Finn punishes Jamie

Well, Finn decided he had had enough! Jamie was laying on the ground the other day and Finn comes right up and spanks him! It was so funny, I ran for the camera and told Jamie to lay down again. He thought it was funny and Finn was all for it. They play so good sometimes it is fun to watch...and then other times Jamie knocks him down or kicks him I just don't know how to get across that he is hurting Finn. And if Finn is playing with a toy then suddenly it is the ONLY toy Jamie could possibly play with! We are trying to get Jamie to give Finn a different toy when he takes the one Finn has, but I'm sure that won't work for long. Soon Finn is going to realize, hey I was playing with that! Good thing he is so easy going. Well, except for when you have food! He gets so angry, you wouldn't even know he is the same child! Jamie wanted to tell a funny story too, so I told him I would type it, so here goes: (he is now doing his funny face where he rolls his eyes in the back of his head and flicks his tongue out and waves his fingers...) Birds like to flap their wings. That's what birds do. Birds like to eat worms. Worms like to eat tape. They like to eat diamonds. They have shoes.

Potty Training

Well, I am trying to gently potty train Jamie. He knows how, he just could care less! I made a chart with stickers and he does that every once and a while. We were watching superman and he asked why superman had on underwear and I said because he is a big boy and goes potty in the toilet :) (I saw it as an opportunity!) So we got him some new underwear and on Friday I put it on him in the morning and told him he had to tell us before he went potty. Then I left for work :) When I got home he was in a diaper. Apparently he had used all 5 of the new pairs of underwear and peed on the carpet twice! Then as we are talking about it he wanted to go potty, so I am standing in the door of the bathroom waiting for him and I glance in the bathtub....that looks a lot like poop! I know he didn't do that when I gave him a bath, so I said "Jamie is that poopy in the bathtub?"He said "yeah". Scott's mom asked him "did you go poop in the bathtub?" and he said "yeah". So I asked "today?!" He said "yeah, me go poopy in the bathtub."! They are sure never boring! And Finn is getting his top two front teeth and is very cranky, they have been under the gums ready to pop out for days now poor thing. He is getting increasing mad whenever we are eating, he stands there crying and looking at us until we give him some or he steals it off our plate!

Sea World

We went to Sea World when we were on our vacation, but right when we got back we all got sick, so I've been meaning to post the pictures in a slide show, but haven't had the time, since I went straight into planning Jennie's bridal shower (which went very well :)!) So here are a couple of pictures, and when I get a chance I'll put up the slide show. The boys had very much fun and Jamie still talks about "my friend the killer whale." It was funny the first thing we did was go to the Shamu show, which started 30 minutes from when we sat down and the whold time Jamie said "me not like this show, me not like this show." So we kept telling him to just wait until it started, he would like it. Scott was explaining how the whale would swim in the pool, jump out of the water, wave and say "hiyo Mamie!" Jamie would laugh and say "me not like this show."! Finally it started and he had a blast! He talked about it all day! They have built a new Sesame Street area and even Finn could play in it! They both had a lot of fun and can't wait to go back. Here is a picture we took with Cookie Monster and another of the place where babies and toddlers could play, it was so cool because normally when we go to Disneyland or something Finn is in the stroller the whole day and doesn't have any fun, but here he could get out and play and get tired! And Jamie was just a maniac, stealing the foam things from other kids, knocking people over and stuff! His patented sideways bump where he couldn't possibly have done it on purpose :)

Vacation

Well, we're on vacation! We went to Balboa Island today with the boat that we got this weekend and fixed up. It's little, but we putted around the bay for about an hour and then let the boys play in the sand. Finn enjoyed eating sand, yuck! Then we walked downtown and bought Jamie 2 hippo cookies (a little shop that has ice cream and doughnuts bakes these large hippo shaped cookies with colored glaze and 2 m & m's for eyes that are really good) Jamie decided he needed 2, so when the girl asked what we wanted he went ahead and ordered "2 hippo tooties 1 blue one and 1 pink one."! Good thing they only had 2 colors! Then we walked around a bit and drove home. It was fun, but I'm tired :). We might go to Sea World tomorrow, Jamie said I need to call his family and invite them. I'm not sure who he means, and he also wants me to call Sophie and Ben.

Scott and I went to see the new Indiana Jones movie on Saturday night and Mom, Jennie and Ben watched the boys. Harrison Ford seems old! It was ok, but I'm not as into the Indiana Jones movies as Scott is. It was nice to get out and do stuff by ourselves, though :)

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Happy Birthday!!!!!
Today is my dad's birthday, or as Jamie likes to call him Granddude! We went to the park by his house yesterday and had fun playing with everyone. Jamie loves to tell Emmie and John "you play with me". Which is my childs lovely and polite way of asking if they want to play! One of the Sunday school teachers called him "a natural born leader" :) I would post pictures of the event, but of course I forgot to bring our camera! (So anyone who wants to email me cute pictures? I could then edit my post and put them up!) Dad, I hope you had fun and are still enjoying the pies! Here is a cute picture of Granddude and Finn from Christmas! Apparently I always forget the camera when we see them, since this is the last picture I have :)

Superhero Mamie

Superhero Mamie -

Doesn't this pose make him look like he is ready to take on the world? As I'm sure he is! This is a picture of Jamie and Scott's cousins son Ben from Mother's Day. He just looks invinsable! Which he mostly is. I am still amazed we haven't had to take him to the Emergency Room yet! Praise God! They are still cranky because of being sick. Plus Finn is very intolerent of the heat, so he isn't liking the heatwave. I'm not sure what he will do in the summer, because he just can't stand being hot.

And here is a super cute shot Scott got of Finn the same day. He is getting so good at walking, I'll have to take another video, because he can make it a good 10 feet, and even change direction and stop, pick something up and keep going. It's hard to get Jamie to take his medicine since the first time was so bad, but if Finn even sees a medincine dropper he gets excited and opens his mouth! They are both just so cute! I don't know what I did to be blessed with such cuties, but I love the little munchins. However, I could do without the whinning! Especially since I'm sure I never whinned! And I know I was never this bossy! Jamie will tell me "mom, you gotta throw this away, mom you gotta do this..." Or this morning he told me I better do something! That went over well!

Doctor

Well, I took the boys to the dr today. They both have double ear infections, yipee! Poor babies. No wonder Finn walks around the room crying and Jamie is so clingy that I can't seem to even eat dinner without him trying to worm his way into my lap. They had ear infections before and were given the familiar pink amoxicillen (?) liquid that Jennie and I fondly remember from our childhood and that worked fine. Well their regular doctor is on vacation and the temporary doctor gave them a "broader spectrum" anitbiotic that is think and white. I filled the dropper and Jamie said "me do it" which is pretty standard 3 year old, so I handed it to him and told him to squeeze it in his mouth. So he does and promptly throws up. Great... so I figured he just poked himself in the back of the throat so I gave Finn his and he was fine. So I decided to try again with Jamie and told him to be more careful with the dropper. So he does and swallows it and kind of gags a bit but keeps it down. Then he walks a couple steps and just throws up all over the carpet and completely empties his poor little tummy. (Boysenberries, yummy) So I am really hoping he is fine when I try again tomorrow morning, otherwise I'll have to call the dr and get another prescription blah, blah blah!

On another note Finn is doing really well walking. Some of the other people at the dr asked how old he was since their 10 month old isn't crawling at all yet. He didn't seem very interested in anything either, but hopefully he was just sick. The other day Finn was walking, bent down to pick something up and kept on going! Very cool! Poor thing, he has been miserable since he can't breathe out of his nose and that makes babies VERY cranky.

I am putting a picture of Jamie at 10 months and a picture of Finn from this week, aren't they cute?!

Yesterday Jamie told me he was "really very fond of fruit rolls". I said did you just say you were "really very fond of..."? He said yes! Crazy kid where does he learn this stuff. Today at Target when we picked up my prescription he used the money my aunt Jan sent for his birthday to buy 2 hot wheels. He handed the girl the cars and paid with his own money and got the change. It was so cute! He is getting sooo big. I don't know how my baby can be so big!