Archive for July, 2009

baby changers and preschool and little gym and…

just a couple of random jasper shots!
oh!! and jasper is officially registered for preschool come fall – yay!!!
man, am i glad to be done with all those school tours and appointments and internet research marathons and stress and worry and…  well, it wasn’t fun…
however, i found a school that i think will give her [...]

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go left! go right! go straight!

one of our local grocery stores has these nifty little jasper-sized shopping carts and they are perfect for a couple of things…
jasper loves pushing it around and getting to help out and luckily, she doesn’t let the power go to her head

i hand her the item, she says, “oh!  thank you, mom!” and [...]

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it’s hammertime…

ok, can we just ignore that i just said that?   no, i don’t like mc hammer but, yeah…  i just couldn’t resist…
shame.  on.  me.
but on to the picture:  her daddy likes to hammer so, of course, jasper lilith likes to hammer too!

she loves her tool box and will spend a long time hammering, sorting, organizing [...]

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what’s up, doc?

while i was at a coldplay concert last night, jon and jasper pulled our carrots up!
aren’t they beautiful??!!  and orange…  very orange…

they aren’t very sweet but we knew that going in since they were summer carrots (winter carrots are sweeter) but they will be wonderful stew carrots…  and jon is investigating pickled carrot recipes, too…

jasper [...]

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paw-paw and jasper have a moment…

jasper lilith had a little hook thingey that she was playing with and her cousin raquel was nice enough to show her how to use it mess with her paw-paw…

it doesn’t look like he minds, does it?

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not gold but lollipops…

so jasper lilith likes lollipops – what child doesn’t?
but her lollipop behavior has taken an odd little turn lately…  she saves them…  for later…  she saves her lollipops for later…
what 2 year old does that??!!
she jumps up and down in excitement, takes the paper off of them and then puts it in her purse with [...]

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pandie the panda…

raquel gave jasper lilith an early birthday present and it is jasper’s “new favouhite toy!”
she named him “pandie”…  makes sense ‘cuz he is a panda
raquel, i think the panda was a hit

apparantly, it wasn’t long after the panda got home that he got sick…
here she is telling me, “oh, poouh pandie.  [...]

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the girl and a dog named chester…

no, really…  heartbroken when this doggie leaves…
he is an incredible dog – very willing to play and gentle with her – in fact, i threatened to keep him as a jaspersitter because if he was up and playing so was jasper!

here are dad, jasper and chester playing tug of war with a bone…

jasper would hold [...]

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a visit from her paw-paw, mimi and cousin raquel…

we had a visit from grandparents this week!!
jasper lilith hasn’t seen her paw-paw and mimi since she was less than a year old so they had a lot of catching up to do!

here is my dad, my  niece raquel and my little one hanging out in the living room…  oh, and chester!!  let’s not forget [...]

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imagination station…

so apparently this is a boat…  yep, this is jasper lilith’s boat…  that she is building…
with mail and sticky stretchy spaghetti noodles (fake noodles)…
don’t ask me…

while i was talking to susan last week, jasper lilith took her entertainment into her own hands…  nothing new there, however, the boat building was definitely new…
“i billing boat, momma, [...]

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