Why?

Because he can...

Things we love about JR: He's CRAZY for bubble baths!

A few weeks ago I put some of my body wash in the tub and let JR have a real, full blown bubble bath. He totally loved it of course!

So then I bought a big bottle of Cars bubble bath and now he always asks for "cars, bubbles?" when he takes a bath.

Lately he has been laying down on his tummy during bath time and has even been putting his face, mostly just his chin and mouth, in the water. This is awesome because for whatever reason he started being afraid of laying back in the water last year. So I can't even lay him down to wash his hair, I have to dump water over him, which really makes him equally as mad. So this is good progress and makes me hopeful that swimming lessons this summer might not be so bad.

OK, now for the pictures Jared will be mad that I published. He hates that I have blackmail photos of JR in the bath. But his bum is so cute!

Leftovers

A few leftovers of JR checking out his new trike the day after Christmas...

And yes, his hair pretty much always is crazy when it gets long!

Whatchya talkin' about?

What has JR pirate been talking about?

New phrases in little man's vocabulary are:

I doh (*don't) like it....

Uses this one all the time. We will give him something new to try, like food, he will look at it without even tring it and say he doesn't like it. He even said it in regards to going poop in the potty when I was trying to toilet train him.

Ah too!...*Love you too...

Not to be confused with "Ahh choo", the fake sneeze. 

You can here him saying the "ah too" after I tell him I love him in the previous post.

"Ohhhkayyyy"...

Obviously this means "okay"  but it's the way he says it that cracks us up. He will say something to us like, "chocolate milk", and when we reply, "do you want some chocolate milk",  he replies with his "ohhhkayyy" and says it in such a way that you think it was your idea. Like you were the one who originally suggested it. Jared says he will be a great salesman someday because he will make his customers think it was their idea.

Sorry again about the terrible pictures!

Things we love about JR: He kinda has a lisp!

Sorry about the crappy quality of my cell phone videos. I have misplaced the charger for my camera and it is really getting annoying!

Anyway, the audi in this video is the priceless part. 

Turn up the volume, listen and enjoy!

Grandpa turns 82!

My grandfather turned 82 this week and Jared, JR and I all headed out to Homedale along with my parent's and sister this Sunday to celebrate. We practiced singing 'Happy Birthday' with JR before we went out and he did a pretty good job. But then when we got out there, oh boy did he sing it with gusto! It was so cute but of course none of us was able to get it on video. Typical.

Anywho, we did awesome stuff between when we could get Grandpa off the dance floor (he just loves shufflin' to the 'Party Rock' song) like take pictures of our webbed toes.

Me and Grandpa...

Me, Grandpa, Mercedes...

Then Grandpa and I had a little photo op. All the Homedale paparazzi were dying to get a shot of us together. We stayed separate on the red carpet but did pose for one picture once inside the VIP lounge.

All I have to say is that it was a pretty wild celebration, wish you all could have been there. Party of the century pretty much.

Happy Birthday Grandpa! 

Slices of Life: Christmas

Christmas was a little different this year. Jared had to work on Christmas day, my brother and sister-in-law were out of town and our typical routine and activities didn't happen as usual. So here are just a couple of "slices" of our Christmas this year rather then a lengthy blog post.

If JR looks really upset in some of these pictures it's because he was. His schedule was totally off and we had to wake him up to do presents. It was kind of comical actually.

Halloween

My mom bought JR a pumpkin Halloween costume on sale last year in November so we dressed him up in it one day and he wore it around and over to Grandma's house so she could see it.

And while we were there we watched Veggie Tales like we always do at Grandma's house...

For actual Halloween JR moonlighted as a ventriloquist dummy.

We went to Trunk-or-Treat on Saturday night. Everyone thought he was a vampire!

Playing games in the cultural hall...

Posing for pictures in front of our decorated car,,,

Ready to Trick-or-Treat!

Dragging his HEAVY candy bag!

Stowing away in the trunk post trick-or-treating...

On Halloween night we went trick-or-treating with JR's cousins (Jared's brother and his kids).

We were so happy to get a great picture of all the kids together.

The Pumpkin Liner: October 22nd

We rode the Thunder Mountain Line "Pumpkin Liner" on October 22nd. Sadly this was another time when Jared's schedule did not allow him to come with us, so JR and I hitched a ride with Maitland and Katie and we met my parents up on Horseshoe Bend.

The first half of the trip we rode in an enclosed car and JR spent much to the time turned around flirting with the teenage girl behind him.

He did turn around and paid us some attention after a while though, especially after grandpa took him to get some candy.

Looking out the window with uncle Maitland...

What a cutie!

When we arrived at Montour each ticket holder got to pick out a pumpkin to bring home. JR was going around touching all the tops of the pumpkins. He was too funny.

It was very hard to pick just the right pumpkin!

 The train Nazi yelled at us for taking this picture whit JR sitting on the edge.

He said, "these old trains can just move at any time without warning!" 

I think they have bigger problems then a kid being held tight by his grandfather if that happens. All the people getting on and off the train at the ramps holding giant pumpkins are more likely to be screwed but whatever.

On the return trip we rode outside and it was awesome. If you ever ride the train and there is good weather go outside for sure. Much more exciting!

JR wasn't really interested in looking over the side though. He wanted to chill with his pumpkins. 

He thought he was too cool for school sitting on those pumpkins!

And sitting on the step...

It was a fun day. I fully plan on riding the Polar Express train next month!