Here are the first pictures of the newest member of our family. We are still unsure of the child’s sex, but will find out if we have a little cooperation during our next sonogram. We are excited and extremely surprised that God has decided to bless our family with another child.
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Oh, by the way. Did we tell you that Becky is pregnant? She is just starting her fourth month.
It has been a while since we have placed a new jewel on our blog. We still keep track of our kids funny sayings, I have just not been faithful in posting them to our blog. In this new year I will endeavor to put up a new jewel at least once every two weeks, most likely on Mondays. Here is our first jewel for 2008.
On New Year’s eve our six year old daughter walked up to the table where her two grandmothers and one of her cousins were playing a card game. She said, “How about me hopping into this game?” Becky’s mother told her that it would be too hard for her, in fact it was even a little hard for grandma to which our daughter replied, “Well, maybe you should just hop out.”
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Important note: We will not reveal the names of our children on this blog. Any comment that mentions our children’s names will be deleted. It is nothing personal, we just feel that it is an important safety measure for our family. If you would like to read the other FTJB entries, click on the “From the Jewel Box” link in the side bar on the right or on the Jewel Box icon at the end of this paragraph. Come on parents! Feel free to share special jewels from your precious children. Just know that on this blog, our kids are the cutest! 
It is hard to believe that today is our son’s fifth birthday. We spent the day doing pretty much whatever he wanted to do. This morning we went to Chuck E. Cheese’s and played a bunch of games. One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen at a Chuck E. Cheese’s was a thing called Mad Wave Motion Theater. It is so cool that I don’t want to describe it to you. I’d rather have you see it for yourself. Here is a video clip of it.
As you can see, the kids had fun and the “ride” is awesome. One token is good for two people and there are six different courses to choose from. Our kids rode four of them.
For supper he had whatever he wanted to eat; Mac-n-cheese, salad and chicken nuggets. We had the grandparents over for gifts, cake and ice cream. 
He received tons of toys and was so excited that he was having a hard time controlling himself when we put him down for bed. I told him, “Son, the sooner you calm down, the sooner you will be able to go to sleep. The sooner you go to sleep, the sooner it will be time to wake up. When you wake up, you can play with all of your new toys.” He then said, “But only after I read my Bible.” That was the best part of my day.
As promised, here are the scans of our daughter’s book. I made them into a slideshow so that you can view it sort of like the book is in front of you. We are very proud to have an author and artist in the family!
The picture to the left is a better picture of the family sitting around our daughter listening to her read her story. Even Kisses, our dog, is interested in hearing the story! (There is a bad dog in the story so she better listen up!)
I’m sure the book will not last forever so I am glad that we were able to capture the images digitally and save them for years to come. Slide is such a cool free program too so there are lots of options to display your pictures. Enjoy the book!
Remember the pumpkins from United University Methodist Church? Last night was the first time we made jack-o-lanterns for the kids. I carved them, the kids dug out all of the gunk, Becky washed the seeds off so that we could cook them and eat them and she also made pumpkin pie.
Tonight we went to University Baptist Church for a “Trunk or Treat”event. Members of the church parked their cars in a line in the parking lot and gave away TONS of candy. If any Church in your area offers a trunk or treat event next year, it is totally the way to go! The kids each got about five pounds of candy in less than a half hour. Less walking and more candy. Works for me!
After the trunk or treat event, we went over to the houses of both of the grand-parents. We all had plenty of candy and have lots left over for months to come. Enjoy this slide show of our first trunk or treat event.
Oh yeah, one more thing. After last night’s pumpkin pie, Becky was putting our daughter to bed and asked, “Is the pumpkin pie nice and warm in your tummy?” Our daughter replied, “No, it’s probably in my large intestines and small intestines by now.”
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