So in the past 3 days, Jonas has suddenly decided to become much better at talking. He has known how to say a lot of words before now, but they have always been just the beginning syllable of the word... so Milk, would be "Muuuu" or Rudy (of course, he can say "ru" and "De" but not ru-de) would be "Ruuu!". But all of the sudden last thursday night, he asked for his "BATH!" not his "BAAA". And there it was. suddenly, "bye" wasn't "Biiiii" it was "Buh-Bye", and "baby" was a whole word....he says "ma-mee" instead of just "ma ma"... Rudy is still Ruuu!, but I think soon he will out it together.
He also very suddenly added the word "Mine" to his daily blabberings. He has never said it before last wednesday night... I suspect he heard Jen, Monica and I talking about the boys saying "mine" and I said something about Jonas not saying it yet... next morning **bam!** his spoon was "Mine!" and his clothes where "Mine!" and when he wanted something, instead of just pouting, he would say "mine mine mine mine". Sigh, so much for that stage not starting yet.
We've begun the very basic foundations for Jonas's potty training... talking it up. Actually, I guess we've been doing that for a while, but with more vigor now that he actually has a clue. Lisa said on friday she was at the store with Jonas and he suddenly grabbed his crotch and said "Peeeeeeeeee!"... so lisa said, "are you peeing?" and he replied with a "Ssssssss!" (his noise he makes for peeing). I guess that's a good thing =)
On saturday, Brandon and I dropped Jonas off at mom and dad's for the night. I think this was the first night he stayed there when we weren't also there. The night didn't start well.. ish. Mom was out shopping with Aunt Terri, and when they got back, Jonas had his familiar smile when Grammy walked in, but then he saw aunt terri (the identical twin), and his face fell, his eyebrows creased, and he started looking very confused. He didn't care much for this "Grammy clone". Of course, he has seen aunt terri before, but I think this was the first time he was old enough to make the connection that something was just not right... very funny! Anyway, we left Jonas and went to dinner with Julia Martin (and company) for her birthday, then went and bowled afterwards... it was good fun all around. I love old friends =)
We also discovered that Jonas knows how to open the childproof doors. How long he has known, we don't know... but saturday afternoon I noticed Jonas had the door on the cabinet in the bathroom open and was getting his duck out. I closed the door and asked him to open it for me... and as if he did it every day, he pulled the door out a bit, stuck his finger on the latch, pushed, and pulled the door open... sigh... its a good thing he doesn't care much for stuff under the cabinet. We'll see how it goes. This boy is too clever.
After the incident with the door latches, Jonas decided to leave I guess... He grabbed his big riding truck, drug it to our front door, reached up and OPENED it (he has done this before, but usually on accident or with struggling... not just an automatic thing like this day), and started stepping out, waving bye to me and saying "Buh-Bye! Buh-Bye!"... a smile on his little face. Oh my, but it was cute... sadly, I think that spells danger, so we got him back in and this time deadbolted the storm door.
After we got Jonas from my parents and came home, Joe decided it was time for a walk. Brandon and I were dragging our feet and trying to get Jonas to enjoy Aladdin (we were, after all)... but he had a one track mind. He managed to get me to open the stroller for him since we weren't taking his "OOUUUU SSSSSSSSSSS" (outside) hints. He then spent some time trying to get into the stroller on his own, which he did successfully, but he was also trying to get it to roll sitting in it, and he is nowhere near that coordinated. He finally managed to get us to understand that he wanted to go on a walk, so we finally tore ourselves away from aladdin and went walking... much to his delight =)
This evening, Brandon and I tried doing dinner early, at 6. We have been meaning to try this for a while, but finally had the chance tonight. I think it went well, Jonas at two bowls full of chili, and he was great the rest of the evening! I went to give Jonas his bath as usual after dinner, and Brandon had warned me that he had figured out how to use his squirt toys, but I didn't think he was as good as he was! That boy is picking stuff up in no time! He just figured out how to squeeze the things last week, and tonight, he was holding them underwater to refill them, and then he would benignly aim at the wall, then TURN THEM ON ME! =) He definitely got me good in the face the first time... which made us both laugh very hard... then it was a game... and one I could endorse. So we played with the squirt toys for a good half hour, then called bath time to close.
After getting pajamas on, Jonas proceeded to be exceptionally cute and playful the rest of the evening. He wanted to sing, so we sang "happy and you know it" and he had a big time clapping, stoping, and shouting "hooray!" Of course, we also had to sing wheels on the bus (which he also did all the motions and sounds to) and a few more favorites... very cute! We finally ended the night with Brandon pretending to be asleep so Jonas could see how easy it was... Jonas, however, did not understand what snoring was. He looked pretty concerned for daddy, until I explained the snoring to him. He now does a very adoreable child's impression of sleeping where he does the snort-"shooooo" sound. of course, he can't short on the inhale, so its snort-breath-"shoooooo"...which makes it even cuter. Ahhh... he is too adorable.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
JENSEN IS HERE!
Well, a lot has happened in the past 4 days, the best of which is that Dayna and Nathan are now the proud parents of Jensen Ace Musgrove... 8lbs, 14 oz, 21.5" born around 2:20 this afternoon (the third of august). Now, let's do a blow-by-blow of the past 4 days:
Friday evening was Muggle quidditch day (OBVIOUSLY, since it was Harry's birthday), so we met up at Sarah Arant's grandparents house, and played in their backyard. Since we met later in the evening, and had a smaller field, we had MUCH more fun. It didn't hurt that we were only 1 player short of a full team on each side, instead of 4 or whatever it was last time. Anyway, fun was had by all. OH! even better- brandon's cousin, Jennifer was there to play all the way from Japan (ok, well, maybe that wasn't the MAIN reason for the visit, but whatever...) his uncle tim played too, just FYI.
Anyway, next day, as Jennifer (and parents) were visiting, we all headed to burlington to play (read: watch) some disc golf, laugh at jonas as he 'played' disc golf (well, it is adorable like everything he does!) and do some geocaching. Both goals were accomplished, even though it was classic NC summer weather with the outrageous heat and humidity. Jonas was awesome the whole day, which is an accomplishment as we didn't have a stroller or a grandma to also watch him. Anyway... that evening we all went over to the Kennedys for dinner, and dayna and nathan were there, still without Jensen being out for us all to see =(. Since Kim is a pediatrics nurse, she gave dayna some advice for getting the labor going, and she tried some of it out with the giant bouncing ball. we all really wanted to see that baby!
sunday, since jonas spent the night at grandma and grandpa's, brandon and I slept in, only to be awoken by a call at 9 am (yes, i said awoken... it was tough, but we slept till 9!) This was all fine and dandy, except that we were both all excited that it was dayna finally at the hospital, but no, it was just lisa calling to remind us to bring diapers =(.... by that evening, we had pretty much given up hope that dayna would have the baby before monday at noon, when the visitng kennedys would have to go back home (they had come to see jensen, but he had other plans). We'd just decided he was going to be induced on tuesday, and we would see him then.
Wrong! We got the REAL call this morning at 6:45. I was so excited I couldn't go back to sleep, which was ok, since Jonas got up 30 or so minutes later. We didn't rush though, since they said Dayna had been there since 11 the previous evening and had not been progressing very fast. Jonas and I got to the hospital at 9:45 ish, at which point they had broken daynas water, and we came to find out later, that was the real turning point. she said her contractions went from a 1-2 pain to a "10 10 10 10!" very suddenly, so she got an epidural, and was good to go =). Marcy, Liz, Greg & I (later lisa and max) all waited in the waiting room (amazing) till about 11:30 to hear anything, but no word came. then, nathan came back out and said lisa and I could go visit dayna for a few minutes before the doctor came back... so we did. After we left, i was packing up to go home as the last dayna had heard she was about 3-4cm dialated, and it would probably be closer to 4 or 5 before she was close to pushing. luckily, at that moment lisa got a tect from scott saying dayna was 9 cm and we probably shouldn't go anywhere... so we didnt! Lisa put Joe to sleep on her shoulder for about 45 min, and the rest of us waited excitedly for more news.
eventually, around 1 or so, it came, saying she was dialated and ready to push as soon as the doctors would let her, so everybody started to get all pace-y and go back and forth from the waiting room to in front of the delivery suite doors, until... Scott got a text "HE'S HERE!!" at about 2:25, so the 4 of us in front of the delivery room celebrated. Moments later, Liz came shooting down the hall, just as excited-- apparently someone on their end got a picture. Yay!! Jensen was here! Of course, it was still an hour before they brought him out to the throng of people waiting, but still, very exciting!
Brandon, Jonas, Nathan, Scott, Marcy and I went to get some dinner, and when we got back we got to hold little Jensen. Scott was getting him to sort of smile, and when he did, he had big, adorable dimples!! yay! lucky little baby with dimples! I got to hold him next, and as soon as I had him, Jonas started pitching a FIT. We all thought he was just insanely jealous of me holding another baby, so after a few minutes, I passed jensen to Marcy, and took My baby, who continued to scream, and reached for Jensen. Yes, he wasn't jealous of Jensen, he was jealous of ME! He wanted to hold Jensen very, very badly-- poor little guy, he had waited all day to see him too! Marcy helped Jonas "hold" Jensen for a minute by letting Jone put his hands under her arms at his feet... Jonas was much happier then, silly boy! =)
Dayna looks awesome, especially for just having a baby... luckyyyyyy! All-in-all, everything went wonderfully and smoothly... could hardly have asked for anything better. Great day, great to have an almost-nephew... very very good!
Friday evening was Muggle quidditch day (OBVIOUSLY, since it was Harry's birthday), so we met up at Sarah Arant's grandparents house, and played in their backyard. Since we met later in the evening, and had a smaller field, we had MUCH more fun. It didn't hurt that we were only 1 player short of a full team on each side, instead of 4 or whatever it was last time. Anyway, fun was had by all. OH! even better- brandon's cousin, Jennifer was there to play all the way from Japan (ok, well, maybe that wasn't the MAIN reason for the visit, but whatever...) his uncle tim played too, just FYI.
Anyway, next day, as Jennifer (and parents) were visiting, we all headed to burlington to play (read: watch) some disc golf, laugh at jonas as he 'played' disc golf (well, it is adorable like everything he does!) and do some geocaching. Both goals were accomplished, even though it was classic NC summer weather with the outrageous heat and humidity. Jonas was awesome the whole day, which is an accomplishment as we didn't have a stroller or a grandma to also watch him. Anyway... that evening we all went over to the Kennedys for dinner, and dayna and nathan were there, still without Jensen being out for us all to see =(. Since Kim is a pediatrics nurse, she gave dayna some advice for getting the labor going, and she tried some of it out with the giant bouncing ball. we all really wanted to see that baby!
sunday, since jonas spent the night at grandma and grandpa's, brandon and I slept in, only to be awoken by a call at 9 am (yes, i said awoken... it was tough, but we slept till 9!) This was all fine and dandy, except that we were both all excited that it was dayna finally at the hospital, but no, it was just lisa calling to remind us to bring diapers =(.... by that evening, we had pretty much given up hope that dayna would have the baby before monday at noon, when the visitng kennedys would have to go back home (they had come to see jensen, but he had other plans). We'd just decided he was going to be induced on tuesday, and we would see him then.
Wrong! We got the REAL call this morning at 6:45. I was so excited I couldn't go back to sleep, which was ok, since Jonas got up 30 or so minutes later. We didn't rush though, since they said Dayna had been there since 11 the previous evening and had not been progressing very fast. Jonas and I got to the hospital at 9:45 ish, at which point they had broken daynas water, and we came to find out later, that was the real turning point. she said her contractions went from a 1-2 pain to a "10 10 10 10!" very suddenly, so she got an epidural, and was good to go =). Marcy, Liz, Greg & I (later lisa and max) all waited in the waiting room (amazing) till about 11:30 to hear anything, but no word came. then, nathan came back out and said lisa and I could go visit dayna for a few minutes before the doctor came back... so we did. After we left, i was packing up to go home as the last dayna had heard she was about 3-4cm dialated, and it would probably be closer to 4 or 5 before she was close to pushing. luckily, at that moment lisa got a tect from scott saying dayna was 9 cm and we probably shouldn't go anywhere... so we didnt! Lisa put Joe to sleep on her shoulder for about 45 min, and the rest of us waited excitedly for more news.
eventually, around 1 or so, it came, saying she was dialated and ready to push as soon as the doctors would let her, so everybody started to get all pace-y and go back and forth from the waiting room to in front of the delivery suite doors, until... Scott got a text "HE'S HERE!!" at about 2:25, so the 4 of us in front of the delivery room celebrated. Moments later, Liz came shooting down the hall, just as excited-- apparently someone on their end got a picture. Yay!! Jensen was here! Of course, it was still an hour before they brought him out to the throng of people waiting, but still, very exciting!
Brandon, Jonas, Nathan, Scott, Marcy and I went to get some dinner, and when we got back we got to hold little Jensen. Scott was getting him to sort of smile, and when he did, he had big, adorable dimples!! yay! lucky little baby with dimples! I got to hold him next, and as soon as I had him, Jonas started pitching a FIT. We all thought he was just insanely jealous of me holding another baby, so after a few minutes, I passed jensen to Marcy, and took My baby, who continued to scream, and reached for Jensen. Yes, he wasn't jealous of Jensen, he was jealous of ME! He wanted to hold Jensen very, very badly-- poor little guy, he had waited all day to see him too! Marcy helped Jonas "hold" Jensen for a minute by letting Jone put his hands under her arms at his feet... Jonas was much happier then, silly boy! =)
Dayna looks awesome, especially for just having a baby... luckyyyyyy! All-in-all, everything went wonderfully and smoothly... could hardly have asked for anything better. Great day, great to have an almost-nephew... very very good!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
passive aggressive
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!
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!
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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