My Big Guy Chase

It's official. Chase, who is 3, weighs more that his big brother, Chandler, who is 5. I took them to the doctor today and Chase is 43.6 pounds, while Chandler is exactly 43 pounds. I think I have a future linebacker on my hands. He started off big (9lbs. 15 oz. ) and has not slowed down!

Christmas!

We had a great Christmas. We went to Jackson, MS to spend it with Jason's family and got home on Christmas night. The kids had a blast and Santa was very good to them. We got a Wii and it was so much fun playing it with all of the family! Here are a few pictures....

Looking at these pictures makes me realize how blessed we are!!!

Chatty Chandler

Chandler talks ALL DAY LONG! It is a constant stream of questions and comments everyday from the moment he wakes up until he goes to sleep. I am not stupid and I know that he inherited this trait from me. As a couple Jason is the quite one and I am the one that talks. I have an Uncle who always called me "Chatty Cathy" as a child and I always got in trouble at school for talking too much. If I talked as much as Chandler does as a child I was one chatty girl.

This past Thursday Chandler was in a very talkative mood. Here is a few excerpts of the conversations I had with him...

He wakes me up at 6:30 am with "Mom, what's for breakfast? I am really hungry. Can I have Pop Tarts or cereal? Do you have Toaster Strudel with blue icing? Can I have toast and chocolate milk?" He never gives me a chance to respond. I just get out of bed and he follows me down stairs with this. "Mom, is it a school day? How many more days until I get to go to big boy school and start kindergarten? Can I ride the bus when I go to my new school? What shoes can I wear today?"

It was a school day so we got ready and loaded up in the car and it just kept going. "Mom, when is Christmas? When does Santa come? What kind of cookies can we make him? Oh, look Mom there is a polar bear in someones yard. Are polar bears good or bad? What about frogs? And flies - are they good or bad?" (it was an inflatable polar bear, not a real one, in case you were wondering)

I am thinking to myself where do you come up with all these questions. It never ends. He really lets me respond to one question before he asks another.

Later that night, we went to Christmas Journey at our church. Christmas Journey is a narrative of the life of Christ that you see driving through in your car and listening to a CD. It is beautiful and of course Chase and Kate just starred, but Chandler asked a million questions and this was my favorite: "Mom, how many Jesus' were there? He was a baby over there and here He is a boy and up there He is a Man." I told him that Jesus grew from a baby to a boy to a man, just like he had grown from a baby to a boy." He then looked me in the eye and as serious as possible in a questioning voice said "I'm a Man?"