Funny faces of Jack

Yesterday after church Jack was in a really silly mood. He was standing on his new time-out mat in the corner (sounds sad, but he actually loves it...not sure how long that will last!). Anyway, he was making all kinds of funny faces and repeated them so I could take pictures. After all, he wanted to be able to see them, too!

Here are a few of Jack's funny faces...

  surprise!/sleeping

  sneaky/pleassssseee...

  looking up/fishy face

  hahaha/singing

 roaring like a lion/just jack smile!

Hope you enjoyed them as much as we did!

Trampoline!

This week we found an indoor playground at the mall in the center. It was so nice to finally find a little place for Jack to play when it is too cold to play outside. Here are a few pics from the trampoline. He loved it! I have a feeling that the $3 an hour playtime might be a weekly trend in our family this winter...

Just like Daddy

Aunt Laura, Uncle Josh and Ellebelle sent Jack a bathtime shaving kit for Christmas. Here are a few pics of Jack shaving just like daddy! He was so excited...it came with a mirror and shaving brush, too!

 Lather up!

 Hmmmm...is this how he does it?

 Going really slow to make it just right

All done:)

Favorites from Christmas day with the kids

After Christmas morning at our house, we went to the kids houses. It was a cold rainy morning so Jack dressed up in his Christmas pjs, Santa suit and his fireman rain coat and boots. He loved being Santa Claus!

 Waking the kids up

 Sergiu, where are you?

 family pic...notice the boots

sisters Ibi, Laura, and Marga trying on their new church clothes...precious girls

 the babies of the foundation...jack and daniela

with all the kids from Casa AnaNadia

 jeff and most of the Casa AnaNadia boys: Sergiu, Fanel, Daniel and Janos

 Now doing Christmas morning at Casa Rebecca...they were already up and dressed!

 Anna and Jack

 Jack and Ema (Emese). Jack had to stand next to us when we took pics with the kids

 The girls showing off their 'cowboy' boots

 Jeff and Stefan.. we have been taking this pose for 5 years:)

 stealing the kids candy canes out of their stockings...

 playing with Krisztina

 with the CasaRebecca kids

 Next stop: apartment boys...Adi, Marian and Cornel

 playing cars with Adi

 jack got a few cars from Santa while the boys opened their gifts

 that night the kids were in a program at church

 jack went as rudolph to show his support!

Merry Christmas from our family and kids to yours!

I love you Lord song

Here is Jack singing "I love you Lord" song while playing in his tent. I have sung this to him since he was an infant. About two weeks ago he sang it back to me just before bedtime. The tears were flowing! Sorry it's a little hard to see, but enjoy his sweet, sweet sounds!



"I love you Lord, and I lift my voice, to worship you...oh my soul, rejoice. Take joy my King, in what you hear, may it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear."

Christmas morning!

Welcome to part one of our Christmas morning...family Christmas. My parents, Nana and Aunt Amy stayed up very late on Christmas Eve (our Christmas morning) so they could watch Jack open up his gifts from Santa and them. We had an early morning so that we would have time as a family before going to the kids' houses. We went in to wake Jack up and he was soo tired. When Jeff said, "Good morning Son," he didn't hardly move...then when Jeff said, "do you want to see what Santa brought you?" Jack shot up from bed and shouted "OKAY!" with complete joy! When hurried downstairs to say hi to the family and then to see what Santa brought...

 Our little tree; Jack running in to say hi to my parents, Nana and Aunt Amy

 Opening up his stocking...

 First sighting of SPINTOPS!!!

 Luuuk Grandy and Yaya, spintops!!

 Such joy...I love seeing Christmas through the eyes of a child...isn't that a gift of Christmas!

 Santa also brought a little Woody and Buzz figures...that fit perfectly into the wooden firetruck made by the elves in Santa's workshop!

 Playing for the family

 Another spintop! Santa brought 3 of them!

Who knew what delight some wood could bring a little boy!

 A card Nana sent with a 3D Santa...Jack loved it!

 Santa also brought a light up Rudolph nose

 Spinning...

 Mr. Potato Head from Aunt Amy and Uncle Chad

 Who's that?!

 After opening up a bunch this morning, we had to hurry up and run out the door to deliver gifts to the kids. We decided to put Jack into his Santa suit. However, it was raining and Jack just had to wear his fireman boots and coat...so he wore it all...Christmas pjs, Fireman boots and coat over the Santa suit!

 In the afternoon Jack said this guys looked like his Grandy!

Hahahaha...love you dad!

 The big gift Jack got was from Yaya and Grandy...a TONKA tent...He loves it!

 Peek a boo!

 Skyping with Memaw, Pepaw, Sean, Elizabeth, Connor, Paige and Ethan...among many other family! We love skype but love the families even more. So glad we could be a part of so many Christmases!!!

After church we came home and opened up a few more gifts from Aunt Laura, Uncle Chad and Ellebelle, as well as Memaw and Pepaw...he got some wind-up toys....just like Memaw and Pepaw have! Thank you to everyone who made Jack's (and our) Christmas so special! We love you!