Ga-Ga

Pic: Outside Jorgy and G's house, April 2008

So a few weeks ago, Jayce finally decided to acknowledge Joel, and say Dada. However, Jayce's dada sounds much more like ga-ga. One game Jayce enjoys is when Joel holds him up at the mirror. Joel will hit his chest and say dada and then hit jayce's chest and say jayce. Jayce always gets a huge smile. Today at breakfast Jayce decided that he was now ga-ga. He repeatedly was hitting his chest and saying 'ga-ga'. We're still waiting for him to utter his own name.

Pic: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Mar 2008. This is proof we do have at least one day of winter here in Houston.

Jayce says Mama very well, and it may be his clearest word. I think he has also said Jaeden once or twice. He has recently started to say Grandma, which the 'an-ma' part comes out sounding like Emma.

Memory Lane: Jaeden was 14 months when he looked in the mirror, while visiting Jorgy and G's house and said his own name. Also, Jaeden said Dada much earlier than mama. He was saying many things before he uttered the mama sound. He also said papa much sooner than grandma, which is the reason he calls my mom Junie. Two of Jaeden's first 10 words were outside and elephant, however, he could never say Grandma. Everything related to my parent's was Papa - Papa's house, papa's car... One day while driving to their house and talking about Grandma, I said her name was Junie, which he instantly repeated back, and she has been Junie or grandma Junie ever since.

Jaeden's 1st Talent Show

Warning: Do Not Let This Look Fool You!!! Object in picture is not as innocent as he appears. He is prone to be mischief, stubborn and sweetly energetic.

Last night, Jaeden got to participate in his first Primary Talent Show. His nursery class sang and jumped to "Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam." Jaeden of course knows all the words and will sing quite loud at home, but he does not say much in front of a crowd. I was surprised that he did sing at least one or two lines of the song. And of course, he was by far the best jumper!! His 'act' was towards the beginning, so I don't think he had warmed up to the idea of the talent show because towards the end I could tell he really wanted to get up there and do something else, and he also told me he hadn't done his talent yet! Thankfully, the Sunbeam class had also practiced the same song, so I let Jaeden stand with their class and sing/jump again. He definitely did better the second time around.

Family Yard Work

Jaeden, Jayce and Grandma Junie

This pic is from June 2008 at Old MacDonald's Farm, but goes along with the blog.


Tonight, we did some family yard work. Joel went out to mow the lawn, and the boys and I went out to play. Jayce's outside toy is the bubble mower, although we don't fill the bubble holder very often, because he really just enjoys pushing the mower on the driveway and side lawn. Anytime I'm out with the boys, I try to weed our attempt at a flower bed in the front of the house. So after I had picked the first few weeds, Jaeden came to see what I was doing. He then asked if I was getting dirty and wanted to look at my hands, which already had a little dirt on them. Since I had told him he could not get in his sandbox tonight, he decided he would get dirty by pulling weeds. Jaeden did a pretty good job of pulling a few weeds, until he was distracted by the shovels Jayce pulled out of the garage. Once the shovels were out, the flower bed became the sandbox. Jayce was also really cute in his attempt to pull weeds. Unlike Jaeden who understands these are real plants/flowers, Jayce did not. He tried to help, but was only breaking leaves and flowers off the ruellas that border the flower bed, and then walking whatever he had in his hands to the trash cans, where we were throwing the weeds.

So I know I have a lot to make up for since I have been so UN-inspired to blog this month.