California Dreamin'

We had the fortune of going to visit Nanna and Poppa out in California this last week, sadly it came to an end way too quickly. Here is a recap of the weeks events:

Park day.

All I can say is thank heavens for grandparents! Seeing as how Shannyn and I have permanent shoulder problems due to having to push Jack on the swing all the time, it was nice to get some relief. Jack loved having Poppa around to push him to his hearts content.

Downtown day.
Shannyn wanted to get a "Dooney Burge" purse from Santee Alley in L.A., so we thought it would be fun to take the subway and the bus out there since Jack loves trains and buses. We managed to make it their and back without being mugged or harassed by bums, so it was a pretty successful outing. Oh and we got some cool stuff too. Try to take pics of the purses and shirts we got at some other time and put them up, but just know that they are pretty awesome (and they were super cheap).

Beach day.
One of Jack's favorite shows is "Ni Hao Kai-lan." It's about a little Chinese girl and her tiger friend Rintu, koala friend Tolee, and spider monkey friend Ho Ho (I can sing you the theme song if you like, that is how often we watch it). I guess he was getting tired from all the spanish on Dora and Diego so he wanted to try his hand at chinese. Anyhow, for one of the episodes, they go to the beach and make sand castles. Since that episode, whenever we would go to the park, Jack would say he is making sand castles. So we thought it might be fun to take him to the beach. Which it was, he loved it!
As you can see by his outfit (or lack thereof), we didn't think he would want to get wet since the water was so cold. We were wrong.

Disney day.
Nanna and Poppa got us tickets to Disneyland for Christmas this year (which may have to be a tradition, just letting you know ahead of time so you can start saving now). You might think it weird that we are getting Christmas presents in October, but I sort of like to get my presents from my parents way ahead of time. I don't think I have received a present from them on Christmas for about 10 years. Totally my fault though. Just don't have the patience. This way at least I get a good nights sleep before Christmas though. Right, Disneyland. Jack had a blast. He was great the whole day. Loved the jungle cruise (of course he loved the animals). Loved the tea cups (doesn't stop laughing the whole ride). Loved making Dumbo go up and down. He even took a nap while we had lunch in peace (that may have been the best part of the day). All in all it was a great day, THANKS NANNA AND POPPA!!!

i got tagged

so we are going to have a post about our awesome trip to california but again i'm too overwhelmed with all the pictures we took to even begin the post. i will leave it to john to do that post, but for now here is a little look into our history.

I got man-tagged and now I have been hubby tagged. Here is a little information about the man I fell for and married.

1. Where did you meet? we meet in our stake back in north hollywood, his sister dated my brother and my dad was his scout master.
2. How long did you date before you were married? we dated for two years
3. How long have you been married? 6 and a half years
4. What does he do that surprises you? his ability to not let people get to him.
5. What is your favorite feature of his? well he is a fine piece of male specimen but i really love his legs especially his calves.
6. What is your favorite quality of his? the fact that he loves to be together as a family, we always take jack everywhere we go.
7. Does he have a Nickname for you? babe
8. What is his favorite color? i don't think he has a favorite color he likes them all, just look at his dress shirt collection.
9. What is his Favorite food? he is a man who loves all foods except stuffing, weird huh?
10. What is his favorite sport? he likes to play basketball and he loves to watch football, i think that is because of fantasy football.
11. When and where was your first kiss? our first kiss was probably like two months after we started dating and it was in griffeth park.
12. Favorite thing to do as a couple? watch movies and we really love to play volleyball together when we get the chance.
13. Do you have any Children? one little boy, jack
14. Does he have a hidden talent? not any that i'm aloud to talk about.
15. How old is he? 29, 30 on november 19th
16. Who said I love you first? he did
17. What is his favorite type of music? lover of all music except for country
18. What do you admire most about him? how he will do anything to support his family.
19. Do you think he will read this? yup i sure do

Who eats more sweets? he does, i'm not really into the sweets.
Who said I love you first? he did
Who is taller? he is of course, i'm really short
Who can sing the best? he can, have you heard his mom and sister sing?
Who is smarter? john is a genius
Who does the laundry? i do except for his dress shirts because he doesn't trust me to get them out of the dryer right when it buzzes
Who pays the bills? he does, he is in the financial industry
Who mows the lawn? no one we have fake grass and rocks
Who cooks dinner? i do most of the cooking but i'm lucky that he loves to cook and is really good at it.
Who drives? when we are together he does, he has taught jack to call me a crazy driver.
Who's the first to admit when they are wrong? me, john tends to struggle with that one.
Who kissed who first? he kissed me first but i didn't fight him at all
Who asked out who first? he asked me out kind of. he asked me to go to vegas with him for a friends wedding. it was all in his plan to get me alone in the car for several hours and woo me.
Who wears the pants? both of us

The rules for this tag: Answer questions about your spouse, list names of people you are tagging in your post, then leave a comment in their blog letting them know they've been tagged.

i now tag anyone who wants to share their history with us.

wait a minute, i actually miss utah!!

(a picture of our trip to bryce with our friends scottie and rachel. i know it doesn't have to do with fall but it is just a reminder of how beautiful utah really is.)

can you believe you are reading this from shannyn florez, but it is true i miss utah. i miss my friends and being familiar with my area, knowing my way around but i especially miss the seasons. well i should clarify, i miss the fall season, the sweater weather, going to thanksgiving point for the pumpkin festival and the beautiful changing leaves on timp and provo canyon. it is still 100 degress here and i'm starting to think that i will never get to wear the hundreds of sweaters i have collected from living in utah for so long. ok that is all i really have to say because thinking about utah is making me sad.

a family that crafts together...

i've noticed that jack and i tend to get on each others nerves a lot lately, and i blame myself . the poor kid is mainly just bored out of his mind so he whines at me to get my attention. he doesn't really like to do anything by himself like play with his millions of toys, or play out back by himself and now he wants me to sit on the couch with him while he watches a show and i was going nuts trying to find ways to get him to entertain himself. then low and behold i was looking at my sister-in-laws blog and she had a blog by this lady with all kinds of crafts and things to do with your preschooler. i'm not normally the craft kind of girl but i was desperate and these crafts actually looked like something i could do and they were super cheap because most of the stuff she used was stuff i already had. so rather then constantly battle jack to get him to do stuff on his own i decided that these crafts would be fun for him and i might actually like doing them too. here is our first attempt.

it was awesome because all i had to do was cut out the stuff and then jack got to help squeeze the glue then he placed the windows, wheels and things and then i let him color it. my son doesn't have much of an attention span so actually getting him to participate in this was awesome.

here is the finished product. nothing fancy but made with love by my jack jack. i picked the school bus because one, it was something he knows really well and sees it everyday at school and two because it was something i could make without messing it up too much.


i truly think jack's favorite part was coloring his hands and feet more then coloring the bus. gotta love washable markers!!

another thing that is probably only exciting for me is that we finally managed to get jack over 30 pounds. i took him to his three year well child check up and found out that he weighs 31 pounds and is 37 and a half inches tall. this is a huge accomplishment because as we all know jack doesn't enjoy eating very much of anything, so 31 pounds is a huge deal for our family. and if i would have listened to jacks dr in utah we would finally be allowed to put jack in a front facing car seat. can you imagine? just so you know i checked with jacks rehab doctor about the car seat thing and they told me jack was strong enough to face forward a long time ago, so i'm not a negligent mother.

oh and by the way the blog that has all the crafts is www.notimeforflashcards.com check it out if you need some ideas. thanks laura for finding it.

birthday celebration

now that we live in arizona and it is still over 100 degrees i decided that this year for jacks birthday we would take him to our community "water park." jack still isn't really into anything in particular but he does love to swim so it was a win win. we had all of our arizona family come up to swim, bbq and celebrate with us. we were also very lucky to have my mom still here helping steph with the new baby. it was a great day and jack was extremely sad when everyone left to go back to their homes. thanks to everyone who came up we love you guys.

now is the time for the retelling of the days events...

jack is normally permanently grounded from playing the wii because that is all he talks about and wants to do. we thought that jack was taking his nap but he couldn't sleep because there was too much excitement in the air and he got out of bed and came down while john and others were playing rock band. so it was too late he already saw it so he joined in on the fun.



everyone that came up for the party at the water park.



the florez fam



loving dad and mom



here are all the arizona cousins together. this is the best picture we could get because of course kids being kids they didn't want to take a picture they wanted to play, except of course haylie she was great for her photo.





i'm probably a mean mom but even though it was jack's birthday i wasn't about to let him get away with not listening and misbehaving so i had to give him a time out, he was not pleased with that.



after his time out he was allowed to go and swim some more and he hopped right into the kiddie pool and became "one of those kids" who sits on the bubble blowers. i don't know why but it always gives me the creeps when kids do this. oh well what can i do, he isn't hurting anyone and he seems to be enjoying himself.



after swimming for a while we returned to our house to have the bbq, open presents and have the birthday dessert.

here we have lilly, max, katie and tyler. dang cute kids

jack taking in the mound of presents


this year for his birthday we got jack a play kitchen because he is obsessed with his cousin's. so john set up the kitchen the night before so when jack woke up he saw it and immediately started looking for the eggs like the ones tyler has. little did he know that i actually got him eggs but i was saving them for when he actually opened presents. so when it was time to open the eggs and he realized what they were he was so excited and had to immediately open them up and count them. as you can see by the big old smile he has on his face he loved the eggs. what a strange little man i have.



again i have a strange little man because the kid still doesn't like cake and still gags on it so we did ice cream cones again. all the kids were asking me what kind of cake we were going to have so i was really nervous that they were going riot when i produced the ice cream cones but luckily they all seemed happy with what they got.

i think jack really knew that at this point that this was his special day. he loved when we sang to him.

i just want to thank everyone who was able to come and share this special day with us. we love our jack and are so happy Heavenly Father sent him to us.

Holy cow i have a three year old

so to tell you the truth i'm extremely tired from the birthday extravaganza but i had to put a little something something to wish my boy happy birthday publicly and to give a little for the family and friends who couldn't celebrate with something to see. i promise i will do another post later with the full details with plenty of pictures and videos for all to enjoy.

but for now i just want to say happy birthday to the best boy in the whole world. jack you make our family what it is and i couldn't imagine a life without you in it. we love you very much and can't wait to celebrate many more birthdays to come.

whats in a name?

I got this from john's cousin's blog and i thought i was kind of interesting. i liked that it tries to make you look better then some of the character traits really mean. most of the stuff that describes me isn't true but i would like to believe it is. the only true part is the fact that i often get carried away with my thoughts and tend to over react and get jealous, as evident by my last post.

John's is a little bit more acurate to his personality but it did sound an aweful lot like mine.

Finally Jack, now this is what Jack could be like but seeing as he is only going to be 3 on monday we will have to wait and see if it is true.

Shannyn

You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong.You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know.You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing.

You're a strong person.You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality.You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.

You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in.You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising.You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care.

John

You are fair, honest, and logical. You are a natural leader, and people respect you.You never give up, and you will succeed... even if it takes you a hundred tries.You are rational enough to see every part of a problem. You are great at giving other people advice.

You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life.You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you.At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

Jack

You are fair, honest, and logical. You are a natural leader, and people respect you.You never give up, and you will succeed... even if it takes you a hundred tries.You are rational enough to see every part of a problem. You are great at giving other people advice.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily.You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind.A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable.

You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life.You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don't spill secrets or spread gossip.People sometimes think you're snobby or aloof, but you're just too deep in thought to pay attention to them.

http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyournameshiddenmeaningquiz/

i'm probably just crazy

we have now made it through two whole weeks of jack in school and i swear i'm already noticing the growth jack is making. he is talking more and in complete sentences. today when i dropped him off he didn't even fuss at all and didn't care that i left. i picked him up and he knew the drill and started telling me all about what he did in class, he is actually doing puzzles now, playing with play dough, coloring and asking for things without whining. this may not seem like a big deal to other people but for jack it is huge. i have to say i'm very pleased to see all these improvements in such a short amount of time. i still don't get feed back from his teachers and i don't really know what all they do in class but it seems to be going well. am i crazy to think that there can already be that many improvments?

another thing that makes me crazy is the fact that i'm a mother and "gave birth" to my son but i was completely freak out with the idea of my sister going into labor while i was down there for her baby shower. i've never been around someone about to go into labor and i have no idea about all the warning signs that the baby is just around the corner. the whole weekend i was paranoid that the baby was just going to drop out or something. i know that, that is not what would happen, but again i'm crazy. i'm happy to report that my sister did have her baby girl, haylie and both are doing really well. she is a tiny, sweet and a beautiful little girl. it is nice to have another girl in the family finally.

this has been another look into my messed up mind and what goes through my head on a daily basis. it is a crazy place in there.

i'm a big kid now!

today was the day, jack started preschool. we talked to jack about it for several weeks, we taught him his teachers name told him he was a big boy and he had to carry his back pack by himself, he had to listen to the teacher, be nice to the other kids and most of all no whining. i know that last one was wishful thinking but we had to try right.

john decided that he was going to come with me to drop off jack on his first day, we got there early because that is how john rolls and we wait around until the teacher comes to the gate to let the kids in. of course because we got there too early we had to wait around and jack was not very happy about that and of course first thing he does is whine. finally the teacher and the aids come and we sign in our kids and they are suppose to line up and wait for everyone to be signed in then they are off to the play ground. jack was excited about the idea of playing but then he realized that mom and dad weren't coming with him, so he looks around for us and keeps trying to grab for my hand so i will go with him. he whines a little bit but goes over to the play ground with the teacher. one of the aids comes out so i tell her that jack tends to cry when he realizes that we aren't going to be there and then he will often make himself throw up and she says, "oh yours is the one who throws up." i didn't really like the tone of that comment but what can you do, my kid is that kid. i ask her what happens when he does that and she just said we calm him down and then move on. very rarely do they call the parents to come and get them. so with that john and i realized there wasn't much else we could do so we left. as we drove away i look in the play ground and there is little jack standing by the gate crying. it was hard for me to see that and not go over there to comfort him but i stayed strong and let him work it out with his teacher.

two and a half hours later i come back to school to pick him up and there he is right next to his teacher holding onto the gate waiting to be let out. to my surprise he is wearing the same outfit i dropped him off in (meaning he didn't throw up all over himself) there were no tears on his cheeks and no red face signifying that he cried the whole time. what a load off. the teacher did inform me that he did cry off and on but they managed to get him to stop and they said he had a fun time swining on the swings. i asked him in the car if he wanted to go back to school tomorrow and can you believe it, he said yes.

so there you have it, jack is now in school and seems to like it for the most part and i have two and a half hours to myself four days a week. swimming here i come!

My son is trying to kill me...

Yes, it's true. For the first time in his short life, Jack almost gave me a heart attack! While I am sure it won't be the last time he does this to his old man, it was the first.

Need a little background first. A few weeks ago, we were staying over at Steph's. I wake up to Jack whining. Nothing out of the normal, but then the whining starts moving down the hall. WHAT??? I got up, looked around, and found no adults who would have taken Jack out of his crib. Sure enough, the little bugger had engineered a crib break!

He has since tried it a few times with varying degrees of success, but for the most part I am pretty sure he ends up falling out of his crib since we have found him on the floor crying.

So last night, we decided to put him in his big boy bed since he always asks to sleep there but never actually sleeps. He did fine on Friday night so we figured he had got it down. Well after about 2 hours of listening to Jack play in his room, we decide it's time he goes back to the crib. Sure enough he falls right to sleep or so we thought.

As we are going to bed, I tell Shannyn, "I am going to go lower the crib rails in Jack's bed so if he tries to climb out, he doesn't fall as far."

So here I am, sneaking in to Jack's room in the dark. Trying so carefully to lower the rail without making noise. I get it lowered (pretty darn quietly I might add) and I am kind of staring at this mess of blankets in Jack's crib trying to make out where Jack is (did I mention it was dark). I can't make him out, so I start feeling around the bed. Nothing! That was the moment Jack almost gave me a heart attack. So I flick on the light, the little turkey had climbed out of his bed (without making a peep mind you because we had the monitor on) and in to his big boy bed where he was going to sleep for the night.

So there you have it, proof that Jack is trying to kill his old man. Maybe if I tell him he is not the beneficiary of my life insurance he will cut it out...

meet the teacher night

tonight was back to school night and an opportunity to take jack to meet his teacher and see his classroom. well we now know jack's teacher's name, mrs. zeek and that is about it. i tried to ask the teacher questions but i really didn't get very good answers. and top it all off the teacher didn't even really try to interact with jack. i know you all think i'm crazy but, one there was only one other family in there with us and two she is a developemental preschool teacher so shouldn't she be more out going and more approachable. i mean these are kids with "special needs." we went and spent about 40 minutes in there, jack loved all the toys and the "magic carpet" with all the shapes, but he could care less about the teacher. i know i shouldn't look to far into that but it makes me very nervous. jack tends to do whatever he wants in nursery and doesn't ever want to participate in group activities, what is he going to be like in school. i left back to school night not feeling very prepared and very anxious about the whole thing. i don't think it helped that i had to do this by myself, john was out of town unfortunately.

another interesting thing of note, while jack was playing with a bunch of cars in his classroom another kid older and bigger then jack came over and started to play. as soon as this kid sat down jack goes right over to him and pushes him and yells at him. jack has never done anything that aggressive before, he is usually the one who waits around until the kid is done playing with something and then takes his turn. school is going to be a rude awakening for the florez family. wish us luck and i will keep you all posted on the adventures in preschool, to which i'm sure there will be many.

no more vampires!!

i don't know if it is just me and the end of a series of books but i'm really not sure how i feel about the last book in the twilight series, breaking dawn. don't get me wrong it is a fast read and it had a couple twists in the book that i liked but i don't really think i loved it like i did the others. maybe it was just too much anticipation on my part for the book to live up to, or maybe i'm just mad the story is over and there will be no more edward in my life. i don't want to ruin it for those of you who haven't read it yet or are in the middle of reading it but i just wanted to put my thoughts out there. although i don't really think that i have said too much about what i really thought about it. i'll wait until i have someone i can discuss it with. anyone out there done yet??

"say a little prayer for me..."

lately we have been letting jack say the family pray and it is so cute to hear him talk to Heavenly Father. the other night jack was telling Him all the things he was thankful for and this is some of what he said.

"Heavenly Father, thank thee for this day. thankful for the rocks. thankful for the swings. thankful for the slide. thankful for spin the wheel (that is a silly game on the wii that he likes to watch)." and so on.

i love when he says his prayers and the fact that he knows how to do it and in the right way makes me so happy. little moments like these makes dealing with the terrible twos all worth it.

"Oh what do you do in the summertime..."

WARNING this is extremely long and lame, proceed at your own risk.

i can't believe we are already half way through the summer and jack will be in school in about 3 weeks. summer always goes too fast. the month of july has been full of fun adventures and activities, i hardly know where to begin.

to start the month we got to go up to st george for the 4th of july. i love this new family tradition. this year it was just the sisters up there none of the brothers we able to make it. it was filled with swimming, bowling, bounce houses, shopping, great food, air soft gun wars and of course fireworks. i love that utah still allows fireworks since we can't do them in arizona.

how cute are our little guys with their tiny bowling shoes. i know what you are thinking how could be let them wear those shoes without socks. well we didn't have any and the guy promised he sprays them really well. just focus on how cute they are, thats what we did.

ok i know you are definately noticing my socks. again i didn't pack any socks for any of us so i asked my mom if i could borrow a pair. now my mom subscribes to the idea of color socks are way better then white socks so she of course she gives me a pair of bright orange socks to coordinate with my orange striped shirt. i know it isn't the most flattering picture of me but i had to show you what i was working with.

we decided to take the little boys to jumping jack's and we actually the the place pretty much to ourselves and we had a great time. i think the dads were having more fun then jack and tyler.




a shot of the guys right before they went out to war. they seemed to really enjoy themselves even though they came back with twisted ankles, welts on their faces, backs and chest and scrapes all over their legs and arms. they all went back out the next night.

when we got back from st george we were lucky enough to have john's family here to hang out and play. we went to the mall for some of jacks favorite noodles from panda express and of course to follow that we rode the carousel. then nana, papa, jack and i headed up to prescott, arizona for the "cooler" weather and to see if it could be a place for nana and papa to live. they loved the little town but it is really quite expensive to live there. of course while they were staying with us jack wanted to go feed the ducks again and then have some fun at the park and play in the water. then to finish the week laura, kevin, lilly and max came up for the weekend and played a marathon of rock band. seeing as i'm pretty shy about singing or playing an insturment infront of people i stuck with cooking with my awesome helpler max. if anyone needs something mixed he is your man.

can you believe it, jack is actually eating something other then chicken nuggets or a PBandJ sandwich. now our little max man loves to eat. john likes to say he looks like a shark because he loves eating so much he rolls his eyes back into his head, like a shark does when they eat.

this is not your aveage carousel, it is two stories and they other cousins went up there so we couldn't get a good picture of them.


while we drove around prescott arizona we stopped at good old burger king for some lunch and of course jack had to take his tennis ball that papa gave him with us.



just some good old playing around the park with nana, papa, mom and dad.

are you seeing the serious concentration on their faces. this had to be some of the funniest times we've had in a long time. i was laughing so hard i started crying. everyone should come and experience this.

me being the party pooper that i am, cooking with max.

this last week john was out of town pretty much the whole week so i went down to hang out in gilbert. i know more about what there is to do down there then i do in my own neck of the woods. we went to rosa's mexican resturant for tommy's birthday and then went night swimming. i'm glad i have family around me so i have someone to keep me company when john is out of town. friday my dad actually came down here and he came to see my house and took us out for lunch. that night we went to a diamondbacks game. they were playing the dodgers and the dodgers actually won. go dodgers. jack was actually really good at the game. i guess watching all that espn with daddy has really paid off because jack was fascinated with the game.

as you can see this month has been so much fun, i'm sad it is almost over. i love summertime even when it is 112 degrees outside.

i was going for the worlds longest post and i think i might have gotten it.

FHE anyone?

john and i have decided to be better about having family home evening and last week we had a little lesson and then proceeded to venture out into the 110 degree weather to feed the ducks. people who know me know that i'm not very good with animals, most tend to scare the crap out of me so being surrounded by so many ducks was quite an undertaking for me. needless to say i was the camera man and john and jack did the feeding. how lame am i that i let my baby do the job i'm afraid of. jack actually really liked it and thought it was the funniest thing to throw the bread at the ducks (relatively speaking) not to the ducks. i guess maybe next time i will get brave and try actually feeding the ducks.

you can't tell from these pictures but there were 20 something ducks surrounding us. that is why my camera work is so shaky because i was afraid i was going to step on a duck or worse they were going to attack by surpise

this was going to be a really cool picture because when jack and john started walking away all the ducks were following them. but of course another family decided to start feeding the ducks right then and there so they all ran over to them. lame family ruining my picture.


sorry the video is so shaky

happy father's day...and more

i justed wanted to wish all the fathers out there a very happy fathers day, but i especially want to let my "hooch" know that he is the very best father i could ask for, for our little jack jack. i could not do the things we have to do if i didn't have you as my partner. i know that jack loves you and is so happy to have you as his father. i hope that our jack jack grows up to be just like his dad. we love you daddy.

another note of interest, we found out on friday that jack qualified for developemental preschool. i have mixed emotions about the whole thing, happy that he is going to get the extra help he needs but a little sad he needs the extra help. if that makes any sense at all. i guess i'm just shallow or somethings because i just want jack to live an average childs life and that is not the path heavenly father has in store for him. i know that, that means he has a super strong spirit and i'm lucky heavenly father thought john and i were the best parents for him. i guess i'm just having a human moment. don't get me wrong i know that jack can and will do anything he wants to do in life.

so back to the origianlly point of this, he will actually start school this august and he will go 4 days a week for 2 and a half hours. i can't believe my baby is going to be in school. not that 2 and a half hours is a long time but i don't know what i'm going to do with myself. i haven't been alone in my house for more then an hour since jack was born. well wish us luck with this whole transition, i'm pretty sure jack will love it and really benefit from this opportunity.

what a way to kill the happy fathers day, huh!?!?