While browsing

While browsing the internet today, with my daughter on my lap doing what she calls "emailing", I was looking at some random baby website and this picture popped up. Jade started laughing and says "ook, Mommy, baby in a bowl!" I couldn't help but laugh with her to, because she's right it looks like a baby in a bowl:)
That being said, it does look like a very easy way to give your tiny baby a bath. I must admit I dreaded bath times when Jade was tiny because I was afraid her tiny, soapy, body would slip through my fingers and bonk herself on the tub floor, or she'd flip over or something and gulp a ton of bath water. At any rate...if the price of this contraption wasn't so ridiculous I'd buy it now (even though I don't have a tiny baby). Find the "Baby bowl" here

Roses still bloomin'

My husband bought me these roses for our Anniversary on March 18th (Well, he technically bought them on the 17th) and I just was tickled pink the other night when I realized they still are looking SO beautiful. So I took a picture of them from upstairs...aren't they pretty?

Something really cute I came across

Living in the lovely rainy state of Washington, as soon as Jade's feet were big enough I bought a pair of rain boots. While she loves the rain boots now and wears them ALL the time (even when it isn't always raining) it took her quite awhile to figure out how to walk in this huge shoes.

While browsing "Cool Mom Picks" I saw the post on these adorable rain shoes and just had to also post them on my blog. Aren't they adorable? And genius! I really want to get Jade a pair for next fall/winter. If you think they are fabulous as well, you can find them online at Vincent Shoes
The other shoes and rainboots they have for little guys are ridiculously cute as well...and some of the shoes I really want to own for myself. They are a bit higher priced then I would normally pay...but maybe if they go on sale...hmm. Anyway, just had to share!

Going to the Children's Museum on Friday

Friday my friend invited Jade and I to join she and her kiddos at the Children s Museum in Seattle. We all had to ride together, of course so it was rather interesting trying to fit THREE car seats in the back seat of their car. Some how, we did it and the kids LOVED it. They giggled and laughed and snacked all the way to Seattle.
Once there we went to the Curious George exhibit. Jade didn't waste anytime climbing the stairs to inside the rocket and sliding down as fast as she could.
Can you see Kyri in this pic? hee, hee. Jade ran around the slide to go up it again.
I think she slid down this slide a million times...and I'm hardly exaggerating!
A few other things Jade enjoyed was the telephone (that's my girl)
Putt, Putt golf (though she'd say "oh no" when the ball would fall into the hole, which amazingly enough it did often, I think we have a golfer on our hands)
Climbing up to see George...
And playing inside the killer whale. Peek-a-boo!
For a short amount of time I got to hang out with just Kyri and Jade. Those two were SO cute together. They followed each other everywhere!


After playing in the little kids room, we went in search of Ben and Rachelle and Jade (who is obsessed with buses right now) got to pretend to drive a bus! She LOVED it and cried when I told her it was time to move on.
After running around the museum all morning/afternoon our kids were pretty tuckered out. And promptly fell asleep the moment we had them in their car seats again.
Good times, good memories, good friends. Thanks for inviting us to go Rachelle!

Curious George at the Children's Museum

I'll post more pictures later. This was a picture we were able to take there and have emailed to us! Cool huh?

Jade being silly

Jade found part of a tape measure and decided to wear it around her neck like mommy did once
While workin on some favors for MOPS, I turned around and saw Jade had climbed into my bag!

Skiing on Friday

To celebrate our 3rd wedding Anniversary, JB and I went to White Pass to go skiing. One of the reasons we chose to go there was because of the all day Daycare program.

Neither of us had been skiing in years so we weren't sure how we'd do. JB use to snowboard so that's what he did and I use to ski a little, so I did the ski's. We had a fabulous time! Here are just a few pictures. More on my FB page.
Top of the mountain.

JB snowboarding his way down

Getting ready to go again

After we finished, we grabbed Jade from the Daycare center and let her walk around in the snow

They had a cool snow castle outside with a tunnel you could go through, Jade loved that!

Me and my baby

This was a great Anniversary gift to ourselves!

How my daughter likes to watch her cartoons

Jade was a really good girl today so I told her she could watch one of her shows on "noggin". I ran upstairs to check emails and came down to see how relaxed she was.
Doesn't it make you wish you were short enough to sit like this on the couch too?

Cannoli's

Saturday we were invited to a friends home for an Italian themed dinner. Our hostess was making home-made ravioli's, along with delicious salad, asparagus and steak. Yum! I offered to bring an Italian dessert and decided to do cannoli's.

I tried three different recipes for the pastry, before finding one that I liked. It was so simple, just:
Flour
Salt
Sugar
dry red wine

After I made the pastry I mixed up the filling. Which was just heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and ricotta cheese.

Then I fried up the cannoli pastries and after they cooled I filled them with the creamy mixture. Upon completing that step I then dipped both ends in melted chocolate and rolled them in crushed pistachio nuts.

I'm very proud of myself for trying something new and I'm looking forward to trying the recipe again and perfecting it (my pastries were still a bit heavy).
This isn't a fabulous picture of the cannoli's, since I took it the next day, after they had been sitting in the fridge for awhile...but still. You can see what they looked like:)

Filling Daddy's Shoes

Jade loves to play with shoes. Ever since she was able to walk she has been digging in my closet to try on my (mommy) shoes. But today, JB and I couldn't keep from cracking up when we saw her walking around the house wearing Daddy's shoes! lol!

Playing around in the backyard

"Look at me, mommy!"

"cheese!"

the little guy I nanny

" I do it mommy?"

A pic of us

"lets do it again"

"ah, oh, baby crying"

checking on baby

back to playing in the dirt

I don't really have a reason to post today. I just figured I should update:)

Jade is amazing. Have I ever mentioned that before? Yesterday I found her saying "thank you's" and "your welcomes" and "pleases" and "sorrys" all day long without any prodding from me!

Then early this morning, while on the computer, she came running in the room yelling "come on mom" wanting me to join her in play in her bedroom. I said "Okay, just wait till I finish this email" she stopped in her tracks and said "okay, mom". Then patiently waited by my side till I was done. So sweet!

I've been trying to spend more time teaching her things, such as new words, her colors, shapes, the alphabet, etc. She is so receptive and such a little copy cat she'll do and say anything I ask her.

While practicing my memory verses (which, yes, I do to song) I heard Jade in the background humming the tune and saying words she knew. Melted my heart to hear my baby girl singing memory verses .

Anyway, there is just a little mommy bragging for ya all to read:)

I LOVE Tulips!!

Getting tulips (or flowers in general) is one of the many reasons why I love my husband so much. I love that he'll buy me flowers for no reason at all except to see me smile. It's so sweet and so romantic and makes me feel like the luckiest girl in the world. *sigh*

Aren't they lovely?

I made an APRON!

Check it out! I made an apron! I even added a pocket! I'm very proud of myself since sewing is not something I do. I didn't show a close up because there was something dreadfully wrong with the stitching tension on my sewing machine (wasn't sure how to fix that). But from far away it looks great! *grin*

Mommy!

Usually, first thing in the morning. You can find me at the desk with an empty bowl of cereal and/or a half drunk cup of coffee, responding to emails and browsing online. Jade is normally finishing up breakfast or walking around, making noises and begging for attention. I must admit, I normally just ignore her (for the most part) while I get my email fix in. Then, we start our morning.

So this morning, like usual, I'm sitting at the computer, emailing away and Jade is next to me talking

Jade: Mommy, Mommy, Hey you!
Mommy: Yes, Jade?
Jade: Mommy, help, peese
Mommy: What do you need Jade? (without turning around)
Jade: Um, bana (banana) payer (paper), off, now!
Mommy: (still not turning around) what do you mean? You have a banana, not paper
Jade: Mommy! Payer, bana, off *crying begins*
Mommy: Jade, don't cry, why are you crying?

It was at this point that I finally tore my eyes off the monitor, turned around and there was Jade with a half of banana in one hand. Stuck to it was a ton of toilet paper, that hadn't broken off the roll. She had dragged the paper all the way from the bathroom, into the other room, up next to me by the computer. Where she desperately wanted the toilet paper OFF her banana.

How it got on her banana in the first place. I'll never know. I broke off the toilet paper from her banana and then had to grab my camera to take a picture of how far she pulled the toilet paper. Mommy life is fun. hee, hee

A little bit of drama

Earlier this afternoon I put Jade down for her nap. She didn't want to go down for a nap, but I "knew" she was tired and put her down anyway. She cried for about 2 min and then everything became quiet. I assumed she had gone to sleep...but then when I heard her calling my name 20min later I wondered if she was just quietly playing in her room.

I was downstairs when I heard her little calls.
"mommy, mommy, I up! Help, peese" she said
"Jadey, you wanna get up?" (from the bottom of the stairs I replied)
"Ah huh!" she says.
"Okay, you can get up"

As I said this I began slowly, very slowly, climbing the stairs. By the time I got to her closed door Jade was next to it fiddling with the handle on the otherside. I reached out to open the door and to my horror realized...the door was LOCKED!

"Oh no" I said. "Jade, honey, did you lock the door?"
"Open door, peese!" she replied
"Oh dear, you have to unlock the door. Can you turn the nob?"
"It hard"
"You can do it, honey, turn the button, can you do that for mommy?"

This turned into a very long conversation that soon resulted in very strong tears on Jade's part. She began crying, yelling, begging me to open her door and let her out. 15min later I still couldn't pick the lock. I called Daddy
*ring, ring*
no answer. Drat.

More crying, screaming. At one point she calmed down and started offering other reasons why I should open the door such as
"mommy, door, I potty. Peese!" and "no, nap. All gone."

I felt so awful. Sadly, my lock picking skills did not increase with time. Below is a picture of all the tools I tried. Can you see the bobby pins stuck in the door nob? I did get a hold of Daddy, as he was leaving work.
Finally JB got home to save the day. He took off his sport coat and calmly started talking to poor little Jade, trying to get her to unlock the door. Same results as me.
The key hole was mutilated by now by all the tools I had tried to use to get the door open. Without skipping a beat he grabbed one of the screw drivers and took the molding that surrounded the door, then taking the screw driver to the latch, was able to get the door free.

Our hero! Jade was perched on her bed, with her night light being the only thing illuminating her dark room (it was about 5:30 by this time). She seemed fine, just sad. No doubt she probably thought we were keeping her prisoner in there on purpose. Poor thing.

As soon as she was safe and sound, JB took the door nob apart and turned it around so the locking part was facing the outside of the door. No more drama like this for me!

Here is little Jadey after the rescue.

And on a side note, here is Jade with her new kitchen set that some friends gave to us. The only thing better then recycled toys are...FREE recycled toys:) hee, hee.

You know your child isn't feeling well when...

Late in the morning I realized Jade seemed a bit warmer then usual. I took her temperature and found she was battling a slight fever. So, I put her down for a nap.

After getting up from her nap she didn't eat much and just sat, cuddling in my arms, while we watched cartoons together. After an hour of that, she got off the couch, picked up her blanket and said "I ready for a nap, now"

I didn't understand her at first and asked her to repeat her statement a few times before realizing what she just asked me. My poor little pumpkin' tater...I wrapped her up in my arms and put her down for her second nap of the day. I hope she feels better soon!

Update: Jade woke up from her second nap and seems fine. How is it kids can bounce back so quickly?

Cutting Jade's Hair

My daughter has been blessed with lovely, long, beautiful hair. I love her hair, I love playing with it, brushing it, washing it, bragging about it, etc. But the past few weeks it has been driving both her, and me, completely crazy. Despite the fact that it must be done a million times a day to stay out of her lovely face, it also has been tangling like mad. So, I decided it was time to cut it all off. Hee, hee.
Here are two pics of her lovely mane. I kept her distracted by having her brush her teeth. Then decided her hair wasn't wet enough, so I gave her a bath. After the bath I sprayed her hair with some de-tangling spray that my Mom suggested I buy (amazing, btw, if other moms out there have not tried it yet. And cheap too. I got my big bottle for $1.88 at wal-mart)
Then, taking a deep breath, I cut all her hair off. I honestly didn't mean to cut it quite this short...but it will grow back pretty fast.
After her cut I tried to give her a blow dry. She liked that at first, but quickly became bored and irritated.
Here she is playing around, I love this shot, shows great movement huh?
Being all cute and coy. Love my little munchkin.
*sigh*. Anyway, so even though she has gone to "Jack and Jills" back when she was 12mon old to have her bangs cut and an odd tail in the back of her head shortened to meet the rest of her hair. I want to say this really is her first "Real" hair cut. And I gave it to her! I'm so proud of myself.