1st baby sign

So today Jace signed his first baby sign. i'm pretty sure he knows what it means. i've been signing it to him for months now every time he nurses....i think he may be figuring it out! he does it when he's nursing...so i don't think he's figured out how to "ask sign" yet. soon though!

Jace went to his 1st circus the other day. i think he missed the whole thing because he was so busy looking at all the other kids...and of course his sucker.



weeeee.....the slides downtown

Valentines Day & a taste of summer

So needless to say our valentines day has changed a bit (as everything else in our like as well).

David and my 1st valentines
-woke up probably somewhere around noon in my tiny 1 bdrm apt
-laid in bed for another hour or so listening to the neighbors enjoy part of their v-day
-jetted out the door and headed to Mnt. Cresent for a few hours of snowboarding (pretty sure i still have the bruises to prove it)
-had some hot coco
-went back to my apt, cooked crab legs on my teeny tiny stove while watching a movie
-enjoyed a nice quiet evening laying in each others arms

This valentines day
-woke up at 6:30 to Jace crawling on our heads
-7:30 dave left for work
-i baked some cookies, cleaned and then set up the table
-7:30ish david gets from work
-we cook some crab legs

-we sit at the table and try to talk about our day but jace is babbeling about his day that we can't even hear each other
-Jace body surfed on dad

-they took a ride around the house on a chair

-then we put jace to bed, and pretty sure we went to bed not soon after


......and i wouldn't change a thing!



(seriously we do not encourage underage drinking)




Ah, the outdoors.....can not wait for summer! we will be outside ALL the time!!


See my stick kailie!!!

Mr. P90X


oh and our newest cake creation....

Crabby

so we went to the asian market and bought a live crab....because we felt adventurous!

Meet Mr. Crab



MMMmmmmm was he good!

We stuffed Jace in the toy box while he cooked
Then he decided that he wanted a beer (it was empty, no one call cps)
Then after a few drinks and tubby time....it was onto hide and go seek under the coversThis Boy loves his daddy!

Bear Grylls

so on a side note........Bear and his wife, Shara, had their 3rd boy

"Last week Shara and I had our third little boy, Huckleberry Edward Joscelyne Grylls, weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces, and he is pure heaven.

Shara had him at home (which was interesting, with me armed to the teeth and holding the toolbox at the ready!), and she was amazing. She did it all with no pain relief (I tried to give her an aspirin at halfway but then remembered she wasn't even allowed that, as it thins the blood!)

The other boys, jesse and marmaduke, are so happy to have a baby brother. The Three Musketeers. Brilliant!"

i knew there was another reason i liked this guy. not to mention he's pretty hot lol

It Dad

this weekend daves dad and wife came to visit us. They also had gone down to texas and picked up davids brother (that he just talked to for the 1st time a few short months ago) Richard. All in all we had a pretty good time. Nancy cooked SO much Lao food.....mmmm the sticky rice, larb, Thom Nam, papya salad, lao sausage, Pho...mmmmmm. But i pretty much burned my face off eating it all...they like their food SPICY. Richard broke a sweat everytime we ate, but loved it!
The boys had fun playing Rock Band and just getting to know each other. I think they all enjoyed themselves for the most part.

Jace ran a high fever almost all weekend.


His little body was fighting something off. With a few baths, some egg whites, carefully (maybe obsessive) monitoring, and a lot of worring on my part he broke the fever finally. I'm not big on the medicine, in fact i'd rather not go to it unless i absolutly feel its nessisary. there are reasons you run fevers. i did give him some motron at night so he could get some better rest. This was his first real fever so i defiantly felt it too. I know its just a fever and its not that serious...but i tell you this child and mother connection is an amazing thing. i'm so attached to this kid that i can feel what he feels and everything he goes through effects me BIG time.




We went to the zoo last week and had a good time. Jace had gone to the zoo when he was like a week old and this time he actuallly stayed awake (most the time) and was able to look at the animals! He loved the turtles and the BIG gorilla. I think his favorite part was all the other little kids running around. we'll definatly go back again and again, we only saw a tiny bit of the zoo that day