Christmas Decorations

Last weekend we decided we would do some homemade Christmas ornaments for the tree. We made our own dough, rolled and cut them into shapes, then baked them. Here are some pictures of Jeramyah doing his part.

Rolling the dough with Mama

Squishing it with the spatula

Showing off

Cutting out the shapes with daddy

Finished Product

Checking out his Master pieces!

Jeramyah has called himself Baby J for about a year or more now. Well I thought that might not be the best thing for a 2 1/2 year old so we've been working on names. We ask him my name, James' name, and his name. He now says "Jeramama" It's super cute!

Another thing he's been saying is penguin only he says it "ping one".

If I tell him I love him he'll say "Love you big" and I'll say love you bigger and he'll repeat it. The last couple of days if I tell him I love him he whispers "Love you bigger". Some of the things he says just melts my heart!

So most of you know Jeramama to look like this....

Right?

Well now he looks like this....

That's right, on 12/11/08 I took him to get his first major haircut! I've trimmed it 2 or 3 times over the last year but not cut it this short! I wanted it to be more of a bowl cut but he really fought the barber at first so it got kind of short. I'll let it grow to just above his eyes and years and I think keep it that way. This isn't a very good picture, I'll take more later but he looks like a completely different kid! It's so weird because I've always been able to pick him out of a room full of kids because of the long blond hair but now I have to look at his face!

I was really surprised he didn't cry with Santa. He was pretty scared and stiff and got down pretty darn quick. At least he didn't scream and cry though! Last year was a screaming picture! My Baby J is getting to be a big boy!!!!

Computer faces, Castles, Cars, Cats, and A Suprise!

So I did the unthinkable Monday (Dec 1). I put up our Christmas tree! - Me the grinch of all grinchs!
J put the finishing touches on.

But it didn't come very easily.

After the tree he and Tiny took some time out to relax and watch Dora.

Then him and daddy took the keys (literally) and drove around.

A few days ago we built a castle. It was too cute he got under there and I had blankets and pillows and he started pretend snoring! I tried to get a movie clip of it but as soon as he seen I had the camera he ran to me.

Another thing he did that I thought was cute was he thought the desktop was a face. It actually kind of does look like it. Here he is talking to it.

I've been crazy busy at work so that's about all we've done this week.

Blogger

I get the comments emailed to me because I sometimes forget to check that. When someone asks/says something that I want to respond to I just post a comment back. Then I started thinking how many people check that?! Blogger should have something where you can go to the person's profile and leave a comment.

Now that I'm writing this I recall seeing a chat box type thing on someone's blog. . . maybe I'll go find that......

Another long post

I need to start posting more often. I either make one HUGE post or a bunch of little ones that bump the others down... blah.

Anyway this weekend I was cleaning and J decided he wanted to skate. He put on my roller blades and was pretty good at it for awhile. Of course by the time I got the camera he just wanted that. Don't forget you have to turn the music off on the right side of the page to hear the videos!



Here he goes again.

These are his sand toys. . . for some reason he thought it made him a monster. Him and daddy are growling at each other.

After a fun day of playing it was bath time. We don't actually have a bath, just a shower. Poor J wants to swim and play soooo badly. Here he is trying to swim. When I give him baths I realise just how big he's gotten. It's so crazy!

Coookin Coookin

J has the funnies pronunciations for things! =) Anyway last weekend J helped momma make some cupcakes. I think he's a little chief in the making!

See, I can do it by myself!
(See Erica; my kiddo is always in his chonies too! =) )

MMM Good

I didn't get a pic of him with the finished product because he didn't care after that! LOL

Writing Prompt

So the Writing Prompt of today is haiku. You're supposed to close your eyes, turn around and then open them. The first thing you see is what you are supposed to write a haiku about.


I opened my eyes and saw J's 1-10 learning poster.


Numbers 1 through 10

Jeramyah knows you all

10 through 20 now

Not so great but that last line was hard! Everything I thought about that was cute was 7 syllables.

Website

So I found this nifty little website/blog today and thought it was too neat to share! One Minute Writer is just that; a website devoted to getting you to write every day, if even just for one minute.

Each day they give you a new prompt to write about. Today's is about a memorable party you've been to. I can't remember any great parties off the top of my head however it made me think of mom's night out and how badly I need one. . .

However Nov 5's prompt was Stranger; write something nice a stranger has done for you. Here's mine. . .

My best friend from here and I were talking about moving to Tulsa about 6 years ago. We did all the research we could online and planned our second trip to scout out some houses. We started our trip right after I got off of work (6am) excited as all get out. We had reached Tulsa, got something to eat and started to look for places. After about 30 minutes of driving around the car started acting funny. We took it into a shop near by to have them look at it. They told us what all was wrong (3 different things that I don't remember now) and told us to fix all of it we were looking at about 2k.

Ummm yeah, like we just have 2 grand laying around. So we told them we'd fix it when we got back home. He said that it wasn't safe (I think part of it was for the suspension, alignment, wheels something of that sort) to drive all the way back. We asked him what we could fix to get home and do the rest later. He told us what would be best and that it'd be about $900; we had $600. He said he'd work with us. So we're sitting there ticked off waiting for them to fix what they could on the car.

While we were there there was an older gentlemen (late 50s early 60s) from the start and a middle aged woman came in a while later. We sort of talked to the both of them a little bit. More the woman than the man. So the man's car is done and he gets up to pay and the lady starts talking to us again. The man then leaves and about 20 minutes later they tell us our car is done. The worker hands us our receipt and warranty info. We ask what the total will be and he said that the gentleman that was in there earlier had taken care of it. He told the worker to give us his card and be safe.

We both in tears leave the building and go outside and then look at the card. He was a minister at one of the local Churches. We sent him a thank you card with a promise to pay him back as we could. He wrote us back once saying he was glad we returned home safely and didn't want payment. He told us that knowing we were thankful women was enough. If we really wanted to do something he said help someone else in need.

Every time I hear someone doing good for another person I think of that man. Just about every time I do something for someone else I think of him and whisper a little thank you.

It's people like that that make this world go 'round. People who do things for absolutely no reason other than because it's the right thing to do. People like that are what give me hope for a better world.

Anyway I just wanted to share this, thought it was neat for those who want to blog but aren't sure what to write about. Enjoy!

Long Weekend

Well this is a four day weekend for us (well for hubby) and I think we are already going nuts. So to pass the time James and I decided it would be fun to put a temp tattoo on J's belly. . .

James told J that it was like mama's. So we show J my tat (which is a tribal dragon between my shoulder blades) and J says "A BUG!" LOL

We had gotten the Wal-Mart toy catalog in the mail earlier that day and J found it and started calling it his book. . . Make him about 20 years older and on a toilet. . . does this not remind you of men??? LOL


He decided mama was taking too many pictures of him and wanted the camera. This is his pleassssseeeeeeeeeeee face.


Daddy and J have been playing a lot of video games. Like father like son....

Then daddy decided after all those games J needed to get some exercise. ~Note you will need to pause the music on the right side of the page to hear the videos.~

Today J took some time to help the illiterate.

And then he told us he wanted to be a professional break dancer? *This was a lot funnier before we got the camera out. He was actually spinning in circles on his head and hiney. . . still cute though. Also, it looks like hubby throws him back on the mat to dance. . . although I'd like to make you all think that he really didn't do it! LOL it's just the way J runs back to it. . .

With his car? *Again he was doing circles with this before we started filming. . . dang kid.

So that has been the last two days around here! J has his first dentist appointment on Tuesday. . I might have to blog about how that goes.

Preemie Awareness Month

Anyone that knows our family knows that Jeramyah was born 8.5 weeks early. We had some scary times during his 6 week stay in the NICU, however he could have been a lot worse.

Millions of babies are born early each year and a lot of the times no one knows why. Some of those babies out grow their issues, some never over come them and unfortunately some of those babies don't come home from the hospital.

Please help us help babies and mothers get their full 9 months. On the right side of our blog I have a place for you to sign an online petition to get awareness out there. Take a minute out of your day and sign it. If you are feeling really giving of your time then take 2 minutes and forward it along to your friends.

Every single day a child has in the womb is important.

If you would like to read more about Jeramyah's story you can go here. After you read his story then search the website and read other family's stories.

Funny Kid

As a lot of you know we are trying to have another baby. I take my temp every morning to try and figure out when I'm ovulating. . . I guess J has watched us do this enough to get in the groove of it to. This morning I wake up with him trying to stick the thermometer in my mouth!

Then while I was uploading pics to the computer he sits on the edge of the bed and takes his temp too! You can't really see it but he has the pen in his hand and before I could take the pic he was writing on the paper I write my temp down on! =)

That kid cracks me up!

Halloween

So I've been super lazy and not posted in awhile. I think pictures add so much to a post so I tried to add as many as I can. However uploading pics from the camera to the computer is a PITA. I put all of them on the desktop which I rarely use any more so it's now getting slower and slower since I haven't updated it. Then since all our pics are on the DT I have to either email them to myself then open them on the laptop or turn the laptop and the DT on and send them to each other but that takes forever, or I just do my blogging here. If J is in the room with me it's not too bad but I don't like being able to not keep an eye on him. . . anyway complaining over here's how our week went. . .

First we carved some pumpkins

Then J painted his

Then the next day we went T or Ting at a couple different churches

Elmo met ....Elmo?

At one of the churches we went to they had the hospitals helicopter. J just loved it.

I was SO proud of J. We told him each time to say trick or treat and thank you afterwards. After a while he started saying it by himself. T or T was a sometimes thing but he said Thank You to EVERY SINGLE PERSON. I was so proud of him! I think he had a great time. Luckily for me this is only once a year! =)

Sleep...well the lack thereof. . .

So my wonderful little boy is driving me NUTS lately. He's started not wanting to take a nap even though he is tired. He'll just stand around and be half asleep or laying down watching a movie with his eyes barely open but when it comes time to lay down he's wide awake! If he doesn't have a nap come 3 or he's a cranky crabby little thing that no one wants to be around.

He usually is asleep by 8pm and wakes up between 7 and 7:30a. Usually I lay him down for a nap around noon and he falls asleep around 1. I don't know if I should try making it earlier or what. I really can't go any later because then he wont sleep at night. It doesn't matter if we do nothing all day or if we are busy and active all day; nothing changes. I also don't think I should take out naps all together because like I said he's crabby, and tired but also because if he doesn't take a nap he doesn't sleep as well at night.

I've tried "quiet time" where he lays down in a room by himself and watches a movie but that only lasts for about 15 minutes. All I know is if something doesn't change soon I'm going to be drinking by 2 every day. . .

Skinny Bitch!

....okay maybe not quite, BUT I'M GETTING THERE!!! Today was "weigh day" for me. . . ~insert drum roll here~ . . . I've lost 20lbs in 15 weeks!! Now I know this might not seem like a lot, but if you know me I gain weight by just LOOKING at food. It's also VERY hard for me to get the weight off, even with exercise. . . So I'm VERY happy! =)

I started some new meds at the end of August and they usually help most people kick start weight loss and I was really worried that it would be all meds and no me. However it's come of very slow since I've started them so I don't think it's all that...which is a big relief because now I know if/when I stop the meds I can continue loosing it.

When I first got really serious about losing I said I wouldn't buy myself any new clothes until I lost half the weight (I'm only at about 1/3), but I really think I need some new jeans. . . so if any of you know of places with jeans on sell let me know!

Sorry for the shameless brag - I just couldn't help myself!!!

Our day

Today we went and picked up some pumpkins to carve. We did a few while my brother was here and we are waiting to do the rest when daddy gets home. Here are some pics so far. J had lots of fun!!!

Security Blanket...or not so much - Now with pictures

Jeramyah has never had a security item...EVER. Well maybe his cuppy...he has to have that.
Anyway I bought J some gloves the other day, one he needs them for the winter but I also got him some red one's to go with his Elmo Halloween costume. Anyway I put them on a couple of days ago and he wont take them off. First thing this morning he asked for them and still wont let me take them off. The only time I've been able to take them off is if I bribe him with candy or if he's sleeping.. . . a week with gloves every day...
I'll add some pics later....

Pictures

Today I took J to get his fall/Halloween pictures done. Let me start off by saying that the last 2 or 3 times we've went and gotten pictures done he hasn't been very photogenic. We did a "Gone Fishing" set for his 2nd birthday. Normally he loves the water and fish and he had a COW cried and cried, wasted all but about 2 minutes of our time slot...In Sept we went and got family pics done. He didn't really cry that time but he dang sure didn't smile.

I'm keeping my BF's 2 sons for a week; one of them had a football game today and that resulted in J not getting a nap. That just makes my fears even higher of the outcome of the shoot.

However today went PERFECTLY! They had leaves, pumpkins, a tree, a fence and a hay bale for it. We took a few pics with him in his regular clothes and they were GREAT! He smiled, held the pumpkins, laughed, he even flirted with the photographer! Then he let me put his Elmo costume on with out a hitch and smiled and played for that!

Normally after you take the pictures you schedule to come back and look at a slide show of them and see which ones you want. When they do the special background scenes like this you view it right then. I thought with having all 3 boys with me this would be hard esp since James wasn't there (it was hell last time!). It actually turned out to be MUCH better. I left Jeramyah to play with the toys (like last time) but this time I didn't have to go keep checking on him.

I am oh so happy about it!

I LOVE pictures...all kinds. In action, sitting, standing, B&W, colour, at home, out and about, professional, just love them all. I get ours done at The Photo Store and they are so great. They are also one of the cheapest places in town. The only thing I don't like is that I easily spend $100 every time. We had family ones when J was 3 months old. Then we did 6, 9, 12, 15 month ones for the "baby steps" they have. Then we did 2 years in July, family in Sept, and these in Oct. Plus they have the Secret Santa ones which are FREAKING ADORABLE! I told the guy today that I just need to sign my paychecks over to them. . . in the last 2 years we've spent about $700 on photos.

Thankfully the family ones were pretty good, and these today were GREAT.... When I look at how much he's grown in the last two years and I get to look at all the ways he's changed it is worth every penny.

Here are the pics we got...I'm so happy with them!

Hola

Well the moms in the MOMS Club made me feel like a super slacker because they all blog about their kids and I don't.

So here I am making a family blog (I have one about the books I read; I know I'm a nerd) between hitting the baseball with Jeramyah. I'm not sure exactly if this will be a J only blog. I'm sure I'll also write about the family in general and sometimes my thoughts.

A couple of things have happened this morning that made me really want to start this.

1) It's a cold rainy day here and so I've been trying to keep J busy with things other than the TV. We've of course been playing baseball (we do this EVERY DAY) but I think we both got bored and he wanted to go watch Lilo and Stitch. I turn the movie on in my room for him and come in the living room to check my email and stuff on the laptop. About 20 minutes later he comes in with his bowl and gives me a hug asking for more Fruit Loops. I carry him in there while still hugging him and sit him on the counter. I pour some cereal into his bowl and we sit/stand there and feed it to each other. Then I start tickling him under his chin/neck. I love how a child will laugh before you even touch them! I'm laughing so hard because all I have to do is put my hands close to him and he laughs. Since I'm laughing he's laughing and that makes me laugh harder!
After we calm down a bit he starts saying "up!" I have no clue what he's talking about then he throws the cereal in the air. Then I remember, dear old daddy taught him how to through it in the air and catch it in his mouth; only J doesn't catch it. So I say what the hell and we start throwing it around. We get down and pick it all up then I come back in here. J starts throwing it some more then looses it. His little face scrunches up in the most angry looking face I have ever seen!

As I said while I'm trying to get this blog going we were playing baseball. J threw the ball and hit my arm. He comes over and kisses it and gives me a hug. I tell him "I love you so stinking much!" about 5 minutes later it's my turn to throw the ball and I throw it a little too hard. It goes past him and he tells me "Too stinkin much!" =) I love how he repeats what I say in a totally different way!

Anyway I think this is about it for my first blog. I'm not sure how often I'll update but check back!