I made that!

Myers loves to say, "I made that!" He may be pointing out a piece of artwork on the fridge or a mess in the living room, but he is always proud of his accomplishments. Well, I was looking at my two sweet boys the other day and caught myself thinking, "I made that!" Okay, so maybe George helped a little bit, but I grew these sweet little babies inside of me for 9 months and then I nourished them with milk from my own body. Seriously, what a miracle! Just like Myers, I am very proud of my accomplishment!

Cooking with Myers

I hope to make this a regular segment of my blog. For what it's worth, I hope to make my posts to the blog more regular as well!

Today, Myers and I made homemade pizzas. We used Arnold's Sandwich Thins for the crusts, spaghetti sauce, and mozzarella cheese.

Spreading the sauce

Enjoying the final product

Baby Jacob's Arrival

Big brother holding little brother



Just home from the hospital

It has only taken me three weeks to get around to this, but Jacob Steven has arrived. He was born at 10:36pm on January 27, 2011. Jacob is such a sweet, good natured baby so far. The first week or so was really tough, but we are starting to get into a routine and things are going much smoother at the McCown house. Jacob is already sleeping some longer stretches and letting me get a little sleep at night! Myers is being a good big brother and is helping me quite a bit. He loves giving Jacob kisses and I think he really likes his little brother (for the most part)! The first week or so that we were home were pretty rough, but things are going much more smoothly now that we are getting in a bit of a routine.

Waiting for baby Jacob

We are trying to wait patiently for baby Jacob's arrival, but I am starting to get antsy. I want to meet him so badly! My due date was last Thursday and he has still not decided to grace us with his presence yet! The good news is that I was 3-4 cm dilated and 70-80% effaced as of Friday. I go back to the doctor tomorrow to see if I have made any more progress. I am crossing my fingers that something will happen tonight and I won't be able to make it to my appointment tomorrow!
Here's hoping that an announcement of our little guy's arrival will be coming soon!

From the mouths of babes...

Myers has really started talking up a storm lately. Some of his favorite things to say right now are: "I read a book." "I fix it." "I share" (even when he isn't sharing!) "I want cheese toast (or yogurt or waffle or milk) please."
Today we saw a tow truck loading a truck and Myers said, "Oh no, truck!" Except that truck didn't quite sounds like truck! It had an "f" sound in the front of it if you get my drift...hopefully no one else heard him!

Myers' new room

Myers loves his big boy room. He doesn't always sleep through the night, but he is really good about staying on his bed when it is time to go to bed! The room still isn't entirely done because "Santa" is bringing a kitchen set for one corner and for Myers' birthday he is getting an easel and art supplies for another corner.

Disney Trip Update...Finally

Myers checking out the Lego dogs outside of the Lego store

George and Myers at Sanaa

Dinner at Chef Mickey's

We had a wonderful trip to Disney in early October!

Our room at Kidani Village was amazing! We could see the animals from our balcony and Myers loved it. When we had to close the door to the balcony, he would cry because he couldn't see the animals anymore. One day he accidentally dropped Bear off the balcony. It very narrowly missed the animal enclosure, and luckily fell on the balcony of another room. I called the front desk and they quickly retrieved Bear for us!

Myers was fascinated with the Monorail and said "Monrail, Monrail" everytime one went passed us! Luckily we have the Monorail playset that goes around our Christmas tree, so we got it out when we came home so Myers could play with it!

We also got to meet up with two friends at Walt Disney World. We met up with Myers teacher from school, her daughter Lexi and her husband in the Magic Kingdom. We rode Pirates of the Caribbean and the Jungle Cruise together which the kids loved. We met up with a friend Susan, that I met on the internet several years ago when we were both pregnant. Her daughter Sammie is just a few months older than Myers. We met up and ate dinner together at Epcot and watched Illuminations. Neither of the kids liked Illuminations very much and cried through the whole thing!

On Saturday, we met up and had breakfast with Mom and Dad. We ate at Boma which was a great breakfast buffet with several traditional African breakfast foods plus plenty of American choices as well.

We had a wonderful trip, and as always it was hard to say "Bye" to the World until our next trip! But it is so exciting that on our next trip, we will be a family of four instead of just three.