Just an update...

J.K. will be 3 July 23rd. It is so hard to believe. We haven't decided on what to do for his birthday yet. Hopefully we'll come up with something soon. J.K. loves to be outdoors and never stops for long. He is a big helper at work and looks forward to going outside with Gami (my mom). He helps her move plants around, water the plants, and picks the flowers. He tries to send us home with new plants nearly everyday. He will load them onto a cart then pull the cart to the car then attempt to get them into the car. He has been known to mutilate a plant here or there by dropping it or however it happens. We try to keep him from picking all the flowers off of plants (kind of hard to sell them bare!), but he is so sweet when he brings them for me. J.K. goes to Mother's Day Out twice a week and really enjoys going. He will be starting preschool 5-days a week in the Fall. I am looking forward to it. He is quite independent and wants to do what he wants when we are at work. He is always letting himself out of the office (His playroom is connected to my office and my office leads outside.) which interrupts my work. J.K. has been going to a pathologist for the past several weeks to work on his speech. He is dropping the beginning and ending of words. I think he problem with latching as an infant was a sign of his lack of ability to shape his mouth/lips correctly to now form words. He talks all the time with us but tends to be a bit quieter around others. He speaking much better but just has to be reminded to use those first letters like m,p,s. He understands everything and uses phrases, but sometimes we are the only ones who understand it. Isaac is starting to talk and J.K. is now imitating the sounds Isaac makes. I think it'll get J.K. to get his words out better as Isaac works on his own sounds/speech. J.K.'s favorite things right now are dogs. He is obsessed with the movie Cats and Dogs; it's the first movie he has actually sat down to watch. He is constantly interacting with our dogs. He is a wonderful big brother, and I can almost always count on him to keep Isaac happy while I'm busy. We had our first ER visit back in March. J.K. swallowed a coin, a nickel. It got stuck in his throat so we (my mom and me) loaded both boys into the car and went on our way. Thankfully by the time we go there, it had passed into belly, but we still waited and had x-rays done just to be sure. It was a scary moment, and one I don't think J.K. will repeat again. He now hands coins to me if he finds one, and for a few weeks after the incident, he would talk about swallowing the coin and say no, no. The weekend before last J.K. got into a fire ant bed. We were outside playing in the sprinkler. He went down his slide which apparently went right into the bed. He was naked so they got all on his bottom and on his pee-pee, too. It was horrible. The bites are mostly gone, just a few scabs left since he does not understand about not picking at them. He is quite cautious about bugs now. We haven't tried potty training again since a few months ago. He was doing really well except for pooping, but then decided he could do both in the underpants. So, we put him back in diapers. He hasn't shown any interest in the potty, and I think it's partially because of Isaac. He sometimes snatches Isaac's pacifier and puts it in his mouth and says he wants to be a baby. Hopefully this little wanting to be a baby phase will pass soon, and he will want to use the potty.

Isaac is now 6 months. He sits up really well and is getting more interactive with J.K. He absolutely adores J.K. and vice versa. Isaac brightens up when J.K. is around. Isaac has the m and mama sounds down; he even says mom but doesn't realize quite yet what it means. I think he is starting to make the connection, though. We started baby food a few weeks ago, and he's done fine with most foods. However, he is always more interested in what we are eating so he's had some pizza crust and other small things to chew on already. It's hard to believe he's growing up so fast. I had to pull out the 6-9 month clothes today. He is small like J.K. was but quickly catching up. He was in the 10% at his 6 month checkup.

I don't think life will ever slow down again. I don't know what we are going to do when Isaac starts moving around. Right now he keeps J.K. still for at least few moments, but when they are both on the move, we are going to be in trouble! We don't have any real travel plans until October when we go to Massachusetts for my cousin's wedding. We might try and do a camping trip this summer, and I know we will be going to the beach a lot. We went last weekend for Mother's Day, and J.K. had so much fun on the beach. We hadn't been since last summer and J.K. was a bit afraid then. This time he spent a lot of time picking up shells along the shore and went out in the water past his waist with us. Hopefully we'll go down again in a few weeks. I look forward to the weekends when we can sit back and relax. Well, I need to get somethings done while I have some spare time with both boys sleeping.