Anna update

Anna started crawling yesterday...here's a video I took this afternoon to prove it:



Isn't she cute?

Funny kids

Something funny Eleanor said the other day when Margaret was looking for her bra and asked if anyone had seen it:
"Yes, first it was on the countertop, then it was on the sofa, and now it's lost...Did that help?"

Something funny Sophia told me this morning as we were on our way out the door to go to gymnastics:
"I have pretend cheese in my pocket."
She later explained that the pretend cheese was for the pretend mice that she was bringing along.

:0)

Change is Good

I decided to change the blog template in hopes of renewing interest in it. Hopefully I can get the other contributors to contribute, and get myself motivated to post more often.

Here's what we've been doing. We've been on quite a few field trips the past week, here are the girls at our local Great Plains Nature Center.



We've been busy navigating our switch from Windows back to Mac, and learning about what's changed since we were here last.

Also, we've spent a considerable amount of time here (for fun), and here (learning all kinds of cool stuff about Mesopotamia).

I must go now and stop Anna from eating paper (her new favorite food).

I also want to add a request that those who read this post a comment, we really love the feedback!

We're back!

After a brief hiatus due to the crash and burn of our computer's hard drive, we're back online. Yes, this afternoon we purchased the coolest of the cool things we've ever purchased: this.

We're busy playing with it right now...more blogging later. :)

Margaret's Locks of Love haircut

Wow! Today, Mom cut my hair for Locks of Love.
It was soo scary!! Who knew letting go of some hair would be so.... life changing? Here I am before the cut :(
This is after we hacked it off... You can see it is a little uneven on the right side (hee hee)
This is after we evened it out! Isn't it cute?

Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that makes wigs for kids that have lost hair from Cancer and so on. I have been meaning to do this for a while, but you have to have at least ten inches and I wanted some hair to grow. :)

Crazy morning

I made a video of our usual morning chaos. It was amplified a bit this week due to the festive atmosphere that not going back-to-school creates around our house this time of year. This was not staged, by the way, the kids were playing with the dogs and I got the camera out to capture it!

Exciting things are happening at the Jacobses...

We just haven't taken the time to blog about them!
For starters, the playroom is up and running (I don't have any pictures, you'll just have to take my word for it.)
Margaret, who has been wanting an electric guitar for some time, saved up enough babysitting money to buy one at last and now has a new guitar and amp (once again, no pictures, I'm trying to persuade her to let me make a video of her playing it.)
Sophia got a great new haircut and is mostly happy with it. I'm very happy with it because she looks super cute and her very curly hair is much easier to detangle when it's not so long.




I don't have any news about Ellie, but she's doing well and behaving like a crazy 3 year old.





Anna is now sitting on her own and putting lots of random stuff in her mouth.




Here's a happy picture of the four girls: