Great Grandparents are Great!

The fact that Cailen and Jex still have their great-grandparents around is AWESOME. The fact that they are close by is even awesome...er :) We get to see them pretty regularly and that is just GREAT! Here are a couple shots of a few of them:

Great Grandma Davis

 Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Silver

Life Happens

So...I am attempting to do a bunch of smaller posts to really update this "online journal" of mine. I thought for a second about changing the dates that they posted...but really, who am I kidding. I don't need to have the post dates coincide with when they actually happened. I'm not fooling anyone, least of all me. Instead,  I'm keeping it real with the few month span between picture taking and post making. Real life happens. I'm blogging it.

Sometimes Technology Hates Me

I hate feeling dumb. But I've come to terms with the fact that technology likes to laugh at me. It really doesn't like me. I will be trying to do something soooo simple and Mark will simply walk over and boom, it's done. I had pushed the same buttons, typed the same thing, plugged in the same wires, whatever, but does it work for me? NOOOOOOOOOOO. Grr. Anywho, I'm reaching out for help with the latest. And it seems so silly. How can I not get this figured out? Ok, so my problem is with Pinterest.

LOOOVE the idea. I totally have an account. I have like 20 followers. Do I have any pin boards? Uh no. That's cause I can't seem to get the stupid pin it button to work and get on my screen here so that I can just do the simple "click"that will automatically copy the site and do all the work for me. I CAN'T GET IT!

Granted, I am still living at my parents (ugh,sigh, groan) and of course, can't figure out their computer. And I don't want to mess with it too much. But honestly. It can't be that hard. What is the DEALIO! So, pinterest people out there, help me out. WHAT THE HECK DO I DO TO START PINNING AROUND HERE?!? I want to get a move on, there are soooo many amazing things I see every day online I want to pin, but I'm a techno-loser. Help me out people. My followers could use something to look at.

(thanks followers, I love you all and I appreciate that you are my friends despite me not having a single thing to look at...it's quite funny actually.)

*Ok, so update. I went to try AGAIN to add the Pin It button and suddenly I had three! THREE! So I think my previous attempts worked, they just decided to hide from me. Small miracle of being persistent. YAY it works!

Life in the summer heat

Just wanted to touch base here on the blog to let everyone who might check this that we're still alive :) We have just been super busy with the lovely summer weather! For so long we were whining about our lame spring and just wanted to rain (and snow) to stop so we could have warm weather and now it's here and I'm melting. I haven't seen anything yet though,we're not to August! We have been having a blast, with lots of stuff going on. I can't believe the last time I posted was when Jex turned 6 months. LAME! He turns 8 months on Monday...totally missed the 7 month post. Don't worry, I took pics, so I will backtrack a little to keep up with the record keeping. Who needs baby books when you have blogs right? (Uh, wrong, I totally need to be doing those for my kids and am SLAAAACKING) Hope everyone is having an amazing summer as well and hopefully you guys will get a couple more blog posts out of me before something else catches my eye and...SQUIRREL! (squirrel= anything that sounds good at the moment and distracts me from technological documenting pursuits)

Just testing

The settings must have got changed so I'm just testing to see if I can still blog from my phone :)
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

Jex is 7 months old!!

Thank heaven's for the editing options here on blogger...you guys have no idea when I am really posting this!!!! BWHAHAHA! Ok...you can probably guess, but I am TOTALLY changing the posting date to reflect Jex's 7 month date...So there.

Anywho, my big boy just keeps getting bigger! I am so thrilled at having my little munchkin around, he brightens my day. Jex has started to clap, which is just adorable. I LOVE seeing him get excited. He is rolling over, which is always fun. He is just a joy. WE LOVE YOU JEX!!

Jex is 6 month's old!

Jex turned 6 months old today! (I DID post this on his actual 6 month bday but blogger decided to work against me and it's gone. Sigh.)

Yesterday we went in to the doctor for Jex's 6 month check-up an he is nice and healthy! He is also a stinkin' big boy as we found out in his measurements! Poor Cailen won't be the "big"brother for long if their percentiles as infants are any indication! Here are Jex's stats:

Height: 28 in, 93 %
Weight: 16 lbs 14 oz, 40 %
Head: 42.9 cm, 28 %

We love our roly-poly munchkin! He is such fun although lately he HASN'T because his little tummy is taking issue with baby food. We tried baby food at 4 months and he would have nothing to do with the stuff. We took a break and started again at 5 months with MUCH more success. Yay! Then Saturday came. Not a good day for eating or nursing. He has had gas/constipation issues pretty much from the get-go with solids but as of Saturday he hasn't been the happiest/best eater. He eats his baby food alright but he doesnt nurse well and he definitely has some tummy issues. Not so fun for me. Otherwise though, this baby is a winner! He is so happy and smily, he loves to play, he loves to grab everything (he loves eating my mail, he gets mad when I try to open it and won't let him eat it) and he loves to SIT UP! Yay! This is something he has pretty much gotten the hang of. He still topples over, but he is improving every day and I just love it! However, he could care less about rolling over! Anyone out there have experience with their stubborn children on this? I don't know if it's important enough to worry about. I mean,what 16 year old can't roll over right? He'll get the hang of it eventually. But he is a trooper with the grabbing, drooling, sitting, drooling, smiling, drooling, laughing and did I mention drooling? But still no tooth! Cailen had his first at 4 months so I'm feeling restless for that first tooth to pop! I can't believe that my little baby is now going to be closer to one than to birth. WHOA! My little man is growing up *tear* It is so fun to watch though and I love my two boys. They are a blast to watch play and I LOVE how much Cailen loves Jex. I also love how Cailen can get Jex to laugh with the dumbest things, it's hilarious. Jex loves his big brother. We have really enjoyed this little giggler and look forward to many more months of fun changes and laughs. We cherish them all.

My other little guy is getting big too! He is almost 4! I had to snap this gem of a picture today to capture my budding whiz kid on the IPad. Man, kids of this generation are going to be so tech-savvy and I am sure look at me like crazy when I talk about using pay phones "back in my day." Hey, at least he's outside :)