Our state Fair...er...City Fair:)

I am having this HUGE urge to run to the movie store and rent "Our State Fair" I love that old musical. *sigh* However, I've made the guys in my house watch so many girlie movies lately I'm not sure if they would tolerate another one...and a musical no-less:) Hee, hee.

Anyway, the reason I'm wanting to watch the movie though, is because today my friend and I and our little kiddos went to the local Fair today!! It was so much fun. Only a few miles from my house so at around 11:30 I got ready, packed Jade and our things in my bike and we road off to meet our friends at the Fair.

The fair was lots of fun, they had all sorts of animals (cows, horses, sheep, goats, rabbits, cats, dogs, hogs, baby hogs, lamas and zebra donkeys called...Zadonks (or something like that). They had a petting zoo for the little ones, and shows for all ages. We even got to take a ride around the fair in a horse drawn carriage. Oh, they had bees there as well, so we got free little honey sticks to suck on.

Aside from the animals and fun things to look at, their also was super yummy Fair food (corn dogs, anyone?) and I had the biggest laugh watching Jade eat her very first snow cone (yes it got everywhere). Her little friend liked it as well and they made a huge mess together.

They had all sorts of rides for kids of all ages. Jade liked the Carousel best. We got the only horse on the Carousel that bounced and hopped while making its turns, so it was a very interesting ride.

As the day was winding down (and the kiddos started to get cranky) We all decided to end our adventure with a walk through the house of mirrors. Jade and her friend LOVED the house of mirrors (of course) while I found it a bit depressing, so I chose to look down at my daughter the whole time instead of around at myself *grin*. At the very end of the tour we had to take turns sliding down a big curvy slide to make our exit. Normally I have no problems sliding down huge slides with Jade on my lap. however, this time I some how managed to slip very oddly on my bottom and as we zoomed down the slide the very tip of my knee got plastic burned by the side of the slide. Waaa!! it hurts so bad. It took off a dime size section of very thin skin and turned a vibrant red.
Mostly I just felt like a dork, but it did hurt pretty bad as well. After that I was ready to call it a day. We did manage to take a trip to the petting zoo and the ice-cream stand before getting back on our bike and heading home. Ah, so fun. Everyone should have a little country, city or state fair to go to in the summer.

Authors Hour

Mt Rainer

This weekend we all went to Mt. Rainer with our good friends. Thankfully, they own a working camera so I actually have two pictures of the trip. And yes, there was snow on the hiking paths and yes, it is almost August:)

JB is showing Jade how to make snowballs here:)

I broke the camera and now I am sad

I broke the camera and now I am sad,
I want to cry with my mom and my dad,

I dropped it hard, on the floor last week
And now I'm ashamed and can hardly speak

What will I do without pictures to post?
I can't even think or dare to hope.

I'm lost in this world without pictures to take
My life will now end, what a tragic fate.

My friends and my family I'm sorry to say
But I have no more photos to post today

With prayers and some money I hope we can fix
My fabulous camera that took great pics

But if we can't fix it, I guess what I'll do
Is write happy poems from me to you:)

Jade can say "Momma"!

Jade has started to say "Momma" finally! So I had to get it on tape last night to prove she says it. Oh, and she also says "coco" all the time, which is adorable. Anyway here is a cute little movie of her talking.

Thursday's Mall fun!

Thursday we went to the mall with friends for some playing in the kid area and riding stationary cars near the glow-in-the-dark miniature golf course.

Jade had fun sliding down this little slide.
And here she is with her friend on her first little car ride, she wasn't sure what to think of it. Her friend loved it!
When I put her in the race car and deposited my quarters...and it began to move, this is what Jade did. Hee, hee, so cute. Guess she isn't quite ready for pretend race cars.

Swim suits and Apples

Twice this week Jade and I have gone to the local H.S. to go swimming in the big pool. So far Jade has loved it both times! Yesterday we met some friends at the pool and while I didn't get cute pics of them in the water, here they are in their cute swim suits together!
And here they are all dressed with Jade asking for the camera.
Tuesday we were at the park for a few hours meeting MOPS and church friends for "Mom's at the Park" days. Everyone brings snacks and we try to stay around for lunch. My daughter, however, believes in eating while playing. So she ate her snacks the whole time. Here she is eating her huge apple. She loves to eat her apples whole, with the skin still on it. I think she feels like a big girl:)

My big girl

Sunday afternoon we went downtown to walk around and shop. After a lot of walking around we stopped at a park and let Jade play.
She wasn't to sure about the tunnel. Daddy ended up getting in it and showing her how to go through. Wish I had a picture of that:)
She loves anything with a steering wheel, I think she is a gonna be a good driver some day.
She is getting so big, look at her going down the stairs by herself!
And...more steering wheels:)
For those of you who don't get to see Jade often and are terribly interested in how her life is going here are a few updates.

She has almost all of her baby teeth, this past week she was working on another set of molars. They were tough, she even had a fever. :(
She babbles non-stop and can now say "car", "nose", "eye", "shoe" and "daddy". We are still working on Momma.
She loves water. Which includes baths, her blow up pool and even real pools. I took her to the pool today and she splashed and played around right along all the big kids. She doesn't even get scared when they splash her or if she dunks her head a bit. She is such a big girl now:)
We have also found that she seems to be left handed. She started using a big spoon last Wednesday so Saturday I went out and bought her baby plastic forks and spoons. When we set her bowl and spoon down to eat, she picks up her spoon with her left hand. She is really good too! I'm so impressed with how well she eats. Granted, not perfect, and she does opt half way through her meal to use her fingers, but still.
She is still our good little eater and loves to snack and play and talk and build and read her books all day long.

We are working on potty training and are very hopefully to be trained in a few months:) (fingers crossed)

Anyway, I'm a proud momma with a happy, beautiful, healthy little girl. And I just felt like bragging.

Jade in pig tails

Not sure if you can see in this pic, but I put Jade in real pig tails (not half pig tails) today. Her hair is getting so long I can almost do a pony tail. I can't wait!

I also painted her toes this morning, again. She was so cute, she sat still the whole time! She is so cute!

Fourth of July Pics

Jade and Emily in the Barbie Jeep. Jade loved playing in the cars

Poppers!

More poppers:)

Jade's first sparkler

My sparkler is bigger then Jade's sparkler:)

Jade wanted to touch the sparks.

Bad pic of me. The only pic though...so I had to post it. Hee, hee

Jade was to short to reach the peddles but she wanted to drive. So Nate helped.

Nate says it's his "Best Fourth of July Ever!"

Sparklers + Barbie Jeeps = Happy Jade

Happy Fourth of July!

I don't feel like we have our day quite on it's way yet. So here are just a few cute pics I've already taken.

Jade and Dad working on the garage and building a work bench.
here is Coco trying to fit through our cat door (no we don't have a cat) to play with Dad and Jade.
Jade trying to serve herself some fresh cherry pie!

A bit of strawberry picking

This morning Jade and I met some friends at the strawberry farm to pick as many strawberries as we were able. Well...able in the amount of time the kiddos would stay happy. Jade did pretty good, she helped me pick all the strawberries you see below.
Yum!
Cristy was pretty much amazing, she helped her son pick strawberries while carrying her 12mon old daughter on her back.
Aren't they sweet?
Strawberry picking was fun! We'll defiantly have to do it again next year!

Aw...

A few summer pics

I took this pic of Jade on Saturday right before we left to go garage saling. Isn't' she so cute?
The puppy managed to pop holes in our little blow up pool so today I got the sprinkler out instead.
Jade is "Washing her hands" here:)
Coco kept jumping into the water and then back out. It was pretty funny to watch.
Coco has just started "bathing" her paws in her water bowl. I didn't think dogs liked to play with water so much, but Coco seems to love it.
And that's all folks!

Coco playing with me and Jade at the Park

Here is our cute little Coco. We were playing around outside, me kicking the ball and Coco chasing the ball. As soon as I got out the camera she came running after me. That is her "I'm so happy I'm being played with face" lol!
On Tuesday we went to the park with our "Moms in the park" group. Jade got invited to play in the sand with some friends and she LOVED it!
Granted she did get covered in sand...in her hair, clothes, everywhere. But she was SO cute!

So cute! Pretty Princess cookies!

Is it just me, or is this the most adorable cookie cutter set? I want it so bad! And the princess apron and the princess spatula! I may just have to buy it so I can throw Jade a princess birthday party next year!
On second look I think this is a better apron. So cute!

Just for fun!

Hey all, I just had to post this adorable picture of my sister-in-law, Alicia (pictured right) and her friend. Alicia is a missionary in Japan teaching ESL and working with a church there. Every now and then she sends me pictures of her in a Kimono and I just had to post this one since it was so cute!

We love you Alicia!

Potty Training

Last week I worked on potty training but only in the mornings (8-12), this week we potty trained in the morning and took a two hour break and now we are trying this afternoon. No success, but Jade sure likes sitting on the potty AFTER she goes in her pants.

Seattle on Saturday

We went and took Nate to Seattle on Saturday. He didn't really care for any cool city pictures with himself. What thrilled him most was the curb side water fountain. So I took a pic.

"Ah! Were my eyes shut?"

if you blow this pic up you can see the big guy behind Nate is looking at him oddly. Like maybe he may "take him out" and I don't mean on a date.

We aren't really Seahawks fans, but we do live in Washington and baby football caps are super cute...sooo:)

Jade wasn't to sure what to make of the carousel ride.
Half way through she asked to get off and have Daddy hold her. She didn't cry, she just didn't want to stay on.

While Jade had her first carousel ride Nate tried his hand at some arcade games.

We stopped for lunch at Red Robin. Here are the two of them being stinkers.

Jade was very entertained with her big girl cup and putting the straw in and out.

This morning Jade woke up and came to play in my closet while I got ready for church. I heard some clomping and turned around and found this.
I think it's so cute. Playing in Mommies shoes:) hee, hee.