birthday party

we had such a great day today. our friends/neighbors have a daughter who turned one today so they had a family party and invited us. jorgen had such a fun time...there were balloons, toys, kids and lots of fun. they are from afghanistan and so they did this afghani bbq and had yummy salads and it was so delicious! we're so blessed because they are great neighbors and friends. jorgen loves their daughter, medina, he loves to hug and kiss and play with her. they are a good play mates.

firetruck

finding the lost camera was great because i forgot that we had taken some pictures on it. these were from the neighborhood party that we crashed and then felt too sheepish to stay...well, we did get some good pictures of jorgen and justin on the firetruck!

what was lost, now is found

just a quick note to those of you who knew we mysterious lost our camera and bought a new one. well, not more than two weeks after our new one came, i found the old one! no regrets however in buying the new camera. we were going to buy one for christmas anyway and we just got it a little earlier. the missing camera was in a grocery bag that had a few of justin's asthma prescriptions in it and it had fallen behind his nightstand. i totally forgot that when i got back into the car with the camera i put it in that bag. all these weeks we've searched and searched but never once did i open up this grocery bag (we were too lazy to pick it up from behind his nightstand and figured there was no way it was in there...). so, next time you lose something...look everywhere and then everywhere again!

new found loves

jorgen has discovered some favorite foods in the past couple months. he loves olives and corn on the cob! despite my disqust for olives i let me son try some. he didn't seem to think they were gross in any way so the other day while making some pizza for dinner and being so kind as to add the nasty little things to justin's side, i did what i've always wanted to do had i liked olives...put them on jorgen's perfectly sized fingers and let him play with them and pop them into his mouth. it was the funnest thing for him. he loved it! justin came home from work just in time to witness this fun game and participate with his son. jorgen could eat these daily and maybe someday, mom will try.... ... ... ... doubtful though.




































in the past while making salads for myself, if i cut corn off the cob then i usually leave on a little bit and let jorgen have at it. well tonight i gave him his very own whole corn on the cob! he ate the whole thing and it kept him busy for quite awhile. he was making the funniest faces and daddy had to take pictures. every time he would bite off some corn, he would show us his prize by smiling with his mouth opened and teeth tightly closed so as not to lose any piece of precious corn. i wish you could see it. he is so funny!

park

for those of you who don't know, i nanny for a family every morning for about three-four hours. both parents are professors at stanford and they work a lot. they have a full time nanny that comes after i leave and she takes care of both max and katya but katya is the only one home when i am there (thank goodness;)). katya is 3 1/2 years old and the three of us have fun together. i take them on a long walk every morning....thanks mom for hooking me up with such a good deal on my double bob, i love it! then we usually go to the park. it's fun for jorgen to have someone to play with, even when katya would rather have all the attention on her...i'm calling it nannysyndrome...the always needed attention that kids who are nannied want-more than what normal other kids want...make sense?! anyway, i took my camera to the park on thursday and here are some of the pictures of the kids. jorgen LOVES slides! any size, shape or color, it doesn't matter he'll be fearless and go down...often without me even putting him in it (i tried to do another slide show but was too impatient). his favorite is to walk up to the slide and turn around then put his feet on the slide and push off on his stomach backwards. he has gone down a few times head first and likes that too. he is growing too fast but we are loving every minute of it.

justin keeps saying how jorgen sometimes resembles calvin from calvin and hobbes...can you see the resemblance in some of the photos? (i still need to get one of jorgen with his finger up his nose....i should by now because it's ALWAYS up there)

ducky and me

ducky has been a long time friend of jorgen...i remember posting a picture of ducky in jorgen's mouth when he was only a few months old...remember? well tonight jorgen discovered a new game that involved ducky and the tub faucet. (oh, and on a side note...i tried to have a 'no standing in the tub' rule but that has failed...as you can see).

jorgen decided that ducky would love to sit on the tub faucet. he was so proud of himself for so carefully placing ducky there especially when ducky stayed put. he would look at me with the biggest grin and start to chuckle. watching ducky so happily situated on the faucet didn't last long however, jorgen found even more joy in whacking poor ducky into the water. he laughed so hard! he did it over and over again and i had to mark and record his new game. he makes me so happy!

plunge

one of jorgen's new favorite games in the tub is what we like to call 'plunge'. he looks at us to make sure we're watching and then plunges his face in the water. sometimes he blows bubbles and sometimes he just drinks the water but either way he comes up out of the water with a drenched face that eventually leads to a huge smile. he laughs and after recovering, does it again. i wish you could see it. he is going to take after his mommy and be a swimmer, no doubt!

!!!disgusting!!!

this afternoon jorgen and i were off to try out the new camera while going on a little nature walk. on our way there, justin called and said he was finished with work early and so we went and picked up him instead and headed to costco so we could miss the mad saturday rush. it was a fun costco trip, we tried out the hot dog and pizza that they have there that we've always wanted to get but other than that it was uneventful, or so we thought. as i was about to lift happy little jorgen out of the shopping cart justin noticed what he thought was some of his hot dog relish and mustard ALL over jorgen's back. eawwwww, he thought...until he realized that no way could his mustard and relish have smoothered the child's back. the realization of what was actually covering jorgen's back set in and he quickly told me to stop and look at jorgen's back side. if words could only describe the scene. it was gross, gross, gross...that's all i can say! i guess the way he was sitting made all of his hearty bowel movement go straight up and out his diaper, all over his back (which included his shirt, shorts, shopping cart bars and it actually made it's way to his legs, shoulders, arms and somehow got on daddy's shirt!?!). i passed the drenched-in-his-own-feces child to justin and we began the quarantine process. i used more wipes than i use in a week! it was everywhere. jorgen was unaffected...he must have been happy to get all of that out because he was laughing and jabbering the whole time. we stripped him down to nothing and wiped all that we could off of him. it was a nasty job and i was so glad that out of all the times we've gone to costco, this was the time jorgen decided to explode because justin was there to help. it would have been misery trying to quarantine the child by myself. we came home, bathed the babe and he is now pleasantly sleeping. the pictures represent the semi-clean jorgen in his car seat with nothing but a diaper on. another day done, and many more to come. glad i brought the camera to take pictures of our 'nature walk'...which turned into 'what nature can do' outing.

a bump to remember...jorgen 'falls' for lucy

jorgen has a girlfriend;) i really do approve of this little gal. she is a week or two older than jorgen and her name is lucy (love that name). well, we had a little play date yesterday with her and they were having so much fun together. lucy started putting the moves on jorgen first. she kept going up to him and hugging him and putting her head on his shoulder. when jorgen finally caught on that she liked him, he decided to go give her a huge hug! he walked right up to her without reservation and put out his arms and gave her a bear hug. she openly received him and hugged back. they held each other for one second, two seconds, three seconds and then...tip! i think they were enjoying the hug a little too much and forgot about gravity and slowly tipped over. the sad part was that lucy's back was facing the parking lot and she was standing on the curb so they fell even farther down and both hit the asphalt. it was a sad scene. their bold romance quickly vanished and the realization that they are only one year olds came instantly with two very loud cries. lucy luckily didn't have visible bumps or scratches but jorgen was bleeding a bit and now has a bruise and some scratches but he recovered quickly. i didn't take a picture of it then, but we did tonight (more than 24 hours later and it's already almost vanished...look on the upper left side of his forehead for what's left of the mark). it definitely was a bump to remember. i think he'd do it again if he was able to hug her that long again;) it really was so sweet!

fyi

we bought a new camera and it is the GREATEST!! we had to get our christmas present early this year i love it so much! what a change from our other slow digital...this slr canon is the fastest thing ever. here are just a few pictures that i took while testing out the new gadget. it was definitely worth the investment! it was kind of funny because the first few shots were so blurry and i thought i had set the camera up correctly and i couldn't figure out what was going on. then while fidgeting with the camera a little more today...pop...the lens fell off. oops, i didn't secure it tight enough so that would explain the blurry pictures. i don't know why i choose to publicize my idiosyncrasies for future public mocking, but that's who i am. my motto for life..."blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." unknown author (thanks dad!).