The Reason I Haven't Had Time to Blog Lately:

But I love the little guy. I admit that I stress constantly about nursing, time management, sleeplessness, giving attention to my other two and much more. But all in all, Jake is an absolute joy. I just want to squeeze him to pieces, bury my face in the little folds on his neck and rub my cheek on his round little belly. The wide range of faces he makes are too much---spanning from the "I'm drunk as a skunk on milk" face, to that face the Giant Stay-Puffed Marshmallow man makes when the Ghostbusters cross streams into the portal.

Even his crying is cute to me. He'll give these little tiny "wah's" sometimes that really just mean, "Um, I'm not entirely happy right now and I'm not sure why, but I wanted to let you know." When he's hungry, he's usually convinced we're NEVER going to feed him again--and you can really hear the rage in his voice. This usually culminates in either silent enraged exhale crying or this adorable little billy goat sounding cry. Both are crazy cute and exasperating at the same time.

I have so much to write about, but I just haven't had the energy to do it. So this post is mainly just an exercise to keep me in the habit. And on that note, I hear Jacob's little "If you think this is bad, wait until I get REALLY peeved" cry, so I guess I'd better wrap it up.

SOCCER!

We signed both of the boys up for soccer this spring with the city. We worked it out so that the boys are both on the same team, as is our next-door neighbor Marin (who's also 5 years old). I had to miss the first game for obvious reasons, but the entire family ventured out yesterday to watch their game.


No, there's nothing wrong with your computer monitor--their uniform color actually IS retina-burning neon pink. But the official title is "Watermelon" (I'm assuming that's to assuage any wariness the boys may have about wearing pink). It was really quite hilarious. More like some kind of gang fight than an organized sport.


David didn't want to participate when we first got there. I think something about having Mommy there may have thrown him off a bit. But as soon as the action got close to where we were sitting, he jumped up and joined in the game (it was one of the cutest things I've ever seen).




Stevie was really tearin' it up out there. He never stopped running, and even got in a good kick or two.



During his stint as goalie, he stopped the ball, too! What a champ.


The name of the team is "the Knights." My favorite parts of the game were after the huddles, when the kids would all put a hand in and yell...


"GOOOOOO KNIGHTS!"

For Posterity: Bayou Wildlife Center

Time to catch-up here. All these neat things happened that I never got around to writing about. So here ya go:

On March 11th (just a few days before Jake was born) we went on a preschool field trip to the Bayou Wildlife Center in Alvin. It's kind of like Busch Gardens, in that it has free-roaming animals from all over the world. You get on a tram and they give you a bucketful of animal feed, and off you go!

We had such a large group that it took awhile for us to get a tram to fit us all, so we took a tourist picture or two:


The tram ride, however, was absolutely amazing. The animals were close enough to touch! It was a tad overwhelming at times, but pretty neat too.







They also had a very well-stocked, (and EXTREMELY smelly) petting zoo. Stevie was a little cautious, but David was pretty much ready to pick out a baby goat and take it home.




They had free pony rides too! The first time we stood in line there were a million little elementary students ahead of us, but when we came back a little while later we were able to get right on! The boys loved it.