Sleepy boy

Natalie checked on Jasper tonight around 10:15 pm and found him like this. He was wreaked, though, so he didn't even flinch when I dug his arm out from under him.

Happy haircut

Jasper's taken a liking lately with pretending to cut hair. Last night he and I did it for close to an hour so he had to show off his skills for his mommy tonight.

He takes it pretty seriously, tossing his Bubba over our shoulders like a cape and telling me to sit still when I was squirming around. He uses one of Nat's combs to brush our hair and his plastic needle nose pliers as scissors.

"Lookin' good," he said once he was done with me.

"You look beautiful," he told Nat.

What a sweet boy.

It's Potty-Training Time

Our potty-training has officially begun! Jasper has been going on the potty off and on for about 2-3 months. We never really pushed it, but about a week ago we decided we were really going to make an effort to put him on the potty alot more often. We started it last Wednesday (Nov. 18, 2010) and by Friday, he was wearing his pull-up at daycare. Friday was also the day they went and bought a new potty for Jman to have at daycare. He's been doing really good! Of course, he's had a couple accidents and will continue to have those, but the only time he wears a diaper is at night and during nap time, so I think we're on the right path - yay!

And he's also re-newed his love of our M&M potty jar, that he was kind of interested in a couple months back. He gets 2 M&Ms after each trip to the potty and he never misses that step in the process!

Here is a picture with him and his potty-chart from daycare. He gets to fill it up with stickers during the week and then brings it home at the end of each week to proudly display what he's done. This is from Week 1!

Yay - diapers will soon be a distant memory for Jasper P!

Dinner with the Parrinos

Autumn and Dom ventured over to the East side last week for dinner at our place. We had a fun time! Dom and Jman played together, but Dom's most favorite activity was definitely throwing Jasper's Hulk ball around...and Adam and him got in quite a bit of wrestling, too! Thanks for coming over guys! Oh, and Jasper is in the potty-training mode so we find it's easier to keep his pants off at night so he won't have to bother with them when he goes on the potty! (so that's our explanation for any recent photos with him and no pants!)

Two Dogs

Grandma Vicki's dog, Sadie, came to stay with us for a few days while Grandma Bev was at the Kavanagh House. Sadie (7 lbs) and Coz (70 lbs.) got along really well, despite them being so different. This was one of the places we usually found them before we all settled in for the night.

Jasper has a Curious George book that talks about Curious George going to a dog show and taking dogs home with him. The book is about counting and so Curious George puts 3 small dogs in one room, 3 big dogs in another room, 3 hairy dogs in one room, etc. Going off this counting theme, Jasper kept saying 'we have 2 dogs at our house...and then he would count them 1, 2."

He had a good time with Sadie and quickly realized that he could actually pick Sadie up and carry her around...poor Sadie. I think she was glad to go home.

Thank you Erin & Jesse!

A big thanks to cousins Erin and Jesse for sending us some new Broncos gear - we love it! Thanks so much for thinking of us! The picture where Jasper's arm is out is supposed to be him blowing a kiss to both of you! And that smile is an actual smile, we are trying to teach Jasper between a "grin" and "smiling so much it looks like he's in pain"....we're working on it :)

Thanks again, you guys! Love you!

I'm BATMAN

Thanks to a hand-me-down costume from Gabe & Zach Kline, Jasper went as BATMAN this year for Halloween. We had many chances to enjoy his costume. He went to Altoona Safe Trick or Treat night and Pleasant Hill Business Trick or Treat. On Halloween night, he handed out candy at Grandma Vick's house while Adam and I were in Iowa City for the Hawkeye game, and lastly, he wore his costume at Issa's Daycare for his pajama day/halloween costume party that next Monday.

His joke this year was "What is a mummy's favorite type of music?" Answer: "RAP" He did pretty well telling his joke, although he usually got the answer out before anybody had time to guess.

Grandma Vicki said that he stood at her front door the whole time holding the big bowl of candy and waiting anxiously for each kid to come to the door. And he was a little bummed when some of the older kids walked by and didn't stop. He did ok with most of the other costumes but did hand the candy bowl to Grandma Vicki when some of the scarier costumes came to the door.

This year, another one of his favorite Halloween "celebrations" was listening to his Halloween CD in the car. He loved monster mash and purple people eater - usually singing the songs on his own everywhere he went.

Oh, and one of the pictures in this post is of Jman hugging Norma Teuber at The Altoona Historical Society. Norma is a great gal that I used to work with at the Chamber and just loves when Jman comes around!

It was a fun halloween!