Archive for April, 2009

looks like the baby is potty trained too…

arnetta, it is funny that we were just talking about jasper not pretending to change diapers on the baby anymore…  today i walked into her bathroom to see this little tableau…
i guess the baby is out of diapers now and using the toilet like jasper

the cute thing to me is that jasper absolutely [...]

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we love us some vietnamese…

we had vietnamese soup today and like always, it was de.  li.  cious!
we were driving home from the gym and jasper lilith goes, “soup?  i hungry for soup!”
(notice that we have passed on our love of asian foods to jasper…  thank goodness!)
so we made a u turn and headed for hot soup!

our left overs [...]

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and the boat continues…

jon is getting closer and closer to being finished with his sail boat!
he is at the priming stage now and jasper lilith came out to help sand that first coat down…

“look, mama!  i sanding on daddee’s pwetty boat!”
they look like they are having a good time, don’t they?

my two productive peeps!

awwww, jasper lilith smiling for [...]

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a paddle boat experience!

and then it was sunday…  jon went fishing but jasper and i opted to stay at home and play with the dogs and cat – well, chase them around the house and the backyard anyway
but it wasn’t long before we tired of that and decided to give the dogs and cat a break [...]

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an afternoon on the tractor…

fishing, tractoring (what?  it is a real word!) and horses  – you would think we were out in the country or something
while saturday morning was spent on the lake, saturday afternoon was spent out in the pastures and on the tractor…
the rain had stopped and the sun finally came out and it turned [...]

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so she knows what a coaster is for…

jasper loves binoculars – they probably seem like magic to a two year old
here she is checking out some horses at a neighbors faraway pasture – mom, i think it was trip – she likes “twip” as she calls him
“mommy, lez go say hi to twip  now!”

just checking up on all [...]

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the day of the fishes…

we spent the weekend at moms to dog, horse and cat sit while they were out of town and it was a great weekend!!  of course since when do we not have great weekends when we go to their house?
jon came prepared to spend much of the time down at their lake and the rain [...]

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let’s just pretend fish for now…

jasper lilith finally got a little fishing rod…  she got to pick it out, of course, and though there were not a lot of choices (in kid-sized rods), she went straight for the most girly rod of them all!
soapbox:  man, i get so tired of all that thematic crap out there!  i usually try to [...]

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wind and water…

at the end of another day out and i can’t decide which looks prettier – the waterfalls or the windblown girl…

what do you think?

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pretty eyes…

no picture but a little story blurb:
arnetta, you will like this:  this evening we are all hanging out on the couch – reading and such – and jasper lilith leans over to jon, bats her long eyelashes at him and tells him, “daddee, your eyes are sooooo pwetty…” and then gives him this little shy [...]

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