New (to me) Camera!

I finally got a new camera.  I'm not promising great pictures but am hoping for a significant improvement!! Yes that is Jude with his shirt off outside in January.  It was in the upper 70's today and he pretty much strips down to his skivvies all the time anyway.

Jude loving the outdoors on this gorgeous clear day.

I was trying to get some good pics of Silas and he was giving me some really awkward smiles. I was complaining about his unnatural smile and he told me that's how all Zimmerman's smile...true.

Peek a boo!

Love this one of Silas.  I told him to stop smiling and this is what I got!
So, expect more pictures with our posts. I'm really excited.  Caleb never knows what to get me for Christmas so the last few years he's wised up to the "here's some money to get what you really want" gifts.  I used that to buy my camera from my bestie!! Thanks Caleb and Kris!

Naughty Boys

Yesterday Jude was in my room harassing me while I ironed clothes.  He started playing with the charge cord for our spotlight.  I saw him pretend to plug it into my elliptical machine.  After a minute he said to me, "Mom, fire fire!". He was quite excited.  I decided I'd better go see what he was talking about. When he touched the connector of the charge cord to a screw on my elliptical it shot out sparks...sure enough, my two year old made a fire! Scary...

Also yesterday, I had a disturbing conversation with Silas.  Went something like this...
Silas: Mom, guess what the most ticklish part of your body is?
Me: Your feet?
Silas: Nope
Me: Your armpits?
Silas: Nope
Me: I give up, what?
Silas: It's your penis (giggles)
That was the opener for our conversation about NOT tickling our penises.  It seriously never ends with the boy!

Christmas

Our Texas Christmas was a lot of fun.   It was really relaxing to just hang with each other and do our own thing.  Caleb and I were pleasantly surprised that Elias and Isaac could actually give us a run for our money with board games this year. It was actually fun to play with them. We struggled getting into the Christmas spirit without having snow to take us there but I think we managed to pull it off in time. When all the Christmas songs that mention snow don't apply it made it a little tricky. Everyone down here says we'll get used to it...we'll see about that. 

As usual we put up wrapping paper so the boys couldn't sneak into the living room.  They love running through in on Christmas morning as well.



Here are our pictures.  Unfortunately the quality is bad.  I think it's about time we invest in a new camera. Ugh!

Jude~isms

One of our family traditions on Christmas Eve is to drive around looking at homes decorated in lights.  Jude LOVED this!  Every time we passed a home that was decorated Jude would exclaim, "Mom, I found Christmas, I found Christmas!".  I have to say, the amount of homes with lights here was kind of disappointing.  However, there was one neighborhood by our church that rented a bucket lift and every home went ALL OUT!  Tons of people were always driving through with the car lights off to get the full effect.  There, Jude was "finding Santa Claus, and snowman too". He was a lot of fun this Christmas.  On Christmas morning when he realized that we were finally allowed to open presents he went crazy opening anything he could get his hands on.  When he's hungry now he'll get a plate out of the cupboard and bring it to us and say "dinner, dinner".  Guess that boy likes a home cooked meal more than snacks. 

Merry Christmas (mostly Grandparent material)

The boys were dressed in their Sunday best and gathered to sing some Christmas songs while they waited for me to get ready for church...only took longer cuz I had to grab the camera!


Away in a Manger
Picture a Christmas
Christmas Bells
Silent Night
Guard Him Joseph
Mary's Lullaby

Silas Again

Tami is still in New York and I am playing Mister Mom.  I was changing Jude's diaper this morning and I told him that he needed to stop pooping in his pants and start pooping in the potty.  Silas heard me say it and came in and said, "Yeah Jude, you need to stop that.  Your body is a temple and you shouldn't get it dirty like that.  Temples aren't supposed to be dirty." 

At work, I have a membership to a golf course and the kids get memberships so they can go swimming and take golf lessons etc.  We went and got our ID cards on Saturday and Silas was very excited.  He told me, "Dad, I have never been a member of a country club.  I am really excited to be a member"  (On a side note, I have never been a member either and I really don't fit in there)  He has asked me every day since if we can go.  I don't think he really knows what people do there but he is just excited to be a member.

Sweet 'n Sour...

...describes Silas perfectly.  He can be the sweetest little boy one minute and crazy, naughty or downright evil the next.  Perfect example: Last night we went to Elias' choir concert.  Just before the choir began thier first number Silas leans over and whispers to me, "Mom, if they suck we can throw trash and things at them".  Fast forward 2 hours to bedtime where I'm tucking him in and he says his prayer, "Gladful that we can have Christmas and celebrate Jesus' birth".  Love that little bugger!