Yes, I cut his bangs...

They were in his eyes... and yes if you'd like to leave a comment telling me he looks like Jim Carey from Dumb and Dumber go right ahead.  I think he is dear.

The Week in Review

Our weeks are getting progressively busier and somehow my house is getting progressively cleaner!  I know it sounds strange, but I am such an unorganized person that when structure is forced upon me, my family benefits. 

Monday... My first night of MOPS.  It went great.  I am blessed to have a super table of girls that I am really looking forward to getting to know better.  Jamie spent the evening with Daddy and Mom Mom.  I fixed a fantastic dinner for them (not my recipe, but oh so yummy!) and was out the door.  They weren't even home when I got back! They were all at Kohl's shopping for an interview outfit for Daddy.  When they arrived Jamie had a new "Thomas" in hand thanks to Mom Mom and Daddy had new clothes.  I will interrupt here and say Timmy had an interview on Tuesday afternoon with a new production company (new to us, not new to the business.)  Yesterday he got an email saying the "loved him" and now, God willing, he will have plenty of work for the winter and I will not have to be as pressed to find a way to bring money in.  God is faithful.  He always come through.  If we do as He instructs He will bless us.  God always keeps his promises.

Tuesday... Jamie's first day of gymnastics.  In this class parents watch from a window outside of the classroom.  The kids can see the parents too.  He was having so much fun!  I noticed him running up to the teacher every few minutes to ask her something, but we can't hear whats going on we can only see.  But at one point I was able to read his lips and I saw that he was asking for me.  He wasn't upset (at that point anyway).  Then he noticed that he could see me through the window, which seemed to make him very happy.  Until about 5 minutes later when he had a meltdown.  I went to the door,(which he was running out of) and talked to him.  I went back in the room and sat down with him and we watched the class together.  I encouraged to go back over and participate which he did.  For some reason he was fine with me standing by door, but not the window.  Whatever works!

Later that night we had family playtime in the play/school room.  Daddy and Jamie were super heroes!

Wednesday... We got up ate some breakfast and decided to go for a long walk.  Our first stop was our neighborhood park.  The plan was to play and collect leaves and acorns for a school project.  

showing off his acorn

Timmy decided to bring Wendy along which distracted Jamie from his collection assignment, oh  well.

We ventured behind the park into a little wooded area where we were greeted by a friendly neighbor who kindly told us to leave as we were on private property, so we trotted back to the park to continue our adventure.  From there we took a long walk through the wooded part of our neighborhood to Poppy's house.  We had a nice visit there and headed back for lunch and nap.  After nap it was time for a tour of the Bel Air Fire Department with our toddler group.  This was a huge success and Jamie loved it! 

Fire Fighter Adam showing us his equipment.

Fire Fighter Daddy explaining how the water comes out of the truck.

God willing he will never be on an ambulance again!

He was talking to Fire Fighter Adam "What we do next?"

the whole group!

We went out for a quick dinner and then Mommy headed to Yoga class with GaGa (this is mommy's new adventure and its working out quite well)  Jamie had a mini meltdown before I left, but was happy as a clam after Daddy gave him a lollipop.  (I am sticking to my "no leaving while baby is crying" belief).  That night there was a short but strong thunderstorm so all the dogs decided to head to the bathroom for Jamie's bath.  Daddy rode Corrina and Jamie rode Marvin before getting cleaned up.

Thursday... Jamie and Mommy did Yoga together this morning and then we were off to FUNdamentals.

Tomorrow he has free play at "My Gym."  Next week starts our first full week of activities everyday.  Monday will be the first day of nature class and Wednesday and Friday will be pre-school.  I am really excited and so is Jamie.  He asks everyday "My friends comin today?"



A month of Sunday School

Well today makes 4 weeks of Sunday School for the baby man, and unfortunately it just keeps getting worse.  I really thought he was ready because the first day went so well, but he's not and that's ok.  I am in total support of letting children do things in their own time and if this is not Jamie's time to start Sunday School I have to accept that.  Now, I am not totally giving up, I am thinking of some other options, one of them being me as the Sunday School teacher.  Also, I may consider going to an earlier church service because by the end of the 11:30 service Jamie is ready for a nap and I think this may be contributing to his insecurity.  Anyway, for documentation purposes and a look at REAL life, here is what happened this morning...
We spent the night at my parents' house because Jamie had been asking to spend the night at "Pop-Pop and Ga-Ga's house" for a while now.  It pretty much began as soon as he woke up, "I not want to go to Sunday School.  It not fun."  "I go to big Church with you."  Then my dad left to go running "I go with Pop-Pop."  Then I try to get him dressed.  "I not wear that to Sunday School."  When we finally got to Church my mom and I walked him back to his room.  "I not like this room."  "I go to a different room."  "Mommy you stay with me?"  After a half hour I was able to leave, but I didn't have a good feeling about it.  Last week when the actual lesson started he was good to go.  Jamie loves learning and can be engaged easily.  Well this week there was no lesson.  It was a different teacher and she did not know what to do.  I am not at all criticizing here.  These people volunteer their time and there is really no room for complaints in my opinion.  If I want something "better," than like I mentioned early I may volunteer and be the teacher myself, I just don't know if I can handle another commitment right now.  So anyhoo back to the story, I sat down in church for literally 30 seconds and his  number was up on the screen.  Ok, well here I go trotting back out after just trotting in a half hour into the service.  He was a mess.  The teacher was handing him out over the baby gate to someone "in charge" when I came down the hallway.  We went right into the nursing room at his request (which is usually empty *sigh*).  They have the sermon on a TV in there so I was able to hear a little bit of it.  But then Jamie was getting very curious about all the babies screaming their heads off in the nursery.  "Why that baby crying" me-"Because their Mommies are in big church and they want them."  Don't worry I'm not going off on a rant now... So we left the nummy room and I spent the rest of the service hanging out in Sunday School with Jamie.  We left a little early to grab a  volunteer application (as I was getting the application Jamie could hear the music and started dancing all around saying "Jesus dancing! Jesus dancing!" perhaps He was!) and then we went into big Church with Ga Ga.  When we first walked in Jamie said "oh that beautiful!"  We finished out the service and got in the car at which point he had a melt down and cried the entire way back to my parents' house.  Then he cried most of the way home.  Then it took my an hour to get him to sleep for his nap.  And now I'm blogging.  The end.

Hands-on House!

This has got to be one of the neatest places I have ever taken Jamie!  Aunt Sarah, Bubba, Jamie and I headed up to Lancaster this week to check it out. The drive was a little out of control. It took us almost 2 hours to get there, but it was worth it and we will go back! It was only $7 to get in and the boys had a blast. Afterward we went to Oregon Dairy to eat and play. They had a buffet so I was happy (even though there were no characters!) It was super fun to hang out with my cousin (and the babies of course!)

Working at the "Quarry"

Off to the "Farm"

learning how a cow is milked!

Bubba collecting chicken eggs! (Jamie was scared of the "chickens")





Harvest the corn..........................................................Feed the pig!

Jamie is yelling "Combine harvester!!!"  I presume he will be a farmer when he grows up.











"Do it yourself face painting" I attempted to paint a butterfly on Jamie's hand.





Bubba about to ring the door bell!  It made all knids of sounds, a thunderstorm, a dog barking, a cat meowing...





The "Grocery Store"  This was Jamie's favorite I think.  Very cute!





Picking out "produce"





Shopping for "dry goods"



Checking out









They even had little shopping lists!  So fun!



"Safari Pirates"



Some kind of neato light board.

Off to work at the "Factory"

Jamie was so into this.  He followed all the directions to build his "watchyamacallit."



"Aunt Sarah I know baby miller is giving you a blinding headache right now but can you hold me anyway?"





They had a little drop in class all about wind-up toys.  Jamie thought it was pretty cool!



He is waiting for this pop up toy to...well, pop up!!!

I assume this is why he now has a cold!

And we were off to Mr. McGregor's Garden!!!!

Peter and Bubba!