Goldsworthy Family

Playing catch up

2009-09-21T19:16:00.000-07:00

Hello fellow bloggers! I have been on a 3 week (or something close to that) hiatus, so I am trying to get back into the swing of things. Let me give everyone a quick summary of our world starting with the most recent and ending with photo's from our East Coast vacation. This past weekend I had a craft night with the girls on Saturday, and Jett spend the night with gramma. I always have a hard time letting him stay overnight, but I survived, and he was having so much fun he wouldn't even talk to me:( I got his scrapbook all caught up, made a cute diaper wipe case for a friend, and made a tutu and two bows for 2 other friends' birthdays. Here is a quick photo of the tutu. So cute!

On Sunday, Jett and I met Abby and Amy at the park. The kiddo's enjoyed eating (and feeding each other) snow cones. As you can see by how filthy they are, they thoroughly enjoyed them. Even when mixed with sand...ewe!

On the 15th, Amy and I went to see the Circus concert by Britney Spears. It was amazing. Now I can officially say that I know what a 50 million dollar extravaganza looks like. This is us before the show. By the way, the show was only an hour and a half long. Seriously?!? Gimme More!!

On Labor Day my mom and I took Jett to the Tulsa Zoo. It was so hot, but Jett enjoyed riding the train a hundred million times:)

And last, but not least, vacation pics!!
Savannah, GA

My family on Tybee Island

Feeding the gators and watching the dolphins play!

North Carolina visit. Kirstin and I have been friends since we were Jett's age. We enjoyed our time with her SO much.

Washington DC. LOVE this place. I am ready to go back already.

Well, that's about all I have for now. Hopefully I won't wait 3 weeks to post again:)

Whiz Kid

2009-08-27T21:30:00.000-07:00

Last week mom and I decided to take Jett to the Kirkpatrick Center/Omniplex/Planetarium in Oklahoma City. Jett is really hands on and loves interactive type stuff, so we thought he would really enjoy all of the neat science type things they have, and my mom had read that they have a new train exhibit, so that was all the more reason to go. I thought dressing Jett in his Whiz Kid shirt would be appropriate given the nature of this trip.

As you might be able to tell in a few of the pictures, Jett is sans shorts. He got a little to busy playing on the airplane display and forgot that he needed to go to the potty. Oops. On top of that, I had no extra clothes, or diapers. Mom and I had to make a quick pit stop to a family dollar (with bars on the windows I might add) to buy some to tide us over until we got home.
Earlier in the week mom and I took Jett to Toys R Us to do a little shopping before a concert. On the way out, Jett thought he needed an ice cream sandwich. We had him eat on the sidewalk outside of the store so that he wouldn't get my mom's new car all messy.

And finally, last Saturday was the Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, Poison concert! WooHoo!! I have been obsessed with Def Leppard since I was like 12, and I have seen them every time they have been to Tulsa since (4 times to be exact), and the fact that Bret Michaels was joining them was just a little added bonus. Here are my and my girls before the show!

I will be on vacation for the next 10 days on the east coast (pray that the hurricane doesn't get us), so I may be missing in action for next week's post.

A 5K, a Firetruck, a tattoo, and McCartney!

2009-08-18T19:28:00.000-07:00

Friday night Bobby and I ran a 5K together. This was particularly exciting to me since I usually run with friends or by myself. Bobby has always been a sprint one mile kind of guy, while I am the distance/endurance runner. He decided at the last minute to run this years United Way Trailblazer run with me, and I was ecstatic. As you can see from the photo's below, he was a little beat at the end of the race, but finished about 5 strides behind me, which is great for his first sanctioned run!

Also at the event was a Firetruck for the kids to check out. Jett loves firetrucks, and gets really excited when we see one on the road (especially if it's lights and siren's are going). He wasn't, however, a big fan of being IN an actual firetruck, or actually anywhere near one.

They also had tents set up for "tattoo's". Jett picked out a train tattoo. Surprise, surprise! I didn't realize those suckers were so hard to get off! 4 days and 4 bath's later, it is still on his arm.

Saturday we attended a wedding for a sweet friend of mine, Ami. Here is a photo that I snagged from my friend, as I forgot my camera. Can you tell I am a runner by my tank top farmer tan?!?

And finally, this week was the McCartney concert! SO good. If anyone gets an opportunity, they should go, for sure! Funny story. An email went out from the BOK arena that camera's would be allowed at the concert, which never happens. So of course, I took my camera. We parked in the parking garage to my mom's office about 5 blocks away and walked (in almost 100degree heat) to the arena rather than paying to park close. Once we got there, I was informed that my camera was professional, and camera's with special lenses that can be removed or external flashes were prohibited. Being the runner I am, I removed my uncomfortable, cute heels and ran through the streets of downtown back to the parking garage, locked the camera in my mom's car, and ran back to the BOK arena barefoot. Yep! It's a good thing I trained for a marathon down there. I know the streets well. Here are the pictures we took from my mom's camera.

Vanilla Ice Cream, Baby!!

2009-08-12T20:32:00.000-07:00

I don't have a lot of stuff to blog about this week since the summer days seem to repeat themselves over and over again, you know, play outside, play trains, play in the water, etc., so I wanted to post a few pic's of Jett enjoying a vanilla ice cream cone the other day. As you can see by his ice cream covered face, he thoroughly enjoyed it. What I am not going to enjoy is cleaning off the seats in Bobby's dad's car....oops!

And yes, that sweet little boy is every bit as sweet as the ice cream he is wearing! I have often said that he is so sweet that I could take a bite out of him:) Have a good week!

Social Butterfly

2009-08-06T16:03:00.000-07:00

This past week has been so busy (as you will be able to see by the pic's) that I haven't had a chance to sit down and blog about what's been going on around here until Thursday, which means that in just a few more days it will be time to do it again. Sheesh! Time has been slipping away from me so fast lately. Now that Jett is getting older, the days and weeks are just flying by so quickly. It really makes me sad because I feel like he is growing up so fast and I wish there was a pause or rewind button sometimes so that we can enjoy him at this stage just a little big longer. He is old enough now to really enjoy playing with kids around his age, and luckily I have several good friends with little ones that are eager and willing to meet up for play dates! I am so glad to see Jett be social. I have always been worried about that because he is so attached to me, and he is not consistently around other children. Last week we met up with my good friend Shanna and her family at the splash pad for a play date with Reid. The boys were so cute to watch, and are both so well behaved and easy to handle!

Later on in the week we met several more of my friends back at the splash pad (what can I say? It's nice and new and we love it!) to celebrate Shelby's 5th birthday. I attempted to make her pink cake balls that ended up being melted cake ball mush due to the scorching heat that day. Before melting they looked super cute though! Here are the kids playing. We had SO much fun!

Also new this week was a slip-n-slide! It took me demonstrating (yes, my husband took pic's...no, they won't be posted) before Jett got the hang of it. He still preferred running on it and swimming in his froggie pool though.

It's so hard for me to grasp that Jett will be 3 in just a few more months. He is still the funniest kid I have ever been around, and I am certain that he has the cutest voice I have ever heard:) He is getting so tall lately, but is still wearing a 2T perfectly. I am almost finished with his fall/winter wardrobe and it's a little depressing to buy 3T's:( He is wearing a size 7 shoe, and weighs a little over 30lbs. His obsession is still Thomas the Train, and everything still has to be "green like Percy". He has also become obsessed with hamburgers, and I am not sure where that one came from. We are still working on the potty training. He will go several days without accidents if we take him continually to the potty, but he won't tell us when he needs to go a lot of the time. He is way to busy for potty breaks! I have been rewarding him with Percy stickers, which he loves, but I end up finding them in very unique places around the house and on his body in the morning when I go in to get him out of bed. We are basically still crazy in love with him and can't get enough of his sweet hugs and kisses. I hope everyone has a great rest of the week (or what's left of it)!

We Heart Summer

2009-07-30T17:57:00.000-07:00

Yes, we LOVE summer time around here. Pretty much every week around here from about May through September is the same old routine. This year we have substituted about 3 days a week at the park for 3 days a week at the train tracks on the west side of town. A little scary, but we go during daylight, and Bobby is always with us! We did take a break from the trains long enough one afternoon to enjoy Woodward Park. You can tell by Jett's red face that this particular day was a little toasty.

And one picture of Jett standing on the digger at the train yard.

Not much else is going on around our house except for yard work, preparing for vacation (5 more weeks to go.....woo hoo!), and getting ready for 3 concerts in 3 weeks. Yes, I will be going to Def Leppard, Cheap Trick,and Poison, Britney Spears, and Paul McCartney. I know what you're thinking....quite a variety, right?!? What can I say....I have eclectic taste in music, for sure! I don't really know why I pay money for entertainment these days though when I have Jett around to keep me laughing. His latest comments have been "Don't worry about it mommy", "It's not yours...it's mine", and "That's not nice mommy". He's so funny. The other night I bought him a Lights and Sounds Percy, and in the car he says to me "Did you buy me a green train mommy?" I replied to him "Yes, mommy bought you a green train because you are a good boy and I love you." He then says "Gramma bought me a bigger one." Ouch! That's about all I have for now. I'm going to post one last picture because it shows what Jett's favorite activity is besides playing with trains. Our poor pup! He just will not leave her alone at all.

Toot-Toot, Ding, Ding, Ding!!!

2009-07-20T12:59:00.001-07:00

Jett is completely obsessed with trains, so Bobby and I decided to take him downtown to see the train tracks. We thought there might be a few trains on the track not moving, but we lucked out and ended up getting to see a freight train go by while we were out there. Jett was so excited, and a little bit scared as it went directly in front of us. He thought it was really cool that the conductor tooted the horn and waved at him.

We have been so busy lately, and Jett is still our number one form of entertainment around here! His number one interest is still Thomas the Train, or any train really, and he can name them all, tell us what number they are and what color they are. He has started singing "You are my Sunshine", which just melts my heart, and his newest thing is to say "Thank you for helping me mommy", and "Good Morning mommy", randomly throughout the day for no apparent reason. My good friend Kelly had a new baby girl last week, so my mom, Jett and I went to visit her on Sunday. While we were waiting to meet my mom, I decided to take a few random pictures of Jett and I love them! They just show his personality so much. Happy, wild, and funny!

And a few pictures of Jett skinny dipping Friday in his green (like Percy) swimming pool.

I am going to keep this short becuase I had lots of pictures to upload! Have a great week!

Missing week/Lazy days of summer

2009-07-20T12:50:00.000-07:00

Well, I have officially skipped a whole week of blogging for the very first time. We had an electrical storm in Tulsa a few weeks ago that fried our computer upstairs, and since that is the PC that I upload all of my pictures too, I just decided to wait until I had pictures to do a new post. So, here goes. I only have a few pictures from 2 weeks ago because it was so hot that we spent most of our time outside at the splash pad or park, and these days it is difficult to try to get any quality pictures while chasing around a busy toddler! So rather than attempt to do that, I decided to sneak in a few shots of my little guy worn out after several long days of playing in the heat.
Why you shouldn't sleep with a toddler....

He couldn't even make it home before crashing.

My little firecracker!

2009-07-05T20:14:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone had a safe, happy, and fun filled Independence Day weekend! I have always loved the 4th of July, and I have fond memories of getting excited every year about going to the river parks to enjoy the wonderful fireworks display. Although, as we were watching the show Saturday night, Amy and I were discussing how when we were little kids the fire crackers seemed larger than life, and we could remember laying on the grass and feeling like they were going to come right down on top of us. I don't know if it's because we were much smaller, or if it's because they shoot them off at a greater distance, but for some reason for the past several years they don't seem as big and impressive as they once did. Jett, on the other hand, was completely mesmerized by them and made sure to point out what color each one was and which Thomas the Train engine character they matched (for example: "That's a red one like James! That's a green one like Percy! That's a blue one like Thomas!) Before we headed over to the bridge Saturday night, we met up with the Coatney family and had a little play time in the park. Abby and Jett are so funny to watch. Abby is so cautious and little, and Jett is a bull in a China closet dragging her around. I'm thinking now would be a good time for Bobby to start teaching him about being gentle with girls!

I felt bad that my grandma spent the 4th of July alone, as we usually have family in from out of town, so Jett and I headed over there today to pay her a little visit. Jett absolutely loves it there, and had a complete meltdown when we had to leave. At one point I said to him "Bye Bye Jett, mommy is going to go home". On any other day, he would have dropped everything and came running towards me. Not today. He came over, gave me a hug and said "bye bye mommy, I'm gonna stay with Nenal". What?!? I told him that he was making me feel really bad, and my grandma said "you used to do the same thing". Ouch! Man, now I feel bad for making my mom feel unwanted. My grandma is still caring for Jett's duck, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger. I feel bad for the poor duckie because Jett chases it all over the yard and I know it has to get tired and scared.

That's about it for us this week. The only thing exciting around here these days is the continued effort to potty train. I am not convinced that it is time yet, but Bobby is adamant that we should be trying, so I am going along with him! Jett does really well and can go all day without a wet diaper, pull up, or underwear, but only if we take him to the potty every few hours. He hasn't quite mastered the art of telling us when he needs to go on his own. This is certainly my least favorite thing so far about parenthood. If it were up to me, he would be wearing diapers until kindergarten!

Food, fun, and fortunes.....

2009-07-01T21:01:00.000-07:00

I think it's official that I should probably be the recipient of some type of bad blogger award these days. I almost skipped this week entirely, but I rely on my weekly posts to track Jett's age and cuteness in my scrapbooks! This summer is flying by and I can't believe it's already July! We have spending most of our time outdoors, and come in about 3 times a day to eat. We would probably do that outside as well, but I have a weird phobia about ants and flies on my food:) The other night Bobby was helping Jett eat a hamburger, and I had to grab the ole' camera.

I started cross training last week in the pool, which was exciting for me because I love to swim, and I am also hoping to do another triathlon before summer is over. The only negative thing to lap swimming....Jett can't do it with me. Bummer. I am hoping that in the next few weeks I can take him to the pool just to splash around and have fun without doing laps. He really does well in the water and will even put his head under, so I am hoping he will love swimming also. Watch out Michael Phelps! Bobby and I have been working in our flower bed often, as weeds just keep popping up out of nowhere. Urgh! While we are digging up weeds, Jett enjoys playing around in the yard and chasing Tiffany (or riding her, dragging her, laying on her, etc). She is the best dog and tolerates all of his abuse.

I can't end a post without a Jett funny, so here goes. My mom and I meet every Tuesday and take Jett to the bookstore and then go eat together. We have found this amazing place called Thai Siam, and they always give us fortune cookies. The very first time we went there (I am guessing about 2 months ago), Jett's first fortune said "Never give up". Tuesday after Jett opened his fortune cookie, he pulled out the fortune, studied it for a second, and then said "It says Never give up". Mom and I about died. He has a great memory (did not get that from me), and he now knows almost all of the Thomas the Train characters by name and can recognize their numbers. Also new this week is "No...I don't think so", and "It doesn't matter mommy". I asked him tonight "How old are you Jett", and he thought I said "How are you Jett", so he responded by saying "Thank you mommy, I'm fine". Other than that, not much going on around here. I hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July!

Can it get any hotter around here?!?!?

2009-06-22T20:28:00.000-07:00

Seriously, I went for a run today around 2 with Tiffany, and poor thing barely made it home. As I was running, I would look back and see her laying on her side in the middle of the street with her tongue hanging out of her mouth. At one point, a nice neighbor offered to give her water. Hmmm, maybe I should leave my hot natured running buddy at home! Jett, on the other hand, would play outside for hours in the heat and it never seems to phase him. My kinda boy! Here he is playing around outside earlier this week. Notice the short shorts?!? These were some 12-18 month play clothes I pulled out from the back of his closet. On top of that, he was wearing his big boy underwear, so can we say "wedgie"?!?

He is so much fun these days and has really started wanting to "help" me with everything. It's so cute to see him watch every move I make and then say "I-yanna do it!" This weekend we stayed at home and worked in the yard, watched cartoons (I know, don't fall out of your chairs), and went for a few nice walks around the neighborhood. It was a very nice, relaxing Father's Day weekend. I tried to get some pictures of Bobby and Jett playing Sunday afternoon, but I didn't realize that they were turning out so dark.

As we were getting read to go visit my father-in-law Sunday, Bobby snapped a few shots of Jett and I in the driveway. I love how green everything is (after much watering).

Just when we think he can't get any funnier, Jett says or does something that knocks our socks off. I was showing him some Thomas the Train sing-a-longs on YouTube the other day, and I went to click on the button to make the picture larger, and Jett said "No mommy....don't click it", and pulled his hand back as if he was going to smack me. I looked at him square in the eye and said "You better not hit mommy". He looked me directly in the eyes, leaned his little head over on my shoulder and turned his cheek to kiss my face, then reached his little palms up and put them on my cheeks and said in the SWEETEST little voice "Say it mommy....I love you Jett". Ugh! He kills me! This is exactly why I am not good at the discipline thing. Although, I must brag on him because everywhere we go we get praises about how well mannered he is. We must be doing something right! Just a quick picture to show how much I am obsessed with this boy.

Oh, and his new phrase of the week was "I love you today mommy". Awe...so loveable. Although, it makes me wonder if he really does only love me that day, or will he love me tomorrow too?!? So funny!

It's what month?!?

2009-06-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

I can hardly believe that it is almost July, or we are halfway there at least. I remember way back when BC (before child), weeks were long and days seemed even longer. Now, before I know it, a whole month has passed and I get sad that it has flown by way to quickly. The positive thing about this summer so far is that I have gotten the opportunity to spend time with several friends that live out of state. This past weekend I got to enjoy time with my sweet friend Neena that moved away a few years ago. Another friend of ours was kind enough to host a cook out Saturday night for our families to get together and catch up. We had a blast, and Jett and I enjoyed meeting and getting to play with (and splash in puddles with) sweet little Aidan.

This was after Ring around the Rosey....we all fell down!

Ring around the Rosey

Earlier this week Amy and I took Jett and Abby to the splash pad. I love watching them together, and I really hope that Abby and Jett will be close like Amy and I. So far, they run in opposite directions of one another, with the occassional hug and kiss. Abby is always so sweet and tries to love on Jett and share things with him, such as her drink for example.

Brrrr.....the water was colder than he anticipated, and you can tell by his face

As time goes by, Jett becomes more and more of a comedian. This past week Bobby and I stopped to get frozen custard, and I was sitting on the couch eating mine with a napkin wrapped around the cup (brrr those things are cold), and Jett walked over to me and said "Whatcha eadin mommy? Are you eadin ice cweam.....and toilet paper?" Then the other night, Bobby and I were laying with him in our bed. Realizing that Jett was not going to go to sleep with the TV on, Bobby turned it off. Jett quickly settled down, and when it got quiet, he said "What are we gonna do now, Daddy?" Bobby quickly responded with "We're going to go to sleep is what were gonna do". He is doing well with using the potty, and had no daytime wet diapers this past weekend. Yeah! Well, that's all I have for now. Hope everyone has a great week!

Say what?!?

2009-06-08T15:27:00.000-07:00

I have often wondered when I would stop doing the weekly blog, but as Jett gets older, I realize the importance of documenting all of his funny actions and comments. This past week he has said a few things that have caught me completely off guard and made me laugh out loud. The first conversation went something like this:
Me: "Mommy needs to have daddy change the light bulb because I can't see" (in the laundry room)
Jett: "You can't see with your eyes mommy? I can see with my blue eyes."
I almost died. Kids! They take everything so literally. I guess he thought I physically couldn't see. This weekend we had our annual picnic, Boonefest. It was perfect weather, and Jett loved the pinata and the catfish pond. I am going to have to make a mental note to myself to never dress Jett in a white shirt for parties again. He was filthy afterwards.

While we were out driving around on Saturday, I made the comment "It is so hot". Bobby then chimed back, "You are hot". Jett, sitting in the back seat says (without missing a beat) "Nooo, you're not hot mommy. Daddy, mommy's not hot!" Thanks Jett!
On Sunday, I met up with 2 of my girlfriends for coffee at Utica. So much fun! I love these girls!

Anyways, so far this week....no plans until Saturday! YEAH! Maybe I can catch up on some much needed sleep. Have a great week!

Where does the time go?!?

2009-06-02T20:25:00.000-07:00

I think I might know the answer to this. Facebook. Ever since I was conned into starting a Facebook page, the ole' blog has been shoved aside. I will do my best to recap our busy week! And when I say busy, I do mean busy. I am starting to wonder if I will ever get caught up on sleep! I have not been as good about carrying my camera with me at all times as I usually do, but I was glad that I had it handy the other morning when Jett decided to use Bobby's sink as a water fountain.

I am not quite sure how he got his body in the position to do this, but it was really funny! Bobby told me that we need to be careful or Jett will turn on the hot water and burn himself, and Jett quickly responded by saying "No...I not turn on the hot water. The cold water is right there" and pointed to the cold faucet handle. The funny things he says these days pretty much keep us in stitches at all times. The other day I was making the bed, and he didn't realize Bobby had gotten up (our bed is very tall), and as I made the bed, Jett said "Did you cover daddy up?" Bobby and I both about lost it. I guess he thought I made the bed with Bobby in it.
On Sunday we went to my grandma's to visit my aunt and uncle. Since the duck now lives in my grandma's back yard, she has a little plastic kiddie pool for it to splash around in. Needless to say, my water lovin' boy found it immediately.

No worries (or calls to DHS), the pool was new and the water was fresh....until the dogs decided to join him, at which point we decided that swimming time was over.
Also last week we attended a baby shower for my good friend Kelly and her soon to be new baby girl Adelyn, and Jett decided to make necklaces out of the pink yarn used to play the "guess how big her belly is" game. I am sure Bobby was so proud!

Well, I hope everyone is enjoying the summer like weather. I know we are!!

Finally, a weekend at home with NO plans

2009-05-25T20:12:00.000-07:00

Wow! This weekend was so nice because it was the first in a long time that we had absolutely zero plans for Saturday and Sunday. Jett is at the age now where he gets more excited about things such as the zoo, walks, the park, etc. In the past, we would go and he would enjoy it, but he knows now to request going certain places and doing specific things. This weekend Bobby and I decided to go for a jog, so we packed up and headed to the river. On our way we pulled into QT, and Jett immediately said " I want some Gatorade, daddy". It's so funny that he associates QT now with drinks. He has actually done this for quite some time, and it really shows how routine we are about doing things! After we got a drink we headed to the river, and as we turned in Jett got really excited about the park. After our jog we rested for a bit while Jett played in the new splash pad.

Needless to say, he did not want to leave. We finally had to bribe him to get him in the car. He has also become really fond of Tiffany these days. He has always loved her, but now he has no fear of her and will hold her tail while she drags him around the house, or he will give her a great big bear hug around the neck until she gets up and takes off dragging him behind her. She is such a good dog and she tolerates him so well! The other morning, Bobby decided to let Jett "ride" Tiffany. I am sure she was thrilled.

I can't believe Jett turned 2 1/2 last Sunday. Gulp, sniff-sniff. I don't remember time flying so fast before he was born. Now I wish I could pause time, but before I have time to blink a whole month has passed. He is such a lovable, sweet, and funny little guy that kills us with the things he says and does. He is also extremely well behaved, which is a little surprising since we are not at all good disciplinarians. I guess it's a good thing that he is distracted easily! I was commenting the other day about how we have never experienced the "terrible two's" and someone informed me that 3 is the hard age. Ugh! Maybe I should bite my tongue.
I hope everyone had a fantastic Memorial Day weekend!

Vitamin D, sunshine.....YEAH!

2009-05-19T15:24:00.000-07:00

I can't believe I am saying this, but finally after 22 consecutive days of rain, the sun finally decided to make an appearance. YEAH! The rain was getting really depressing, and as strange as it may sound, I think my flowers were actually starting to look pathetic from too much water. This week was eventful, as it was my husband's birthday (1 more year until the big 4-0), and I was finally able to schedule a long overdue hair appointment. I was beginning to feel as if I should try out for the next season of Rock of Love Bus with my dark roots. Bobby and Jett also took advantage of the nice weather this weekend and ran with me at the river both Saturday and Sunday. Yippee! After we were finished, we took Jett to the new park area to play for a while. It is really nice, and I can't wait until it gets warm enough to let him play in all of the cool water features. Here are a few pictures of my little monkey at on the jungle gym.

I snapped this picture before we left for the river Saturday morning. How cute are these guys?!?

This was Jett "helping" daddy make his PB&J sandwich.

Sunday Bobby's parents took us out to eat and I was able to finally get a picture of the two of them with Jett. I am so glad that Jett has grandparents on both sides that think the world revolves around him (and parents, and great-grandparents, etc.)

That's about all I have for this week. I was finally able to schedule our visit to the White House last week! I am really getting excited about our trip to DC and the beach! Too bad it's not for 3 more months.....Here are a few more random pictures of my sweet baby boy. He kills me!

Another reunion, and Mother's Day

2009-05-10T20:28:00.000-07:00

Let me just start by saying that I am so excited about spending the week at home and not in the car! We have taken so many little road trips in the past few weeks that I was getting sore from all of the sitting. Although we were at home, it was a crazy busy week as I was preparing for a dinner party with some of my oldest friends. I grew up with these 2 families, so the girls are like sister's to me, and their mom's are like my second mothers. We had such a great time! We have been spread out all over the map since teenagers, so our visits are few and far between but SO wonderful when they happen.

Jett at first acted shy, but after a while warmed right up. He particularly enjoyed playing with my friend Candice's little girl, Chandler.

And, as always, Gramma!

I don't really have a lot else to share besides the fact that I am completely exhausted, as Jett has decided once again that sleep is overrated. He has never been a good sleeper (and never a napper), but for about 6 months I have been spoiled to 10+ hour nights. Not the case anymore. For the past few nights he has woke up about every 3 or 4 hours, and then usually is up for good by 6. Ouch! I am happy to report that tonight he fell asleep in my lap and I was able to slowly glide myself down the halls and slip him into his bed without waking him up. YAY! I hope all of my mommy friends had a fabulous mother's day! Here are a few pic's Bobby was able to get of Jett and I today.

Poor little guys cheeks are red from the fever he has been running since Saturday morning. Not sure what that's about because he acts like he feels fine other than wanting me to hold him most of the day. Hopefully he will perk up in the next day or so. I hate to see him under the weather. Have a great week!

On the road again.....

2009-05-05T20:37:00.000-07:00

Whoosh! I am totally exhausted after being out of town for the third week in a row. Last week was our family reunion in Arkansas. I absolutely love Arkansas, and although I could not rope, tie, and drag Bobby there to live, I intend to make sure that Jett appreciates it as much as I do! So far so good. He loved the mountains and made sure to stay awake for the entire 4 hour drive so that he would not miss any of the "fog that looks like smoke". Apparently is has been raining there as much as it has been raining here. Whatever happened to April showers bring May flowers?!?!?

Earlier this week I decided to pull out Jett's big boy underwear and try them on him. Now, we still are not in the aggressive potty training stage, but we are up to 4 or 5 times a day going on the potty (on a good day). I will be the first to admit that I am probably the worst about just pinning a diaper on him and going since it is just easier. Gotta work on that if I ever want him to be accepted into school.

Also new this week was another addition to our family. Bobby discovered a turtle in our yard while mowing. Jett loves turtles, so I found a glass fish bowl for him and made him a nice little home and began feeding and caring for him. I decided to google what you are supposed to feed turtles only to find out that our new "pet" was actually a water turtle (aka-snapping turtle). Yikes! Maybe we shouldn't try to rescue wild reptiles in our yard. Hopefully next weekend we will be able to take him out somewhere and let him go.

Remember the duckies that Jett got for Easter? Well, we are now down to uno duck. They were living in my grandma's yard, and one day she noticed that the little brown one was missing. We dont know what happened to it, but it breaks my heart to see the little white duckling waddling around her yard all alone. Here is a recent pic. Those suckers get big fast!

Here are a few more random pictures of Jett's indoor play this week. I am so ready for the sunshine!

Great friends, great fun, and a great run

2009-04-27T20:40:00.000-07:00

This weekend Jett, Bobby, and I headed to Oklahoma City for the OKC Memorial Marathon. One of my best girlfriends drove up from Dallas to help cheer me on at the race. I am certain that I have the best family, friends, and running buddies that anyone could ask for! I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked, but of course, I was running, Bobby was entertaining Jett, and Jamie was traveling around meeting me at different mile markers to hand off water, Gatorade, etc. It was much easier than I anticipated, and I beat my goal time, woo-hoo! Here are a few pic's from right after the marathon (26.2 miles just in case you weren't sure...I have had several people ask).
This is what kept me going! My boys, and my friend:)

I actually trained with 4 other ladies, but unfortunately I didn't get a group picture. Such a shame since we all looked super cute in our matching hot pink running outfits! They got pic's, so I will try to snag them and post them later. Shout out to Caroline who finished right after me, Roxana who finished right behind Caroline, and Shanna and Jillian who ran the half marathon and beat their goal times as well. Yipee! After the race, Bobby and I took Jett over to the Memorial to visit since I have never seen it completed. It is just beautiful. I almost got choked up just remembering back to that horrible day when the building was bombed several years ago. Here are some pictures that I thought turned out ok. The first picture is of the only surviving tree from the bombing, and also he meeting place for the morning prayer before the Marathon.

As you can tell, we had a busy week and weekend, so hopefully next week I will have a better variety of pictures! Oh yes, and for all of my friends who know how anti-bumper sticker I am.....I finally caved.

Yep! I put a sticker on my car. The mother of one of my friends that I trained with got this for me and I love it! I tried to get rid of the reflection from the flash, but it made a weird smudgy look below the window, however, I was able to blur the license plate pretty well. Gotta love photoshop:)

The Boy King??

2009-04-20T19:51:00.000-07:00

Last week we traveled to Dallas for a few days to visit family, shop, eat, and visit the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. Although there wasn't quite as much as I anticipated, it was a great display and pretty fascinating. I'm not sure how much longer it is going to be there, but I highly recommend going if anyone is interested. At the end of the exhibit there was a gift shop with little hats that looked like the head piece that King Tutankhamen wore. My mom put it on Jett, and I thought it was pretty appropriate since Jett thinks he is the "Boy King", and we treat him as such. I was so frustrated because I got all the way to Dallas and realized my camera battery was dead. Urgh! So, no pictures from this trip, but maybe next time. Earlier this week Jett enjoyed breaking out the new bubble mower that my mom got him for Easter. He has mowed our entire house, and every yard in our culdesac. You might notice on some of the pictures that he mower leaves a stream of bubble liquid along the carpet. I think this is definitely more of an outside toy!

I have to brag on Jett (as if I am not one of those obnoxious mommy's that does that all of the time), but he has been peeing on the potty several times a day now. I am sure he will love me later for blogging about this, but I want to remember these milestones! Since I didn't get many pictures last week, I was sure to have my camera in tow today when we met Shanna and Addison at the park for a play date.
These two had so much fun together, and I really like him interacting with other kids since he isn't around them on a day to day basis. He is really getting social and brave (as well as still being the funniest kid on the planet). He is speaking more and more Korean, which is interesting to me, but it is so cute to hear. Although, he is also picking up a bit of my mother-in-law's broken English accent, but it always makes me laugh. So cute!! Here are the park pic's.

Everyone keep your fingers crossed that we come close to our goal time at the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon next weekend! I am hoping my knees and ankles hold up for the whole race, as they have been giving me problems lately. I hope to report good news next week.

Fun Easter weekend

2009-04-13T12:21:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter week/weekend. My week started off exciting, as my mom and I went to the Springsteen concert Tuesday night at the BOK Arena. It was an amazing show and I highly recommend a Springsteen concert to any fans out there who have yet to see him in concert. He is full of energy and looks amazing for someone his age (not old, just older than me). Saturday after my grueling 22+ mile run (why do I do this to myself???), Jett and I met up with Amy and Abby to do a little shopping at Utica, grabbed a quick snack at Queenie's, and then headed to meet up with our friends Jen and Haylee. Ahhh...I loved the weather Saturday. I wish it could be that nice every day.

Saturday night Bobby and I dyed Easter eggs with Jett. Of course, Tiffany discovered them on the island while we were at church Sunday morning, and the weather was to icky to hunt and hide the 5 remaining eggs, but we had a great time coloring them.

This was my sweet baby boy looking super cute in his traditional Cottontail Originals romper/knee sock outfit Sunday morning.

This was him sans Easter outfit due to a huge blow out diaper after service. At least it made it through church.

And what do you get a little boy that has everything for Easter???

Yes, ducks of course. My mom and step dad got Jett 2 ducklings. Since we have a dog that chases everything (small animals included), they are residing in Owasso at the moment until we can take them to a friends pond once they get bigger.
Here are some more random pictures from Easter Sunday. Some at home, some from my mom's house, and some at my grandma's house. Whew! We were all exhausted Sunday night, resulting in my late blog post today. Hope everyone has a great week!

Yucky Bugs

2009-04-05T07:54:00.000-07:00

Jett and I have both been under the weather this week. To sum up a really long week of runny noses, coughing, etc., I will just say that medicine + good ole' Vicks vapor rub = 1 happy boy today! I am feeling better as well. While we were on he mend indoors, Jett and I decided to whip up a batch of brownies.

My mom, God love her, came out on Wednesday and go us out and about for the first time in days. We took a trip to Babies R Us and then enjoyed Mexican food for dinner. YUM! Since Jett is quite possibly the most spoiled child in the universe, he ended up with new toys out of our shopping trip. I told my mom to put them in his Easter basket, but she insisted that he take at least one of them home. Needless to say, he loved hammering around on his new block toy.

As I was putting laundry away, Jett discovered his old Bumbo seat in the back of the closet. He decided to take it into the bedroom and have a seat in front of the TV on the sofa in front of our bed. I couldn't believe he could still fit in it!

This weekend we got to spend a lot of time with our best buds, Abby and Amy. Saturday we all went shopping, and today we were invited to a Easter celebration at a friends' church. Abby and Jett had a good time sampling all of the sweets on the dessert table and chasing each other around. They also enjoyed checking out the cool fishies (and shaking and knocking the bowl around...poor fishies).

Jett also enjoyed the hula hoop and the inflatable chicken.

After the pre-easter celebration we were out running around and we passed a construction site with several bulldozers, diggers, crane's, etc. Jett gets so excited that Bobby decided to pull over and let him take a look.

That's about all I have for now. Being sick at home doesn't allow for many good photo op's! Although, Jett is super snuggly when he is sick and I do enjoy that part.

Snow? In March?

2009-03-29T19:37:00.001-07:00

Isn't spring supposed to be green and beautiful? Something crazy happened here last week and we had about 8 inches of snow on the ground by Saturday night. I was so excited for Jett to wake up Saturday morning so I could show him the white stuff falling from the sky. He was SO excited, and happy to watch it from the window, but not such a big fan of being out in it.
View from our front door

Jett in the snow.

I can't say that I blame him. It wasn't a nice, dry, powdery snow. It was more of a wet, nasty snow that turned into slush Sunday morning (just in time for my 20 mile run, yippee!) At least it looked pretty from inside. Since my idea of playing outside was not such a big hit, we opted to play indoors building lego's, riding around in the firetruck, and pushing around the bulldozer.

Today was a little better. Still lot's of puddles from the melting slush, but Jett enjoyed making snow balls and making mini snow men. I think he actually liked the snow, but he didn't care for it coming down on his head.

You would think that with the weather being nasty, and not having much else to do, that I would have used this opportunity to do a little potty training. Not so much. I just can't seem to motivate myself to potty train. I don't know if it's the dread, or the idea of not having a little one in diapers anymore, but I just keep putting it off. Instead, I shopped for Jett an Easter outfit and hit a great sale at Gaga-a-Gogo (fave store-everyone with little ones should go). Maybe the aggressive potty training will begin this week......or not.
Tonight, Bobby and Jett were playing "ride the little horsey" in the living room, and when Bobby stopped, Jett said "more quarters". He is used to always getting to ride the horse at the store, and knows that to make it go you must insert money. I gave him a penny to put in Bobby's hand and we did this over, and over, and over until I am sure that Bobby couldn't feel his legs anymore. At that point, Jett got down, ran back to our bedroom and grabbed a remote, came back into the living room, hopped back up on Bobby's legs, and pointed the remote at his knees and hit the power button. Where DOES he get this stuff?!?!? Here they are goofing off.

That about sums up our week. I hope everyone is safe and warm! Oh yes, and to all of my bloggie friends that I typically comment on, if you have noticed my slacking lately, it's probably due to my new obsession with Facebook. Does anyone have a page? It is so addicting and fun to find old friends!

This is what happens when it is nice outside.....

2009-03-23T20:07:00.001-07:00

You got it. LOTS of pictures! I will keep this post short because I have a lot of pictures to share. The weather was nice most of last week, however one day was a little chilly so we had to break out a sweater and hat. As I was unloading groceries, I turned around to find Jett trying to hide himself under the kitchen sink. Where's Jett???? Here he is!

It's crazy to me how one day it is 80 degrees, and the next day it's back to 60.
Here's Jett playing another game of "Where's Jett?" with my blue fur throw.

Last Tuesday night mom and I went to see Elton John and Billy Joel at the BOK Arena. The concert was absolutely amazing. I have always liked both artists, so being able to see them perform together was awesome. Makes me realize I need to actually learn to play the piano, as ours is currently just an over-priced ornament in our living room. Wednesday Jett and I took my grandma to the Dr., and after her appt. was over we went to a park near her house so that Jett could play and feed the geese. Get ready, lots of pics!

After the park, we met Abby and Amy for dessert at Chili's. There was a nice man there who made both kids balloon animals. I tried to get a good picture of these two cutie's, but they are so busy that getting them both to look at the camera is almost impossible. They are getting so fun now since they have learned to play together rather than just playing around each other. They kill me! So sweet and cute. Jett is so proud to have such an adorable girlfriend.
Giving kisses.

Balloon puppies giving kisses, too.

After church on Sunday Jett and I headed to my grandma's house for a quick visit after attending a baby shower for my friend Liz and her new baby boy, Crew. Jett wanted to "dig in the dirt", so I removed his church clothes and let him soak up some sun in my grandma's back yard. He also enjoyed riding the tractor and pushing the mower around with Gramma.

As Jett is getting older, I am really starting to be flattered by people's comments about him. When he was a baby, we got the usual "he is just beautiful", "what a cutie", etc. Now that he is a toddler, we still get those types of comments too, however, I have to admit that it makes me feel so good now when people comment about on how sweet he is (and smart, but I can't take credit for that). He really is the sweetest kid. He very rarely throws fits, but when he starts too, he has learned to calm himself down and he will say "talk happy", or he will calm himself down enough to say "please mommy hold you", or whatever it is that he wants. One thing that we still get every single time we leave our house is comments about his hair. I never thought that his hair color was that unusual, but apparently it is. I wonder if people will still be telling him how pretty his hair is when he is in high school?? He sure does get a lot of attention for it now!

Mr. Fearless

2009-03-15T20:11:00.000-07:00

There is never a dull moment in our lives anymore. If Jett is not cracking us up with his words, he is keeping us on our toes by showing us how brave he can be. He has no fear at all, and that of course means that I am always in a state of panic these days. He is typically clinging to my leg regardless of where I am, so I know something is up if he is out of my sight for more than a few seconds. The other night I was baking cupcakes, and I could see him out of the corner of my eye playing with his ABC magnets on the floor. The whole time I was mixing the batter, Jett was saying "I'm helping mommy. I'm opening it." I continued to mix and thank him for whatever it was he felt like he was helping me with. When I turned around to put the cupcakes in the oven, I found him in the midst of about 10 packages of Big Red gum unwrapped, and each individual piece of gum had been unwrapped as well. After he had finished unwrapping, he proceeded to put them in and old blender pitcher he found in the cabinet with all of his magnet letters. He must have been unwrapping at record speed because the cupcakes only take about 2 minutes to mix.

Also new is climbing. I am terrified of heights, so this scares me to death. On any given day, this is what goes on in our home.
Step 1.

Step 2.

Step 3.

Jett has never showed too much interest in the stairs in our house. I suspect this is probably because we enter the house through the garage instead of the front door, we hardly ever go upstairs, and there is always a gate at the bottom to keep Tiffany (and Jett) from going up. This weekend I took the gate down to clean and Jett thought going up and down the stairs was great entertainment. He quicky discovered that with his slick track pants on, he could sit and slide on his bottom from step to step.

After his bath today Jett found a headband in my drawer. I didn't know that he had put it on his head, but I got a chuckle out of what I saw when I walked into the bedroom to check on him after drying my hair.

A few weeks ago I left my husband home alone for approximately 5 hours to attend a party with my mom, and when I arrived home I was surprised to find that he had bought Jett a new 4 wheeler. I've always said I can't leave him alone for very long because he gets bored and buys stuff. In the past few weeks we have had so much fun on our new toy!

Just in case anyone is wondering, Amy, Lorri, and I had a fabulous time at the New Kids concert. It was so fun to be surrounded by so many women our age decked out in old school New Kids attire (and plastic earrings). The concert was actually really good and they have aged remarkably well. I am now gearing up for the Elton John and Billy Joel concert Tuesday night with mom. I can't wait until Jett is old enough to go with me! I hope he loves music as much as we do.

Springing Forward

2009-03-08T21:16:00.000-07:00

Is anyone else as excited as I am that the days are now longer!?!? As much as I didn't like losing an hour of sleep Saturday night, it was SO worth it today when we were able to play outside until almost 8:00 before it got dark. When I say play, I really mean that Jett played while Bobby and I raked 17 bags of leaves. As do most boys, Jett's favorite part was jumping into the big piles after we were done. He is so incredibly sweet these days, and he also loves to help us around the house. After playing in the leaves, he tried to "help" daddy bag them.

My mother-in-law has the greenest thumb of anyone I have ever met, and she has the most beautiful garden I have ever seen. People often drive by her house to admire her yard. I tend to kill everything I plant, so she helped us last year and we actually managed to keep everything alive. Yeah! Jett really enjoys helping his Harmonee in the yard, so the other day when I was trimming back hedges, he grabbed a shovel and followed me around. Here are some cute pictures. You can tell it was early by his attire. Pj's, boots, jacket that doesn't quite match, and hat. Good thing he looks adorable no matter what he is wearing.

Can you tell that we are excited about the warmer weather?! The other night after dinner Jett and I went to the park, and he was not happy when I told him we had to go home because it was getting dark. I think he would live outside if he could.
He has become so fearless. He will climb on anything and/or jump off of anything. This is the greatest part of having a boy (besides the momma's boy thing that I love so much). So much fun, and never a dull moment!

About the only indoor activity Jett participated in this week was helping Gramma fix Nenal's garbage disposal. Give this boy a screwdriver or wrench and he is a happy camper!

That pretty much sums up our week. Tomorrow Amy and I are going to the New Kids on the Block concert. Go ahead and laugh, that's ok! Amy and I will have a blast. I wonder if we will be the only 30 something, married with children's there? I went the their first concert in Tulsa when I was about 12, and my mom (THE coolest mom on the planet) camped out for 3 days to get me tickets. This time was much different. We waited until they had been on sale for about a month and then walked right up to the counter and chose our seats. How times have changed! Have a great week!

1 Little Monkey Jumping on the Bed

2009-03-03T20:04:00.000-08:00

As many pictures as I have posted of Jett using our bed as a trampoline, I am sure no one will be surprised that this continues to still be his favorite place to rough house around. This is fine by me since at least when he comes crashing down he is on a soft matress instead of tile, wood, etc. The other night I was taking advantage of our fun new indoor trampoline to entertain Jett while watching the last 30 minutes or so of The Bachelor . Yes, I think I am officially going to be a Bachelor/Bachelorette addict from now on. Thanks Shanna! Notice that he has thrown almost all of the pillows off of the bed to allow more room for play!

I could go on and on about how funny my sweet little angel baby is, but I will keep it to a few short funny moments from the past week. The other night at my grandma's, my mom pulled the underwire out of her bra because it was poking her. Jett discovered it lying on the table and proceeded to place it on his head and wear it around like a headband. I never knew he paid much attention to me wearing headband's when I put on my make up, but apparently he does. On the way to church Sunday morning I put down the viser in my car and Jett said "Is the sunny in your eye mommy?" I thought that was cute, and then at church Abby was dumping out her animal cookies and he said (out loud of course) "NO baby, No baby!" He continues to tell me "No, that's OK" if I ask him if he needs to go potty, and of course my favorite is still when he says "Mommy loves you the whooooooole world". Bobby also informed me that he thinks we have confused Jett by putting two T's at the end of his name because the other day Bobby asked him to spell red and Jett said "R-E-D-D Red!" He is just so funny at this age. I love it. Here are some pictures from our visit with Gramma and Nenal after church Sunday at my grandma's house.
Here is Jett hiding behind my grandma's lamp. He loves to turn this light on and off by pushing the button on the base. I suspect it also has something to do with the fact that he knows it is something he probably shouldn't be playing with.

My mom and I also fed the geese with Jett Sunday afternoon. How is it that little kids don't get cold? I was so cold I could barely feel my fingers and Jett didn't want to go inside.

And this is what I discovered when it suddenly got quiet in the back seat...

Jett crashed out (heart sucker and all) in the car. What a day!
That's about it for now. I need to rest up for the big New Kids on the Block concert next Monday:) Have a great week!

An Oscar worthy performance?

2009-02-22T20:08:00.000-08:00

With tonight being the Oscar's, I thought this title was appropriate. It is especially appropriate in our house lately, as Jett has perfected the art of manipulating is father and myself, along with both sets of grandparents by using a combination of the pouty lip, crocodile tears, adorable smile, and his absolutely adorable little voice to get whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Yes, it is official. A 2 year old completely rules our house. With that being said, he is such a good boy, he rarely gets into mischief, and he actually does mind really well most of the time. However, bedtime is usually a challenge. We attempted to make him go to sleep in his own bed Saturday night, but as soon as we walked out of the room he started weeping so hard he could barely catch his breath, and we could hear him begging "Please mommy, please....please mommy hold you in mommy's bed". Gulp! It totally broke our hearts. We got him out of bed and put him in bed with us. As soon as we got settled in under the covers, he put his sweet little hands on my face and said "snuggle with mommy", and turned to Bobby to flash the sweetest grin ever. An Oscar worthy performance? I think so. What an actor.
Tonight was our annual Oscar Party with my mom, and the theme food was Indian. YUM! My mom came over a little early so we could make beef curry and rice. Jett was so excited to see Gramma, and even more excited when she showed up with a Thomas the Train mylar balloon. Thank goodness Grandma thinks ahead and had them put an extra long string on it since our ceilings are over 20 feet high.

As we were loading the back of my mom's car with all of our food, Jett decided to help by placing sticks in her trunk.

The girl that hosts the party every year has 2 small boys, so Jett was in heaven with all of the toys, bikes, and the big play set in the back yard.

We had a great time and can't wait to do it again next year!
Jett really enjoys getting into all of my lotion, body splash, etc. while we are getting ready for the day. The other day when Bobby got out of the shower, Jett had found one of my blush brushes and was using it to paint Tiffany with my salt scrub. Today as I was running around getting things picked up around the house I noticed that he had a bottle of my old body splash and was spraying himself and Tiffany with it. Poor Tiff, she puts up with so much!

One last picture. My little sister left a late Valentine's Day gift on the porch Sunday night for Jett. When my mom called to tell me it was there, I was thinking maybe a stuffed animal or a box of chocolates....not so much. It was a "Flirty Flasher" (aka - a stripper dog that plays music and dances). Not exactly toddler appropriate, but Jett thinks the "puppy dog dancing" is funny, and luckily he doesn't understand the whole flashing concept yet. Hopefully he won't for a very long time!

Have a great week!

How much do we "Heart" our boy???

2009-02-16T11:19:00.001-08:00

As Jett would say...."Mommy loves you the whoooooole world!" The feeling is definitely mutual!! I have always liked Valentine's Day because what is greater than a whole day wrapped around the concept of love and chocolates! Here is Jett after his bath Saturday morning when he discovered the red balloons I brought home and left in the kitchen.

Saturday night my mom offered to watch Jett for a few hours so that Bobby and I could go to dinner and a movie. After dinner we were sitting at the entrance ramp on the highway and Bobby said "I kind of just want to go get him, but your mom would probably be mad". I just started laughing because I was thinking the same thing. Now that we have Jett, we are not very good at entertaining ourselves! Rather than going to a movie, we just drove back into Tulsa and spent some alone time shopping around and listening to old school music that we actually used to like. It was a great time, and I enjoyed having my hubby to myself for a few hours (and getting to hold his hand in the car, as I am usually leaning over the seat giving Jett a drink, snack, toy, etc.)
Here is Jett as we were getting ready to leave for Gramma's house (and more balloon fun).

While we were away, Jett was having a ball being spoiled by gramma! He also loved the Thomas the Train Valentine's Day card and Mr. Potato Head she bought him.

I usually make Valentine's Day cupcakes, but this year my friend Shanna made some and she was kind enought to send some home with me. They were DELICIOUS, and cute!

Earlier this week Jett and I sat down and hand created special Valentine's cards for all of our friends. This boy does love to color, and particularly enjoyed pressing the buttons on my Cricut machine and watching it cut the paper. Fun!

We enjoyed our Valentine's Day week/weekend, and I look forward to spending many more great "heart" days with my two Valentine's!! I hope everyone else had a great weekend too! Here are a few random pictures of my little cupid doing what he enjoys the most....knocking all of his ABC's off the dishwasher, taking everything out of the cabinets, and wallering around all over the kitchen floor.

Potty Animal

2009-02-08T19:53:00.000-08:00

We finally did it. We bought Jett his very first potty chair. Just the thought of cleaning out that nasty plastic bowl gives me chills, but Jett has absolutely ZERO interest in sitting on the big potty lately, so I though a small one might not freak him out so bad. I personally am fine with waiting several months to start the whole potty training process, especially since we have had our dog for almost 4 years and she still has uh-oh's (we are obviously not doing something right). When I suggested waiting, Bobby reminded me that he isn't going to be a baby forever, and I can't wait until he is 21 to buy him a potty chair.....so sad:( To my surprise, the chair was a huge hit! Jett couldn't get enough of his new throne. He even grunted and strained enough trying to make something happen that there were a few drops in the bowl (Ewe!!!).

Saturday afternoon we ran to my grandma's house in Owasso. Bobby changed some of her light bulbs in the bathroom, so of course Jett had to be daddy's little "helper".

He always loves going to Nenal's because she has a huge box of crayons. I am so proud of him because he has finally learned all of his colors, with the exception of red. He always calls red pink, and then realizes he messed up and says "no, that's red".

While I was picking up toys in the living room, I heard Jett and my grandma laughing in the dining room. I walked in there to find this...

So funny! Jett found her rollers and wanted her to put them in his hair. I am hoping he won't have gender identity issues from us rolling his hair.

This week has been pretty busy and involved another trip to the doctor to get Jett's cough and runny nose looked at. I am not typically the kind of mom to run him to the Dr. because of a runny nose or cough, but his coughs were starting to rattle, so I thought I better get him checked out. Of course, by the time we got to the Dr. he wasn't coughing, his nose wasn't running, and he was running around like a wild man. We got a good report, but he did get his first antibiotic ever. I guess making it over 2 years without having to take medicine is pretty good. Here are a few random pictures from before church this morning, and a few from this evening.

Cabin Fever

2009-02-03T20:47:00.001-08:00

This week I have no excuse for a late post, especially since last week we were cooped up in the house, so I should have been uploading, naming, and shrinking pictures in preparation for my typical Sunday night blogging, but instead, I was enjoying the warm indoors with the the cutest boy in the whole world (I am a little biased). Yep, we were completely iced in for several days, so Jett and I baked brownies....

Helping mommy clean up...

We did a little coloring.....

And we hatched dinosaur eggs!

Has anyone else tried hatching these fizzy, alka-seltzer like dinosaur eggs with their little ones?!? My mom got Jett a few for Christmas, and they are pretty large eggs, but this sucker took about 30 minutes to completely hatch, and when all was said and done, the dinosaur was about the size of a dime and some sort of paper material. I had anticipated at the least a small plastic toy. Oh well, Jett was thrilled and happy to show it off for me. Notice how yucky the bath water was afterwards..Ewe!!

We also had a bit of adventure last week in the ice. I was holding Jett in the drive way (if you have ever been to our house, we live on the top of a hill and the driveway winds up to the back of the house and it is very steep). I slipped on the ice and fell, and when I landed I was on Jetts right leg. It freaked me out, and when I sat him down he would cry, and when he tried to take a step he would fall. I called Bobby panicking and he left work to come home and take us to the Urgent Care Clinic, as I wasn't confident enough to brave the icy roads. After about 4 x-rays, I was thrilled to learn that his ankle was just strained, and at the most there was a small fracture in his growth plate that will heal with time. Whew! Talk about feeling like the worst mom in the whole world. Being the spunky 2 year old Jett is, he was back to himself in no time, and ready to play in outside in the beautiful weather over the weekend. Only in this part of the country can you have an ice storm on Tuesday, and spring like weather on Friday. Here is Jett enjoying the outdoors on Saturday.

I love how red his hair is in this picture. It is getting so much darker that I love the way it still looks copper-ish in the sunlight.

Wearing gramma's shades

Sunday was the Super Bowl, and boy were we excited! Bobby loves the Steelers, and I pretty much just love any good football game (not to mention that Springsteen was the half time show!)Jett enjoyed eating chips and queso in the den more than watching the game as you can tell by his cheesy face.

Well, that about sums up our week. I hope everyone has a good week and stays warm!!

A day trip, and a day for the history books

2009-01-25T19:35:00.000-08:00

This week Amy and I decided to take the kids on a mini road trip to Bartlesville. "Why?" you may ask...There is a GAP outlet there that we occassionally have to go check out. They don't always have the greatest deals, but I was able to snatch up 3 shirts for Jett for under $10.00! Other than 2 kids crying the whole way there, 2 kids not interested in shopping for clothes, and 1 mommy (that would be me)losing her wallet at the water fountain, it was a good day. My wallet was recovered by mall security and nothing had been removed. Luckily, I had used my last $3.00 in cash to get Amy and I drinks before we left Owasso, and we had let the kiddo's throw all of my change into the mall water fountain. What a day! At least I was with Amy though, and we can have a good time not matter how chaotic the day becomes. Before we left that morning Abby and Jett enjoyed playing in the ball pit at Amy's house.

The alligator xylaphone caught Jett's attention right away.

After we got back from Bartlesville, Jett and I headed to my grandma's house. She has a huge box of crayons from my childhood (I am shocked they even leave color on the paper as old as they are), and Jett loves for us to draw pictures on a blank sheet of paper and let him color them. Of course with Jett, he usually asks us to draw some type of animal, shape, or truck. Kinda makes me realize how much I lack in artistic ability.

January 20, 2009, Inaguration Day. My mom has always pounded into my head how important it is not to be prejudiced, and how important it is to love everyone regardless of their ethnic background, religion, etc. I don't think I ever realized the importance of those life lessons until I married someone with a different ethnic background than mine and had a bi-racial child (although you would never know by looking at him). Even if we don't always agree with Obama's politics, I think the fact that the majority of Americans were able to open their arms and minds to change and hope should make everyone proud. I have never felt more proud to be an American than when Obama took his oath of office on Tuesday. I attempted to get a picture of Jett in front of the TV, but this was the only shot I could get before he was off to other things.

These plastic grapes are much more fun that watching that boring stuff on TV....where are the cartoons?!?! And how good am I that I happened to snap this shot at the exact moment that Bon Jovi's name appears in the bottom left hand side of the screen?!? So appropriate since I have been obsessed with him since I was a teenager and can still sing "You give love a bad name" word for word.

Bobby's uncle was a proud contributor to the Obama campaign, so we ended up with several shirts, pins, and mouse pads. Here is Jett sporting his Obama/Biden pin.

This weekend was pretty uneventful. We didn't do much yesterday, and this morning we arrived at church 20 minutes late to a full parking lot and sat in the sactuary for about.10 seconds before Jett started talking out loud and we had to excuse ourselves into the lobby where Jett proceeded to dump an entire bag of mini teddy grahams on the floor. Yikes! Jett is definitely becoming a busy, busy guy. I think this whole 2 year old phase is going to wipe me completely out! It is so much fun, and I love and enjoy him now more than ever though. He continues to say the funniest things. Today after we left church he said "Mommy, I had fun!". I told him I was glad that he had fun, especially since we were only there for about 10 minutes. He wanted me to draw a giraffe earlier today so I picked up what I thought was a black crayon to draw on the spots, and the crayon turned out to be blue. Jett said "the giraffe has blueberries on it!". Tonight Bobby went to Braums and brought home a banana split. Yum! Here is Jett indulging before bedtime. Are we starting bad habits or what!?!? Have a great week!

For some reason I could not get spell check to work, so I apologize for all of the spelling/grammar errors you may notice reading this.

Mommy's a slacker

2009-01-19T19:14:00.000-08:00

I know, I know....another late post. I was so good for a while updating every Sunday night, but for some reason I can't get with the program lately. I think it may have more to do with the fact that I have spoiled Jett to falling asleep with me in my bed every night, so by the time he finally crashes and I get up to put him in his crib, I am not motivated to climb the stairs. Ha! I guess I can't brag anymore about how easy he is to put down at night, although I do love listening to his sweet little voice chattering away beside me while I am pretending to sleep, with the occasional "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy......." to see if I will respond. Earlier this week I made a pot of tortilla soup and invited Abby and Amy over to eat dinner and watch The Bachelor. I have never really watched it before, but since everyone else was talking about it, I decided to see what the fuss was all about. Now I am hooked! I don't know that we really saw that much of last Monday's episode (thank goodness for DVR's) because we were chasing around two VERY busy toddlers. Here was our night in a nutshell. Fun!

Shooting a few hoops

So much for my coffee bean end-table decor.....

A little pillow gymnastics

Riding on Tiffy while she attempts to "vaccum" up the rest of the coffee beans

More pic's of Monday night getting ready for bed. Brushing teeth and loving on Tiffy and the Binky Bear.

Jett loves his bears. He prefers the green bear, but every once and a while Mommy has to sneak it into the washing machine. This does not make Jett happy.

Giving Tiffany good night kisses

My camera has been acting up lately and for some reason all of my pictures are not very clear, and many of them are so blurry I end up deleting them. Bobby and I stopped by the Camera Gallery on Saturday to see what the experts had to say about it. The gentleman took one look at my Rebel and said "This camera is very loved." Translation: It's dead, you need a new one. Now I am torn between getting a new Rebel like my old one, or trying out a Nikkon. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to speak up. While my hubby was trying out different lenses on mine, Jett and I browsed around. I didn't realize that he was snapping shots of us until I got home and uploaded my pictures last night. Too funny.

This is one test shot that I did know about. Can you tell Mr. Jett is battling another nasty cold. Poor guy.

Saturday night while I was doing laundry, I walked into the bedroom to find Bobby and Jett snuggled up watching Charlotte's Web. After the movie, Jett decided he wasn't quite ready for bed yet and decided to try out our bed as a trampoline.
Yikes!

Bobby put several Veggie Tale songs on his Ipod and Jett absolutely loves them. One of his favorites is "If your happy and you know it".
If your happy and you know it clap your hands

If your happy and you know it stomp your feet

If your happy and you know it then your face will surely show it......

Also new this week is Jett's ability to recognize the letter "J" and "T". I was so proud the other day when he say the "J" on my track suit zipper and said "J is for Jett!", then tonight he was playing with his magnetic letters on the dishwasher and said "T is for Jett". I guess T is sort of for Jett??? He is such a funny little guy. That's about all I have for now. I hope everyone has a good week.

Late post, and the shortest one ever

2009-01-13T19:56:00.001-08:00

I apologize for the late post to all of those who have been asking why there were no new pictures of Mr. Jett first thing Monday morning. It was a really busy week that ended for me with a 2 night scrapbook retreat at a fabulous Bed and Breakfast wih a group of fanastic and fun gals! I am happy to report that we were wined, dined, and pampered, and I can now brag that I am completely caught up on Jett's pictures! How exciting. I have to say though, I was SO ready to get home to my hubby and sweet baby boy! I made a video of him on my cell phone so that I could hear his sweet little voice while I was away. Now for some not so good news. The Sooners lost last week to Florida in the Big 12 Championship, but we were still cheering them on Thursday night at my grandma's house, and I made sure that Jett was sporting one of his OU sweatshirts.

During the third quarter, Jett decided that he would rather splash around in the bathtub than watch football. Here is my little man splishing and splashing!

Like I said, this must be my shortest post ever. Maybe this week will be much more exciting!

Happy New Year!

2009-01-04T19:54:00.001-08:00

Happy New Years, from Jett!

I will we brief tonight because I have a lot of pictures, and because Jett opted to stay up all night and play with his choo-choo train last night so I am exhausted! I hope everyone had a safe and Happy New Year! We didn't do anything exciting New Years Eve, but on New Years Day we enjoyed a late lunch with Abby and Amy, did a little shopping, and then treated the kids (and ourselves) to Maggie Moo's.

Amy and I reminisced about how several years ago (probably about 10) we were headed to a party in a small town outside of Bartlesville that was being thrown by one of her co-workers, and we got lost and decided to have the police escort us there. How were we supposed to know that there would be tons of intoxicated people (many of them under age) running around?!?!? Needless to say, everyone had a good laugh at our expense. Sadly enough, we were both probably too naive to even think people would be doing stuff like that. Times are much more fun now with these two around!

Mom and I met up New Years morning and headed to see Marley and Me. If you are a dog lover, this is a MUST see! We cried our eyes out, but it was so realistic and a cute love story! This was actually one of the few movies that I have liked as well as the book. Here is a picture of me and my 80 lb lap dog, and Jett with his Tiffy. Awe....

Saturday the weather was absolutely amazing, so Bobby and I decided to take Jett to the Safari's. It was last minute, but I hated to let such a great day get away from us without doing something fun outdoors. Jett loved the animals, as always, and so did we!

That's about all for now. I am trying to psych myself up to be away from home next weekend for the very first time ever since we've had Jett. I am going to a scrapbook retreat with my good friend Jamie in Enid (3 hours away....YIKES), but I am sure Jett will be having a ball with Daddy and Gramma. I will be much more devastated than him probably, for sure. Maybe I will at least learn how to use my cool Cricut that I got for Christmas. Anyways, say a prayer that I wont get too homesick. Have a great week!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

2008-12-29T19:53:00.001-08:00

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. I was so excited for Christmas this year because I knew we would have so much fun with Jett! I was a little concerned that if I talked to much about Santa, he might get freaked out a little after the traumatic experience we had with visiting him a few weeks back. We did, however, make progress one day at the mall when Santa walked up to say "hello" and Jett gave him a high five. Yeah! Here is Jett the day before Christmas Eve. He spotted a brownie on the counter and wanted one, but since Tiffany always steals his food, I took him upstairs to eat it in Bobby's office.

I am all about traditions, so on Christmas Eve Jett and I had to bake cookies for Santa.
Jett watching the cookies bake in the oven....YUM!

Taking them to the fireplace for Santa (and even carrots for the reindeer)

Jett decided that he wants to munch on a carrot too!

While the cookies were baking, Jett and Tiffany played a game of chase around the island in my kitchen. Jett slipped and bumped his head, so we broke out the Boo Bunny. If you have small children and don't have a Boo Bunny, you should go get one! They are so cute.

And now, of course, Christmas morning!! We got the whole thing on video, but I am still not sure how to upload it, so here are the pictures from our house Christmas morning.
Jett got a super cute vintage Firetruck from Santa and a basketball hoop, although his favorite thing seemed to be the musical card my grandma got him that played Jingle Bells....

After presents at home, we headed to my mom's house for more gifts and lots of great food. Jett had so many great toys, clothes, and books from Gramma (was there ever any doubt?!?), but the biggest hit of all was the Thomas the Train sippy cup in his stocking. He loves that thing!

The best family picture we could get.

Gramma made sure Tiffany got treats in her stocking too!

After mom's, we headed to Bobby's parents for yet another Christmas. Bobby's parents are great and we always enjoy spending time with them too. It is always fun to watch Jett and Harmonee (that is Korean for grandma, and I have no idea how to spell it correctly) interact because he loves playing with her and she speaks only Korean to him. He understands her even though I don't, and it is neat to watch. Kind of scary that one of these days Bobby and Jett will be carrying on a conversation and I will have no idea what they are saying!

Sunday my aunt, uncle, and cousin Kevin came up from Plano, so we had a 4th Christmas with them. Here are some fun pictures from our last Christmas gathering.

Christmas is so much fun now that we have Jett, and here are two funny stories that show why we are so completely obsessed and in love with this kid. He is absolutely hilarious. Mom, Jett and I went shopping on Friday (yes, we might be nuts).I have mentioned before that we don't use a stroller because Jett likes to be carried (like I said...we are nuts). My mom can't carry him long because her back starts hurting, and since I am used to carrying him everywhere, I said "Jett, you are too heavy for Gramma to carry, so how about Mommy holds you?" I picked him up and he just looked at me for a second and said "How about Gramma holds you?!?" We laughed so hard. Later on that afternoon, Bobby met up with us at the mall and we all went together to Utica Square. As we were leaving, this was the conversation:
Bobby: Jett, what do you want for dinner?
Jett: Maggie Moos!
Bobby: You can't eat Maggie Moos for dinner. What do you want to eat?
Jett: Ice Cream!
Bobby: Jett, you can't eat ice cream for dinner. Do you want chicken, rice, etc...?
Jett: How bout a cookie?
So funny!! See why we love him so much! He is so stinkin' cute, and I don't know what we did for entertainment before we had him! I hope everyone had a great Christmas!!

Twas the week before Christmas....

2008-12-21T20:41:00.000-08:00

I dont have many pictures and/or stories this week because we have been so busy that I haven't had many picture taking opportunities. This past Friday night Jett got to spend the evening with Gramma because Bobby and I attended a Christmas party. I tried to get a few pictures before the party, but were running late so this was the best we could do.

Saturday night we hosted a Christmas party at our home, so as I was running around like a mad woman Saturday morning cleaning and baking, I let Jett do a little coloring in his high chair. Our friends Shanna and Rafy gave Jett this coloring book and crayons, and he loved it!

Not sure exactly what he is doing in this picture???

He is getting good at "CHEESE".

Saturday night after most of our guests left, a few of us were gathered around the island in my kitchen visiting and Jett decided it was story time. Now, let me just remind everyone that Jett is a HUGE mommy's boy and freaks out if I walk out of the room (unless of course gramma, harmonee or daddy are with him). At the party, he was sociable, but wouldn't let anyone hold him. One of Bobby's good friends grabbed one of the books and sat down on the kitchen floor to read it to him. Jett, of course, was sitting about 5 feet away from him the whole time. By about book number 4, this is where Jett was.

Amazing! I had to get a picture because this seriously never happens. If anyone ever has a hard time bonding with Jett, just break out a book and he will be your best friend. That's about all I have for this week. I hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas! We are all super excited for the holidays now that we have Jett in our lives. I have a feeling Santa will be very good to him this year because he is such a wonderful boy.

Binky B-Gone

2008-12-15T19:23:00.000-08:00

Yep! As of Thursday, Jett has had no binky. We have been down to one binky for quite some time now because they kept disappearing one by one, and I refused to buy any more because I figured when the last one could no longer be found we would phase them out completely. Last Thursday we couldn't find the binky all day long. Jett doesn't usually ask for one until we are in the car or it is time for bed, but after his bath I pulled open a drawer and there it was. I quickly hid it and proceeded to get him ready for bed. We then read a few books, sang a few songs, and before I knew it, it was bedtime. Once I put him in his crib and turned off the light, I handed him his lion that plays "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and walked out of his room. To my surprise, he fell right to sleep. As of today, he has only asked for it once. We asked him "Who uses a binky?" Jett's reply was "Babies......you don't need the binky." I can only pray that potty training and sleeping in a big boy bed are as easy. HA!
Thursday night was my mom's birthday. This year was much more enjoyable than last year when we were all stranded at her house in the dark with no heat due to the ice storm! Here is Jett "helping" gramma check out some of her new things.

Saturday we went to my mom's house for a while and Jett entertained himself with her collection of snowmen that play music and dance.

This rocking chair was my step-dad's when he was about Jett's age.

Where's Jett?????

Under the table hiding!

Playing catch with gramma

Sunday was unseasonably warm (in the a.m.)so I dressed Jett in a short romper for church. Afterwards Amy and I visited while the kids played together in an empty gravel parking lot beside the building. They had fun throwing the rocks (not at each other)and running around despite the wind.
Jett helping Abby walk on the rocks

Geez this wind is strong.

Abby looking adorable as usual!

Within about 2 hours of those pictures, the temperature had seriously dropped about 40 degrees and it was FREEZING!! We came home, changed into much warmer clothes and vegged the rest of the evening. Here are some random pictures of one of Jett's favorite games. He loves flying like an airplane and then crashing down on mommy!

Have a great week!!

Jett meets Santa part II

2008-12-07T17:22:00.000-08:00

I was really hoping that this year's experience with Santa would be much more pleasant that last years, but unfortunately, Jett is still terrified of the man in the red suit. On Thursday night Amy and I took the kids to Utica Square for our annual picture with Santa Claus. As you can see from below, Jett is still NOT a big fan.

Poor baby...at least Santa gave him a yummy snickerdoodle for being a good sport.
This week has been pretty much filled with Christmas shopping, so I didn't have many good photo op's. Saturday after a long day of shopping with Amy and Abby, Jett and I headed to my grandma's for a quick visit before heading home to watch the OU game.
My mom dropped by too since Jett would be devastated if he didn't get to see gramma.
Jett playing with toys at Nenal's house

Playing catch the ball in the bucket with gramma

Weight lifting with Nenal

Reading with gramma and Nenal

Today after church and more shopping with Amy and Abby, Jett and I ran home to pick up Bobby and head out to celebrate our friend's 30th birthday. Jett's buddy Addison was there so they enjoyed some football in the living room of Shanna and Rafy's house. Thank goodness for Nerf! They eventually became more interested in Shanna's Christmas decor.

Jett has continued to battle a runny nose, so other than Christmas shopping our week has been pretty uneventful. His sweet little cheeks and nose are so raw from us constantly wiping his face, and also from him wiping his own nose with the sleeve of his shirt or rubbing his nose on my shoulder or pant leg. In other news, Jett has learned to spell his name. If you ask him to spell his name he will say "J-E-T-T Jett!" It's a good thing we decided to call him by his middle name since it is an easy 4 letter one. Goldsworthy is a different story. He probably won't be spelling that one any time soon. Have a great week!

Thanksgiving 2008

2008-11-30T18:13:00.000-08:00

My sweet baby boy has been under the weather all week, so I will keep this post short, but I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had a nice day considering that Jett was beginning to get a nasty cold that is still making him miserable today.
We had a nice, casual Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's house on Thursday. Jett recruited my step-dad to play catch the ball in the tin bucket with him. Greg would throw the ball to Jett who was holding the bucket, and Jett would occasionally flinch when the ball came flying towards him. The ball they were using was a Sponge Bob plastic ball, but started thinking later that it is probably not a great idea to teach a 2 year old that it is OK to throw things in the house. I suspect it might be too late at this point, so I am sure my days of broken windows and lamps are coming.

Where did the ball go?!?

Whenever my mom is around, this is what you will see. Jett wanting nothing to do with anyone else.

Running around in Nenal's yard

After dinner, we took Jett to the park. He had fun playing on the toys, and mom and I enjoyed chasing him around, hopefully burning off a few of those Thanksgiving Day calories.

Saturday night was the BIG OU vs. OSU game, and since my aunt and uncle were in town from Dallas, we all gathered at my grandma's house to watch. Jett was feeling pretty sick at this point, so he spent the whole evening going back and forth between me and my mom before finally passing out in my lap. Tonight Bobby and I took him out to Rhema to see all of the lights. My mom used to take me every year, so I want to do the same thing with Jett. That place is amazing. Jett loved it, and so did we.

After we got home, I had Jett (wearing his OU sweats to celebrate the victory) pose by the Christmas tree in front of his OU airplane ornament.

One last picture of our enormous tree. I really dread taking this thing down!

Have a great week, I am off to watch Kung Fu Panda with the boys!

New toys and new tricks

2008-11-23T19:49:00.001-08:00

It has been a week since Jett's 2nd birthday, which means it has been a busy week at our house playing with all of the great new toys he got! There were so many that we are having to phase them in one by one. This week the train table was still a huge hit, but he also enjoyed several new dump trucks, bulldozers, and tractor's. Here is my little man trying on his new hard hat. As you can probably tell from the picture, he fell while playing outside and went face first into the concrete. My poor baby boy is always all scratched up.

The other morning while munching on a bag of popcorn, Jett decided it would be much more fun to put the popcorn in the back of his toy dump truck. Needless to say, there was popcorn everywhere by the time he was done. Luckily, we have Tiffany the vaccum cleaner to help clean up food messes.

OU football is major thing in our home and my husband tends to yell, hoot and holler at the television, which in turn causes Jett to get excited and worked up too. Due to the significant number of touchdown's our team had on Saturday, my boys were as rowdy as ever. Here is Jett watching OU football and loving it!
Go Sooners!

Touchdown OU! Jett jumping - he is actually in mid air in this picture

Did they score again?!?!?

Jett taking a break at half time to play with his train ("toot-toot,ding,ding,ding")

This weekend Jett had a little bit of a cold, so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to stay in and get out my Christmas decorations. I love, love, love Christmas time! I also love my tree, and we haven't put it up the past few years because of the dog being a puppy and Jett being a curious 1 year old who wanted to pull all of the bulbs off. We finally got it up and it looks great! Thus far, Jett hasn't bothered it at all, and Tiffany has totally ignored it. Yipee! As we were getting things out of boxes, I turned around to see this.....

Lovely! See why he always has scratches on his pretty little face? This boy has no fear. I, of course, was a wreck because that rickety old ladder scares me to death! It is seriously time for a new one. I am happy to report that Jett made it down without any new injuries, and within seconds had moved on to other things.

This is why he gets away with everything.....so stinkin' sweet!

My sweet baby boy is 2!!

2008-11-17T19:33:00.000-08:00

Today our sweet baby boy is years old. Let me just say that it chokes me up thinking about how fast the time passes when you have a little one around. I hate to see each stage pass, but before I know it, I am having more fun that I ever thought possible. I could go on and on about him because he is so perfect to us, but I won't bore everyone with my ramblings, and I will save that for his baby book!
I will, however, brag on my little angel by sharing his birthday celebration pictures. We had his party on Saturday. He loves dump trucks, bulldozer's, tractor's, etc., so we had a construction vehicle theme. The cake was absolutely amazing. I honestly almost cried when I saw it because it was so great (and huge!). My mother-in-law was kind enough to arrive early and cook up a delicious feast of Korean food for everyone. Yum! I don't know how to spell all of the items served, but let me just say it was delicious and there was nothing left.
The cake table

The AMAZING cake!

The sweet, beautiful, precious birthday boy!

Time to open presents!!

My mom bought Jett a huge train table and my grandma bought him all of the trains to go with it. Absolutely the most exciting gift of the day!
After the train set, who really cares about cake?!? He was really not all that interested. He wanted to go play!

A shot of Amy and I, and a wild attempt at a family picture. He can't get his mind off of that choo choo train.

Since today was Jett's actual birthday, I took him to the Riverwalk this afternoon and we played games at Fun House.

Along the Riverwalk is a water feature surrounded by rocks, so of course, Jett had to throw one. I love how he is bent over with his arm extended out behind him with the rock in it. Maybe we will have a left handed pitcher?!?!?

After that, we headed to Owasso to have dinner with my mom and grandma and blow out candles on the center part of the cake we cut from the big one. Jett did a great job, and preferred just sticking his whole face in the cake rather than using a fork.
He must like the icing....that's my boy!!

Here are some random pictures of my 2 year old. Some things I always want to remember about him at this age are...(read below pictures)

Above: Jett and binky bear

Above: Jett and his "punkin head"

*He can sing the ABC's all the way through with no help
*He has almost all of his books memorized and he can tell what they are by the spine
*He says his v's like b's and I love it! (example: give it to me is "gib it to me")
*He still loves his "binky bear" in the car and at bed time. Binky and bear are a pair and go together, not separate. When you have one, you must have the other
*He can count to ten in English and in Korean
*He can sing songs in English and in Korean
*His favorite radio song is "Ooh Ahh", by Grits. Me and Bobby grit our teeth, but we listen to it over, and over, and over, and over because he loves it.
*He is bossy because we let him be. He directs us where to sit in the house. "Mommy ober here, Daddy ober there" is what we hear quite often. Shame on us. It is cute now, but probably not in a few years.
*Jett LOVES his grandma's and grandpa's. He lights up when he sees them.
*He recognizes things that amaze us. We can drive by Lowe's and he will say "go ober there, go see Christmas Trees!" So funny!
I could go on an on because everything he does amazes us. He is one lucky, loved kid, for sure!!
One last thing, hooray for all athletes out there that participated in the Route 66 Marathon Sunday morning. It was a great time. I felt great immediately after the run, but not so much in the several hours following. Here is a picture of Shanna and I before I spent roughly 8 miserable hours crashed on the floor at home with severe stomach cramps. That will teach me to eat Korean food the day before a marathon:)

Election won, Tiffany lost.....

2008-11-10T20:40:00.001-08:00

I will start with the election first. Let me just say "Thank Goodness it is over"!! Since this was the first election since Jett was born and a historical one, my mom bought a Tulsa World for Jett's baby book/scrap book.
I was able to snatch a few shots of him with the paper before he tried to tear it up or walk on it. The paper is now put up in a safe place where neither Tiffany or Jett can get to it. Here is Jett showing me where Obama is.

Last week was a busy one, as we worked in the yard for two days straight planting flowers. I know nothing about gardening, by my mother in law is wonderful, and she tells me that now is the time to plant some of my favorite things, such as hydrangea's, peonies, hosta's, etc. Jett loves "helping" us in the gardens. The bulldozer is actually quite appropriate since our yard still looks like construction zone.

Saturday was a long day for us. It is a really long story, so I will break it down for you.
1:00PM: Bobby let's Tiffany out
1:30PM: Jett and I leave for a birthday party
2:30PM: Bobby calls me and informs me that he can't find Tiffany
3:00PM: Bobby still hasn't found her and continues to drive around the neighborhood
3:30PM: I leave the party, head home, and drive around asking everyone if they have seen her. Nobody had.
4:00PM: I get home and Bobby and I start walking (me wearing heels)
4:30PM: We separate. He goes one way, I go the other. He has phone, I do not.
5:00PM: Found Dog sign spotted by me on a post. I begin running to find Bobby.
5:15PM: Neighbor sees me and asks if I need to use her phone. I have never met this lady, she is new to the neighborhood, and thankfully super nice because I went in her house and used her phone. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do!
I call the number, the dog was Tiffany (Thank the Lord!!!). I then call Bobby and we head to the Humane Society to pick her up. A lady saw her running around without her collar (I know, I know....I took it off to treat her with Front line and hadn't put it back on yet). We finally got her at around 6:00, and we were all SO happy to see her!! She is the sweetest baby girl dog ever, and the warmest blanket anyone could ask for at night.

After we got home, we all snuggled up, popped popcorn, and watched Chicken Little.
Jett loved it, and stayed awake until the last 15 minutes of the movie. He got a little bored about mid-movie and had to push his train around the table a few times, but eventually snuggled back up with us on the couch. The next day he kept saying "go watch Chicken Noodle upstairs". He is so stinkin' cute and funny.

Jett using Tiffany as a pillow. How precious are these two?!?

Well, tomorrow is the Eagles concert with mom, and then the big 2nd birthday party on Saturday. I am sure next week's post will have tons of pictures. Have a great week!

Jett-O-Lantern!

2008-11-02T20:10:00.001-08:00

First off, I know it seems lame, but I thought it was appropriate that I dress Jett as a Jack-O-Lantern this Halloween for one of two reasons. The first reason being that he is definitely our little punkin'! The second reason is that I am sure that within the next few years he is going to be begging us to dress up as some type of super hero or movie character. On top of that, I absolutely loved the little hat! Jett decided several months ago that he did not like hats anymore, so for the past several weeks I have been working on "tricking" him to wear one. Every night before bed we walk up and down the street to look at the moon and stars. Each night before we would head out, I would say "Jett, lets go get your hat on so we can go find the moon!" It worked like a charm, and now he will wear hats again, yippee!! Amy and I met up at the church on Friday night for the fall festival.
My little punkin'!

This boy LOVES pony rides....or runs, these pony's were fast. I felt like I was jogging along beside them.

The funny mirror

Jett loved this "punkin' head"

Jett-O-Lantern and his lil' lady bug, Abigayle. This was the best picture I could get. They were both pretty distracted with everything that was going on.

After the festival, we headed to Owasso to trick or treat gramma's house, Jett was so excited!

Last weekend at a birthday party, Jett spent most of his time playing with a little red toy semi-truck. Bobby and I went shopping this past week to find him one since he loved it so much. Needless to say, he has been obsessed with it all week. This boy is fascinated with anything that has wheels.

This week we also carved our pumpkin for the front porch. We were a little late this year because we have been so busy, but better late than never, right?!? Jett wanted to help me carve the pumpkin, so I gave him one of his plastic knives and let him go to town.

Tonight Bobby, Jett and I snuggled up in the movie room to watch Barnyard. This was the first time I have ever put on a movie for Jett (mostly because I have no idea how to work the equipment), and I think he really enjoyed seeing the animals on the big screen and the noise of the surround sound. It was so much fun! We may have to make this a Sunday night routine. That's about it for us this week. I hope everyone had a fantastic Halloween! Only two more days (thank goodness) until the election. Everyone remember to go vote.

WARNING: Busy week and lots of pic's

2008-10-26T20:00:00.000-07:00

I will keep the text in this post to a minimum, as I have a ton of pictures! This has been a crazy, busy week for us. I can't even remember what we did on Monday, but Tuesday was our second Diaper Dolphins Class, and we actually spent a good deal of time in the water. So much fun! Wednesday was my grandma's birthday, so Jett and I headed to Owasso for dinner, cake, and presents with my family.

Thursday was the BIG Bret Michael's concert that Amy and I have been looking forward too for months. It was so much fun, and much to our surprise, the place was packed and the people were all normal. I think we were both expecting a crowd that resembled the cast from Rock of Love. I took several pictures with my cell phone but they are not clear at all. We were directly in front of the stage and even got to touch his soft hands. Here is a shot of us before the concert and one of Bret.

Friday Amy and I met at the park to let Jett and Abby play and feed the ducks. The kids had so much fun and weren't even afraid of the crazy ducks swarming around us for bread.

Saturday morning was the Tulsa Run. Shanna and I both beat our times from last year, woo hoo! Now if I can keep up the pace for the Route 66 in a few weeks.....

Saturday after the race was Addison's birthday party. Jett had a blast, and I think the adults had as much fun in the gigantic blow up obstacle course as the kids did!

Sunday afternoon Bobby and I took Jett to the pumpkin patch. We waited way to long this year and they were quite picked over. Jett loved getting to ride the pony's. What a big boy! I was shocked that he did it without getting a little scared at first.

Sunday after the pumpkin patch, we met up with Amy, Steve, and Abby for a bonfire and hayride hosted by the church in Collinsville. It was a little chilly, but we had a great time. Jett's favorite part was the hay ride.

Whew, I am ready for a marathon nap now! On a side note, Jett can sing his entire A,B,C's now all by himself, and he has gone #2 in the potty twice! I am in no hurry to throw away diapers because it breaks my heart that he is getting so big, but since he is the one showing interest, I guess we will encourage him. Sniff, Sniff....I hope everyone has a great week!!

Diaper Dolphins and Dallas

2008-10-19T20:00:00.000-07:00

This past Tuesday was our first Diaper Dolphin swim class at the Aquatic Center. Amy and I enrolled the kids several months ago, but decided to start in November so that we would have something fun to do with the kids during the cooler months when it is harder to entertain them outdoors. Although the first class was mostly orientation, we did get a little bit of water time and they loved it! Here are some pre-pool pictures at the house before we left. Amy found Abby and Jett adorable swim diapers and matching shirts!

This weekend Bobby took me to Dallas/Plano, TX to do a little late birthday shopping, go out to dinner just the two of us, and visit my aunt and uncle. My mom went too so Jett was extremely happy. What made him equally as happy was the fact that my cousin Kevin was willing to share his train set! Of course, Kevin hasn't played with it in many years, but he was so kind to drag it out of the back of the closet for Jett. This is pretty much what Jett did ALL weekend.

I was SO excited to see my cousin's!! Here are a few pic's that we took for our grandmother. I think this might be the first picture of all the grand kids together!

Jett was also thrilled to death to see the "waterfall" in my aunt and uncle's backyard (it is really one of those hot tubs where the water cascades over the rocks into the big pool, but to Jett it was a waterfall). Every hour or so he would take a break from the train to go play around in the backyard. As you can see from the pictures below, he was fascinated with the life like turtle lawn ornament.

When I was posting the pictures above that were taken outside, I was reminded of how Jett's reddish hair and blue eyes seem to draw so much attention to him. I figured once he was out of the infant stage, people in public wouldn't flock to us anymore like everyone does when they see a new baby. Not so much. Everywhere, and I do mean everywhere, we go, people make a point to walk over and tell us how "pretty" he is and how much they love his hair and eyes. It is so much fun and flattering to see people that we don't even know giving him so much attention.
On top of trains, waterfalls, and tons of attention from everyone, my aunt and uncles neighbors completely deck out their yards for Halloween. Saturday night Bobby and I took Jett for a walk down the street to check out all of the fabulous yards. I didn't get pictures of all of them, as there were way to many, but here is one example. One yard even had music playing that sounded like a thunderstorm, and another one had a strobe light type thing that looked like spiders dropping from webs down the front of the house.

As far as our date night, we did a little shopping at Northpark on Saturday. If you have never been to Northpark, you must go. They have great stores! My mom got Jett some really cute fall/winter clothes at a place called Janie and Jack that I am now obsessed with. Saturday night we left for a while to go to dinner, but since neither one of us were starving, we just walked around The Shops at Legacy (also very cool) and then went back to the house. Either we are getting really old, we are really boring, or we are way too attached to Jett because neither one of us can stay away from him for more than an hour or so. We had a great weekend and I hope everyone else did as well! Oh yes, and I almost forgot! Tonight Jett went #2 on the potty for the first time!! I had just put his pj's and hat on him to go for our nightly walk around the neighborhood to see the moon and stars, when he said "poop in your diaper". I quickly checked his diaper and there was nothing there, so I took it off and sat him on the big potty and he actually went. Now, this is nothing that I am working on or even expect to see again in the near future, but it was pretty funny.

What a difference a week makes

2008-10-12T20:48:00.000-07:00

Remember last week's post where I mentioned (and posted pictures of) Jett's busted eye? Well, Monday while at my mother-in-laws house Jett bumped his noggin on the table and got a big goose egg, and then scratched his belly on a metal cage while checking out a bunny at the neighbors house. Poor little guy can't catch a break!! 1 week later though, he is almost completely healed from his wounds. Yipee! He still has a little scratch over his eye, but the scab is gone and I don't think it is going to leave much of a scar, thank goodness. Today was my birthday so and Amy and I planned a little road trip to Natural Falls State Park and the petting zoo in Gentry, Arkansas. We had SO much fun! We travel with two busy toddlers, so road trips for us are always exciting and eventful. We started off by checking out the waterfall at Natural Falls. It was so pretty and relaxing. Jett and Abby were enjoying a game of throw the rocks into the water and watch the big splash when Abby decided it would be fun to throw mommy's keys in the water too. Splash!! It was absolutely hilarious. Luckily I was able to hop off the deck and retrieve them right away. We were also able to corner a nice lady and have her take a group picture of us. Not the best picture in the world by any measure, but the best we could get!

Here are some random pictures I took of the kids while at the park. How cute are these two?

After we left the park, we headed to Gentry to the Safari. I am sure by now everyone realizes how much we love animals. I have always been an animal lover and I am so glad Jett loves them too and isn't afraid of them (except for the pig that kept grunting at us as every time would get close to him). On the way there, Amy looked back and noticed that Abby's diaper looked like maybe it had leaked a little. She has been having a little trouble with runny diapers lately, so we pulled over to check it out. As it turned out, she had a major blow out diaper, and it had run completely out of her diaper, down her legs, and all over her car seat. We pulled into a parking lot and I grabbed Abby and started cleaning her up while Amy cleaned up her car seat. Amy forgot a change of clothes, and I (for once) actually had an extra pair of Jett's pajama's in my diaper bag. It's a good thing they wear about the same size, and a good thing Abby is so stinkin' cute that she looks fabulous in anything!

Here are our two monkey's in my lap checking out the animals in the drive thru part of the zoo. When Jett realized Abby had crawled over into my lap, he started pushing on her and saying "Amy hold it, Amy hold it". Too funny. He really does love her, just not on his mommy's lap:)

Petting the goats

Sweet bunny

Checking out the turtles

Petting the baby wolves

What a day! After all of that excitement, we loaded up and headed back to Tulsa for cake and ice cream at my mom's house. Yum! Amy and I were chatting away in the car and suddenly realized it had gotten rather quiet in the back seat of Amy's car. We looked back to find this..... two exhausted kiddo's.

I had such a great birthday, and am so lucky to have great friends and family to share it with! My mom got me an OU running shirt, a cinnamon cider candle (my fave), and EAGLES TICKETS!!!! I can't wait! Bobby bought me a pair of jeans and new shoes, and he is taking me to Dallas next weekend. My grandma bought me a new fur blanket that I have been dying for, my friends from the bank bought me an adorable new track suit, and Amy sent me the most beautiful flowers on Friday. I was actually able to get a picture of Jett with them this morning before our trip.

Thank you everyone who made my birthday this year so great! Now I have to start working on Jett's party.......

Fair + zoo + big black eye = our weekend

2008-10-05T19:48:00.001-07:00

This past week started off so good for Jett, and then came Friday......
Let me first back up to the beginning of the week when Bobby picked up kimbop (Korean word for sushi) for dinner. Yum!! We all love it, and I think it is by far Jett's favorite thing to eat. I realized that I don't have any pictures of Jett eating his favorite treat, so I grabbed my camera to capture the moment. Does anyone else have a 1 year old that prefers sushi?? Strange, I know. Must be the Asian in him.

I am sure by now all of my friends, family, and loyal blog readers know that Jett is fascinated by any type of truck, car, or motorized vehicle. My mom scored some major brownie points on Wednesday when she bought Jett this big, loud bulldozer.
He loves his new toy, and I wish I would have had my camera on me this morning when he was trying to ride it. Here is Jett trying it out the night we got it.

Every Friday Jett and I go to Owasso for dinner with my mom and grandma. Before we head home, we bathe him and put him in his PJ's because I know he will fall asleep in the car. He loves to do belly busters in the tub and then act like he is swimming by kicking his legs. While doing his bath time acrobats, Jett fell forward and hit is eye on the corner of my grandma's porcelain tub. It didn't bleed for long, but it freaked me out because it is directly over his eye. Saturday morning I participated in the Tulsa Zoo run with my friend Shanna, and her mom is a nurse so I had her take a look at it. She said they wouldn't have stitched it because the skin is so thin on that part of the eye, and his eyes weren't bloodshot or red, so basically it just looks much worse than it is. Good news for me, but poor Jett!!
Post race pictures of the girls. Me, Shanna, and Caroline.

My sweet baby boy on the train (that we rode four times) with his eye boo boo

Jett riding the tiger carousel. He decided once it started moving that he wanted to ride the elephant, not a good thing.

Jett on the turtle and being a little monkey!

After all the fun we had at the zoo with gramma, we had to squeeze in some time for the Tulsa State Fair. Since the height requirement is 36 inches for most of the rides, Jett had to settle for feeding the animals in the petting zoo. Poor guy, it may be a long time before he is 3 ft. tall!

He also enjoyed touring the inside of the ambulance with daddy....

and the "BIIIIG semi twuck" with mommy.

In the exhibit building Jett spotted the gigantic sandbox and had to try it out.
I will probably be finding sand all over the place for weeks to come.

Jett has really been into singing these days, and he can now sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Itsy Bitsy Spider, The Wheels on the Bus, and Jesus Loves Me all by himself. Maybe he will luck out and have a better singing voice than Bobby or myself! I will try to figure out how to upload video on here so you can hear his sweet little voice. Have a great week!

Train and Firetruck obsession

2008-09-28T20:00:00.001-07:00

It has become apparent that Jett's new obsessions are choo-choo trains and firetrucks. My mom and I have been taking him to Barnes and Noble every Wednesday, and as soon as we pull into the parking lot, he starts saying "go see choo-choo train ober dare" and pointing to the front door. As soon as we get in the store, he takes off running as fast as he can to the back of the store where the train set is. I really need to get him a Thomas the Train DVD to watch, but I have tried so hard not to start the whole TV watching thing with him yet. Not because I think it is bad for kids to watch TV, but because I know that once he sees those trains on the television, he will be hooked! I resisted the temptation of the DVD, but the other night while grocery shopping, Jett spotted the Thomas the Train toothbrush that plays music so I decided to buy it for him. Let me just say that I suspect he has the cleanest teeth of any child in Tulsa because all he has done since we got it home is brush his teeth. Now if I could just get him to understand that toothpaste is not candy and he can't keep sucking it off of the toothbrush.

Yesterday we went to Owasso to visit my mom and grandma, so of course, Jett had a great day playing with his firetruck, eating ice cream, and taking turns letting each of us read him books. What a life!

Firetrucks, another new obsession

Reading nenal a book

Gramma reading to Jett (I love this smile)

Snuggling with Mommy

Yum! Cake batter ice cream.

While at my grandma's house, Jett spotted a hairy caterpillar on the front porch.
What is that disgusting thing?

This face cracks me up. He doesn't look to sure about that nasty bug.

After we got home Saturday night, Jett snuggled up with Bobby while the OU game was one. Go Sooners!!

We had planned to go to the Tulsa State Fair this weekend, but while on a walk earlier this week, Bobby stepped on a twig and snapped his ankle. It was still pretty swollen and purple, so we will probably do the fair next weekend. Today we took Jett to Toys R Us and let him try out motorized cars. We were planning on getting him one for his birthday, but wanted to make sure his legs were long enough.
He understands that he needs to push the pedal to make it go, but he hasn't figured out that he has to steer at the same time to avoid hitting things like me, Bobby, and the metal shelves at the toy store. Here is Jett playing in my car this afternoon (in firetruck overalls, imagine that!)