we can just relax through the Thanksgiving holidays. Only one ornament bit the dust this year in the process of putting the tree together. Last year one glass ball broke and one ornament received major damage and required a lot of super glue. This year the casualty was one glass ball. Drew just wants to help so badly that he get a bit anxious and doesn't wait for help.
Sunday afternoon Jim's mom was with us following the baby dedication at church. She was gracious and watched the kids while Jim and I got the outside decor put up.
Now for a weight loss update:
I have lost just about 3lbs shy of 40lbs since giving birth to JC!! I have officialy dropped 1 pant size and 2 shirt sizes. It has been incredible to buy clothes that are not in the woman's department of the store! I did purchase a couple of pair of slacks and some blouses for work. I hope to be too small for them soon, but I had to have a few things since one of my pair of dress slacks were no longer wearable due to the risk of them falling off!! I have also been able to dig out of my closet 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of khakis, 2 dresses, all that have been too small on me for years! Now I have the great challenge of the holidays before me but I am determined to continue to work hard and even if I put on a few pounds with the holiday eating I will work it off soon after the holiday.
So I think that will just about catch you up for now. I will try to post pics and stories from Thanksgiving next week. I am going to work on a funny Drew video here in a sec and I am hoping to have a video of Drew singing in church this Sunday, if he actually does it, we will see! Also JC has started giving kisses to us! So sweet and makes me cry, I hope to get that on video and maybe some of my blog readers will get to see it for real this next week! Until next time!
First the good stuff!
Sunday we had a baby dedication service for JC and one other baby in the church. It was a very special day to Jim and I. I think perhaps even more so now that Drew is getting more and more close to making a decision to trust Christ as his personal Savior.
I wish we had gotten a better picture of all of us together, but I will try to make that happen during the holidays.
Christmas has arrived at the Mayos!!
I know some of you are saying it isn't even Thanksgiving yet. I realize that. Traditionally we have taken today, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, as our day to do the decorating. However this year Jim and I both just felt the need to get it done this weekend while we were home and had the free time. We had a good time getting it done and feel like now we can just relax through the Thanksgiving holidays. Only one ornament bit the dust this year in the process of putting the tree together. Last year one glass ball broke and one ornament received major damage and required a lot of super glue. This year the casualty was one glass ball. Drew just wants to help so badly that he get a bit anxious and doesn't wait for help.
Sunday afternoon Jim's mom was with us following the baby dedication at church. She was gracious and watched the kids while Jim and I got the outside decor put up.
Now for a weight loss update:
I have lost just about 3lbs shy of 40lbs since giving birth to JC!! I have officialy dropped 1 pant size and 2 shirt sizes. It has been incredible to buy clothes that are not in the woman's department of the store! I did purchase a couple of pair of slacks and some blouses for work. I hope to be too small for them soon, but I had to have a few things since one of my pair of dress slacks were no longer wearable due to the risk of them falling off!! I have also been able to dig out of my closet 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of khakis, 2 dresses, all that have been too small on me for years! Now I have the great challenge of the holidays before me but I am determined to continue to work hard and even if I put on a few pounds with the holiday eating I will work it off soon after the holiday.
So I think that will just about catch you up for now. I will try to post pics and stories from Thanksgiving next week. I am going to work on a funny Drew video here in a sec and I am hoping to have a video of Drew singing in church this Sunday, if he actually does it, we will see! Also JC has started giving kisses to us! So sweet and makes me cry, I hope to get that on video and maybe some of my blog readers will get to see it for real this next week! Until next time!
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Video of JC Bouning
I had wanted this video to be on the post from Friday but had issued, again, getting my video to upload with blogger. So I have it on YouTube now and it is much better! Here it is!
A Wonderful Day for our Family
We have had a wonderful day today! No band, no football, just us! We did have to finish up the housecleaning that I started last night. It was hard to find the motivation to do it, but the sweet smell of a clean house was worth it! We spent the afternoon at the zoo and had dinner at IHOP, Drew's favorite place! The zoo was awesome! The new exhibit, Tetan Trek, is so beautiful. They have really made it a nice place. I just love our zoo. Since we buy the membership it is a fun thing we can do anytime. We spent about 2.5 hours there and that was enough to be worn out! Of course Drew wants to see everything, but we keep on reminding him that the next time we go we can see all the things we missed today. I will let the pics to the talking, enjoy!
Here are a couple of videos from the zoo. Since uploading videos on Blogger is not the greatest I will be putting the videos on my YouTube page from now on.
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Here are a couple of videos from the zoo. Since uploading videos on Blogger is not the greatest I will be putting the videos on my YouTube page from now on.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Oh where has the last week gone...
Okay, so I never intended for it to be this long of a gap in between post. This has been a rather weird week. Not a bad week, just one of those that it seems unusual things come up each day that keep the things you must do from getting done, resulting in the things you want to do getting pushed further and further down your list! Can anyone relate??
Well obviously Halloween has come and gone. There will be a slide show at the bottom of this post of all the fun we had last weekend. We did have much fun! We attended our churches fall festival on Wednesday. Still have not quite figured out why we had it on Wednesday rather than Saturday to provide an alternative to Trick or Treating but I will refrain from climbing up on that soap box today! Since we do not Trick or Treat and do not hand out candy to those who do, we decided to attend Longview Point's (the church where I work) Fall Festival which was on Saturday, thus providing my family with the much needed Trick or Treating alternative! Oh and there my soap box peeped out again, so I will move on! We had a cute little puppy dog and an awesome rat this year! Don't ask me why he wanted to be a rat, that was his choice! Actually that was what he wanted to be up until the week of Halloween, then he told me he wanted to be a snake. Now I did not care what he was, as long as I wasn't spending a bunch of money, but I had already arranged to have my co-worker make him a tail and did not have a clue how to dress him up as a snake anyway. So I finally convinced him that he should not be a snake because snakes do not have arms or legs, which would prohibit him from walking, let alone playing games and getting candy. So he went for that and quickly forgot all about it and is even now planning what he wants to be for the next 3 Halloweens based upon the costumes he saw on his friends. Don't worry, I am not rushing out to buy anything yet! So Halloween was a big success in our house and we have plenty of candy to last us until January, or as Jim would tell you, until I get tired of looking at it and throw it away!
Moving on to other subjects. Jim and I had lunch with Drew at school this week. As we walked through the hallway doors and the aroma of what is supposed to be pizza came from the cafeteria I seriously thought I might hurl! Since Jim and I did not eat there I don't want to refer to it as eating lunch with Drew, we will say observing lunch with Drew instead! So, observing lunch with a room full of kindergartners is most interesting! I had to peel bananas and open packets of raw carrots, which by the way I never saw one kid eat. I did see a kid use it as a dipping mechanism for his pizza sauce! I mean seriously, who really thinks these kids are eating raw carrots. Cut those off the lunch menus and we can save some hard earned tax dollars right there! But back to my story, it was fun though. We actually took Drew lunch from McDonalds. I do not totally like doing that because some of those kids will probably never have a parent come to eat with them, but of course many of the kids in his class have had that done for them and he ask for it. So I decided to bake cookies for all the kids and that way they all got special treatment! Actually it had a two-fold purpose. You see since I am majorly dieting I don't eat cookies or anything else sweet or that taste good for that matter! So Jim brings home not one, but two tubs of cookie dough home from school! Not the smartest thing he has done lately! So by cooking over 50 cookies for Drew's classmates I eliminated all but a very small portion of the dough! Yeah for me! Of course the kids loved them and it was fun. I do hope we can do this again some time, although I don't know that I will plan on doing it on pizza day because the odor seriously grossed me out and gave me flashbacks to Jr. High!
JC is getting more and more active! I am working on a video of him in the jumper, he loves this thing! Hope to have it up soon! Also check out the pic show of all our Fall Festival fun.
Oh, one last thing. A weight loss update......
I have lost 14.8lbs since starting my weight loss challenge 6 weeks ago and a total of 34lbs since I gave birth to JC! And remember, I only gained 5lbs through the entire pregnancy. So I am obviously excited and feeling great and running out of clothes that fit me! Even my wedding ring has gotten too big! Sounds like as good an excuse as any for him to buy me some new bling!
Well obviously Halloween has come and gone. There will be a slide show at the bottom of this post of all the fun we had last weekend. We did have much fun! We attended our churches fall festival on Wednesday. Still have not quite figured out why we had it on Wednesday rather than Saturday to provide an alternative to Trick or Treating but I will refrain from climbing up on that soap box today! Since we do not Trick or Treat and do not hand out candy to those who do, we decided to attend Longview Point's (the church where I work) Fall Festival which was on Saturday, thus providing my family with the much needed Trick or Treating alternative! Oh and there my soap box peeped out again, so I will move on! We had a cute little puppy dog and an awesome rat this year! Don't ask me why he wanted to be a rat, that was his choice! Actually that was what he wanted to be up until the week of Halloween, then he told me he wanted to be a snake. Now I did not care what he was, as long as I wasn't spending a bunch of money, but I had already arranged to have my co-worker make him a tail and did not have a clue how to dress him up as a snake anyway. So I finally convinced him that he should not be a snake because snakes do not have arms or legs, which would prohibit him from walking, let alone playing games and getting candy. So he went for that and quickly forgot all about it and is even now planning what he wants to be for the next 3 Halloweens based upon the costumes he saw on his friends. Don't worry, I am not rushing out to buy anything yet! So Halloween was a big success in our house and we have plenty of candy to last us until January, or as Jim would tell you, until I get tired of looking at it and throw it away!
Moving on to other subjects. Jim and I had lunch with Drew at school this week. As we walked through the hallway doors and the aroma of what is supposed to be pizza came from the cafeteria I seriously thought I might hurl! Since Jim and I did not eat there I don't want to refer to it as eating lunch with Drew, we will say observing lunch with Drew instead! So, observing lunch with a room full of kindergartners is most interesting! I had to peel bananas and open packets of raw carrots, which by the way I never saw one kid eat. I did see a kid use it as a dipping mechanism for his pizza sauce! I mean seriously, who really thinks these kids are eating raw carrots. Cut those off the lunch menus and we can save some hard earned tax dollars right there! But back to my story, it was fun though. We actually took Drew lunch from McDonalds. I do not totally like doing that because some of those kids will probably never have a parent come to eat with them, but of course many of the kids in his class have had that done for them and he ask for it. So I decided to bake cookies for all the kids and that way they all got special treatment! Actually it had a two-fold purpose. You see since I am majorly dieting I don't eat cookies or anything else sweet or that taste good for that matter! So Jim brings home not one, but two tubs of cookie dough home from school! Not the smartest thing he has done lately! So by cooking over 50 cookies for Drew's classmates I eliminated all but a very small portion of the dough! Yeah for me! Of course the kids loved them and it was fun. I do hope we can do this again some time, although I don't know that I will plan on doing it on pizza day because the odor seriously grossed me out and gave me flashbacks to Jr. High!
JC is getting more and more active! I am working on a video of him in the jumper, he loves this thing! Hope to have it up soon! Also check out the pic show of all our Fall Festival fun.
Oh, one last thing. A weight loss update......
I have lost 14.8lbs since starting my weight loss challenge 6 weeks ago and a total of 34lbs since I gave birth to JC! And remember, I only gained 5lbs through the entire pregnancy. So I am obviously excited and feeling great and running out of clothes that fit me! Even my wedding ring has gotten too big! Sounds like as good an excuse as any for him to buy me some new bling!
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
JC is 5 months old!
It is hard to believe that 5 months ago today I was holding my second son that was only a little over 24 hours old. Time is passing so much more quickly than I want it to. As a mom I find myself wanting to cling to all the moments and savoring the sweet "baby time" of his life and yet you long for the advancements too. I am anxious to see him sit up on his own and to crawl, get his first tooth, speak his first word. Well maybe not that first word part since both of my children seem to have been abundantly blessed with the gift of gab! He is so much more advanced at this age than I remember Drew being, although that has been 5 years ago and I have a hard time remembering it all. Here is a run down of some of the things he is now doing:
1. You eat 3 meals a day,
breakfast - baby oatmeal and formula
lunch - vegi, fruit, 4oz juice
dinner - vegi, fruit, 4 oz juice
You still have a bottle in the morning and at night which are 7oz each. Your favorite foods seem to be squash, pears, and applesauce. You still love the food I make for you but we do buy the baby fruits as well as some vegis.
2. You typically sleep at night from 9pm-5am for a total of 8 hours. You take a morning nap and an afternoon nap which are both about 2-3hours long. You nap at daycare even in the midst of all the chaos of the baby room and yet at home you want it to be totally silent. You have started sleeping mostly on your side but have also done some sleeping on your tummy now that you can turn over to it.
3. You like to play on the floor and are able to turn yourself from your tummy to your back and from you back to your tummy. You have not managed to make a full rotation yet but you are close. You can even get your legs up under neath you sometimes, so crawling may not be too far off!!
4. You like to hold toys and beat them against the floor or your car seat, kinda makes me think you may be a little drummer! What ever you have in your hands you are waving it back and forth.
5. Another favorite thing you like to do is to sit in my lap and rock your body back and forth, not really sure why you like this, maybe it is just that you are learning to control your body motions.
6. Teeth are hopefully on the way. You still drool a LOT! You have had some really bad diapers lately too which make me think it is coming. I sure hope so! Occasionally you are in an ill temper and I think that it must be due to the teeth.
7. You LOVE bath time. You will just sit and kick your legs and splash that water! You truly seem to love being in the water. I am looking forward to swimming with you next year!
8. Right now you are wearing size 6-9mon clothing and even have a couple of blanket sleepers that are 12 mon, but they run small. You are definitely a big boy by comparison to your brother.
9. You like to "talk". Well, your version of talking anyway. You do say mama quite a bit, although I do not think you use the word because you want me,just that you want something. Like to be held, eat, bottle, everything seems to get mama right now.
10. You have a few favorite people! Ms. Deb from church, you know her pretty well now. She keeps you in the nursery on Sunday mornings. Lauren at the daycare. I can ask you if you are ready to see Lauren when we arrive in the mornings and you get all excited! I am so grateful for all the wonderful people who take care of you at daycare and at church!
So that is pretty much where JC is at these days! I have put together a photo album of his first 5 mon, I will probably do another one for 6 mon. Enjoy!
1. You eat 3 meals a day,
breakfast - baby oatmeal and formula
lunch - vegi, fruit, 4oz juice
dinner - vegi, fruit, 4 oz juice
You still have a bottle in the morning and at night which are 7oz each. Your favorite foods seem to be squash, pears, and applesauce. You still love the food I make for you but we do buy the baby fruits as well as some vegis.
2. You typically sleep at night from 9pm-5am for a total of 8 hours. You take a morning nap and an afternoon nap which are both about 2-3hours long. You nap at daycare even in the midst of all the chaos of the baby room and yet at home you want it to be totally silent. You have started sleeping mostly on your side but have also done some sleeping on your tummy now that you can turn over to it.
3. You like to play on the floor and are able to turn yourself from your tummy to your back and from you back to your tummy. You have not managed to make a full rotation yet but you are close. You can even get your legs up under neath you sometimes, so crawling may not be too far off!!
4. You like to hold toys and beat them against the floor or your car seat, kinda makes me think you may be a little drummer! What ever you have in your hands you are waving it back and forth.
5. Another favorite thing you like to do is to sit in my lap and rock your body back and forth, not really sure why you like this, maybe it is just that you are learning to control your body motions.
6. Teeth are hopefully on the way. You still drool a LOT! You have had some really bad diapers lately too which make me think it is coming. I sure hope so! Occasionally you are in an ill temper and I think that it must be due to the teeth.
7. You LOVE bath time. You will just sit and kick your legs and splash that water! You truly seem to love being in the water. I am looking forward to swimming with you next year!
8. Right now you are wearing size 6-9mon clothing and even have a couple of blanket sleepers that are 12 mon, but they run small. You are definitely a big boy by comparison to your brother.
9. You like to "talk". Well, your version of talking anyway. You do say mama quite a bit, although I do not think you use the word because you want me,just that you want something. Like to be held, eat, bottle, everything seems to get mama right now.
10. You have a few favorite people! Ms. Deb from church, you know her pretty well now. She keeps you in the nursery on Sunday mornings. Lauren at the daycare. I can ask you if you are ready to see Lauren when we arrive in the mornings and you get all excited! I am so grateful for all the wonderful people who take care of you at daycare and at church!
So that is pretty much where JC is at these days! I have put together a photo album of his first 5 mon, I will probably do another one for 6 mon. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Band Performance from Saturday
Tupelo Performance
Click the link above and you will be able to see the band performance from Saturday on YouTube.
They did great! Won everything in the competition that night and got all 1's for their festival rating. It has been a great Marching Season for the OB Band! This Saturday is our final competition. We will be traveling to Clinton, MS for the MS State Championship!
Click the link above and you will be able to see the band performance from Saturday on YouTube.
They did great! Won everything in the competition that night and got all 1's for their festival rating. It has been a great Marching Season for the OB Band! This Saturday is our final competition. We will be traveling to Clinton, MS for the MS State Championship!
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