So, I don't know how I managed to miss this story, but I just found out that Jonas (not surprisingly) is passive-aggressive. Why, you ask? I guess back at the lawson reunion he and Kyndahl got into some kind of spat about crackers or something... I don't know. But Jonas, sweet, sweet, Jonas at some point had some goldfish crackers to eat. He decided to share his crackers with everybody... well, everybody except Kyndahl. Yes, he walked around to each person there, but when he got to Kyndahl, he looked at him, pulled his crackers to his chest, walked pointedly around him, and proceeded to offer the next person some crackers. Yes, he did that.
Although, I have to admit, that is pretty hilarious for a 17 month old.
In more recent news, I am really, really wanting Dayna to stop being pregnant ASAP. Yeah, I really wanna see little Jensen. Also, I'm going with Jonas on tuesday to visit a bunch of old high school friends who also have kids. I'm excited, it will be great to see everyone again and meet their little ones!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
5th Anniversary
So, this past week Brandon and I celebrated our 5th Anniversary! (Exciting!) To celebrate, we went to Atlanta for 3 days to have some fun. Since I can't help it, I'm gonna give you a summary of the trip:
We left tuesday around 1 after dropping Jonas off for a stay with Grandma & Grandpa Kennedy. As usual, we spent a lot of the time down reading against time as we tried to finish (and did) Harry Potter and the half-blood prince before its movie release. Once we got to atlanta, we hit the historic landmark of Ikea, which we enjoyed browsing, and even purchased some chocolate and coffee smelling candles. More exciting (if it is possible) we had to get some milk for our breakfast in the morning-- and we swung by target to do so. Now, that isn't the exciting part, the excitement comes in that target's parking was UNDER the store-- in a parking deck (obviously, i guess). Woooow. It was hard to tell it was a target at all since we didn't see a giant lot surrounding it! Anyway, we got some pictures and our milk and headed back to our hotel.
The next morning we woke up bright and early at about 8 (sad, huh? and of our own free will to boot.) and headed off for six flags. we were there about 45 minutes before the gates opened, so we read more harry potter. This six flags holds a special place in my heart since it is the first year I participated in a marcing band comp. in high school, and we took home every award the offered that year-- quite awesome, if I do say so myself. Anywayyyy... So we were among the first in the park, and thankfully it wasnt TOO hot yet, so we managed to get about 60% of the rollercoaster riding out of the way before lunch. After lunch, we got the rest of the rides finished, and we were so tired we left at about 3 with nothing else on the docket for the rest of the day but laying in the hotel watching how I met your mother. Fate had other plans, though.
fate's plans were not too far from our own though. We watched most of 10000 bc, then heard a lot of noise down on the street. I called reception and found out they did a free movie ("flix on 5th" ) every wednesday in the summer, and we were on teh street that did it. SWEET! we had wanted to see monsters vs. aliens anyway, so we headed down and got a cozy spot on the curb. Tragically, they changed the movie to madagascar 2. We decided to tough it out through as much as we could, but after about 45 min we had had enough. THEN, we went back to our room and watched how I met your mother =)
the next day we packed up and left our hotel to go to our 'fancy hotel' downtown at the ritz-carlton (oh yes, that's right!). We then proceeded to walk to the coca-cola museum that was a few blocks away. it is a true mark of our age that this was our favorite part of the trip. we had so much fun watching the bottling process, reading about all the cool things coke had come out with, tasting all the coke varieties, laughing at the 'new coke' debauchal, watching the movies, and of course-- getting our picture with the coca cola polar bear.
I have never liked life sized costumed people... like chuck e cheese or something... I have alwasy thought they were creepy and not natural at all. I made the mistake of muttering this a bit too loudly as we approached coca-cola polar bear. seeing as how the line was pretty much gone (like I would stand in line for that!) he thought he would have some fun with me. he just started staring at me at eye level and blinking (yes, its head moved, and its eyes and mouth opened and closed... sooo creepy!). He finally gave that up, and we got our picture. Then as we lefte, that bear was 'creeping' after me! EEK! Luckily, it was hilarious after we hid in the artifacts room out of sight of the bear. I think brandon was pretty amused the whole time though.
after the coke museum, we headed over to the georgia aquarium, the largest aquarium in teh world. I was surprised brandon was cool with it since he doesn't like fish, but he was happy to go, yay! The aquarium was very cool. It was also very crowded, which took away from its coolness dramatically. Still, I petted stingrays and sharks while brandon said he was 'happy with my description of how they felt'. we crawled under the sections that were probably just for kids (whatever!) and had a big time looking at the dragon seahorses. We both really liked the jellyfish display, as well as the giant wall for viewing the sea creatures tank. It was like... 2 stories high and 67 feet wide or something... 2 feet thick. Very cool. We loved seeing the manta ray and trying to point out all the different fish... although we said if we were the fish in there, we would feel kind of belittled by the giant cool fish that were there... like the whale sharks. Anyway...
For dinner we went to a brazilian place a block up from our hotel. being who I am, i weighed myself before and after going, and noticed I gained 2 lbs. we. ate. SO. much. it was super. we in fact ate so much, that when we went to breakfast the next morning, we were still not hungry, but being who we are, we still managed to eat a ton of food since the hot breakfast buffet at the ritz is also AMAZING. In conclusion, we were still not hungry for dinner that evening, but decided to eat something small (just in case we got hungry). We stopped in concord mills to watch harry potter and the half blood prince in imax 3d on the way back, just to find out that imax 3-d doesn't come out till the 29th. WHAT?! This is insanity. First they push the movie back almost a year because of stupid twilight, THEN they still don't have the imax 3d version ready to roll?! those capitalists! =( . So we watched the movie in regular screen (but sat close) and just plain ol' 2d, and were very satisfied until the last 15 min. sigh... what were they thinking?? anyway...
so after all that, we finally got home super late in the rain. We had sucha great anniversary, and I can't wait to spent another 5 (and then some!) with my awesome Hubby!
We went to get jonas the following morning. It was an interesting feeling, getting him back after 4 days apart. I don't know about brandon, but I spent a lot of time carfully scrutinizing him to see what had changed since I saw him last... which was surely nothing noticeable, but I could swear he looked bigger!! His grandma tought him to say "joshua jackson" which we will waste no time in adding "is lame!" to the end of (hopefullly). I know he had a great time there, and so did the rest of the kennedys, though I think they are a lot more tired!! =)
We left tuesday around 1 after dropping Jonas off for a stay with Grandma & Grandpa Kennedy. As usual, we spent a lot of the time down reading against time as we tried to finish (and did) Harry Potter and the half-blood prince before its movie release. Once we got to atlanta, we hit the historic landmark of Ikea, which we enjoyed browsing, and even purchased some chocolate and coffee smelling candles. More exciting (if it is possible) we had to get some milk for our breakfast in the morning-- and we swung by target to do so. Now, that isn't the exciting part, the excitement comes in that target's parking was UNDER the store-- in a parking deck (obviously, i guess). Woooow. It was hard to tell it was a target at all since we didn't see a giant lot surrounding it! Anyway, we got some pictures and our milk and headed back to our hotel.
The next morning we woke up bright and early at about 8 (sad, huh? and of our own free will to boot.) and headed off for six flags. we were there about 45 minutes before the gates opened, so we read more harry potter. This six flags holds a special place in my heart since it is the first year I participated in a marcing band comp. in high school, and we took home every award the offered that year-- quite awesome, if I do say so myself. Anywayyyy... So we were among the first in the park, and thankfully it wasnt TOO hot yet, so we managed to get about 60% of the rollercoaster riding out of the way before lunch. After lunch, we got the rest of the rides finished, and we were so tired we left at about 3 with nothing else on the docket for the rest of the day but laying in the hotel watching how I met your mother. Fate had other plans, though.
fate's plans were not too far from our own though. We watched most of 10000 bc, then heard a lot of noise down on the street. I called reception and found out they did a free movie ("flix on 5th" ) every wednesday in the summer, and we were on teh street that did it. SWEET! we had wanted to see monsters vs. aliens anyway, so we headed down and got a cozy spot on the curb. Tragically, they changed the movie to madagascar 2. We decided to tough it out through as much as we could, but after about 45 min we had had enough. THEN, we went back to our room and watched how I met your mother =)
the next day we packed up and left our hotel to go to our 'fancy hotel' downtown at the ritz-carlton (oh yes, that's right!). We then proceeded to walk to the coca-cola museum that was a few blocks away. it is a true mark of our age that this was our favorite part of the trip. we had so much fun watching the bottling process, reading about all the cool things coke had come out with, tasting all the coke varieties, laughing at the 'new coke' debauchal, watching the movies, and of course-- getting our picture with the coca cola polar bear.
I have never liked life sized costumed people... like chuck e cheese or something... I have alwasy thought they were creepy and not natural at all. I made the mistake of muttering this a bit too loudly as we approached coca-cola polar bear. seeing as how the line was pretty much gone (like I would stand in line for that!) he thought he would have some fun with me. he just started staring at me at eye level and blinking (yes, its head moved, and its eyes and mouth opened and closed... sooo creepy!). He finally gave that up, and we got our picture. Then as we lefte, that bear was 'creeping' after me! EEK! Luckily, it was hilarious after we hid in the artifacts room out of sight of the bear. I think brandon was pretty amused the whole time though.
after the coke museum, we headed over to the georgia aquarium, the largest aquarium in teh world. I was surprised brandon was cool with it since he doesn't like fish, but he was happy to go, yay! The aquarium was very cool. It was also very crowded, which took away from its coolness dramatically. Still, I petted stingrays and sharks while brandon said he was 'happy with my description of how they felt'. we crawled under the sections that were probably just for kids (whatever!) and had a big time looking at the dragon seahorses. We both really liked the jellyfish display, as well as the giant wall for viewing the sea creatures tank. It was like... 2 stories high and 67 feet wide or something... 2 feet thick. Very cool. We loved seeing the manta ray and trying to point out all the different fish... although we said if we were the fish in there, we would feel kind of belittled by the giant cool fish that were there... like the whale sharks. Anyway...
For dinner we went to a brazilian place a block up from our hotel. being who I am, i weighed myself before and after going, and noticed I gained 2 lbs. we. ate. SO. much. it was super. we in fact ate so much, that when we went to breakfast the next morning, we were still not hungry, but being who we are, we still managed to eat a ton of food since the hot breakfast buffet at the ritz is also AMAZING. In conclusion, we were still not hungry for dinner that evening, but decided to eat something small (just in case we got hungry). We stopped in concord mills to watch harry potter and the half blood prince in imax 3d on the way back, just to find out that imax 3-d doesn't come out till the 29th. WHAT?! This is insanity. First they push the movie back almost a year because of stupid twilight, THEN they still don't have the imax 3d version ready to roll?! those capitalists! =( . So we watched the movie in regular screen (but sat close) and just plain ol' 2d, and were very satisfied until the last 15 min. sigh... what were they thinking?? anyway...
so after all that, we finally got home super late in the rain. We had sucha great anniversary, and I can't wait to spent another 5 (and then some!) with my awesome Hubby!
We went to get jonas the following morning. It was an interesting feeling, getting him back after 4 days apart. I don't know about brandon, but I spent a lot of time carfully scrutinizing him to see what had changed since I saw him last... which was surely nothing noticeable, but I could swear he looked bigger!! His grandma tought him to say "joshua jackson" which we will waste no time in adding "is lame!" to the end of (hopefullly). I know he had a great time there, and so did the rest of the kennedys, though I think they are a lot more tired!! =)
Sunday, July 12, 2009
learning words
Jonas has suddenly become mister talkative. At least, he has suddenly and alarmingly quickly gotten VERY good at copying everything we say. He has started trying to say all the names of people at church, and he casks for things by name now, stuff I didn't even think he really knew existed, like watermelon "wan mon" or "geez!" (cheese), and the best one he says, "Juice!" He is very good at saying juice =), its adorable. He asks for bananas, taggie, makes animal noises, and everything! It's just amazing... one day he can kinda say a few words, the next he is saying everything!
Yesterday we went to the Zoo with cell and Kane (he was in town visiting everyone before he went to Colorado). We had a good time. Jonas was a little less into the animals than I thought, but he was at least happy and very good all day! What a sweet boy, being so happy and quiet and cute =).
Today he was just as adorable, if not more. Jonas and I played "i'm gonna get you!" for a while, then went outside and played. Finally, we went back to church for a cookout where Jonas tortured Feemster's rodesian ridgeback with a soccer ball. Very funny but a little nerve wrecking watching that giant dog snapping at the air where the ball was.
Jonas also played pretty hard at church on their play kitchen set. He had SO much fun 'washing the dishes" and washing his hands in the sink. He is such a good pretender! He played with the blocks trying to make a train track like at grandma's too, but that didn't work as well.
Oh, what are we going to do for 5 days without our little boy? =)
Yesterday we went to the Zoo with cell and Kane (he was in town visiting everyone before he went to Colorado). We had a good time. Jonas was a little less into the animals than I thought, but he was at least happy and very good all day! What a sweet boy, being so happy and quiet and cute =).
Today he was just as adorable, if not more. Jonas and I played "i'm gonna get you!" for a while, then went outside and played. Finally, we went back to church for a cookout where Jonas tortured Feemster's rodesian ridgeback with a soccer ball. Very funny but a little nerve wrecking watching that giant dog snapping at the air where the ball was.
Jonas also played pretty hard at church on their play kitchen set. He had SO much fun 'washing the dishes" and washing his hands in the sink. He is such a good pretender! He played with the blocks trying to make a train track like at grandma's too, but that didn't work as well.
Oh, what are we going to do for 5 days without our little boy? =)
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
pretending
Last night before bed, Jonas was pretending to be a dog. I have never seen him pretend so much. He was crouched over going "woof! woof!" and panting, walking with his arms all down like a dogs'. Then he grabbed his pajama pants and draped them around his neck like a collar, and looked up at me, very proud of his accomplishment. He then decided I would be the dog, so he draped the "collar" around me, and 'walked' me around the room. He was SO thrilled! Wow, it is amazing to me that he has the mental capacity to pretend now. Simply amazing.
He tried to hug and kiss water last night too. I tried to stop him, but he finally got a kiss in, and (naturally) choked a little. I think this will be his last attempt to hug and kiss the water... maybe.
He tried to hug and kiss water last night too. I tried to stop him, but he finally got a kiss in, and (naturally) choked a little. I think this will be his last attempt to hug and kiss the water... maybe.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Lawsom Reunion
Ok, I am going to try to recap this past weekend without being totally long-winded. Dare to dream, Jess... dare to dream...
We set out thurdsay at a respectable 1:00 (ish), and with a couple of pit stops and 7 chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince behind us, we arrived at Grayson Lake Boathouse Marina to visit Grandma Nadine and eat dinner. While it was very cool being on a boat house, it was easily the most nerve-wrecking thing I have done as a parent. Talk about danger at every corner! Poor boy, he didn't understand why everyone kept grabbing and yelling 'STOP!" Anyway, we headed over to Lazy Boy Farm after dinner and set up for the evening in this super-nice camper. Only problem: sleeping situation. Brandon and I had a choice between an uncomfortable double bed, or a comfortable (basically) twin sized bed that was made for children to sleep on. Its the one that the table converts into if you are familar with campers. Choosing comfort, we piled into easily the tiniest bed we have ever, and probably will ever sleep in. Being must barely short enough to fit if I slept with my feet straight up, I got a decent night's sleep. Brandon, being about 6 inches too tall, did not. It was a very comical situation, all in all, though.
The next day started off freakishly early since Jonas thought it would be a good idea for this trip to push his wake up time back to between 5:45 and 6:30. Not. Awesome. Anyway, pretty early morning made it bearable, at least. The morning started off with a bang because the farm bull, Robot, had escaped his pen and had to be gotten back in. No amount of coaxing seemed to work, but luckily, the cows wanted him back, so he just went back over. Everyone started arriving around noon, so it was good to see all the family again and meet all the new faces. That evening a bunch of us went to a disc golf course and played (or in mine and Amanda's case heclked), and it was surprisingly pleasant weather... can't complain there!
All the kids enjoyed playing in the yards, petting the horses, and watching the chickens and cows. I think they even got to help collect eggs the chickens layed-- and these eggs were cool-- they had green shells! Apparently the chickens were a special breed that layed colored eggs. Very neat-o. Brandon even collected an egg, although, he collected his in the morning, and there was a viscous chicken guarding it. If he had waited for evening, it would have been much easier (as he was told between peals of laughter later!).
July 4th was spent visiting most of the morning (and of course filling up on delicious country cookin') In the afternoon, a group of us went spelunking. I had never been before, but half the group had been and were excellent guides through the caves. There was one crawl through a very long tunnel that was maybe 2 feet high (smaller? I'm no good at estimating), then went through some very, very yucky mud that really made me feel adventureous... later we were told it was a level 3 crawl, which is like intermediate I guess... anyway. After exiting that cave, we went back in at the same entrance to a different part of the cave that had some cool caverns and other cave formations that were just amazing to see. When we got back to the bathrooms to change, I peeled off a full over-suit-thing and jeans under that, and I still had mud in my underwear! It was amazingly muddy, but oh so fun! All in all, spelunking trip #1 was pretty neat and I can now say that I have done it.
Sadly, after the adventure in the caves, it was raining, so no fireworks this year =(. After eating, a bunch of us stayed up and played a couple games of farkle. This was the turning point in the evening for my sanity at least. Luckily, it was in a very funny way, as I managed to accidentally call myself and Erin's husband inbred, and somehow there was horehound (dog prostitute?) candy involved... idk... it was a weird night-- but I enjoyed myself!
After packing up at grandma nadine's house (did I mention? after night 1 we decided to lodge elsewhere the remaining days) we headed back to say goodbye to everyone at the farm. Then it was a cool 8ish hours back home and another hour to unpack, but it's ok, because we got through another 6 chapters of harry potter (even if read by a weird british dude).
What with the visiting, spelunking, 4 wheeling, disc golfing, country cooking, fishing, tadpole oogling (there were some dang big tadpoles!!), corn-holeing, and lots of other stuff that happened this weekend, I can say we all had a load of fun-- when's the next reunion??
We set out thurdsay at a respectable 1:00 (ish), and with a couple of pit stops and 7 chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince behind us, we arrived at Grayson Lake Boathouse Marina to visit Grandma Nadine and eat dinner. While it was very cool being on a boat house, it was easily the most nerve-wrecking thing I have done as a parent. Talk about danger at every corner! Poor boy, he didn't understand why everyone kept grabbing and yelling 'STOP!" Anyway, we headed over to Lazy Boy Farm after dinner and set up for the evening in this super-nice camper. Only problem: sleeping situation. Brandon and I had a choice between an uncomfortable double bed, or a comfortable (basically) twin sized bed that was made for children to sleep on. Its the one that the table converts into if you are familar with campers. Choosing comfort, we piled into easily the tiniest bed we have ever, and probably will ever sleep in. Being must barely short enough to fit if I slept with my feet straight up, I got a decent night's sleep. Brandon, being about 6 inches too tall, did not. It was a very comical situation, all in all, though.
The next day started off freakishly early since Jonas thought it would be a good idea for this trip to push his wake up time back to between 5:45 and 6:30. Not. Awesome. Anyway, pretty early morning made it bearable, at least. The morning started off with a bang because the farm bull, Robot, had escaped his pen and had to be gotten back in. No amount of coaxing seemed to work, but luckily, the cows wanted him back, so he just went back over. Everyone started arriving around noon, so it was good to see all the family again and meet all the new faces. That evening a bunch of us went to a disc golf course and played (or in mine and Amanda's case heclked), and it was surprisingly pleasant weather... can't complain there!
All the kids enjoyed playing in the yards, petting the horses, and watching the chickens and cows. I think they even got to help collect eggs the chickens layed-- and these eggs were cool-- they had green shells! Apparently the chickens were a special breed that layed colored eggs. Very neat-o. Brandon even collected an egg, although, he collected his in the morning, and there was a viscous chicken guarding it. If he had waited for evening, it would have been much easier (as he was told between peals of laughter later!).
July 4th was spent visiting most of the morning (and of course filling up on delicious country cookin') In the afternoon, a group of us went spelunking. I had never been before, but half the group had been and were excellent guides through the caves. There was one crawl through a very long tunnel that was maybe 2 feet high (smaller? I'm no good at estimating), then went through some very, very yucky mud that really made me feel adventureous... later we were told it was a level 3 crawl, which is like intermediate I guess... anyway. After exiting that cave, we went back in at the same entrance to a different part of the cave that had some cool caverns and other cave formations that were just amazing to see. When we got back to the bathrooms to change, I peeled off a full over-suit-thing and jeans under that, and I still had mud in my underwear! It was amazingly muddy, but oh so fun! All in all, spelunking trip #1 was pretty neat and I can now say that I have done it.
Sadly, after the adventure in the caves, it was raining, so no fireworks this year =(. After eating, a bunch of us stayed up and played a couple games of farkle. This was the turning point in the evening for my sanity at least. Luckily, it was in a very funny way, as I managed to accidentally call myself and Erin's husband inbred, and somehow there was horehound (dog prostitute?) candy involved... idk... it was a weird night-- but I enjoyed myself!
After packing up at grandma nadine's house (did I mention? after night 1 we decided to lodge elsewhere the remaining days) we headed back to say goodbye to everyone at the farm. Then it was a cool 8ish hours back home and another hour to unpack, but it's ok, because we got through another 6 chapters of harry potter (even if read by a weird british dude).
What with the visiting, spelunking, 4 wheeling, disc golfing, country cooking, fishing, tadpole oogling (there were some dang big tadpoles!!), corn-holeing, and lots of other stuff that happened this weekend, I can say we all had a load of fun-- when's the next reunion??
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