Barker Life

Caleb and their new bunk bed! He feels so big in his new bunk bed. He even has his prized Buzz Lightyear poster above him to fall asleep looking at. He got a Buzz Lightyear and Woody that he has practically carried around for the last month. He found a lot of our toys that resemble the Toy Story toys and so he keeps them all together in a basket to play with every day. It's so precious. Jonah was never obsessed with anything for too long, but Caleb sticks with something when he gets into it!

I have to tell a funny story from the other day. It may be a little gross, but it's really cute to me. We were standing around after school when our school principal asked Caleb if he was feeling better. (He had just finished a bout with a stomach virus)

Here's Caleb's reply: "Yes, I frew (threw) up out my bottom alot."
We all just laughed and agreed that was a very good description!

Just one of the Boys!

Jonah and Caleb had their friend Sebastian over the other day. I walked in and Hannah had grabbed a hat from the hat rack, put it on backwards and was busy playing cars with the boys. Priceless.

She's saying a lot of little words now: Pappoo(which means pacifier), Daddy (which is still what she calls both of us), Mommy(but she chooses not to say it much), They i is (there it is), Hi, Bye, Baby, Puppy, Quack-Quack (which is a duck), Moo, Cookie, and many more that I can't recall right now. She also says long strands of chipmunkish sounding words that have the cutest little voice inflections. She'll just go on and on when I pick her up from preschool in her little chipmunk language - I think she's telling me what all happened that day. Oh -She still smacks her lips together when she's hungry or thirsty too.

Here's another picture from Christmas! This is at Tootsie's house when we opened presents. Uncle Collin and Amy (soon to be Aunt Amy) flew in from California to visit for Christmas. We got to spend a lot of great family time together. I think my best memory was when Caleb and Jonah had to go to bed on the last night before Uncle Collin and Amy were flying out the next morning. The boys had been wrestling, playing and having such great quality time with their Uncle and it was time for them to go to sleep. Uncle Collin told them that he had to go home the next day so he wouldn't be there the next morning. They said their goodnights....After Uncle Collin left the room Caleb said in his sweet little three-year old voice, "I'm sad, I'm gonna lost Uncle Collin".


This is my Uncle Dennis with Hannah and his crazy hat!

We had Christmas with the Britt side of the family a few days after Christmas. We all enjoyed an exciting Karaoke night. It was so much fun! Here's my mom and dad singing "their song" "I Got You Babe". I didn't know they had it in them!!! I guess after being married for 39 years, they have definitely "got" each other.

The cousins getting their groove on to the Beach Boys. My personal favorite was Adam's interpretation of "Ice, Ice Baby!"

Jonah had Tae Kwon Do Testing a couple of weeks ago.

I'm so impressed with how much he can remember! This is a picture of him showing his form to test for yellow belt.

Here he is a week later when they had the belt ceremony. Most of the kids just calmly walked up there. Not Jonah. He was ready waiting on his toes and took off running and excitedly jumping to get his yellow belt. The guy next to me said, "You have a little Jim Carey on your hands." ...You have no idea.

Here he is taking off his previous belt. Mrs. Andrea his instructor helping him.

A little more excited! This is the yellow belt dance!

Five people got awards for different things, and Jonah was one of them. His award was for

100% Effort! That really describes him in TKD, he puts his whole heart into it. It's such a great sport, it teaches such respect and discipline.