Apple Picking

We went apple picking one rather hot October day. Jake had a great time and we came home with lots of apples. Luckily, Jake likes apples. I had visions of making apple pie, but never got around to it.




Getting bigger every year.




Hay piles are fun to climb on...

Quick Jake Takes

I've been terrible about keeping up with the boys' blogs...so tired all the time! Here are some recent cute Jake stories.

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Last night, Jake gave me a big hug, then said, "Mommy, do you know what a hug is? "No, Jake, what is a hug?" "It's something that you give away and then it grows even bigger!"

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Jake thinks we get pizza from "Little Sneezers" on Friday Family Fun Nights.

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Jake likes to talk about what he will be when he grows up. It changes a lot. Currently, he wants to be an actor. Specifically, the actor in the Godzilla suit. But no matter what he wants to be, he gets very anxious at some point and says, "Mommy, when I grow up I'm not going to move away. I'm going to live with you forever." Of course, I always assure him that's fine with me.

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One morning, I was getting Jake dressed and when he protested something, I offhandedly said, "Come on, you want to look nice for the girls, don't you?" He said, "No! I don't like girls, just boys!" Alex said, "Oh, you say that now, but one day you'll like girls." Jake denied that he will ever like girls, to which I replied, "Don't you want to get married one day and be a daddy or poppy?" Jake stopped for a second, thought hard, and then said, with a horrified look on his face, "No way!"

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Another morning, Alex was watching a YouTube clip where a guy was pulling books off the shelf and reading the titles, then adding, "...in your pants!" Sort of like when you read a fortune cookie and add "...in bed!" Jake wanted to watch, so Alex let him. It was perfectly clean and the double entredres were going right over Jake's head, but he found the concept hysterical. I came downstairs to see what all the laughter was about and found the two of them pulling Jake's books off the shelves, reading the title and adding "....in your pants." So it was "Journey to the Center of the Earth...in your pants!" Ha, ha, ha. "How The Grinch Stole Christmas...in your pants!" Hee, hee, hee. You get the idea.

Jake kept laughing about this the entire car ride into school, saying titles of different books he's read recently and adding "...in your pants." Lately, Alex has been reading him children's versions of classic literature.

We walked into the classroom and Jake proudly walked up to his teacher and said, "I have Moby Dick in my pants!"

It was a special, special parenting moment...