Tag Archives: Amanda

Swing Set Project

3 Apr

Just realized I never really posted the swing set project photos here… so here ya go!

All that’s left, as of right now, is to install the fireman’s pole off the back… attach the second set of swing hangers (which we have now) and maybe add some flowers (fake or real, not sure yet) to the flower box. Then Carly is getting a baby swing for her birthday from us, and Jonah is getting a big boy swing from Mamaw and G-pa, I think, that will both get hung up.If Jonah gets the steering wheel that he wants for his birthday from someone, we’ll need to attach that too… but we’re pretty close to being DONE with this project! Yay! So fun seeing it come to life!

Conversations and Crawling

20 Oct

Jonah is now holding conversations with us! Where did my little baby boy go? Almost 2 weeks ago now, this was the 1st conversation of any real length that he had. I was sleeping in with Carly a little bit, and he and Jason were up getting breakfast in the kitchen before church.

Daddy: Hey Jonah, what do you want for breakfast?

Jonah: (spying the cake carrier full of muffins for our Sunday school class) Oooh! Muffins! Oh, I LOVE muffins Daddy. I can have a muffin, please?

Daddy: No, those are for us to take to church, for our friends.

Jonah: Oh I like go to church too!

Daddy: I know you do. We’re all going to go to church in a little while.

Jonah: (pauses for a second to think) But Mommy’s still sleeping!

I think I mentioned in my last post Jonah coming home from church one day, trying to sing us one of the songs he had learned. About all he could get out was “Stand Rock” and “Faaaaall” I finally got that video uploaded to You Tube, so here ya go!

I’ll try to get a video of him “singing” his 5 Little Pumpkins song sometime soon too. He enjoys the part at the end that says *clap* OUT went the light! hehe He’ll lay in be just repeating that part over and over.

Speaking of bed… we are giving up formal nap time. After several days of struggling with him for 2 hours to get him to go to sleep for nap time, with lots of tears (from both of us!) I decided it’d do us both good to just have a daily “quiet time”. I read him a story, give him a book and a toy and tell him he doesn’t have to go to sleep, but he has to stay in his bed and stay quiet, or I’ll come close his bedroom door (he REALLY wants his door to stay open these days, and last night was the first time I didn’t close it after he fell asleep). Wouldn’t you know it though? The last 3 days that I’ve taken that approach, he’s been fast asleep in 20 minutes or less! Whatever works I guess!

School and work junk has been keeping Jason super busy, but thanks to an extension his professor gave the class on a project they were doing, he was able to take his day off on Friday and spend it with us as a family. We went to Rocket Park, at inside Mc Donald’s for Jonah to play some more, and just generally had a great day! Here’s a little video of Rocket Park. It was a pretty awesome public park!

Carly Sitting in a Buggy for the 1st Time 10/20/09

Carly Sitting in a Buggy for the 1st Time 10/20/09

In Carly news, she had her first taste of butternut squash last night and seems to really enjoy it! A few days ago, she also sat up in a shopping cart without a car seat for the first time! That is all totally overshadowed though, by the news that she is now a crawler! I have 2 videos; the first is kinda long and random with the kids and I hanging around in the playroom. The second one is a couple of days later when she’s really got the hang of it, and it’s much shorter.

Here is a link to the album with our Pumpkin Patch pictures from today, and a few other random fall pics. Enjoy!

A couple of videos

10 Sep

Jonah’s Recent Art

19 Aug

We’ve been doing at least one “ar projek” a week, and sometimes, they’re not making they’re way onto the 365 blog. So here are a few of the projects we’ve done for our letter of the week. Once we’ve already done the letter, if he asks to do another project later on in the week, we make something else that starts with the letter of the week so we have more opportunity to talk about that letter and what sound it makes etc. I got most of the ideas for these projects from http://www.notimeforflashcards.com

Potty Training and Dentist Updates

24 Jul

Jonah went to the dentist today. She gave him a free flouride treatment that wasn’t covered by insurance because she wanted his tooth that he chipped last year to have some extra protection. Other than that he did ok and everything looked good!

Potty training is going pretty well. He’s gotten great about telling us when he’s gotta pee, but still hasn’t figured out the other. He generally waits until he’s in a pull up (which he’s only wearing when we go out or he’s sleeping), which I guess is ok in his mind because it’s like a diaper. We’ll get it figured out though. I was proud that he went on a public toilet today cause they’re generally scared of that at first. And it was an auto flushing one no less!

He’s not sleeping nearly enough though. He’s pushing bedtime later and later with repetitive requests to “tee tee mores” and we can’t tell him no because when we get him in there, he DOES manage to produce at least a little most times. Then I guess because he’s feeling wet in the mornings now, he’s waking up even earlier. With Carly not going to bed till 1am or later most nights this past week, I’m really starting to feel like a zombie!

Scrapping Anyway

19 Jul

Despite the busy weekend with potty training, I still found some tim (usually w/ Carly in my arms) to work on my 2008 family scrapbook. I skipped over 2007 for now so that I could get caught up on the current stuff while it’s fresh on my mind. I actually got halfway through with the pages I have planned for this book!

Getting Ready for a Change

16 Jul

Jason has been out of town all week on business, and will be back late Friday night. We decided that we’d go ahead with our plans to officialy start potty training Jonah, even though his trip cut his long weekend short. Mostly because Jonah’s being very interested now, and if we wait two weeks until the next long weekend, he might not be so interested anymore. It’s also because we’re very close to the end of a box of diapers and I’d really just rather not have to buy more. ;)

So tonight I told Jonah that we’re going to have a special Potty Party when Daddy comes home in a day or two. That he’ll get presents and will get to start using the big potty all the time, that he won’t have to wear diapers any more. He seemed like he liked the idea cause he was nodding and grinning and telling me “Daddy come home, potty party, big boy unnerwears” and such. Oh I hope this works well… he’s really smart so I don’t doubt that he CAN learn it quickly, it’s a matter of us not doing anything in the process to piss him off about pottying or he’ll outright refuse the whole idea… that’s just the way he is about stuff. If he’s happily eating his dinner and you tell him to not swing his fork around with food on it…. he’s likely to sulk up and shout “ALL DONE!” and refuse to eat another bite. We’re just going to have to do a lot of tounge biting I imagine.

I am glad that it’s working out with Jason being gone because it will feel like a major shift, like I said “when Daddy gets home” it’ll be time to be a big boy.

4th of July Weekend 2009

5 Jul

Party Crashers

20 Jun

So I somehow managed to not only crash/get myself invited to a party that wasn’t intended for us, but I also somehow got the whole thing turned into a party for a whole lot more people. I had called Sarahjenne to see if they were doing anything on Friday as Jason had the afternoon off and I thought a playdate might be fun. Then she told me that she was having Stephanie & Thane and Chris & Julia over for pizza and beer to thank them for helping her move all her stuff out of her classroom a few weeks ago. Then she said “you wanna come?” I suppose I should have declined, but we were bored and wanted to do stuff with people. So I said sure, despite the awkwardness. ;) Then she was like “Maybe we should invite Richard & Crystal since no one came to Crystal’s birthday party.” and I told her I was pretty sure they were packing to move this weekend. But it was pretty much left at that… When we got there though, Oscar & Nancy were there too!  Heh, so I guess we changed the party dynamics some, but it was a fun night. Samantha and Carly got to hang out, Jonah played with the kitty’s toys (kitty was hiding), the boys talked cars (while Jason listened cause he’s not much of a car buff), and the girls talked babies and made jiffy pop for the first time (which was fun!) Then we all laughed at the possum that came up on their back porch window. Jonah slapped the window repeatedly and made it mad to the point that it fell off the window ledge! haha

McCarty Family Reunion 2009

19 Jun

A few of my favorite pics of us and the kiddos at our family reunion this past weekend. To see the rest of the pictures, visit my facebook album!

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