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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: 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
Monday, June 17, 2013
Friday, April 6, 2012
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
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
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
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
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: " 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
Tuesday, January 10, 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!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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. :-)
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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!
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