An Elephant Never Forgets...

So, my 4 year old's memory ALWAYS amazes me. If he retains this type of memory, I'm in big trouble later in life! After we got home from school today, Jacob and JoJo were watching our new 40th anniversary Sesame Street movies while I was making grilled cheese. This is about how Jacob and I's conversation went:

Jacob: Mommy, remember that one time 500 months (okay-so his time table is a little off haha!) ago when after school we went to see the REAL Elmo at Bitburg?

Mommy: I do remember that Cubby. It was lots of fun.

Jacob: I know, I know! It was really fun! But, Mommy, I was a little bit mad at you.

Mommy (a little shocked and saddened by this): Cubby why in the world were you mad at mommy? We had so much fun!

Jacob: I KNOW we had fun mommy. I even got to give Elmo a hug, BUT YOU (very accusatory tone here) told me Big Bird would be there and he WASN'T! *gasp*

Mommy: I'm so sorry Cubby, I figured he would be. But, there were lots of other Sesame Street friends there.

Jacob: I know Mommy, there was Elmo, Zoe, Grover, Cookie Monster and Rosita. It was so fun. But I was really counting on Big Bird to be there.

Ouch. Sorry Cubby. And while I appreciate your ability to remember fun times we've had together, I really hope you forget those little things and don't hold them over my head for the rest of my life! Silly boy!! So, here's to Elmo and all of our Sesame Street friends and the nice mom next to me who took some pictures and e-mailed them to me because I forgot my camera!!

Trying to see over all the other kids. They gave out those cool Elmo things he's holding for free to all the kids. Thank you, USO!

Cubby telling me about it and JoJo dancing! Fun!

JoJo as loving it!

Dancing.

So happy!

Watching Elmo

The whole gang that was there.

Taking Grandma to the park!

For Grandma's first full day here, it was snowing a ton, and Jacob decided he wanted to take Grandma to the playground to play! It was so fun! Jacob even wanted to ride his scooter in the snow. Silly, Cubby. We had to come back to play in the snow after a while though, because JoJo was tired. The pictures are backwards again, but here's a little piece of the fun. Grandma sure does know how to play!

Grandma and Cubby doing cheers with their hot chocolate.

cubby with his hot chocolate.

Down the slide at the playground. It goes twice as fast with snow!

Snowball!!

Grandma and Cubby throwing snowballs at each other.

Cubby peeking over at JoJo. You can see JoJo's feet sticking out.

Not too happy about the snow today. It's a hit or miss with JoJo and snow.

Happy to have Grandma here!

So handsome.

JoJo glad to be carried by Grandma.

Cubby on his scooter in the snow. This was a site to see.

Grandma with the boys.

Snow Date!

So, I ended up picking up Cubby from school a little early today because it was starting to snow pretty hard, and if we got much more on top of what we already had, I knew I wouldn't be able to get to/up our drive. It ended up being really nice, and we got to have some date time just he and I in the snow together. That doesn't happen too often. JoJo was out for a little while, but snow isn't his favorite yet-and it was nap time! It was nice to have time with just Cubby. I think he enjoyed it too. Here a few pics of the boys from our snow adventure today!

Cubby kissed the snowman-for $1.00.

Our pathetic little snowman. It wasn't packable snow, so this is all we really got. He's more like a snowbaby, but he's cute!

Rolling down the hill in the front yard.

I asked cubby to pose-this is what he did. Silly boy. I love this wood pile! Such cool texture!

Sweet Cubby. He LOVES the snow! He's my rosy cheek baby.

Crawling away!

JoJo liked the snow better today, but at this point, he was about done!

Coming down off the bottom of the slide. So fun!

Jo Jo and his runny nose and too big hat. But, it's the only one he'd keep one. Sweet little boy.

So Big

Jacob wrote his name today-and you could actually tell it said Jacob. He's getting so big. And so smart. Here's to learning to write!