Words of Wisdom

Here are two short funny stories from this week. Jenna is getting to be quite the conversationalist, and sometimes the things she says just crack me up.

Story 1:
On Tuesday morning, it was pouring down rain when I was dropping Jenna off at school. So before I got out of the car, I told Jenna I was coming around to get her but that I was going to be wet when I got there. When I opened the door, she was pointing to the floor and saying her version of "umbrella." Duh, what an easy solution to not be wet! Why didn't I think of that?!?

Story 2:
This morning, I cleaned up the kitchen a little bit before going to work. Odds and ends usually accumulate on our island throughout the week and stay there longer than they should. So I cleaned it off completely, and it looked great. My bubble was burst a bit though when Jenna responded, "Uh oh, all gone!" as if she was so used to seeing it a mess, she thought it was supposed to be that way. Ah, the life of a busy family!

This week in pictures

On Monday afternoon, the weather forecasters started saying we might get some snow on Monday night. I have learned to ignore such predictions so as to not get my hopes up. However, we actually did get some accumulation, probably about an inch. It looked very pretty, so we had to take some pictures. It was very cold, so Jenna didn't get to play in it. She did touch it and thought it was too cold to hold. : )




I thought this was a cute shot of Daddy singing to Jenna. She sang along with him during parts of the sing-along, but the sweet look in her eyes watching him in this picture was priceless.

This morning before church, I had to snap a few shots of Jenna in her skirt from cousin Steven. I thought she looked so grown up in it! I took the first shot, then she saw her friend Mr. Vacuum nearby, so she wanted a picture next to him too. This child has been infatuated with the vacuum since she was about 7 months old. She loves the thing and laughs every time she sees it. She treats it like a person and always says hi to it. Funny girl!

What a month!

WOW! I think this is the longest I've ever gone without posting. After having 17 days off of work during the holidays, it was a rude awakening starting the year! The first 3 weeks of January have been crazy: we had a week of special church services, I was on a business trip for 3 days, we went out of town to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary, and now we should be getting back to normal.


Jenna is changing everyday, and we're amazed by how grown up she is! She is saying longer sentences--with the last word being the main one we can understand. She's singing and dancing a lot too, which is so cute! She'll even request us play certain songs by starting to sing them. Some of her favorite words are nope, I like, yo, oh my gosh, and many other grown-up phrases.

Another thing that is cracking us up is how she's started stalling when it's bedtime. When we say it's time to go to bed, she says eat, then she says juice followed by movie, book, and any other stall tactics she can come up with. She got confused the other morning when I was leaving for work, and she wanted me to stay for a while longer. She started going down her list trying to get me to stay. How funny!

She started the 2-year old class at school at the beginning of the year, and she's really having fun. She's also counting and recognizing most letters--we're amazed how quick she is learning!

I'll try to post more soon.

Happy New Year!

This week, we returned from our 8-day, 1450 mile trek (with a 2-year old) across the Southeast to visit family. Jenna did great on the drive (the new portable DVD player helped). We had a great time with both sides, but we're glad to be home. Here are some pictures of our fun. We wish all of you a happy and healthy 2009!

Atlanta, GA with Emilie's Family:

Jenna enjoyed distributing presents:

Here she is modeling a new skirt.

She enjoyed blowing bubbles with
her Uncle Aaron and Cousin Steven.

Jenna spent a few minutes on Christmas Day

catching up with her friend Ella.

I think Jenna decided at the beginning of the trip that she didn't want to wear socks and shoes. She was pretty much barefoot the entire time.

Baton Rouge, LA with Randy's Family:

Our tradition each time we visit Louisiana is to eat beignets.
We hoped Jenna would be more interested in eating them this time
versus last time, but her only interest was in the powdered sugar.
(click on the picture to zoom in)

We also went to the zoo, and caught
some sweet shots with Daddy & Mommy.