Jett and Abby sitting in a tree......

With my best girlfriend's BIG 30th birthday right around the corner, I have been trying to come up with something creative, fun, and sentimental to do for her. We have been friends for half of our lives, so any little gift just won't do. I met a girl through a friend of mine that is dabbling in photography, and experimenting with photo shop and paint shop pro. She saw my blog, loved my pictures, and put together several amazing pieces of work for me to display in my home. I decided, that's it!! That is what I will have her do for Amy! First though, I had to get some cute pictures of Abby, but seriously, is that ever a challenge??? NO WAY! On Thursday, Amy and I met up and took the kids to the park for a mini photo shoot. I can't share all of the pictures because I don't want to ruin the surprise, but here are a few of the kiddo's together. Once her birthday is over, I will post what I had done for her, and for me! I am so proud of mine (Thanks, Crystal!)




















Jett has not crawled for over 6 months, but when he saw Abby doing it, he decided to join in! As Jett would say, "Weady, set, one, two, free GO!" The race was on.....


















How cute is this??


















Jett giving Amy an Eskimo kiss. I love, love, love it!!



















The future glamour girl herself, Abigayle Elizabeth


















While we were at the park, Jett spotted a bunny. Now, maybe I am crazy, but this did not look like an average, every day, wild bunny running around. This bunny looked like someones pet. It was so soft and fuzzy. It was also not terribly afraid of us approaching it. Kinda made me sad. I hope someone didn't dump it or lose it. If I could have gotten a hold of it, I would have probably brought it home. Although, I am not sure that would be a good idea with Tiffany in the house. She thinks bunnies are for chasing.


















I really don't have that much interesting stuff to ramble about this week. We have pretty much been trying to stay inside. This HOT, 100 plus degree Oklahoma weather is getting a little old, and I usually love hot weather. Poor little Jett has sweat pouring down his face before I ever get him buckled in his car seat.

I have discovered this past week that he is using many more Korean words than I realized. Since I have absolutely no idea what he is saying, I thought when he was pointing to the refrigerator and saying "murr, murr" he was wanting more. So I would give him more juice, water, milk, etc. I found out today that "murr" in Korean is water. Who knew?! Not me. I also learned that "upta" is all gone, and "mogul" is bite. I am sure glad Bobby knows what he is asking for! Oh yes, and I almost forgot. He stayed in the nursery at church today the WHOLE time! I think I was a wreck, but he did great! I am sure he played, talked their ears off, and wore them out wanting to go down the slide over, and over, and over again. He is getting to be such a big boy (sniff, sniff). That's all for now. Have a fun week!

My little Prince Charming is 20 months!

It seems so wild that Jett is closer to being two now than he is to being 1. Kinda makes me sad, but I think it helps that he is such a comedian. Those of you who have the privilege of being around him know that he is a complete riot! We are laughing all of the time at this boy. He has also become SO independent lately. Here are some examples of how he wants to do things his way, and all my himself.

Jett drinking from a water bottle....by himself. Notice how the water ended up on the floor with him slashing around in it? He is lucky he is so cute!


















Eating graham crackers on the couch in the living room instead of in the kitchen in his high chair. Again, lucky he is so cute.



















Eating cereal (in his high chair) by himself with a spoon. I decided to throw on a bib for this one, as I knew more milk would end up on him than in him.





















Tiffany is always close by waiting for something to drop, although Jett usually willingly shares his food with her.


















This boy is a total chatterbox (gee, I wonder where he got that from?!?) and today we had to leave church and sit in the lobby because he wanted to repeat everything the pastor was saying out loud. He also wanted to get down and play peek-a-boo with me behind the seats. That was cute at first, but like his voice, his laugh is pretty loud so when he started cracking himself up, it was time to leave. Afterwards we went with Abby and Amy to the park so I could take some pictures of Abby, but like an airhead, I left the battery on the charger so we are going to have to go back one night this week. Urgh! At least we got to spend some quality time with good friends despite me losing my mind.

Tonight Bobby and I took Jett on a walk around the neighborhood after dinner and played for the first time in his tree house. It has a wavy blue slide and Jett loved it! He kept saying "I wanna do it again daddy". So sweet.....have I mentioned how much we adore this little guy????



















Our poor Tiffany is such a pampered pooch that if the temperature gets about 8o degrees, this is what she does. Finds the nearest sprinkler system to drink from and cool off with.




















Have a great week!

From rugrat to curtain crawler

Bobby's dad promoted Jett to "curtain crawler" from "rug rat" last week. It's true. This boy has started climbing on everything! He has always been curious and brave, but he has officially learned how to grab things with his monkey toes and hoist himself up on top of things. YIKES!! The other night we were getting ready to go out to dinner and I walked out of the bathroom for literally 30 seconds, and came back to find this......


I guess leaving Jett in a room alone is no longer an option. He has also decided that he loves phones. Cell phones, cordless phones, toy phones, or remote controls will all work for him.

How you doin'?

If I hide back here, maybe mommy won't listen


What phone? I wasn't talking on the phone.


Saturday we met up with our friends Shanna, Rafy, and their nephew Addison at the park to play at the splash pad. The boys were really cute, and Jett was loving the blue raspberry slushy I got him! Probably not the best thing for his little teeth, but he enjoyed it.







This afternoon after church Bobby was working in the yard and Jett decided to "go see flowers". The lilies along the side of our yard are beautiful right now, and Jett loves to smell them. He got a little too close at one point, so you will notice a little orange smudge on his cheek from the dye.





He is he funniest boy these days. He copies every single thing we do and/or say. Sometimes we will just sit around and do things to see him mock us. His little voice and laugh are still my favorite sounds in he entire world. He counts to ten now really good, and I am starting to pick up on a few Korean words that he uses frequently. He amazes me how he can recognize and differentiate sounds. He knows the difference between airplanes and helicopters, and firetrucks, police cars, and ambulances. I have to say my favorite thing for him to say at this moment is "weeeeeeeeeeee-neeeee-ner" (weed eater). He says it just like that too, with the long, drawn out "weeeeeeeee" in the front. He is so precious! Oh yeah, and he started giving Eskimo kisses today and I am loving that too!!!

New York City/Niagra Trip 2008

We arrived back home late last evening after our 8 day trip to New York City and Niagra Falls,and let me just say, we are all exhausted. We had a fabulous time at Niagra, and took Jett on his first boat ride out to the center of the falls. He loved the boat and the water, but was not a huge fan of the raincoat that they make you wear. He refused to wear the hood, but didn't seem to mind the water hitting his head. He kept saying "it's raining, it's raining". Here are the Niagra trip pictures.












After Niagra Falls on Monday, we spent Tuesday at Darien Lakes. Jett loved all of the rides, but most of all, LOVED the water park! His little chin was shivering like crazy but he DID NOT want us to get him out of the water.









Wednesday morning, we were off to Manhattan. Actually, we did go to Manhattan, but we actually stayed in Soho close to Greenwich Village this time and loved it! It is on the upper west side of Manhattan, but it is more quiet and laid back. We have stayed at Central Park before, which is nice and romantic, and we have also stayed in Times Square, which is a little more noisy and chaotic, but fun. Soho was the perfect place to stay as a family though, and only a short subway ride into the heart of the city (and Soho also has amazing shopping and food as well). I took well over a hundred pictures, but I will share some of my fave's.

Battery Park/Pier overlooking the Statue of Liberty. We did not tour Ellis Island this time because the line to get tickets was over 2 hours long. We were thinking Jett would not handle that long of a wait very well.





Ground Zero

Times Square


Checking out the NYC Firetruck (Jett's not to sure of the fireman though)


Shopping on Fifth Avenue and visting FAO Schwartz (check out the soldier made of Jelly Belly's....YUM!






Central Park, one of the most beautiful places ever.







We had such a great trip and Jett was such a good little traveler. He was much more social than usual, letting the lady in the Prada store carry him around and show him off while daddy was trying on shoes, and he let a photographer snap some shots of him at Central Park while playing around on the rocks. We are glad to be home though, and are looking forward to out next NYC trip in 2010!