The World Was Never Ready

It is hard to believe that two years have gone by so fast.  I am so grateful for my sweet son.  He is the sunshine in my life (especially now that we won’t have any sun all winter).

Here’s an update on JZ.  JZ can now build extensive train tracks and could play all day pushing his trains on it and rearranging the track.  He loves to get a super long train with all the cars he can find, usually 12 or 13.  Lately he has taken to playing with dinosaurs.  He holds one in each hand and then roars like each dinosaur is roaring.  He also just loves roaring.  In the car, at church, you name it!  If you roar back, he will crack up laughing and you will be stuck in a roaring competition.  Don’t even try it, though; he always wins.  My voice gets hoarse way before he will stop.  JZ’s favorite food is still cheese, unless you count chocolate milk as a food.  When he is hungry he goes into the kitchen and pulls on the fridge door.  Thankfully, he still can’t open by himself or else I would constantly be out of cheese.

JZ loves Nursery class at church.  He plays nicely with the other kids and listens well during the lesson.  He is learning lots of songs including “I Am A Child of God” and “I love to see the temple”.  At the grocery store, JZ is a good helper.  He has figured out the process of shopping.  You look at the shelves, pull an item off the shelf and put it in the cart.  Now that he can reach the cart, he pulls all sorts of stuff off the shelves and rolls it over the edge and into the cart.  One day, he found a glass bottle of beer and was trying to get it into the cart.  It was kind of heavy for him and he was struggling to push it over the edge.  I was not paying attention but luckily, a lady saw him and said something and I grabbed the bottle before it could crash onto his head and send glass shards and alcohol all over the floor.

He is such a good big brother.  He loves to help Emily by giving her toys, hugging her, or patting her on the back when she is crying.  Sometimes in the mornings, I hear the kids awake and go into their room.  JZ likes to lay in bed until I come in.  I say good morning and take Emmy out of the crib.  JZ holds his arms in the air until I put Emily into his arms.  They lay on his bed and he cuddles her and strokes her hair. 

I love my little man so much and I am proud of all that he has accomplished so far.

Birth:                                               4 months:

6 months:                                    9 months:

1 year:                                       18 months:

2 years:

JZ has gotten really good with Lego's.  He built this tower all by himself.  I think he is going to turn out to be a great architect.

JZ, Emily and I went to California to visit Grandma and Grandpa.  Our cousins have been here for the last week and their mom (my sister) will come tomorrow.  JZ was such a great helper at the airport and wanted to pull the luggage!  The flight went really well.  Emily slept the whole trip and JZ played with toys.  Today we took Emily swimming for the first time.  She seemed to really like it and didn’t even mind her big cousins splashing her a little.  JZ fell into the hot tub face first.  He was just sitting on the edge and Grandpa was taking pictures.  JZ was looking the pool and then, plop!  He was underwater.  I grabbed him out fast and he coughed a little, but didn’t even cry.  He was awfully surprised, though!  Check out our pics so far and stay updated – later in the week I will put up more.

Today we went to South 47 Farm in Redmond for Farm Tots.  We’ve never gone before, but it is a pretty neat activity.  JZ tromped all over the place while Emily slept peacefully in my front pack.  We rode on a wagon ride behind a tractor which JZ thought was awesome.  They had baby pools filled with dirt that we dug for worms in.  JZ liked to hold the worm on his hand while it wriggled around.  We pet a baby chicken and a goat.  We also saw alpacas, but those were a little too scary for JZ.  At the end, we went into the fields and picked a head of lettuce to take home.  Mmmmm… we are going to have yummy salad tonight!

You would not believe how many times a day I hear some variation on this phrase!  Emily does have quite the do and sure gets a lot of attention for it.  I try to wet it down and comb it so it won’t look so crazy, but it always sticks right back up!

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I love to go to garage sales!  Last Saturday, I found the jackpot of all garage sales.  I got all these clothes, shoes, jackets, a snow suit, swimsuit and a Snugli for $10.  At the store, I could have gotten one t-shirt for that price.  Altogether, I got 91 items!  That is roughly 10 cents per item!  What a deal.  And it is all in really good condition.  The lady had sooooo many clothes, so I am sure she couldn’t have put each outfit on more than a couple of times before her kids grew out of them.  Yay for me!

Emily is already figuring out the benefits of an opposable thumb.  She tries so hard to get her thumb in her mouth, but the hand-eye coordination is not quite there yet.  She scraped her eye with her index finger and started crying.

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