Jude's new favorite song is Baba black sheep. He requests it over and over and over. I end up singing it till I am just sick of it and he still wants more. Well I decided it would be more fun if I knew the signs for it and I started looking up words in the sign language dictionary. I was looking up "black" and I saw the word "brat" I made the sign and began teasing Jude and he thought it was so funny. He laughed and laughed and laughed. He was laughing a good 2 or 3 minutes before I got the camera. What a silly guy.

We had a very off schedule day where Jude didn't get a chance to take a nap. Usually if it gets to be around 3 o'clock or later he is so far gone anf tired that he won't take a nap and that it what happened. I tried to put him down at my moms house at around 2 and he worked himself into such a paniced protest that my mom and I had to sit with him for almost 30 minutes to calm him down. Later on in the day I was over at Brian and Angies and Jude decided he wanted to swing. He was in there for about 10 minutes and when I looked over this cute thing is what I saw.

So yesterday all of the kids and Duckets were running around a grassy area and having a great time. Whenever Duckets starts running the kids just start going crazy and they stop paying attention to what they are doing and where they are going. We still had the leash on Duckets and here comes Jude and he just clothes lines himself right on it. At first it didn't look bad at all, just a bit of a rashy area. When we woke up the next day we see this huge scab all over his neck like he was strangled. The pictures don't do it justice because it really looks bad. So when social services comes knocking on my door I need people to vouch for me. This kid just can't keep himself out of physical trouble!

I was on my way home from my moms house and I looked in my rear view mirror to see the cutest sight I ever saw. Jude had gotten ahold of his cool dude shades and was just sitting there with them. It just cracked me up so much and I wanted everyone to see it like I was seeing it so that is the reason for the picture through the mirror. Then I took every red light opportunity to flip around and take some pictures of my cool baby!

Jude is at the stage where he is getting interested in coloring. I gave him his own little book and a pencil (I'm not brave enough to give him pen or markers just yet) and he will sit there and scribble away. If I am making a shopping list or a to do list he also has to have some paper to write on to. This particular day was especially cute because it looked like he was doing homework or something. He was being very serious and intense about his scribbles. He didn't even really look up for the camera which is huge for my little ham it up cheese man.

What is going on here?!?!?! Just another wierd randomness I happened upon in St.george, Utah.

Good idea, Bad idea?

So I was struck by and idea. Be it genius or madness I don't know but Jude had a great time. It was almost dinner time but it was still about 20 minutes away so I sat Jude up in his high chair with a poptart to tide him over. The pop tart had sprinkles all over it and Jude was having a great time drawing pictures on his tray with the fall off. It reminded me of an activity that my mom used to do with me. She would spray shaving cream all over a table and let us just make a mess. I wasn't as brave to let Jude do it on a table but I set him up on his high chair and he had a great time. But messy it was, so much to the point that I just hefted the entire highchair into the shower. Jude also thought that this was just the funniest thing. It was very messy and crazy but once it was all over and done with everyone had a lot of fun.

But where are the children?!?!?!?!

Here is Angie and I having a great kid free time. My ward was having this craft night and we just got to make the most wonderful things! Both of our creative minds were overdosing on cuteness and we just couldn't get enough of all the cute things they had for us to do. There were cupcake advent calendars, photo frames, hair clips, all sorts of goodies. I'm way sad because I've got so much I want to do but at the end of this month when baby girl is here I am going to be lucky if I can find time to shower. Sigh... but we did manage to make some lovely menu boards and we got the jist of all the other projects so we can do them on our own later.

Here are some of the crafts that we didn't get a chance to make but we got the idea and the jist of how to do it later.