Everybody, Get Your Skate On

Yesterday morning, Sage had been invited to her friend Lydia's 7th birthday party: a skating party! We made it a family event because we were all going to Birmingham to see Chrissie and company after the party. We had a wonderful day! I got such cute pictures of these cuties. My kids had an absolute blast.Meanwhile...

Thank GOD that it was a private party because this boy was EVERYWHERE. I could not have kept up with him in a full skating rink.

Lydia isn't technically Jaggar's friend, but Suzanne and Wade said that we were more than welcome to bring him. I think that after yesterday, Jaggar would call Lydia a friend because he had the BEST time. A private party at a skating rink with loud music for him to run and dance to the ENTIRE time? And that is EXACTLY what he did. THE WHOLE TIME. Watch him here.

Pretty, pretty girl getting brave and skating on her own. I'll go into a little more detail about that below.

Then Jaggar realized that he really liked it when Travis skated while holding him.

How cute are they?

I was SO impressed and proud of this girl. After just a few minutes of skating with Travis, she decided she wanted to do it on her own. She took a few spills, but she never freaked and just kept getting up again. To have only skated one other time and for that to be over a year ago, I think that this is pretty awesome. Watch her here. Disclaimer: Forgive my singing. It's terrible. And it's Justin Bieber. Doubly terrible.

So determined....how I love this girl!

Cute, cute boys

Me and my lovely Costa Rican returned friend, Jill (she just got back from a week long trip there.)

Sage and Cailin, such sweethearts

And then there's the miracle of how Cailin became so sweet being Jill's daughter ;) With Sage, it's obvious she inherited my sweetness.

Happy Birthday to Lydia!

A Date With My (Little) Man

The weather was just BEAUTIFUL today. Spring has really sprung around here for the past few weeks, and it's been awesome. When Jaggar woke up from his nap today, I needed to go to Wright's and get milk. I decided that we'd make a day of it and go to the museum beforehand, just he and I, before Sage was out of school. He and I get to spend a lot of one-on-one time together throughout the day, but that's mostly at home. I wanted to take just HIM out, not that he cares too much either way if we are home or elsewhere. However, this morning, he was saying, "GO! GO!" like he wanted to go out, so we did. We have joined the museum, so a lot of trips are in our future. I love its seclusion, beauty and character being a small, local museum. Plus, we always make such great memories every time that we go. AND it's not Quintard Mall, a place that I hate pretty much everything about minus Chick-Fil-A. I could give you a list of reasons why, but that's another blog. :) Here's a few cute pictures from my camera. MY REAL CAMERA. Sorry I became a lazy blogger and only took pics with my phone. I was starting to annoy myself.

How cute is he? Chocolate: The Exhibition is still their special exhibit through May, and I'm so thrilled for this because they have some fantastic chocolate in the gift shop. I feel that they should make that a permanent item for sale.

He's pointing at....

THAT.

I wish I'd had the flash off on my camera so that the digital earth could be seen. It's really pretty.

T-Rex

Busy boy

One of our favorite parts: the pond in the cave. I brought a bag of change so that he could throw coins into the water because it's one of his favorite things to do.

We had this to ourselves this time.

I'm not sure what he was not so happy about right here.

"Ish!"

Can you see the personality in this kid? We sat out here and shared a chocolate fudge cup, or "choc," as he called it. It was wonderful.

They should be putting the coy fish back in here soon. They were so pretty last year.

A nice worker offered to take our picture. He was cleaning the water out, but he turned the fountain on to make for a pretty picture. Jaggar and I had a great time together.

Jaggar Lately

The days of being able to give something to Sage and not give something of equal value to Jaggar are long gone. She got a Hello Kitty juice bottle the other day, so he had to have one, too. Truth be told, he WOULD have taken Hello Kitty, but we chose Spiderman for him. He was so pleased to drink from this cup, even though he STILL doesn't care for juice. At all.

He is saying pretty much everything these days: "STOP!" "Gum." "Piece" (or please, not sure about this one. He always says it after "gum.") 'Side, for "outside." "I get it." "Uh oh," for when he drops, or more appropriately, throws something to the ground. "Night night." "MO!" (more) "I want out," when he's in his high chair. "CHEESE!" for pictures. "Uh babies." The sound "uh" is still generally before everything he says. In the past day or so, he saw Mickey Mouse on Disney and called him "Mick." Travis thought that this was appropriate: 'Mick Jaggar.'

HE LOVES to brush his teeth, and he has a word for toothbrush that he says consistently, but it's kind of similar to how he pronounces "Wiggles." If you heard that, then you know it sounds nothing like the actual word. He is such a funny boy, and he brings us so much joy. This day last year, he was in surgery for a very infected ear. I'm glad that THIS year, I have a very healthy, active boy watching cartoons and saying, "I want GUUUM," as I write this. :)

A Moment of Being Still

Today is the first day that I have uploaded pictures from my camera in weeks. Even though I took these several weeks ago, they were too cute not to post. This is the night that we were going to Brian and Ramey's recording. Right before we left, Jaggar was actually being very still. I looked to see what he was doing, and he was drawing/writing in one of Sage's "journals." I thought that he was so cute laying down like a big boy and drawing.

Handsome

He's either taking a moment to watch The Wiggles or "Babies."

Concentrating

Dear, Tooth Fairy

I thought that I'd update on the tooth fairy visit. Sage decided that she wanted to write her a letter weeks ago before the tooth was even out. Here it is (I'm writing it how you would read it). It says, "Love Sage (at the top, followed by) Dear Tooth fairy, I want you to not get my tooth! And bring me a prize." Ha! Read that and then look at her letter, and I promise you will smile. She's working so hard to read and sound words out. She does a pretty good job. Oh, we couldn't just leave a letter, though. We left the following in a ziplock bag: the letter, the tooth, money (a penny), a gumball, and a piece of dental floss--ALL her idea. :) And HERE is what Sage bought with the money that the tooth fairy brought her. I'm amazed at how good she is at this because I didn't teach her, though I was pretty darn good at this back in the day.

Another One Bites the Dust

Sage's other front bottom tooth has been loose for weeks now. It was so loose, in fact, that at times it was sideways. Rather than endure another academy award winning performance for best dramatic actress from Sage, we just decided to let her deal with it. Today, as she came out to the car, she wouldn't open her mouth all the way and said, "I've got a surprise for you. What do you think it is?" I thought that she had candy in her mouth. I said, "Well, I don't know." She said, "Are you ready?" I was. She proudly pulled out this bag--her tooth! She'd pulled it out HERSELF at school, and "it didn't even hurt," she said. WOW! I was so shocked but proud of her! She said that all of the other kids just wanted to look at it. That is, they wanted to look at it after it was found. Apparently, she dropped it on the floor, and the teacher had to search for it because it blended in with the white floor. She is, rightfully, proud and excited to leave this for the tooth fairy tonight. :)

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Like Mother, Like Daughter

A week or so ago, we had a little dance party in our bathroom. You know how my kids like dancing on the side of the bathtub. After a few songs, I was tired and ready for American Idol, so I left. When I looked back at my phone, I saw this and busted out laughing. My little Sage takes her dancing VERY seriously. Jennifer told me that she reminds her of me backstage. I tend to dance on the stage right behind the curtain like every Sunday during the countdown. Gets me ready to worship. And it makes Jennifer and Steve laugh. I've debated whether or not to put this on here for no reason other than the song lyrics, but it's a fun song to dance to, apparently. So if you get offended over everything, don't watch. But if you want to see Sage in her finest, click here. :)

Another Museum Trip

Travis had to work today, so I thought that the kids and I would venture to the museum on this beautiful day. This was my first trip there by myself with Jaggar being as mobile as he is now. He did pretty well. Every time we'd enter a new room, he'd say, "WOW!" It was so funny. We all had a nice time. Since I didn't have another adult for Jaggar reinforcement, my pictures (the ones I even dared to take) are pretty close to terrible. I should've taken my real camera. Live and learn. :)

Jaggar is digging up fossils with other kids. Sage would NEVER do this. She is much more timid. He even got up on the same stool as one of the little girls, forcing her to get on a different one. He doesn't mind.

After Jaggar made friends, Sage decided to join in.

This was a little earthquake simulator that freaked him out at first. A few minutes later, and he was a pro.

Pushing random buttons

Both of them on the earthquake simulator. Watch them here.

That crazy looking fish is apparently in some Alabama rivers. This is more proof why I don't prefer to swim in water with other living creatures besides people.

Of course!

Sage said that this part was "too birdlike" and that she didn't care "for the birdness of it all."

Pretty butterflies.

And of course, chocolate!

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Makes a Mother Proud

Sage made this at church last week. Travis was thrilled. :) She does love HEARTS.

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Mr. Cool

Last Saturday, Sage attended a birthday party of a friend of her's, and it was a pool party. Macie's mom sent a goody bag home for Jaggar as well, and he tried on the sunglasses that were in the bag today. He thought that he was pretty cool.

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