Savannah

Not much to say about Savannah. She is laughing and smiling and loves to chew on her fists. I took these pictures today and had a lot of fun editing them in Picasa.

Joshua's Update

Josh is 5 years old and is a little accident prone. He is very social and likes to talk to everyone. If he doesn't have anything to say, he'll start a conversation by going up to someone and saying, "I'm five years old." A few weeks ago I got a call from his preschool teacher saying Josh had cut the back of his head open and he needed stitches. Apparently, he was playing London Bridges Falling Down wearing high heel shoes (Ms. Jamie said all the boys wanted to try out the high heel shoes; Jason asked her not to let him wear them anymore). Luckily, our old home teacher is a plastic surgeon and we went straight to his office to get stitches. The cut was all the way to his skull and Josh got several layers of stitches. This isn't the first trip we've made to see Dr. Rodriguez. Last year Josh got a staple in his head while laying on Dr. Rodriguez kitchen table.

We started Josh on growth hormones about 4 months ago. He gets a shot every night before he goes to bed. It is just a shot under the skin, not into the muscle, so Josh doesn't mind the shots. We are always grateful when we go to our yearly trip to the pediatric cardiologist and find out that Josh's heart is doing well and he doesn't need another surgery. Josh's eyes are also seeing well and hopefully he won't need a 3rd eye surgery. He is a lovable kid and is still in love with a little girl named Megan, who is two years older and a lot taller than Josh.

Jackson's Update

Ok, my first post was too fun and too easy and Savannah is still cooperating, so I'll post again. I will give an update on the kids, starting with Jackson. Last week Jackson received his Arrow of Light at Cub Scouts Pack Meeting and had his crossing over ceremony to 11-year old Scouts. We are very proud of him, but I will always remember the ceremony because Jackson was chomping on gum the whole time. Jackson also graduated from DARE (drug abuse resistance education) at school. He is in 5th grade this year and is the Student Council President, so he had to open the graduation ceremony and introduce the DARE police officer. I made a deal to pay him $10 if he would memorize his speech. Bribery worked this time and Jackson did a great job!

Jason took Jackson and Justin to the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 22nd. BYU vs. UCLA. Grandpa Downey was in town to go and our friends from UCLA, Mark Crane and his son Joshua, flew in from Colorado to see the game. It was a fun game and BYU won by blocking UCLA's field goal in the last three seconds. Jason watched the game again last night on the DVR, I guess he was afraid he missed something the first time. At least he fast forwarded inbetween the plays!

Jackson is learning a Jon Schmidt song on the piano (Pachabel Meets U2). Our family loves his piano music, and I love him for inspiring little boys to practice the piano. I will post his website at the bottom of our blog. Our favorite songs are Waterfall, Pachabel Meets U2, and All of Me. Savannah is crying, got to go....

The Day After Christmas 2007

Today is December 26, 2007. We had a wonderful Christmas and today the kids are playing with all their new toys. Jackson and Justin are on the Wii and Josh is on the Smart Cycle. When Josh was in the bathtub today, I noticed a big bruise on his ankle. He told me he got it from riding his Smart Cycle when his feet slip off the pedals. It hasn't seemed to slow him down. We had leftover cinnamon rolls for breakfast and I wonder if the kids will spend all day in their PJs again. Jackson and Justin got new scriptures for Christmas yesterday and when Jackson came into my room this morning, he told me he read his scriptures before he went to bed last night and he is going to keep reading them every night. That is the best Christmas gift he could ever give me.

We had an adventure on Christmas eve day. We took the whole family to Bass Pro Shop to spend Jason's gift certificate from the ladies at the office. We entered a drawing to win a Nintendo Wii and Jason won! The kids were so excited (they didn't know Santa was going to bring them one for Christmas). We got home and opened the box and the Wii was not there! Jason took it back to the store and the store managers had one more Wii package, but when they opened it, the Wii was not there! The store managers felt so bad, they gave us a $100 gift certificate and promised to get a Wii for us as soon as possible. Now we need to figure out what to do with 2 Wii's.

I hope this blog will help us keep in touch with friends and family, but most of all help us keep a journal/family history! We are now bloggers! Love, JaNae