Summer Synopsis and then some

Ah what to say about summer. Busy? Fun? Crazy? Went by to fast? Yes, Yes, Yes and YES! It was a good summer. Katie came during the month of July and part of August. We picked her up in OKC and headed to Tulsa to spend some time at Brancent's aunts house with his mom and family. A few weeks later Brancent and Katie headed to the New Mexico mountains for some camping with Brancent's dad's family. Jacob and I stayed home due to yet another ear infection (as of the end of August he has had 3 ear infections in 4 months). This infection was a little more memorable due to projectile vomit. Let me just say pay attention to the dosage you Dr tells you, don't count and the RX label to be right. Cursed Walgreens. Katie and I went to youth camp the first of August and she did great! It was her first year as a camper and she loved it. Combine that with youth and children programs, office work and house duties...craziness, but I loved every minute of it. Here are my favorite pictures from this summer. Cousin Morgan, Katie, Brancent and Jacob with Nana Beth Baby Einstein in the car on the way to Tulsa Swing powered by PawPaw Tres Ritos, NM mmmmm B-B-Q

Katie has been enjoying 6th grade and is playing the flute in band. She said "I love band! and the flute is easy!" We are super proud of her.

Jacob is a riot. Around the end of May he started saying his first word....juice. We know where his priorities are! He is now saying and signing Daddy when he sees Brancent and will sign mom when I ask. He says momma, but not actually to me. He is so unbelievably stubborn, but I can't blame Brancent for all of it. He is such a busy boy and wants to explore everything which makes for interesting outings. He loves his signing DVDs and squeals and laughs when we put one in then goes into the zone when it is on. The other night we put in a DVD for Brancent and I to watch and when Jacob realized it wasn't one of his he started bawling!

Jacob stories of the month: I got home from work last week and Jacob and Brancent were already eating supper without me. Brancent said Jacob came into the house got his plate off the cabinet, put it on the table, and climbed into his highchair all on his own. He then looked at Brancent like "well, feed me".
Since I work at the Deaf church and we worship there Jacob is at the church/office all the time. He recognizes it as soon as we pull into the parking lot. He has started clapping when he sees the building and when we go in he knows exactly where the animal crackers are kept! The other day when we went to the church to clean he started getting excited and I and said "Yeah we are at church" I turned around to show him the sign for church and saw him signing cracker! Church=Animal Crackers in his mind. We'll work in that later :)