Thumb Sucker?

Yep!

Lot's of people keep saying, "Don't let him do it". But Joey likes to cry when he's not being held. He is the perfect baby until you set him down. He found his thumb about a week ago and it settles him down for awhile so we can get a few things down around the house. Hey, I sucked my thumb when I was little and was eventually able to quit. ;)

Joey Three Months Old

One of the cutest three month old babies ever! :) Monty calls him Jaida's twin brother.

Jaida Learns To Ride Her Bike

Jaida is riding her bike with no training wheels! Yay, good job Jaida!

Joey's First Smile

One day after Joey's two-month appointment he started smiling. At his appointment they were asking me if he did all this stuff and I just kept saying no. So the very next morning I started talking to him and playing with him and he started giving me these big smiles.

Jaida and Kayla

Kayla has finally started to really play with Jaida. It's been great to watch them play pollies, horsies, and "Toy Story". I finally put my foot down and am only letting the kids watch one, maybe two movies a day. I know that's still three hours of tv, but it's a lot less than they used to watch. It's also split up. A movie in the morning and a movie or cartoons at night. They've been watching one of the Toy Story movies everyday for about two weeks! They love it, and when they're playing they can repeat the whole movie, and tell you what you've said wrong. I've been able to really tell a difference in Kayla without there being so much tv. Don't get me wrong, I love to watch tv, but mostly its just a waste of time.

Jaida Turns Six!!

Can you believe that Jaida is six? She wanted to have another dog birthday and had lots of fun!

Jaida is doing so well in school! She can read, write, and do simple math. It has been fun and exciting to watch her grow so much in a year and she loves school, not wanting to stop for summer. Her teacher says that she is a great student and very quiet in class, yeah, Jaida quiet. I had to ask the teacher twice to repeat that. ;)

She is having Kindergarten graduation in a couple of days, and we are very proud of her!

Joey's Blessing

We had so many family members that came our house for Joey's blessing! It was a lot of fun.

Joey two months old

I used the "almost" two month old picture of Joey for his newspaper announcement and his blessing invitation. I think it was Arie that said he looked like a grump old man. ;)

Kayla and Joey

Kayla loves Joey too, she's just not as interested in him as Jaida is. In this picture she wanted to hold him so I quickly snapped a pick and about 2 seconds later she was saying, "Done", as she was pushing him off. We've tried to give her just as much attention as we can and not always blame the baby for why we can't hold her but it just doesn't seem to be enough at times. For the most part she plays with him a tiny bit and ignores him a lot.

Jaida Loves Joey

Jaida has absolutely loved Joey. It's great because she'll play with him or hold him while I'm busy doing things. She's been a great big sister!

Joseph McKay Fielding

I'm finally updating my blog! If I would have taken off more than a couple of days of work I may have updated this blog when I had the baby. ;) Oh well. Joey was born January 16, 2008 at 2:20pm. He was 6lb. 13oz. and 21" long? I'm guessing on the length. I drove myself to the hospital (about 9am) and he came just a few hours later!