Yesterday Jake turned 8! On Saturday we had a party with his friends from school at the gymnastics center and yesterday we had a small little family party. Here are some pictures of the gymnastics center party:Jake's Grandma Lynn made him this awesome Pikachu cake for the family party:

Here's Grandpa Pete and the boys:Chloe loves the swing! Isn't this a cute litttle dress. I barely got her in it. She knows and loves the color blue so she was insisting that her dress be blue and the only one we have that's blue looked goofy on her, but I could not talk her out of it. As soon as Justin saw her he said, "Put on the pink one." Chloe said, "K." and marched right back to get the pink one. It was so funny. They definitely have that daddy-daughter bond. It is so sweet.

Chloe made Grandma Lynn's day by sitting on her lap while she ate her cake and ice cream:

Here's Jake with two of his cousins, Tony and Jaxon:Wyatt decided to pick Jake's nose to be funny. I caught the picture before I realized what he was doing and before Jake realized it. See that little glint in his eye.

Here are 4 great video clips from Mother's Day:

This is proof that Chloe can handle 2 brothers and 4 (and counting) boy cousins. She is a rough and tumble girl who loves to laugh.

Also hilarious is the part where Tony asks Wyatt if he knows how to tie and Wyatt says, "No, but Franklin does." To understand how funny this is you have to know the Franklin show. It always begins with the narrator saying that Franklin was growing up and could "count by twos and tie his shoes." I suppose this means I should get on that shoe tying thing.

*Don't forget to go to the bottom of the blog and pause the music and then click on the different windows to be able to play each of the clips

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One week ago today we had the pleasure of meeting The adorable Tyce. What a sweetie pie! The kids loved him. Wyatt was very excited that baby Tyce grabbed his finger. Chloe wanted to hold him so Justin helped her do that. The picture is pretty funny because Tyce looks like he;s almost as big as her. He was 11 pounds at four weeks! That's a few ounces bigger than the boys were at that age. I think he's going to be a big boy! We were making bets about how old Tyce will be when he's as big as Chloe. I bet that somewhere around 6-7 months Tyce will weigh as much as Chloe so we'll have to let her hold him as much as she can before then. Hehe.

I had the best day! Sorry for the delay... apparently I don't have time. And how cute are Chloe and Joey or as Chloe refers to them, "Coco and Jojo."

The big family news is that Jake just got his tonsils out on Monday and is doing well. There are no pictures of that. The only thing that could have made the whole thing less fun for Jake would have been me running aroung snapping pictures. He is eating again and watching lots of TV.

Chloe has been one sick puppy lately. She has an ear infection and is on her second antibiotic for it. She has had two viruses back to back complete with fevers, one was up to 103.3 under the arm. I thnk she's on the mend and will be going back to daycare today. Yesterday Grandma stayed with her and they had some god quality time together. She was so mad that I left that and kind of blamed Grandma. When my mom asked, "Can I sit my you?" Chloe said, "No." But, she warmed up and even snuggled with grandma a little when her ear was hurting.