Busy Busy Busy

We have had a crazy last couple of weeks. I am not even sure where to begin.

Let me start off by congratulating James on receiving his backstroke ribbon today!!! He swam across the entire pool doing a full on backstroke! Yeah James!!!

Our life has flipped in some sense, now Josh spends most of the time at home with the children. We are both in school full-time. Josh is taking his classes online and I am in the classroom four days a week, two mornings and two evenings. We are a lot closer to our two year degrees than we thought we were - especially Josh and now the information that we are learning is 100 times more meaningful to us than it ever was before. I am also still working part-time at Oasis Gymnastics and come the end of April, I will be also coaching gymnastics for the city of Surprise. This was a great opportunity that was presented to me and I am very excited about the position!

Last weekend I traveled to CA with the International MOMS Club for the Southern California Founder's Day Luncheon. This was a special treat because it was the 25th Anniversary of the International MOMS Club.

There were about 1200 stay-at-home mother's in attendance and we had a special guest speaker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

It was a pleasure to hear what she had to say, even though I do not always agree with her, I have to say she made some great points and had us laughing hysterically throughout the speech she gave us. It was great to see some friends that I email with all year long, but only have the chance to see face to face on this one occasion. This was my second year at the Southern CA Luncheon, first time since my promotion to State Coordinator for Arizona and I am looking forward to my own Region's Luncheon in April in Albuquerque, NM.

James had his 5 year check up with his pediatrician. It went very well in the sense that he is physically healthy. He is still in the 5th percentiles for weight (35.5 lbs) and has been since the day he was born and he is 41.5 inches tall (about the 20th percentile).

Jacob has been wearing underwear for about 2 straight weeks now with the exception of night time. He hates wearing diapers and pull ups and would rather be naked if he can't have underwear on- which is fine with us!! We had an accident today while out and about and it was rather embarrassing to be wiping his pee up off the floor of a public place and then explaining to them "well, he is potty trained, I just don't know what happened... he just went a lot about 15 minutes ago" If you are a mom I am sure you have been there. He goes #1 always on his own (well, almost always) now and #2 as long as we ask and remind him to he is sitting on the potty grunting away - I should get a tape recorder and use it to threaten him during his high school years.

Jacob had his Valentine's party for school on Tuesday. They played lots of games and exchanged goody bags filled with a juice box, granola bar, sweet treat and a candy. James will have his Valentine's Party at school tomorrow- he picked out Spiderman Valentines at the store and we will tape little suckers to them for him to pass out. Tonight he will be writing his name on them. He is very good at this but gets frustrated if things aren't perfect, so luckily there is only eight of them to fill out.

Last week at school: James had silly dress day on Friday and rumor has it he was the hit of the class... hmmm, I wonder why?Could it be the underwear on his head?! He also got to bring cupcakes to share with his class on Wednesday so they could help him celebrate his birthday!

Jacob continues to do great all by himself in the pool. Although every Thursday morning he threatens to not go in the pool without me... well the conversation usually goes something like this, "Mommy do you have your suit on?" "No, Jacob, you are a big boy now, you get to go in with Ms. Jessica all by yourself!" "I don't want to go swimming with Ms. Jessica all by myself." "Ok then you won't earn your candy at the end of swim lessons." "I was just kidding mommy, I am going to go swimming in the big pool by James."

He is so hilarious with his "Just kidding". Every thing is just kidding. In fact he was on the phone with my sister's boyfriend Joey and he told him, I am going to come to your house tomorrow. Joey said OK see you tomorrow... Jacob said, "Just kidding! I am not coming." So funny- even more than he realizes because we live 1500 miles away!

There was a job fair here in AZ that Josh attended yesterday. It had over 10,000 people in line at the door with only 150 companies hiring. I am so happy that we are both back in school full-time!

Sorry for the EXTRA LONG blog... I told you life has been crazy in the J Pelham house!

PS- have you ever seen an almost 3 year old and a 5 year old play in/with an exersaucer! lol... this is what the boys are up to right now as I write.