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More than a year's worth of Jamie funnies

Since posting everything to facebook I have abandoned the blog for the past 16 months! I want to use the blog to keep a second record of the Jamie funnies I have posted on facebook so they're all easy to read in one place. Here are Jamie funnies from back in spring of 2012 right through to August 2013:

Jamie: I am going to be an alien...." Heeeeeellllllllooooooo. I am an alien. I am a nice alien. I have a thing on my head." Me: " An antennae?" Jamie: " Yes, an antennae. I come from the planet A X O E [all the letters said separately]." Me: " Oh, okay! What do you eat on that planet?" Jamie: " We eat hair. Don't worry--I won't eat your hair. You are my friends." [Jamie sticks the baby monitor on top of his head and holds it in place]... " This is my antennae. I have six eyes." [The 'alien' proceeds to start doing 'Step in Time' dance moves]...Jamie: " Do you know 'Step in Time'? ' Mary Poppins?' Me: " Why yes, of course--Mary Poppins--Julie Andrews--is from our planet earth." Jamie: " Julie Andrews visited our planet." Me: " Ah, so *that* is where you learned the dance then?" " Yes" he replies in an alien robotic voice. lol~~April 24, 2012

My son was so delighted to get into his big boy bed for nap that he was literally squealing with delight as we went up the stairs saying, " I can't believe I have a big boy bed!" several times. Then when he got in he pulled the sheet up to his chin and squealed again, lol! I have *never* seen anyone so happy to go down for a nap including him, lol!!~~April 30,2012

Jamie's birthday was today! Cannot believe my little guy is now 4!! We made him a 'one band man' as he calls it for his birthday. He just loved the one man band! I'll post a picture tomorrow. He was grinning from ear to ear! David had a clever idea of putting the wrist jingle bells I'd bought him on his shoe instead so he could stomp and create jingling and rattling--a rattle in one shoe loop and the jingle bells through a shoe strap. What a happy boy we had today!!  Oh and he just loved the chimney sweep hat---he is so cute, I'll post some pictures of him in the hat too! And I gave him a Luigi costume from mario brothers so the one man band pictures he will be sporting the costume in them. ~~May 25 2012

Jamie, upon getting out of the car and seeing the gravel parking lot at Chimney Rock, NC: " I'm gonna have a rock collection in no time!"~~July 18 2012

Jamie: " I don't want to take a nap mommy." Me: " Well Jamie, why don't you take a power nap instead? Just sleep a little while to power your body to be strong. Your body will know how long it needs." Jamie: " It doesn't need a nap. I'm not tired (said as he rubs his eyes and his eyes are drooping.) But, I'll take a very short power nap mommy! Dat's okay if I take a short power nap!" Me: " Sure Jamie, go right ahead and just take a power nap, no problem!" Jamie falls asleep....2 hrs later....Me: " Honey, time to get up from your power nap." Jamie: " I took a POWER NAP!! Not a long nap!" Me: " Yeah, honey. A power nap!"  He has no idea that he sleeps for 2 hrs--I just keep stringing him along thinking he's taking power naps which he likes the idea of, lol.~~July 19 2012

Did I share on here about the time this past fall when Jamie was on the preschool playground after school let out and he approached another mom who was eating a bag of chips? He didn't know the mom, but he went up to her and said, " What are you eating?" She replied, " A bag of chips." Jamie said, "So....do you like to share?"

We were in a hurry to get out the door this morning and I let Jamie know it. As he was putting on his shoes to go I overheard him talking to himself saying in a kind of gruff old man-sounding voice, " I'm a serious man. Serious man wears sneakers." He continued with some other monologue in the same voice which I couldn't make out as I was hurrying off to brush my hair. I could hear him running to the front door saying, " I'm grumpy serious man. I'm grumpy! (in a really grumpy-sounding voice.) He beat me to the door though I caught a glimpse of him trudging forward and he hollered out in the same really grumpy old man voice, " Come on woman! We need to get going. " I about fell over laughing---he nailed roleplaying a grumpy serious old man perfectly--and how did he come up with the 'come on woman'? No one has ever referred to me as 'woman' so he came up with it on his own?~~ Aug 2 2012

This morning: 
Jamie: Mommy I want to watch part of Mary Poppins.
Me: Okay Jamie, but I need to be quick to help [getting the video in the DVD player] because the eggs will burn if I don't get back to them quickly (frying eggs in a pan for our breakfast)
Jamie: I don't mind! They'll burn anyway.~~Aug 10, 2012

Walking in to Grand Asia chinese market and cafe this evening for dinner, Jamie threw his head back and said in a pining voice, " I miss my homeland."~~ Aug 24, 2012

Jamie is required to try a bite of a new vegetable when I offer it to him but he doesn't have to eat more than the one bite. Tonight I roasted a chicken with fennel and parsnips among veggies I know he likes like carrot. As usual I insisted he eat a very small bite of the new vegetable: parsnip. He did *not* like it. A few minutes later I said to him, " See, I only made you eat one tiny bite of it. In the future I'll have you try it again sometime." Jamie quickly retorted, while pointing at our fall centerpiece, " In *my* future I will make you eat those plastic flowers."~~ Nov 17 2012

Jamie: " Mommy, you are the most beautiful mommy in the whole world...when I grow up and I move out and I get a wife I am going to buy you a ring." 
Me: " Awwww, Jamie...that is so sweet that is bringing tears to my eyes!" 
David: [Pretending to feel slighted] " Well what about me Jamie? What will you give me when you move and out and get married?" 
Jamie: " I'll buy you......cat food. Or dog food. Whatever pet you have." 
David: " Oh gee, thanks!" 
Me: [Singing to the taunting tune of nah nah] " I get a ring....and you just get cat food!" 
Jamie chimes in adding to the same tune " And I get a wife!"~~Nov 26 2012

There is nothing cuter than listening to your 4 year old sing, " Ho ho, the mistletoe, hung where you can see, somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me" over and over and over. Now and then he'll remember to throw the 'Have a holly jolly Christmas line' along with some more lyrics, but it seems to center on the mistletoe line~~ Dec 5 2012

We were on a playdate at Chick-fil-A some weeks ago with a good friend of Jamie's and his mom. My friend let her son know that there were a few minutes left before they would be leaving so he wouldn't be surprised when it was time to go. A couple of minutes later Jamie comes out of the play area by himself and stands in front of the other mom and I as we're sitting at the table talking. He looks from one face to the other for a moment or two and then says (and yes I'm not kidding this is exactly what he said): " Do you realize that by talking and talking you're giving us more time to play?" We cracked up. " Yes, we're still talking Jamie. Go play now!" I said. Oh wow that had us laughing! Feb 16 2013

Jamie: " Daddy? Can we play giant amoebas?"~~ Feb 19, 2013

I love one of Jamie's knock knock jokes he came up with today: 

Jamie: " Bang bang"
Me: " Uh (wondering why he didn't say knock knock)...who's there?"
Jamie: " Bang bang"
Me: " Bang Bang who?"
Jamie: " Bang Bang. I'm knock knock's cousin."~~April 13 2013

Jamie: " Mommy, I love you as much as a jack rabbit loves a top hat."~~April 25 2013

Jamie, upon passing the egg section of the grocery store and spotting brown-shelled eggs: " Ooooooh yummy!!! Look! Chocolate-covered eggs mommy!!! Can we get some?" I know it embarrassed him but I laughed hysterically. May 2 2013

Here is a serious and wonderful one: Jamie prayed thanking God for our food tonight: " God, thank you for this food. And please help the leaders of China and North Korea know about Jesus in their heart. And please help those people be free and to have as many children as they want. Amen."~~May 2 2013

Jamie: " Daddy, go upstairs and get my book." 
Me: " Jamie, be polite to daddy and say something like, " Daddy would you please go upstairs with me and get my book?" 
Jamie: " Fetch!"~~June 21 2013

Jamie has for over a year now been saying he wants to work in the secret service when he grows up. He regularly plays secret service agent or spy or guard and reminds us often he wants to be in it as an adult. Out of curiosity the other night I decided to look up some of the requirements to join the secret service. One of them is ' obeys authority figures readily'. I do admit I laughed out loud (I was looking at this after he went to bed.) So the next morning I told Jamie this rule and reminded him that daddy and I are the first authority figures in his life that God has placed there. That day this worked great! When he needed correction or was disobeying when I reminded him he quickly did the right thing. Now it is two days later. Earlier today he was disobeying and needed correction and as soon as I said, " Jamie, you need to obey." He retorted, " I don't want to join the secret service."~~July 18 2013

A Jamie funny from today: 
Today driving in Tennessee we came to a rural intersection. It reminded me of a place where I grew up. 
Me: Wow, this makes me feel like I'm in Vermont! 
David: It makes me feel like I'm in Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Jamie: It makes me feel like I'm in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!~~August 13 2013

Jamie and Pop Pop (my step dad Tom) were sitting along with several of us at a restaurant my parents took us to last week on vacation. As we waited for the food, Tom was playing tic-tac-toe with Jamie. Tom was trying to ensure that Jamie was winning (as any grandfather is bound to do.) When Jamie won the third time and Pop Pop feigned frustration at losing (putting his hand to his forehead and shaking his head) Jamie said, " Pop Pop! You have to *think*!"~~August 20 2013

Jamie didn't want to practice saying a sound for some words today when I was trying to work with him on making a relaxed 'ah' sound (he makes a much tighter sound in place of it which sounds off and more difficult than relaxing and saying 'ah' sounds as in 'rod'. Jamie refused to try and insisted, " I don't say it like that because I'm Chinese. I was in China longer than in America [not true] so I'm not going to say it that way." It was simultaneously amusing and annoying! It didn't seem to help when I explained that he came home as a baby and has been here a few years longer than in China!~~August 20 2013

I went upstairs the other night as David had finished reading a bedtime story and Jamie had gotten into his PJ's. David and Jamie were chatting as I rounded the corner to see Jamie lying on his back on his bedroom floor with his lovey blankets stuffed under the belly of his PJ shirt. " Are you pretending to be a mother having babies?" I asked. " No," said Jamie, " I'm a daddy seahorse!" I should have known he'd be playing daddy seahorse. When he was smaller he used to love trying to stuff himself under David's shirt with David being the daddy seahorse--then Jamie would come out from under the shirt (only stuffed head and shoulders in really) and pretend to swim around.~~August 29 2013

Jamie and David were play acting a scenario where they wanted to find a way to get through a gate to get into a bad guy's hideout. David came up with the idea that there was a panel they found with buttons labeled such things as 'force field'. Jamie liked the idea and continued, pretending to move down the imaginary line of buttons saying, " This one says 'turn off alarm'. This one says 'turn off force field.' This one says 'Open'. This one says.....wait!...'Open'?!" he said doing a double take.~~Aug 29 2013

Jamie is hysterical

What a great age for hearing Jamie funnies. He is a real hoot! Sorry I haven't updated since January--I really post just about every day on Facebook and post a lot of funny things Jamie says there so I'm going to copy and paste some of them here so I'll have one place as a record of some of them.

Jamie is really into 'Mary Poppins' right now (he loves Julie Andrews) and he particularly loves the song in the movie 'Step in Time'--featuring the dancing chimney sweeps. He's developed some skills from watching it. He can now do a few new dance moves and the added bonus of learning to mimic an English cockney accent. He came up to me the other day and said, " 'ello Govenah!" as he was dancing to the song.

Here are some recent Jamie funnies. I am sorry the font is incredibly small. I copied the funnies from my facebook entries and for some reason when I try to size the font larger they letters run into each other:

Jamie is currently reenacting 'Step in Time' from ' Mary Poppins' yet again. He loves Mary Poppins so much I overheard him asking a classmate last week on the after school playground time, " Do you know Mary Poppins? The chimney sweeps?" The other day he came to me and said he was a chimney sweep assistant because the boss chimney sweep was sick so he was working and he is working in Vermont (he knows we had a traditional chimney sweep clean our chimney when I was a kid in Vermont--complete with top hat!) Jamie just ran in just now and said in Cockney English, " 'ello Govenah!"~~april 5th 2012

Today Jamie morphed the Mary Poppins cockney chimney sweeps saying, " 'ello Govenah!" with the English butler Jeeves that he enjoys impersonating and he said, " 'ello Govenah! Jus' getting ready for the holiday coming up. I must tidy up!" as he pantomimed cleaning up ('course he wouldn't really clean up without being forced, lol.)~~april 6th, 2012

Tonight over dinner:
Jamie: " Mommy, I had a dream. You were different in the dream."
Me: " Oh yeah? What was different about me?"
Jamie: " You looked like me. You had a round face."
Me: " You mean I was Chinese, like you?"
Jamie: " Yeah. And you had a beard."
Me: [Bursting out laughing] " I had a beard??! Ha ha!!"
Jamie: " Yeah, and so did daddy. And so did I. I was a butler. I was your butler [he likes to pretend he is the butler Jeeves complete with English accent sometimes when we play.]
Me: " Well Jamie....that was definitely a different kind of dream!"~~april 2012

I get home this evening to find several practical jokes on me...David and Jamie replaced the toaster oven with Jamie's little toy microwave--all of my shirts are in Jamie's closet and his are in mine--the bed is made up backwards with pillows and turned down blanket at the foot of the bed, etc. Jamie thought it was delightful of course! ;-) Then when I told him it's Wednesday morning, time to get ready to go to preschool and then said April Fool's he whined and got grumpy, telling me I didn't get to do jokes, lol.~~April 1st, 2012

‎" Do you know what's at the middle of the earth??!! Millions of...LAVA!!" Jamie yelled excitedly to his Mom Mom & Pop Pop today. They returned from a wonderful first-time visit to Hawaii last week and their video of volcanoes made a huge impression on the little impressionable one. ;-) Pop Pop replied, " No, Jamie. In the middle of the earth are people, don't you know?" Jamie guffawed and said, " Nooo, Pop Pop! That would be...ooh! oww! Hot! Hot!" he said as he jumped around on one leg waving his arms, lol.~~March 31, 2012

At playgroup today my son came over to me and the other moms and said, " Guys!" trying to get all of our attention as the other ladies were still talking. I said, " Honey, you need to wait until they aren't in the middle of talking and say excuse me." I wondered what he was so enthusiastic about since he doesn't usually address the moms as a whole group. He waited a minute then did another advertisement for our friends' new wonderful coffee shop that just opened about a week ago, lol. He said, "Excuse me.... Sola opened! Their mini donuts are delicious!!" He tells virtually everyone he knows about it, it is so cute!~~March 31, 2012

Much as I want Jamie's speech to improve, there is something incredibly endearing about hearing your child say very seriously, " Da wittle pawachite [ parasite] ish [is]micwoshcopic [microscopic]. You bedder not dlink [drink] waddaw flom [from] a wivah [river.] I had dat pawachite when I lived in China!" ;-) (yes, he came home with ghiardia.) I still have to translate for people often but not as much as a few months ago--he is improving. He's been able to get a few isolated decent S's in too which the speech teacher wasn't sure he'd be able to do (like ever, even when older.)~~March 22, 2012

Bob the Builder features a video called 'The Golden Hammer' about a pirate named Brickbeard. This morning Jamie was pretending to be Brickbeard but said he was going to be Brickbeard as a baby. He came up to me and said in a cooing sweet voice, " Goo goo argh? Goo goo argh?" ;-)~~March 6, 2012

Jamie was wearing a nice Hawaiian shirt yesterday and said, " I am wearing a surfer man shirt." "Yes honey, it's a Hawaiian shirt. They have really big waves in Hawaii for great surfing." A couple of people complimented him on his shirt. Later that afternoon while doing make believe play with me he pretended he was a giant and told me to be Goliath. He asked if giants would be much bigger than Goliath. I said yes, Goliath would probably come up to about their ankle! Jamie then said, " Hi there little guy. What's your name?" " Goliath" I said, " What's your name?" Jamie answered in a deep dramatic voice after pausing to think for a second, " My name is...Hawaiian giant!"~~March 2, 2012

‎" I have my very own back pack!!" Jamie enthusiastically exclaimed this afternoon...he was positively radiant with delight today after music class upon being given it. The materials for music class come in a backpack--his first. He wore it immediately (with all of the materials still inside, including a small drum--- thus not very light) and then wanted to show daddy right away this evening, then wore it into a restaurant (still fully loaded), then wore it around the house (still fully loaded) and even upstairs to go to bed (still fully loaded.) I think the first thing I'll hear in the morning over the monitor: " My very own back pack!!"~~Feb 24th, 2012

Jamie, after jumping off from something way too high at playground today (think sprained or broken ankle height) lay there crying for a moment as I ran over to ascertain if it was sprained or not (at first I thought yes but then no.) A little while later I pulled him aside to have a brief talk about not jumping from high places. I told him I wanted him to do safe things. (He usually always plays it safe and isn't a risk-taker.) He said to me, " Mommy, I'm alllllwaaaays safe...[long pause]....well... [he shrugged his shoulders]... *most* of the time I'm safe....well, okay [ he laughed in a grown up chuckle]...*sometimes* I'm safe!"

I love him! He had little grown up-like gestures too with his hands. He is a hoot!~~Feb 17, 2012

Today during a Scripture reading leading into church worship, after the reader said something like ' The Lord God..." Jamie piped up loudly, " God is the real God. Not Baal!" Also, he did some funky dance moves during the opening worship song while standing on a chair next to me (no one else was dancing so it was quite entertaining to those around us.) And he kept repeating in a slight shout the last word of each song verse during that song. Like the last word was 'grace' and he would echo, shouting GRACE! And then when it would say ' the Lord' he would say, " Jesus is the Lord!" Then during another song when he was fairly quiet, he was loving on his blanket named hammy and I heard him say, " Jesus wants us to love our hammies."~~Feb 12, 2012

Jamie brag (more so than usual, so you've been warned, lol):
Jamie has a good sense of rhythm and likes to play songs on either the piano or more often his recorder or banging on a drum (always the same note or random notes but the exact rhythm of the song he is choosing. His song choice is often ' Doe a Deer' from the Sound of Music. Jamie went to the piano and played various notes but with the Doe a Deer rhythm. Then he started gently playing pretty sounding 'stuff' mid-keyboard he was just making up then while he was playing he started talking and saying that he was making up a song about a hawk who was very sad and then became happy. I was thinking, " Wow." I said to him, " Jamie, play the part where the hawk is sad." Jamie touched some notes near the top of the piano quietly and pressed them long so they were slow. It really did sound sad! Then I said, " And what part is the happy part of the song?" And he started playing happy and fast sounding music in the middle of the keyboard again. I really think God has given him a gift with his interest in music! I am excited to see how he uses it! (And if anyone from church is reading this, he said he was being Mr. Charles [ our worship leader].)~~Feb 8, 2012

Tonight at dinner: Daddy: " Jamie, you need to stay in your chair--it is not time to run around and get down and go everywhere." (and this wasn't the first time he said it.) Jamie: " But daddy....I *need* exercise." (Ah yeah Jamie, play the exercise card since we're always telling him that it is important to exercise, lol.) What a manipulator!~~Feb 3, 2012

Jamie: " I want a pet chicken." Me: " Jamie, chickens would have stinky poop and it would be a lot of work to take care of them. We aren't going to get a chicken." Jamie, thinking: " Well....[smiling slyly]...we could get TWO chickens. *You* could take care of one of them, and *daddy* could take care of the other one!" Me: " Ah, I see...so, who would play with them then, you?" Jamie: " Yeah, me! I would play with them and you and daddy would take care of them!" Then he giggled and giggled. Haha!~~Feb 2, 2012

On the way to church today:
Jamie: " Mommy, when I grow up and have children, you be the mommy." Me: " Well I will be their grandma like Mom Mom, Jamie. I can take care of them all the time if you want me to like I take care of you." Jamie: " No mommy. I want you be the mommy." A few months ago he told me that when he grows up he will marry me. *Finally* it seems I might be joining the ranks of the mommies whose sons adore them! It took him awhile to warm up but he is doing so much better with me now (still not where I'd like ideally, but much more attached than the first year and a half.) It is so precious when your little guy says he wants to marry you when he grows up! ;)~~Jan 22, 2012

Tonight at dinner:
Jamie: " I make joke. You laugh." Us: "Okay honey." Jamie: " Mustard in a pan." Now in a dictator-like snapping command he followed that with, " NOW LAUGH."~~January 16, 2012

Jamie's been getting afraid at night more recently. We give an extra back rub, come back in a few times to reassure and started a night light a couple of nights ago. David tried lying on the floor but Jamie wouldn't go to sleep with him in the room the other night. So last night, after several return reassurances from both of us and my final leaving of the room, after 10 or 20 seconds of crying it was silent. Then we assumed he was asleep. About 15 minutes later we hear over the monitor his wavering little voice, " God, please help me be brave. Amen." I wanted to run up the stairs to him! But I'm glad that he was seeking comfort from Jesus. And I'm glad I didn't run up there again b/c I'm sure he was asleep soon after.~~Jan 15, 2012

I know nothing about sports but on yahoo a little earlier there was a picture of Tebow playing football. We were eating lunch and Jamie said, " Who is that?" I told him it is a famous football player named Tebow and he knows Jesus too! Jamie said, " I just love that man. I love that Tebow. I wish I could meet him. I wish we could meet famous people." lol-- Jamie has never seen him before and already loves the man after hearing about him 2 seconds later! Also the other day we met an especially beautiful and sunny dispositioned mother at the playground there with her baby. Jamie asked her a couple of things and when she turned to do something with his baby he looked at me and said, " I just love dat woman. I love her so much!" Jamie told me he wanted a playdate with the lady's baby and her some time.~~Jan 11, 2012

Pictures

I feel rather guilty for not having posted at all in December. I find my only free time to post on here is during his naps and I'm usually doing something else to unwind and don't feel like blogging. Sorry I'm not much of a blogger! I tend to post a lot of funny things he has said to facebook so if I'm friends with you there you can read his funnies there.

Jamie got a ton of Christmas presents this year--so much so that I don't even think he's really played with all of them yet! I ventured into the world of Playmobil for him. Maybe a little early but he seems to be enjoying them. They come with practically microscopic parts. See this capital O? That is the actual size of little 'gold' coins in his treasure chest that you can take out and play with. Where they are right now, we are not sure!

Jamie has a flair for the theatrical at times. The other night we were visiting my parents and Pop Pop, walking us out to the car pointed up at the sky and said, " Look Jamie! The moon!" It was a full moon and clear sky. Jamie made a dramatic sweep of his arms skyward and said in a deep theatrical voice (think movie trailer voice), " The light..of..heaven!!"

This week we start speech for the first time. I am so glad he qualified with county services. He gets it once a week at a public school I"ll bring him to for speech. He *hates* being corrected and has this inner drive for perfection the 'first' time he does anything or he gets angry, and he absolutely hates when we try to get him to say something differently, so this is going to be very interesting and I'm curious how we'll be able to do the 'homework' with him for practice at home. Wish us luck!

Here are some holiday pictures!

My precious boy...

My precious boy, do you know how much I love you? Today I took you on a walk with our friends from playgroup in Mimi's neighborhood. Each of you children carried their own basket to collect leaves in (thank you Kristi!) I loved watching you run along ahead with your arm flapping at your side and your little legs making your body bob up and down. I loved when you squatted down to examine a leaf carefully and select some for your basket. The best part for me was towards the end of the walk when I looked down at you, squatting down at the curb, busily stuffing wads of broken, brown bits of leaves into your leaf basket, as happy as when you were putting in the carefully chosen red and orange and yellow ones. My boy, you are precious. I wish I could freeze time. I love you, little one. :-)

More pictures

Jamie had his first overnight at his Mimi's house recently (first overnight without us anywhere actually!) He packed his suitcase all by himself with only a little help. He was so proud. Here is a picture of him getting ready to wheel it out to the car. He managed to lug that thing all the way out to the car!

Yesterday we went to the state fair and he enjoyed petting and holding some baby chicks and ducks. He was looking forward to that part for days; he has a soft spot for baby ducklings and chicks and they are often featured in made up stories we tell him when he asks for them to be characters in his stories. ;-)

Recently on a Sunday afternoon a local firehouse was having an annual open house day for kids and families with about 10-12 firetrucks present and other emergency vehicles and demonstrations all day of various fire-fighting techniques, jaws of life, etc. We took Jamie and he enjoyed himself. You can see him here with a fire fighter and the hose; they had a wooden toy house front with windows that could be sprayed over by the force of the hose and the windows had flames painted on them. He enjoyed putting out the 'fire' on the toy house.

You see the picture of him in a box filled with corn. It was from the fall farm day we went to but I couldn't fit more pictures in the last post. He enjoyed many things there that day but I think that was his favorite. David got in with him too and both enjoyed burying their legs, etc. When I was doing laundry last week and checking their pants pockets I found many corn kernals in them! Jamie even had corn in his underwear, lol!

Fun fall farm day!

Our local playgroup for families who have adopted children from various asian countries goes to a popular farm each fall. We went last weekend and we all really enjoyed ourselves! You will see that in many of the pictures, Jamie is holding a popcorn box. If you didn't already know this about Jamie, he is quite the fan of popped corn. Definitely one of his favorites, right up there with cake and french fries (if only fruits and veg were his favorites!)

It's October!

Oops, I never posted in September!

Jamie has been in preschool two mornings a week for a few weeks now. He did great at first but last week and today he was clinging to my leg sobbing, poor boy. He got over it pretty quick though (I hid nearby to listen.) Jamie told his teachers that he made pumpkin muffins at home with us. We were lucky to have daddy at home for 5 days in a row (he gets a lot of vacation time which we're grateful for!) Quan Quan sure missed his daddy today when he went back to work.

Jamie has been enjoying some fall festivals that local churches or schools have put on lately. He has the routine down. Go into some bouncy houses, then play games to win tickets, then pick out prizes. He is so cute when playing the games to win tickets because he'll walk right up to whatever he's supposed to toss a hoop over and just place it carefully over it, not throwing it at all. And then they give him the tickets, as if he'd made his shot from 6 feet away. It was adorable.

Recently there was a storyteller at a plaza telling German stories to preschoolers (not with books, just telling them.) She shared the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. As she was starting, she explained what porridge was (us Americans don't seem to know what porridge is, which surprised me--I think every preschooler in England knows what it is and eats it!) Anyway, she asked the kids listening to the story what their favorite foods were. Most the kids were silent/shy. Not Jamie. Nope. When she asked the children what their favorite foods were he immediately shouted enthusiastically, " Cake!!" Yep, he's his mamma's boy, that's for sure. ;-)

When David and I told Jamie that we were taking him to yet another festival with games and bouncy rides and then to a beautiful arboretum afterwards (well we said very large flower garden to him) he was so excited, he jumped up and down and yelled out, " I just love fall! I love it dis much!" holding his arms out wide. He had a great time at the garden which kind of surprised us. We thought he'd be begging to be picked up and whining (his usual mode, sadly, when we try to walk anywhere.) Nope. He was really into going on the paths and seeing what was around corners. He even said things like, " Ohhhh! Such pretty flowers!" and " Awwww, the ducks so cute!!" at the ponds.

This past Monday with David still off from work we made pumpkin muffins. Jamie wore his chefs apron and enjoyed stirring and then slowly (laboriously, lol) filling the muffin tins. He loved the muffins. Talk about easy. Three ingredients! A box of spice cake mix, a can of pumpkin and 2 eggs. That's it. Mix all three together really good and put them in a 12 muffin pan (we use the paper muffin liners) and bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

That afternoon after his nap we did a craft. He is not one for crafts, so I wasn't sure he would participate. We all did one. I made paper tree trunks and branches to glue on construction paper and then had long strips of red, yellow and orange papers for him to cut with kid scissors like confetti to be leaves we could glue on. Well, David being especially artistic made his look fantastic. Jamie seemed enthusiastic at first but once it came to gluing the leaves on, he stopped at, well, 2 leaves ont he tree and one on the ground, lol. Then he confidently informed us that he was, " All done!" I did a medium amount of leaves on mine. Then we put all three up and I noticed that daddy's had the whole tree full of colorful leaves, mine had a few on and a pile on the ground and Jamie's was bare w/ just 2 on and 1 off. I told Jamie, it could be like the fall season where the tree starts out with lots of leaves then the medium amount is the middle of fall and then yours is like the end of fall right before winter when most of the leaves are blown away. Well he loves this idea and has mentioned it every day he sees it several times. ;-)

We're going to make pumpkin spice scented playdoh on Friday.

Tomorrow Jamie is getting assessed to see if he might qualify for speech. His vocab is very advanced (he regularly uses complex words like, " I particularly like the way this looks in the evening". Yes, he's advanced w/ his vocab! His comprehension is above his age as well, but his spoken, well, we can understand him but few kids almost ever can and I usually translate. He is getting clearer than he was but we are soooo hoping he qualifies for speech! Let's hope he's a bit garbled tomorrow so he qualifies! We haven't been trying to teach or correct him in a like a week in hopes that he doesn't improve before tomorrow, lol!

Jamie said something really funny the other day to David. A little background: While Jamie is great about peeing on a potty and wears underwear for that, he absolutely refuses to poop on the potty no matter what we bribe him with. And we are talking truly alluring bribes that any child in their right mind should leap at the chance for! Nope, not him. He tells us, " When I older, I poop on potty. Not now. Now I want poop in diaper." (Then we put him in a diaper and he promptly poops as soon as it's on.) " Even if you can watch the whole cars movie, have a bag of m&M's, go out for popcorn (his favorite treat) AND buy a huge toy (that he's seen) from the toy store??" I ask increduously. " No! I want to poop in diaper." Well David's mom MiMi promised Jamie that if he poops on the potty instead of in a diaper she would take him to the hardware store to get a bag of popcorn. (An event that normally delights him.) He still tells us no. So the other day, David reminds him that if he chooses to poop on the potty instead of doing it in a diaper that MiMi will take him to get the popcorn. Jamie replies, very seriously, " When I older then I poop on potty and I drive car myself and drive my car to buy my own popcorn." Ha ha ha!!! I nearly cried I laughed so hard when he told me what Jamie said. I am having visions of him wearing a diaper to poop in at 13!

I recently asked a staff person at my son's orphanage if they ever saw other people in his birth city of Chengdu with curly/wavy hair like his (after I emailed her some pictures with his curly hair showing.) She said that a good friend of hers and also a number of children at the orphanage have wavy/curly hair. Sure enough not only them but I'm now friends with another woman from Chengdu and she has wavy/curly hair as well! They said it is more common in the Sichuan province than elsewhere in China. So I guess he's not as much of an anomaly as I thought. I just love his hair!

A few recent pictures here. The one in a classroom is his preschool class, that was from the first day! That is one of his teachers there. There are 8 children in the class and two teachers. A great ratio.

A picture of daddy, Jamie QuanQuan and the great grandparents! They live close by so we get to see them from time to time or share a meal with them.

The picture of Jamie by duck statues was taken at his preschool. I included it because ducklings and ducks are one of Jamie's favorite animals and often requested book (Make Way for Ducklings) and often requested characters in made up stories we tell (he currently has over 100 ducklings following and playing with him in an ongoing story we tell!)

One of the fall festivals had rides that Jamie enjoyed as you can see.

Finally, some pictures!

I tried to post a couple of weeks ago but blogger wasn't working right and for two days I couldn't publish the post. Then I completely forgot about it. ;-P

We finally have a camera cord since we never found the old one (this one from Amazon) and the connector to load to the computer, so here are some pictures! Our little guy isn't so little. He is growing up! Slow down, son! These pictures are from June, July and August. The lady in the picture w/ Jamie is his beloved MiMi. Jamie was so excited about going outside in a downpour one afternoon in June that he couldn't wait for shorts. He simply had to go out in a shirt and underwear. We told him he needed his raincoat and boots, so there he is, all dressed up, sans shorts, and raring to go. Until, that is, we opened the door and he felt a drop on his fingers and said no way. ;-)

My precious little boy

Just now as Jamie is napping, a few happy tears welled up in my eyes as I think about how innocent and unaffected little children are. Obviously I don't mean innocent in the sense of never doing wrong. LOL, you know I don't mean that. I mean rather, unaware of social 'rules' and speaking freely their minds with no inhibitions, etc. and such concrete and simple thinkers. Oh how I wish our children remained this way for longer! I am so glad he's still fully in this stage.

Earlier today Jamie met my cousin (so his first cousin once removed) Craig. He's never met him before as we don't get to see each other often. Jamie was anticipating meeting him from the night before when I told him Craig would be coming over for breakfast the next day and Jamie was starting to get excited before his arrival this morning.

Jamie tends to get just a little normal amount of shyness or bashfulness when meeting someone new so when Craig actually came in and went over and said hi to Jamie, Jamie said a quick hi and then felt a need to look away for just a brief moment and Jamie moved over to his train table next to us. He immediately found his favorite train Harvey and, under the wonderfully innocent mindset of 2-3 year olds who assume you know everything already about their toys and toy names/characters came racing over to Craig and cut into the conversation to say, " Dis is my Harvey!! My other Harvey not work on dis track. It work different track." (Of course I'm translating for Craig b/c most people can't tell what Jamie is saying w/o me translating.) Then he enthusiastically handed it to Craig while he ran over to grab his newest train addition. He ran back over to Craig and said, " Dis my new choo choo. Dis name.....mommy. What dis name again?" I said, " Spencer." Jamie giggled, " Oh yeah. Dis choo choo named Spencer!" then Craig and Jamie played w/ trains for a few minutes together. Nevermind that Craig has never heard of Spencer or Harvey and all. I just love this young mindset and age that is so enthusiastic and isn't bothered or encumbered with having to explain what he's talking about. He just says it.

Recently a neighbor came over for a few minutes to talk and Jamie comes up to her, without the adult type of thing like saying hi or nice to see you and just starts excitedly telling her (again w/ me having to translate every word): " Pea fall in lake when big house fall off tree! Pea swam!" and he cackled with laughter. The neighbor lady is smiling and then looking at me like, " Whaaa?" I said, " Earlier, Jamie and I were watching a tv show [VeggieTales] and thought it was so funny when a house in a tree tipped over and the pea who was living inside fell out." Ha, that probably needed even more explanation b/c she's probably wondering--what? A talking pea?

I just love how he never thinks about the fact that another adult or child hasn't had the same experience as him and he just starts telling them stuff that he loves.

Jamie often tells me that Harvey is his favorite train (it's from the Thomas the Train series). We have the wooden railway series. These things are sooooo expensive, it's nuts! That company sure rakes in the bucks. As Jamie mentioned, there are not one but I think now 3 or possibly 4 different versions of Harvey and other trains now depending on which tracks you use. They are not interchangeable. Nice way to rack up the bucks considering one train alone is 13-25 bucks!!! 8-O

I am very grateful for the 40% off coupons from the craft store b/c they carry the series of wooden railway friends trains that he has.

I want to say, that despite my son being a very passionate and headstrong personality that can be a challenge to parent at times, I love love love him!!! And for the first time ever, two times this week he told me that he'd miss me when I was away somewhere!! He's been saying that for months to David and I was so hoping I'd get to hear those words, uncoaxed. Yay!! Jamie is still working on attaching but it's vastly better now than before. We still need to work on it though.

I'll add some pictures in a newer post in a day or two.

Pictures from past several months

Here are a few more Jamie pics from the past several months since it's been forever since I posted any! I'd post more but 5 seems to be the limit per post or else I just don't know what I'm doing.

In the Mr Potato head picture, you see two things: One, Jamie is clearly creative and thinks outside the box (at one point Mr P had three sets of eyes and his feet were sprouting out of the side of his head) and I love his kind of zany humor. Two, do you notice that Jamie wearing big boy underwear??! Yes, he's usually wearing undies when at home now during playtimes! We're potty training here! ;)

I included the guitar picture b/c he's my little rock star and he loves music and musical instruments. He *still* regularly pretends to be a conductor and asks us to play marching band instruments (pretending.)

In the bike helmet pic I included that to say that a friendly neighbor gave Jamie his old bike (yes a two wheeler but of course training wheels are on it.) He has enjoyed it several times now.

Finally, the picture of him eating ice cream is from back in March. There is a yearly event open to kids to visit a local farm and they provide homemade ice cream. Jamie enjoyed it and he was so cute I had to share that precious picture of him.