I've just rediscovered Photobucket and I've figured out that they host your video's too!! So here's a little clip for your viewing pleasure. It's a bit grainy because it was taken with my regular camera. And for some reason I was stupid enough and turned the camera sideways, so it's a little hard to watch once I did that. But here you go anyway!!
Oh yeah... The whole time he's doing this he's shouting Choo-Choo, Whoo-Whoo, and making steam sounds!
We've been trying to get Jaycob to tell Bryan about his day. This was today's dialog.
Note: Jaycob first starting calling Kaylee 'Kay-Kay', but for some reason changed it to 'Yeaaah-Yeaaah'. Who knows why?
Mommy: "Jaycob, did you tell Daddy who we went and seen today?"
Daddy: "Jaycob, who did you see today?"
Looks at me and asked who...
Daddy: "Jaycob, did you go and see Kaylee today?"
Jaycob shakes his head non-chalantly.
Then looks at Bryan and you can see the question actually registers. He starts flapping his arms and gets all excited!
Jaycob: "Yeaaaah- Yeaaah truck!"
Mommy: "Yes, we seen Kaylee's truck"
Jaycob: "Bye, bye Yeaaah- Yeaaah!"
Daddy: "You went and seen Kaylee today?"
Jaycob: "Yeaaah- Yeaaah dahdy?"
Daddy: "You seen Kaylee's daddy too?"
Jaycob shakes head excitedly!
Jaycob: "Yeaaah- Yeaaah mama?"
Daddy: "Yep you seen Kaylee's mommy too"
Jaycob once again shakes head excitedly.
Jaycob: "Yeaaah- Yeaaah, Yeaaah- Yeaaah!"
In the morning we went to a play group, sorry no pictures.
When we got home it was lunch and naps. After naps we went out and played.
After dinner we went out to the park with Kaylee and her parents! I'm totally loving having someone here to talk to over the age of 3!!
Ok I have pictures for this day, but I'm choosing not to share them at this moment...
Permissions pending, sorry!!
I will say that we had Melissa and Kaylee over for a little while in the morning....
We had a blast! Abygail has a mark to prove it!
I have no pictures to show you all the fun!
Ok I know quite a few of you have asked me what Jaycob was talking about in my last post. So here is the answer.
He wanted us to get a shoe and squish a spider that was crawling around near his train!
I know... Stupid... But it was funny especially considering he's only seen us do that a couple of times, and none of the recently.
Tonight after dinner Jaycob was playing with his trains near the television. One minute he was playing the next he was standing by the sliding glass door pointing at his trains saying, "Choo-Choo". We told him he could go play with his train and few other things, but he just stood there. He then said, "Choo- Choo" pointing at his train over in the corner and "Shoe Mama" pointing at his shoe. Ok so.... What his train ran over his shoe? His shoe got in the way of his train? (yes he refers to his shoes while on his feet as a third party!) But he continued to just stand there and told us, "No!" to all of guesses as to what he was talking about.
Guess what he was trying to tell us.....
First off... Business... Go tell your moronic story over at Rachel's... Go... Now!!
We did go to the library this morning. I was quite a bit leery after last week's episode, but we went anyways! You'll never guess who showed up... Kaylee and her mommy! Kaylee's wonderful mommy remembered me saying at some point that we're usually at the library on Monday mornings so she brought Kaylee up!! Jaycob actually recognized her. He followed her with his eyes and at the same time ignored her, you know how guys are!! Whenever Kaylee danced during story time Jaycob just had to tell me about, it was all too funny!
After story time Kaylee and her mommy decided they were going to go to the park. I decided we were going to tag along. We tagged right along to park that we haven't been to before!! Just as close as the other one we go to, but in my opinion better!! Thanks Melissa for showing us that park!!!
The kids had a blast! Jaycob did get in trouble for throwing wood chips. Both liked the swings, though I wish they had more. Abygail loved climbing up and down the steps way up high. And Jaycob did find a slide he was comfortable with and went down it by himself quite a few times! Oh and me... I liked going to the park and having someone to talk to other then a 1 and 2 year old!!! Another mommy.. Oh it was great! There might even be a repeat performance tomorrow!!
Anyway... They're both in bed and sound asleep... I think I may just do the same!!
Not only did Jaycob and I get to go to a birthday party today, but it was also warm enough to play outside after nap time all the way until dinner time and even a little bit after dinner! After the sun moved out the air got very cold though...
Jaycob rediscovered how much he loves his little slide. Last year he still preferred to have you help him up the stairs. And when we did we would count them. This year he's climbing them all by himself and he's even counting the steps!
Abygail has decided to make the lawnmower a baby stroller! Jaycob yelled at her for it and told her, "Vroom, Vroom!". Guess we'll have to look into getting her a real baby stroller.
Neither one of them really wanted to come in for dinner and again when it got darker. These pictures are right before we made them come in after sun down.
Woo Hoo! We finally got a chance to go to HyperSpace, for a birthday party. Its like the big play place around here.
Knowing how the kids acted at Jungle Java I decided to only take Jaycob and leave Abygail at home with Daddy. At Jungle Java Jaycob was very afraid of anything with holes in it (i.e. the netting, rope ladders.) Here at HyperSpace I figured some of it would be platforms and such like the McDonald's play places. Nope at HyperSpace their Sky Maze is all those nylon strap nets!! Jaycob was not thrilled!!
Jaycob refused to even go near the Sky Maze at first. But the pull of a woman is irresistible! Jaycob has found his first real little friend, I think. Some one that he knows the name of, talks about, and gets excited when he sees her! This little woman is Kaylee from both of our playgroups. She is the cutest little thing ever! Of course as we've noticed Jaycob prefers, she's dark haired and can stand on her own two feet!! Anyways... She had no fear of going up in the Sky Maze and climbing all over the netting. Jaycob wanted to go to the slide that was in the middle of it all, but he didn't want to go bad enough until he seen Kaylee doing it!! By the time we were done he was cautiously following Kaylee up a platform or two!
After cake we went and played some games. And this is what came of that!! Jaycob and Kaylee danced together on one of those dance off games. Ok actually Kaylee danced like her little hot momma self and Jaycob watched, throwing in a little shake once in a while! But Kaylee can sure get down with the best of 'em!! It was all too cute!
Play group today was at one of those paint and pottery places. Lots of breakable pottery pieces, wonderful place to have a play group for a group of 3 and unders you would think!! But actually we all did pretty good. We had over 10 moms and about 15 children between the ages of 8 weeks and 4, though I think the majority of the children were either 18 months or 30 months.
But anywho.... Jaycob and Abygail actually had tons of fun! They painted their tiles very nicely, with just the brushes and everything. But then I made a tile for each of them with their hand prints. Which gave them the wonderful idea to paint on their hand and smear it all over their tiles... So their tiles don't look so nice any more. All well, I'm still really anxious to see what they look like once they've been fired.
So perhaps this a new trend I don't know about?
I've never claimed that I'm up with the "in" thing.
But here's Jaycob insisting this is how everyone's doing it these days!!
We did it.... His hair is cut. I took him back after dinner. He was excited all the way there and we talked about it.... Just me and him.
When it was our turn he decided he didn't want to sit in the chair all by himself, so both of us got covered in hair!! The very nice lady fed him M&M's every once in a while and he was fine! All the hairs are cut and he looks very nice!!
He did bargain in a trip to the fish store afterwards, along with his sucker.
BEFORE
AFTER
Head on over to Rachel's for Moron Monday!! Come one, come all. Tell us your dumb deeds you've done in the past week!!
The title to this post is supposed to be 'Library Monday' or something to that effect.... But its been one of those days....
We headed to the library as usual with no fuss. The kids played with the other kids as we waited for toddler story time. When it was our turn we went in and sat down just fine. While the librarians talked about the events in the library Jaycob asked about when we were going to sing and dance. I told him just a minute, he was fine. Time comes to sing and dance and Jaycob and Abygail are merrily clapping and dancing. Then all of a sudden Jaycob stops and starts SCREAMING!!! Kind of a weird screaming,something I really haven't heard before. He was obviously upset about something, but what??
Not the song he wanted to sing? Well, normally he would have just said, "No. No. No!" if that was the case.
He didn't want me to clap and dance? He would have said, "No Mama".
He didn't want the other kids to dance around him? He would usually just tell them no and keep close to me!
I never did figure it out. I just ended up grabbing both of them and leaving. Much to Aby's dismay. She was behaving and enjoying herself greatly!!
We got into the van and Jaycob was fine, so I thought perhaps he just wasn't in the mood for story time today.I asked him if he was ready to go home and he said, "no". So I asked him if he wanted to go get his haircut and he shook his yes.
The whole way there he was pulling and pretending to cut his hair. He was happy as we waited for our name to be called. Got his sucker and sat in the chair, then all of a sudden freaked out again!
Same sort of screaming/freaking out.
We ended up leaving there as well. With no hair cuts and no sucker!
Don't know where it came from either time, nor had I ever seen him act this way before!
Maybe it had something to do with his sleep, or lack there of, this morning??
Here are some pictures from when I took the kids to the neighborhood park on Friday. Not to be confused with the park adventure I wrote about on Saturday.
Abygail loved climbing on here!
Jaycob trying to hide his scarf from me!
Jaycob and Abygail swinging!
I just read this over at Loving a Soldier. Living the Life. I thought it was interesting so I copied and pasted it here for you to read!
Dirt Roads
What's mainly wrong with society today is that too many Dirt Roads have been paved.
There's not a problem in America today; crime, drugs, education, divorce, delinquency... that wouldn't be remedied, if we just had more Dirt Roads, because Dirt Roads give character.
People that live at the end of Dirt Roads learn early on that life is a bumpy ride.
That it can jar you right down to your teeth sometimes, but it's worth it, if at the end there is a home...a loving spouse, happy kids and a dog.
We wouldn't have nearly as much trouble with our educational system if our kids got their exercise walking a Dirt Road with other kids, from whom they learn how to get along.
There was less crime in our streets before they were paved. Criminals didn't walk two dusty miles to rob or rape if they knew they'd be welcomed by five barking dogs and a double barrel shotgun.
And there were no drive by shootings.
Our values were better when our roads were worse!
People did not worship their cars more than their kids, and motorists were more courteous, they didn't tailgate by riding the bumper or the guy in front would choke you with dust & bust your windshield with rocks.
Dirt Roads taught patience.
Dirt Roads were environmentally friendly, you didn't hop in your car for a quart of milk; you walked to the barn for your milk.
For your mail, you walked to the mail box.
What if it rained and the Dirt Road got washed out?
That was the best part, because then you stayed home and had some family time, roasted marshmallows and popped popcorn and pony rode on Daddy's shoulders and learned how to make prettier quilts than anybody.
At the end of Dirt Roads, you soon learned that bad words tasted like soap.
Most paved roads lead to trouble, Dirt Roads more likely lead to a fishing creek or a swimming hole.
At the end of a Dirt Road, the only time we even locked our car was in August, because if we didn't some neighbor would fill it with too much zucchini. At the end of a Dirt Road, there was always extra springtime income, from when city dudes would get stuck, you'd have to hitch up a team and pull them out. Usually you got a dollar...always you got a new friend... at the end of a Dirt Road.
-Paul Harvey
I don't know why I've tried to put it off for so long. I mean Jaycob had ketchup WAY before he was her age.
Tonight we could put it off no longer. Bryan and Jaycob had ketchup. I had decided to have ketchup, which is unusual, but the fries were a little on the gross side! Abygail hasn't really asked for ketchup before and if she has she didn't press the issue. She sits on my side of the table so she usually just wants to eat whatever I'm eating, and I never eat ketchup.
Tonight I did. She wanted some, we gave her some. She got really excited and said, "Tetchup".
She gingerly dips her fry in and eats it exclaiming, "MmmmMmmm" after every bite! For a first time ketchup dipper we were quite suprised that she only had it on her one cheek and no where else when she got done!
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