2!

Goin' on TWO!!!

Bert from Sesame Street is "Burp" and Big Bird is "Big Burp"
"Riiight back" copies my "I'll be right back!"
"Hode you, Mama" for Hold me, Mama
"Hode you," when he wants to hold or look at something
He is putting 2-3 words together- "take off," "sit down," "Mama sit," "red chair," "I want ___," "Read book," "Through tunnel" (with his trains,)
He is finally loving play dough. The three of us sit at his little table and make stuff for each other to guess what it is.
He says "Hiiiiiii" a LOT, (anyone walks into the room, sits down, if he walks in or gets closer, Hiiiii!)
Puts his hand out to Lacey and says, "NO, CeeCee!" even if she's totally not messing with him.
LOVES to "cook" with me. He pulls up his stool, "stew" and his little red chairs. He knows things might be hot and is usually very careful, although it still scares me. He takes the measuring spoons and cups out of the drawer daily, a favorite dinner-cooking pastime.
He LOVES to eat all fruit and would eat it alone if I let him. Oranges are "ort." He says apple and pineapple very clearly.
He still asks for olives when the fridge opens. Now he wants "two ava" at a time.
He counts things and points to them saying, "two, free, two, free"
He counts down before throwing a ball (or other object,) saying, "free, two..." and then throws.
He LOVES to "reet," (read) Peter Rabbit.
He asks to "reet, reet" a LOT...and I love every minute of it! We read at least 20 books a day.
Any bicycle or tricycle, he calls a "cycle."
His "yes" is so cute with a lisp. I love the down up down sounding "yeeee-eeee-eees!"
He loves to be "tickoled" but when tickling us, just hits our tummies
He gives knucks and high five to strangers now, (the old men everywhere adore him.)
What doowa=What are you doing?
He still uses the sign for "please" and says it at the same time, "peeeeese." Now he knows it's the "magic word"
Take a bash=I want to take a bath.
When he wants something he says the name of the something three times, normal voice, high voice, normal voice. Funny.
I moved his large mirror to the play room and he's been using it a lot. Today, he had a sticker on his face and couldn't figure out how to get to it with his hands, touching all over his face. It was interesting to watch.
He would do anything to just be outside.
At very overwhelming and crowded places, (like "Inflatable Wonderland" for a birthday party,) I think he gets a little nervous, which is fine by me. He is very cautious and is still happy to play by himself.
He likes Sunday School...most of the time. They have a great "choo-choo" table there with tons of trains.
He hates to brush his teeth. It's been drama for about 2 weeks now.
He says, "pick nose," as he does it, just like David in the book No, David! He also announces burps and toots. Everyone warned me about the boy stuff. Here we go!

 

 WAY too many sick days over the past three months!

 Time out

 Gigi teaching J how to do cross-lateral crunches with Daisy

 My sweet friend at church persuaded me to let J try a happy meal!

Playing in Grayson's teepee

Winter Days

    
     We've had some great sunny winter days, taking walks, playing at the park, meeting neighbors and some really cold days, staying in and making stuff! Cars, bean bag throws, painting, coloring, Valentine's cards, etc. We go to lots of play dates and had a great play date at our house with 11 toddlers, gone to a gym to play, keep going to church on Wednesday mornings for Bible study and church on Sunday, toddler time at the library on Thursdays and lots of other outings. Above all, Jeffrey loves playing in the backyard! His vocabulary is taking off like a rocket. He copies every "shoot" or "gosh" and we have to be careful! Three weeks after Alice ("Aza") brought me a sweet birthday gift mug, he told me at breakfast who got that mug for me. He remembered! After hanging our hammock up to read in the sun, I asked, "Who else has a hammock swing like this in their back yard?" and he got it, "Gigi!" He understands those pronouns now and is amazing me all the time!!!

Jeffrey LOVES CeeCee (Lacey)



playing with buddies at our house

backyard fun

 Fantastic day with Bo-bo

 We tried to get some pics for Brant's Valentine card...

J fell asleep while playing with his Mr. Potato heads...

 At a Valentine party

 with his buddies

 J loves taking "selfie" videos, seeing himself and making faces!

 Bobo and Naynee took this pic with Mater, J's favorite character while they were at Disney for L's bday.

at the park!

Happy New Year!

     Happy 2015! Gigi came over and spent the night and celebrated with us on New Years Eve. None of us wanted to be out on the roads and would actually rather be home nowadays! Our friends who usually have a fantastic party are expecting their first baby and didn't throw the party this year. We're all growing up it seems...
     Jen, Mark, Lainey and Bobo came over for lunch on New Years Day. We had black eyed peas, tamales, spinach, cornbread and brownies.

 

It was a Tonka truck Christmas!

 

Gigi, Lainey and I went to see Into the Woods at the movie theater while Jeffrey played with Bobo, Jen and Mark. He says Marks name incredibly clear with a very strong "k." After the movie, we took Lainey home with us for a spend the night. We watched Frozen at night and again with Jeffrey and Brant in the morning!

 Jeffrey kept following Lainey to sit right up next to her. She might think one little brother is enough! We had fun together!

 

 We've been so fortunate to have such beautiful weather and have tried to play outside a lot! We took Lacey to the dog park Saturday, Jeffrey played on the playground for a while and we all had a very nice, long walk.

 Jeffrey playing at our neighborhood park. Riding his new trike from Aunt Jen and the fam.

 Cowboy boots and jammies! Getting dirty in the back yard.

I told Brant the other day how nice I think it is to have random toys all over the house. I love finding his little set ups in different spots. This one was in our bedroom while I was getting dressed.

 

     Jeffrey is talking so much and in big, long sentences that are not understandable at all. He does say a lot of words very clearly, but these strings of words are very hard for me to understand. Sometimes he watches out the window for trucks and he talks about the time we ran outside and gave cookies to the garbage man and he gave him a high five and waved. He talks a lot about the mail man too. He's OBSESSED with the movie Cars. I am going bonkers because all he wants to do is watch it on TV, which he calls "Tee." I let him watch 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening. The constant asking for it is driving me looney! "Cars, peeeese?" with the sign language for please too. Geez. What do I do??? It sounds funny, but is truly ridiculous! Overall, he's growing and learning and communicating and eating well, so bring on 2015!