Mr. Fearless

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.
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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

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

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!