The way Jamie sees it week of 9/16

So, I know I didn't get a quote for everyday this week, but my head has been kind of in a fog lately because the kids have been getting up at night. On Monday night, Jamie came into our room every 1/2 hour between 2 am and 4 am. Each time I would take him back to his bed and tuck him in but he just kept coming back. I even tried disciplining him, but that didn't seem to sink in at 3 o'clock in the morning. Finally, the last time he came in, I just told him to get out of our room and go back to bed. It worked! I guess he figured if I wasn't gonna get up with him anymore, there was no point. Then the next night, and almost every night since, Abby has woke up twice a night, instead of just at 4 or 5 am. I think that she's teething, which actually makes me a little happy, since I was getting worried about the fact that she still only had 4 teeth. And that's the long story about why I couldn't remember hardly any quotes this week, and that's why I'm writing them down now, as soon as I hear them. I've updated the column with more quotes so far this week.

9/16
"ba-bout mommy, 'nakes nin-there", after telling him to be careful of snakes in the bushes. (We were at Joshua tree National Park today - more on that in a posting soon)

9/17
[me]"Where's your chicken bones?"
[Jamie]"Daddy eat dem"
In fact, Daddy had taken all our chicken bones and licked them clean, and he had a huge pile of them on his plate, as usual.


9/18 or 9/19 or just about any day now...
"What? What? What? What? What?"...enough to drive me crazy!

9/20
"top(stop) talking guys , Jamie jus' drink toda (soda)!", said while Chad and I were talking with his parents at the restaurant last night"

play-place

Last week I took Jamie and Abby to the Science Center one day. We stayed mostly in this one room that they have for kids under 6, and the kids played for about 3 hours. I didn't know how to explain what the science center was to Jamie so I just called it the "play-place".

Outside by the fountain, where we ate lunch.
Abby was happy to just play with the balls.
The shopping center.

Music!


The miniature houses.






Jamie's musical abilities...


Abby fit in there?


The little houses...

Mission Bay

A few weeks ago we walked along the Mission Bay boardwalk to a playground. Chad had his skateboard and I had my scooter. It was alot of fun!




What's Jamie pointing at?
"Dadda ride frog!"

Time to trade...







Abby swinging, and Jamie showing the bump on his head, which he got while walking on the boardwalk, he seemed to stumble for no apparent reason, which why I asked him what he tripped on.

Leg lifts, mommy flower

After church we set Abby down in the grass, because last time I did so, she lifted her leg(s) up in the air and it was so cute! So this time we were armed with the camera. She never put both legs in the air this time, but she did keep her right leg up in the air, out of the grass, for at least 5 minutes. Wow! She must have bomber core muscles (but we all knew that, cuz she's been doing sit-ups in her carseat since she was like 6 weeks old!).

Notice how far up her leg is!

Hmm, a leaf...
I wonder what it tastes like?
After removal of leaf...

Here also is a video of Abby in the grass.


This video is of Jamie picking me a flower. He loves to pick flowers for me and his face just lights up so much, it is so precious. I think it all started when he was at the store once with Dad helping him to pick out a bouquet of flowers for me. Great job Chad - teaching your son to be a gentleman!

out to lunch, monkey song

So last week I took the kids out to lunch (remember, "no to-jo's, juss res-trant!"). So anyways, here are a few pics from the event.




Abby, get your feet off the table!


Here also, is a video of how Jamie reacts to the "monkey song". You see, Grandpa & Grandma (with a neigh-neigh) sent us a CD of a bunch of toddler songs. Jamie loves to listen to it, partly because he thinks that he is watching tv, since the tv has to be on to play the CD in the DVD player (we have no radio or CD player here). So anyways, the monkey song is "Five little monkeys, jumpin on the bed, monkey fell off, and bumped his head...". Jamie loves this song and knows exactly how it starts, so usually I miss his reaction. This time, I turned the camera on before the previous song was over and just waited. Of course, because I had the camera on, he didn't do his "monkey dance" as well as he normally does. Usually, he does his imitation of a monkey (like he does at the beginning) for much longer. But it's still worth watching...