Jack J. Wheeler

Jack J. Wheeler

11/7/08

7lbs. 8oz.

HELP!!!

Okay here is the deal...
We are getting some weird traffic on our blog. They don't call it the WORLD WIDE WEB for nothing people. So, help me out, and if your blog isn't a link on ours, take our name/link off your blog. If that doesn't help to get rid of the issue, we're going to have to go private. We don't really want to do that because it has been so fun to connect with friends we haven't seen in a long time. Don't be offended if your name isn't on our blog. Once we got to a certain number of links we quit linking. We didn't want to leave anyone out but didn't want to look like a phone book either. (If you're wondering why we haven't included your blog on our list that's why. Sorry.) Thanks for your help.

Celebrations

Halloween

The Roman Wheeler's: Caesar, one of his wife's, and his first-born daughter.

Yes, what else can you be when you are having a baby in a week? (Well, besides a pumpkin, but that's everyday.) Jara refused to wear her beautiful, plush monkey suit complete with a banana, so we made her into a Roman too. The toga was worn under much protesting and m&m bribery. When I put leaves in our hair to complete the costume, Jara said "Mommy horns?" We tried to make "baby" (jara's ever-present donkey) a toga but...

Jara's 2nd Birthday

The pinata was this hideous yellow chicken, that only Lin's in Overton could produce. The whole way home in the car Jara kept looking at it and screaming "Bock BOCK Bock BOCK" she discovered this got me off of the phone really fast and now makes the obnoxious chicken screech whenever I am on the phone. Oh well, at least she stopped making it in church and towards unsuspecting mall patrons.

The Martha in me made two birthday cakes and cupcakes for the kids. The Grandma Leavitt in me made the cake look like a theme party for the leaning tower of Pisa, but very delicious. I made two cakes under the pretense that I didn't want anyone to go without, but the truth is I secretly was hoping to have one cake all to myself.

Jara is very lucky to have family close who were more than generous. Thank you family for all of your kindness. Jara has enjoyed each of her presents throughout the day. The telephone in bed this morning to call "Gorki," the tea set to have crackers on at church, the drum to wake up daddy from his nap, (which really wasn't Jara drumming but Jed just can't get the noise out of his head) and the baking set was used as a very entertaining organizational
tool.