Jacob gets his first official haircut!

Just a quick drop-in to show pics of Jacob with his new haircut. This was his first official one with a barber. This is how he woke up yesterday morning and Mitch decided to take him to the barber and then to daycare as he needed to go into Beaufort anyway:


Mitch said he did great the entire time. He actually sat in Daddy's lap and was great. Afterwards the barber asked if Mitch wanted to take some pictures and they sat him on the booster chair and he proceeded to start screaming. Both Daddy and the barber both got a kick out of that. So here is the picture of how he looks now:


Isn't he adorable as a little boy!

Here is the barber chair picture: (as you can see his hair is already cut)


Also here is the other big news in our life, though most everyone knows I think, but here is the sign.

Yes Mitch is offically in business for himself and his first week went really great and next week is looking good too. If you live here in Carteret County be on the lookout for his signs from the Radio Island Causeway all the way downeast and tell everyone you know too!

And one more cute picture for the day - I'm going through the boys clothes for the change of season and I found this shirt (I believe it was Hunter's) and put it on Jacob and he found Daddy's hat and Logan gave him the gun - hey it's the first day of muzzleloader season and Jacob is ready to go!

Logan's First Day of School

Okay - I figure it's better to start with now rather than try and catch up. So now I will try to keep up with the week-to-week and then go back when I get a chance.

So today was Logan's first day of school. Did I cry - well just a little, not as bad as I thought I would and I did wait to do it until I got back in the van after walking him into his classroom.

For those of you who don't know - Logan is attending our local charter school which is Tiller School in Beaufort. It goes from K-5th and it also has a Middle School. Mitch and I chose it because of it's great reputation and also because they have afterschool care and I'm not ready to cut my hours back yet so I need that. Logan was supposed to go to Smyrna and I would have loved for him to go there, but we didn't have anyone to pick him up on a daily basis. So we applied to Tiller and we lucked up - this was the first year of two kindergarten classes and there were also fewer siblings in this class so we got in.

We went to the popcorn party last Monday where Logan met 3 of his classmates and his teacher Ms. Annie. One of the boys was from t-ball and another was from BCA. He did great with them and was very excited.

I also had a new parent's orientation last week and Mitch and I went to the Open House on Thursday night. Mitch really seems to like the school. We both like their teaching methods (less book-learning, more hands-on and other types of learning - but there is no problem with their students passing the EOG testing).

Logan's lunchbox ready to go with Daddy's!

Daddy with Logan before school

Mommy with Logan (someone remind me to do my hair before pictures)

Logan all ready to go!

So on to today - Logan was very excited and he told me so when he came downstairs this morning. Daddy took Jacob with him today so I could go with Logan so we headed out early and I'm glad we did - first morning traffic was pretty bad and we got to the parking lot across the street just a little before 8. We did make it to his classroom in plenty of time though and he found another one of his friends from BCA was in his class. Soon the bell rang and he lined up with his class and followed them in. I walked in for a few minutes, snapped a few pictures and then Miss Annie had the children say bye to the parents. Logan turned around and told me bye so I headed out the door and back to the van (to cry a little).

(That's him telling me bye)

Today and tomorrow are half days so I picked him up at 11:30 and traffic was a nightmare - the transport vans hadn't arrived yet and so we were directed to wait in BCA's parking lot across the street. Finally we were allowed over and Logan was guided to the van and a teacher opened the door and let him in, and we headed to my work. I asked about his day and he was very excited. He said they get to play with the pirate things tomorrow. He also said they went outside today and had snack. That's all he really told me, but you could tell he had a great day and he is ready and raring to go back tomorrow. It was really great to see him that excited!

Christmas Morning:

Church was at 10:00 on Christmas morning which worked great for us since we had to get the boys up and wanted them to enjoy their Christmas morning. So we woke up bright and early, went up and got the boys up and proceded to see what Santa had brought.

Here is one excited boy first thing on Christmas morning:
Logan getting a first look at some of his goodies:
When Logan saw these candy canes - he screamed out "Expensive candy canes" This came from a day we were in Walmart buying treats for his birthday party and he wanted to get these candy canes, but I told him we wouldn't get those because they were expensive. The child doesn't forget a thing!
Logan was really thrilled with his Leapster:
Jacob with his goodies:

Christmas Eve Highlights

Well it's been awhile, but I am going to start working on catching the blog up again.

So let's start with Christmas Eve- on Christmas Eve we go visit Pop and GG and then head into town to see Gran and Papa. We let the boys open their presents, go to church for the candlelight, carols and communion service and then head back to Gran and Papa's to eat and open presents. This year was really fun - Logan was really into it and Jacob didn't care (he just wanted to eat the wrapping).

First we have Jacob and his Santa shoes:
Some family pictures:
Logan putting out reindeer food:
A quick visit with Pop and GG (Mitch's grandparents):
Some highlights from opening presents at Gran and Papa's (thanks to everyone for the great presents for us and the boys!)
And the Christmas Jammies shots:
And finally the milk and cookies for Santa:

Whew - by the time we got home it was after midnight, Mitch and I got the boys to bed and headed there ourselves - since it was all starting again the next morning!