On the Wall at Lowes

If you happen to be at our local Lowes and go to the water fountains (by the bathroom) and you will see this beautiful display of kids at the Lowes workshops:

And if you look really close at the picture right next to the "A" in "AND" you will see this handsome little boy:
And I just clicked on the collage picture to enlarge it and check out all the other kids I noticed that there is another picture of Jase and Rob all the way in the top right hand corner. I cropped it out of the collage picture so it is really grainy, but there are my handsome men:

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! We started celebrating with Jase's friends earlier in the week handing out cards and presents. Throughout our week of celebration Jase has come up with many different names for today:

1. Heart Day

2. I Love You Day

3. Chocolate Day

We have a tendency of spoiling Jase when the holiday's roll around, and Valentine's was no different.

Jase spoiled me a little, too. Rob had taken Jase to the Lowe's workshop again this weekend where he made me my Valentine's present.

I just love it so much. Not only did Jase make it for me himself, but I really wanted something for my necklaces. I had a necklace holder that my grandma and I had made and I don't know what happened to it. I didn't think I would find something that I would like as much as the one we had made because, well, because we had made it. But, this, this is just as precious to me!

The Three Muskateers

It was scary looking in my rear view mirror and seeing this! I don't know how mother's of triplets do it!

Jase's Pictures

Jase has gotten some really good pictures of Henny with his camera. Some he's taken of her sleeping or resting on the couch, and others he's had to chase her around to get the picture. But she is definitely his favorite subject.

Tom and Jerry

Rob has got Jase hooked on Tom and Jerry. At first I wasn't too happy about him watching it. There are so many educational programs on TV now a-days that I just thought he would get more out of watching something else. But the first time I watched it with him and saw how excited he would get and how hard he would laugh, I threw all my reluctance out the window. I have never seen a child laugh as much as he does watching this show! So one day after watching an episode, he decided he wanted to play Tom and Jerry with Rob. Rob is Tom because he is tall and Jase is Jerry because he is little, so Jase explained. Jase will go an entire day playing along side Rob...I mean Tom...and not once slip up and call him Daddy. It is the craziest thing to watch. Even when he calls to him in a moment of need, like using the bathroom, it is "Tom, I have to go potty." Jase even said he wants himself and Rob to dress up as Tom and Jerry for Halloween. I came up with a cute idea for Jase and had a great friend do some photo shopping and came up with this picture for Jase...I mean Jerry. LOL

Ha! Ha! Ha!

I love it!

You Put What In Where?

Yes, Jase did it! He pulled the ol' "this can fit in there" and shoved it up! Figured out what I'm talking about, yet???

Well, tonight at dinner we had chicken sandwiches, french fries and corn. As he was finishing up his last bite of corn a kernel kind of fell off the spoon as he was putting it in mouth. It didn't fall off to the ground but more like the bite was too big and his upper lip knocked it off resulting in the corn kernel landing right under his nose. See where this story is going now???

He caught it with his hand and the next thing I know his finger is up his nose and he is laughing hysterically saying he has corn up his nose. We do a quick investigation and sure enough, a bright yellow kernel is wedged perfectly in his little nostril!

Anyone who has seen my nails know they are the perfect booger picking nails; especially my pinkie nail. I am always getting boogers out of Jase's nose . We even joke that I am performing surgery and my nail is my surgical instrument. So, I figured I wouldn't have any problem getting the corn out. No such luck; it was wedged in there good and I was terrified of jamming it up there even further. So as I got the phone book up to call his doctor, Rob starts trying to get him to blow it out. Thankfully he blew it out right as I was dialing the number, saving us a trip to the ER.

Needless to say we had to have a big discussion about how things don't go in your nose. But the whole time he is cracking up laughing like the incident was the most hilarious thing he's ever done. I'm just praying he got the message and won't try pulling a stunt like this again!

Writing

Judging by all the writing Jase has done today, he will be doing his own blogs soon. He has been all about his ABC's lately and Mommy is thrilled! I introduced him to his lower case letters yesterday and he picked them up immediately; it was if he knew them all along. After playing with his magnets all day he said he wanted to write his letters. He had gotten this see-through dry erase board that has different tracing sheets you put under the board for his birthday and I figured that would be a great start. First, he wanted to do his name, so I wrote his name in dots so he had to connect them. Then he traced over the letters in every color pen.

After his name, he wanted to tackle his upper and lower case letters. He did great! On a couple of the letters, like the "H" he would trace it from right to left, but after I told him it went the other way he tried really hard to remember and do it right. As you can see, he did the "m" right. He was so proud of himself that he even took his own pictures of his work with his camera.

Blizzard of 2010

Over 2o inches later, the snow finally stopped falling. Jase was eager as can be to get out and play in it. About half way thought he storm we got a lot of sleet. That layer of sleet made it so he could actually walk through the snow without falling all the way through. He had a blast!

He even ate his first icicle (Rob didn't tell me till after Jase was sucking it that it came off the bottom of my car...oh well, he enjoyed it and he didn't get sick! Ha Ha!)

He had a blast playing on his swing set. Even though it has a roof, it filled up with snow, too! And of course, as soon as he got up there and saw the snow covered slide, he begged us to get him some Monster trucks.

After sending the trucks down the slide several times, two fell off and went missing. They sunk all the way down and we couldn't find them anywhere. Guess we'll have to wait for the big thaw before they reappear!

Finally, we built a HUGE snowman! Jase was excited that the snowman was as big as his Daddy!

ABC's

Jase has been mastering his letters, lately, and today he reached a new level. He put all his letters in order. He would do a few letters, and when he would get stuck, he would sing the ABC song to figure out what letter went next, would find the letter, and put it in the row. He was so proud when he got to the "Z" he was beaming!

Can You Tell I Cleaned???

Being snowed in all day, I figured I would do some cleaning. Jase is very good about cleaning up after himself and putting things where they belong, but toys do sometimes make it in the wrong bin and books and puzzles don't always stay as neat as mommy likes. So, I spent quite some time in his room going through every bin, throwing stuff out that wasn't any good, getting rid of things he no longer played with, putt his ABC books in alphabetical order, stacked all his puzzles up nice, and the whole time wiping every surface down. When I was finished I sent Jase into his room so I could tackle the living room. Within minutes, this is what he did:
He was using the shelves as houses for his cars. The only thing that stopped me from getting mad was I remember when me and my brother would do the same thing. We would set up tissue boxes to be houses or use the end tables as mansions. We would have building blocks and dominoes set up making streets throughout the entire family room. It kept him entertained for a while, too.

Giddy Up!

Jase says: "Mommy, look at us! I'm a cowboy and Henny is my horse. "

He then mounts poor little Henny, who is just laying on the couch, minding her own business and trying to rest. He starts jumping up and down on her like he is on a bucking bronco, swinging his invisible rodeo rope shouting:

"Giddy up, Henny! Hee Haw!"

He Knows the Letter "C"

We've been working on our letters lately, and you'd be surprised the places you can find them: a doughnut will look like an "O", a smear of ranch on the table will look like an "L", or a piece of string on the couch will look like an "S". Today, Jase found the letter "C" in the darnedest place. He had just used the bathroom and was leaning over the toilet to flush his poops when he started shouting, "Mommy! My poop made a 'C'!" Sure enough, his little poop was curled up in a perfect "C". He went running into the bedroom to share his discovery with his dad. I heard him saying, "Daddy, my poop made a 'C'. It was a poopsie!" It's moments like these when you don't know whether to give him high fives for knowing his letters or laugh hysterically at his revelations!

Pre-School!?!?!

Whelp...we did it! After much hemming and hawing, we registered Jase in pre-k. AHHH...I can't belive my little baby is old enough to even be talking about this!!!!

His birthday falls at a really bad time of year for starting school. In our county, you must be 4 before the first day of school to register for the public pre-k program. He is about 2 weeks shy. So he was already going to be starting school at a very old age (because 2 weeks shy of 5 is oh, so old, right?). The dilemma was...not everyone makes it into the public pre-k program. They take income and developmental level into account. Children who "need" to be in the program are granted the first spots, and then it is on a first come, first serve basis. If Jase didn't get in, he wouldn't be starting school until 2 weeks shy of his 6th birthday and he would be jumping right into the all-day kindergarten class. This didn't sit right with me, so we started looking into other options. I found this really great pre-school program at The United Methodist Church in La Plata called Blessed Lambs. They offer a 2-day-a-week 3-year-old program and a 3-day-a-week 4-year-old program. He will begin the 3-year-old program in September! Then, we can reserve a spot for him in the 4-year old program, so if he doesn't make it into the public school he will have still have a spot at this school.

Right now he isn't too excited about it. Whenever we mention school he pouts and says, "I don't love school." When we return all the paper work they said we can bring him to look around and I have a feeling he will have a whole new attitude after he sees how much fun it is going to be!

Another Snow Storm

It snowed once again; this time accumulating a foot of snow. It snowed heavy all day Saturday so we didn't get to go play in the white stuff till today. Luckily, Jozi got in the neighborhood just before we started bundling up so Jase had a friend to play with. When we first went out, I tried to get Jase to actually play IN the snow. He likes to just run around on the shoveled drive and walk way. So I dropped him down in the middle of the yard...

and he got stuck!

Once he got back on the driveway, he plopped down on his belly and starting sliding himself around on the ice.

Then, Rob had the bright idea to pull the kids around in the wagon. They had fun, but let me tell you, a sled would have been much easier. It was a work out and a half pulling that thing through all the snow!


Then...tragedy struck!
The driver was taking a curve a little too fast and the little Radio Flyer flipped over, throwing both of the kids from the vehicle.


Jozi walked away from the accident un-harmed. Jase, landed face first in the snow and ended up with snow stuffed up in between his face and his glasses. I know its mean...but it really was quite hilarious!



But the two wasted no time putting the wagon back on all fours and where soon back in the wagon going for another spin!

After awhile, Jozi started getting cold and went inside, and me and Jase decided to make some snow angles. He liked making the angles, but got a little crazy flaring his hands around and ended up throwing snow in his face.

After that, he was ready to go in for some hot cocoa, too.