The Jolliff Family

Andrew is 7 months old today. February is a weird month since there is only 28 days, so we're calling today Andrew's 7 month birthday He is such a happy sweet baby and we are enjoying every minute. Enjoy the pictures! I love this picture with his big smile and bear ears!! This picture is from this weekend (more pictures to come and yes he is in the same outfit). He wants to crawl so badly, but just can't get it together yet. I'll keep you posted! Pictures from this weekend and Sam's room to come soon!! Happy Happy Monday.

Dear Blog Readers, I have a deep dark secret to share with you if you promise not to tell my big brother Sam. Well, you see... I like to play with his toys while he is napping. He doesn't share too well, so I ask mommy or daddy to give me his toys to play with before he gets up from a nap. I especially like his big yellow excavator, beats my little colorful rattle! And it even has this arm that goes in and out and makes a funny noise. And the little driver man, mmmmm... he tastes so good. I can't help but give a sly smile knowing my brother would be upset if he knew! Oh what fun to be had while Sam naps. I think I'll keep this up and keep hoping that he takes nice long naps:) Love, Andrew

Sunday night we had a blast going to Beef and Boards dinner theater for a group date seeing "Footloose"! We all cut loose and had such an awesome time! This date has been in the works since December when we all attended a wedding together and then had a night cap afterwards:) Anyway, it was a great time and next group date is in the works! We realized afterwards that this picture looks funny because of the way we are sitting plus the couple in the background, but oh well! Thanks for a fun night friends:)

Well, no pictures today, just a quick update on our Saturday. - Hap completed week #6 of Upward Basketball. The gospel message was shared with all athletes this week during practice and we pray that the seeds that were planted will take root. - I completed a 5-mile race this morning. The Polar Bear was ran downtown and was a nice run. I completed it in 51minutes 16 seconds (10:20/mile), didn't hit my goal of below 51 minutes, but it felt good to do a race and another step closer to the mini in May! I am looking at a race in April to do next though. - While I was running and Hap was at Upward, Courtney came up from Bloomington to watch the boys. Sam had a blast with "Norney" and Andrew had some separation anxiety:) We enjoyed a nice lunch together before she headed back. We appreciated her coming and spending time with the kiddos. - Speaking of Andrew, he woke up with the other eye gunky, which I completely expected. They are looking better tonight and I am praying...

No Andrew was no beaten up, but he did wake up with a good old fashioned case of pink eye!! YUCK!! It is all red and gunky (is that a word?) He is in a great mood though, playing and trying so hard to crawl. My poor baby still looks good to me:) Sam didn't actually have pink eye a few weeks ago, we think it was just an allergic reaction to his feather pillow but this is definitely pink eye and hopefully the drops will do the thing they do and heal it up!! Have a good Friday.

We had plans to go to the museum today with some friends, but mom and girl both ended up sick, so we headed out by ourselves to the Children's Museum. I am SO thankful for a museum membership (thanks mom and dad). It is only about 15 minutes from us and it is a fun thing to do for a few hours. Sam has a blast and Andrew really enjoyed some of the little stuff, like the mirrors and cushy squares to play on. Once he starts crawling he will have even more fun. Sam loves it all of course. He enjoyed playing with the trains today. They have a huge steam engine that he enjoys exploring and also playing with the train table. The main reason we went today was to see the Bob the Builder exhibit. Sam loves Bob the Builder and can sing the theme song, so needless to say, he was excited to get to experience the exhibit today! I didn't get many pictures, but Sam "drove" all the Bob equipment, like Lofty, Rollie, and Scoop. Here the boys are sitting on Muck!! (They don...

The boys and I spent the majority of the day at home today. Sam went to school this morning but other than that, we were homebodies!! Which is always a nice. So, what does a 2 year old do when stuck inside all day? Load Gatorade bottles and soda bottles into his excavator... and unload them in his room! One of his new favorite things to do is perform for us. He comes by that naturally I'm afraid. He likes for us to pull out his mattress under his bed and he arranges his drum and piano. He will play the drum and then play on his instrument table. He gets its just how he wants it and goes to town. He keeps asking Hap for a microphone, so maybe for his birthday we'll get him a little karaoke thing with a microphone! At school today they handed out forms to register for next year. It was kinda bittersweet to see that Sam will be in the 3 year old class. It just seems so old and big to me. He is growing up and learning so much so quickly, it is so fun to watch his little brain f...