A Jester and A Maiden

Friday, January 28, 2011

Bowl of Crackers

I know that if I try to turn the camera on and get a video of this either Tyson or Kaiya will hear it come on and then ham it up for the camera..so I'll try to describe what is happening.

I just gave the kids some snack, crackers in a small custard type bowl. Kaiya carried hers, as well as her cup of water into the living room and has sat down on her small rocking chair. As she leaned forward to sit down the crackers slid out onto the floor in front of her.

Now this is where it gets good...

She is sitting on the chair and leaning forward to pick up her crackers.
As she picks up each cracker and places it in her bowl it slides back out since she is still leaning forward.
She continues to pick them up one by one and place them in her bowl.

I can see this continuing for awhile...

Update: She did figure out how to get them all in the bowl and then a few mintues later dropped the bowl and all of its contents. Now she is just eating them off the floor.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Tyson the Firefighter

Today we went to the Hawthorne area of Portland. There's a bookstore there I needed to go to, so after soccer/basketball class we headed into town. Of course we needed to have a snack so we pulled into Station 9 to see if we could have snack with Jason and the crew. As we were pulling in, they were pulling out, with Jason driving. I knew where they were headed as I saw their huge Comm Van just down the street staged in a parking lot. We decided to eat snack in the car then walked around the corner to the bookstore. It was really a nice day today, about 50 degrees and sunny!! It was nice for January anyway.

We went to the bookstore, looked around and as we were heading back we decided to walk down to where they were doing their practice/set up stuff. We got there just as they were finishing, so we got a chance to talk to them for a few minutes. We all needed to head back to the fire station and as they had to take the fire engine as well as the van back there were extra seats in the fire engine. Jason asked Tyson if he wanted to ride back to the station in the fire engine!!!!

At first Tyson was kinda shy...he wanted to know if Kaiya and I were going too..but we couldn't since we had the stroller. So if he wanted to go, he would have to go by himself, with daddy driving the fire engine!

He looked a little shy...was a little red from embarrassment...and then said Yes!

Jason lifted him up to the back seat and buckled him in. He had such a big grin on his face!!

Once the door was closed you could barely see his face smiling in the window..

This is what he had to say about it:

M: So, what did you think of getting to ride in the fire engine?
T: "It was fun! Um...I could see some lights on top of the fire engine. Kaiya didn't get to ride in the fire engine."

He rode down the block to the station. I'm sure he didn't stop smiling the entire time he was in the seat. He was still smiling when he was lifted out.

He smiles when you ask him about. Now he wants to be a firefighter.

I wish I had had my camera on me.

Monday, January 3, 2011

18 months...

Her favorite words to say are "No" and "Stop".

She also knows how to say Kaiya (yai-ya), Mama, Dada, Papa, Tyson(yai-yai), Jada(yay-ya), bye-bye, hi, book(buh), ball(bah), diaper(bye-per) and on and on...

If she is asked to do something she immediately throws her hands up in the air, arches her back, shakes her curls and screams/cries. Then she throws herself to the ground and lays her cheek against the floor, sticks her thumb in her mouth and lies there for...awhile...

Even when everyone else is inside the house.

And it's 35 degrees outside.

And the wood on the deck is still somewhat icy.

Just because she's 18 months old.

Today this curly haired beauty had her 18 month checkup. She's got a huge noggin it seems. The medical assistant took the measurement 3 times to make sure she got it right. At her last appt it was in the 75th percentile. This appt's measurement put her in the 90th percentile! Her weight is a little over 24 lbs, and her heighth is 2'8.5". For those interested in percentiles, her weight is around 50% and her height 75%. So it seems she is growing well. As for the rest of her checkup she was fine all around. I was a little surprised when the doctor was looking in her mouth though..

Me: We think she's cutting 3 teeth right now.
Dr: Oh yeah, and there's 4 and 5 coming in too..and another eye tooth looks like it's getting ready to poke through.

So, for the record, 2 bottom molars + 3 eye teeth, and 1 that looks to make it's appearance soon.

I guess I really can't blame her for laying on the frozen deck...it must have felt good!