Sledding for the snow challenged

After a bit of trial and error Jay figured out how to sled down the stairs. As you can see, he's a little better at it than I am.

Here are some pictures of the famous snow storm last week. We only got a couple of inches at our house, but there were places in the valley that got about 8 inches! Jay and Rex played in the snow for only about 5 minutes before they decided it was too cold.

Come again?

After a couple of hours of Christmas shopping today, Jay was ready to buy the presents and go home. He turned to me and said "come on, lets go to the castrator." I think (hope) he meant cash register.

Trip to the zoo

We had a fun time hosting Thanksgiving. Too bad our camera batteries died and we only got a couple of pictures.

Today Lindsay and the kids went to the zoo with Lindsay's friend Amanda and her daughter Madie (Jay's gwerl friend). Too bad the Las Vegas zoo is so pathetic, but they had a good time anyway.

The last time we went to the zoo was September, 2006. I thought it would be fun to post a few pictures to show how much Jay has grown since then.

Funny stuff

Today, Jay was in the bathroom doing his constitutional duty (or is it doodie?), when he suddenly ran up the stairs with his pants around his ankles. With this background, the following exchange took place between Lindsay and Jay:

Lindsay: Where are you going?

Jay: I'm going to get the toilet thing.

Lindsay: What toilet thing?

Jay: The thing that gets the toilet unclogged.

Lindsay: Did you plug up the toilet???

Jay: Uh-huh

Lindsay: How much toilet paper did you put in???

Jay: Lots and lots.

Jay then confessed that he thought it would be cool to get the toilet clogged so he could use the plunger to un-clog it. Needless to say, Lindsay, rather than Jay, ended up un-clogging the toilet, pulling out handfuls of poopy toilet paper with plastic bags on her hands. Jay got the idea after Lumpy *ahem* kindly clogged and un-clogged our toilet on Thanksgiving.

The Two Dudes

Jay was riding in the car with Lindsay when he suddenly said "I want to make a stand!" Lindsay didn't really know what he was talking about, so he told her he wanted to make a stand to sell cookies. Later that day, Lindsay and Jay made some snickerdoodles and set up a "cookie stand" in front of the house. If you look closely at the sign on his table, it says "buy cookies 10 cents". He actually made about $2 at his cookie stand, although $1 was from the neighbors across the street. A bunch of kids even came back for seconds.

This is Rex's new trick. He has learned how to climb on top of the table from the chairs. I even got him to jump off the table to me after he saw Jay do it a couple of times.

Jay's 4th B-Day

Here are some pictures of Jay's birthday party and of him riding his Razor scooter that he got for his birthday. What a cool little dude.

Catching up

Rex hit the big number 1 last month. We had a fun party and let him eat some cake and get messy.

Funny stuff

The other morning, Jay told Lindsay that he had a dream that he flushed Rex down the toilet and he was sad because we didn't have a baby anymore. Apparently Jay had been watching an episode of Sponge Bob where someone got flushed down the toilet.

Answer to the word of the day

The answer to the word of the day is . . . urinal. Ok, I know it probably wasn't that tough to figure out, but Jay loves to say the word and has been a bit obsessed with bathrooms as of late. Funny thing though, he is deathly afraid of the automatically flushing urinals, especially if they flush loudly. Kyle's comment is in reference to something Jay said last Sunday in the boys bathroom at church. Jay was going on and on about how much he liked that bathroom, and he said "The girls bathroom is pretty, but the boys bathroom is handsome." I was laughing so hard I had to turn around so he wouldn't see me.

Word of the day

After a long hiatus, I have decided to bring back Jay's word of the day. The word is yooniral.

It's about time!!!

Gwenny was nice enough to email me these pictures I took with her camera of our new house.
This is the view as you walk in the front door.
This is the view from the downstairs family room looking toward the front door.

Downstairs family room.

View of the kitchen from the downstairs family room.

Master bedroom looking towards the master bathroom.

Master bathroom.

Master bathroom.

Master bathroom/master closet.

View of upstairs family room from the top of the stairs.

Upstairs family room looking toward the stairs.

Jay's bedroom (upstairs).

Rex's bedroom (upstairs).

Master bedroom (upstairs).

Backyard.

Backyard.

Guest bedroom/office (downstairs).

Guest bathroom (downstairs).

Laundry room (upstairs).

Hopefully these pictures give you a good idea of what our house looks like. We're loving having the extra space and a yard to send Jay out to when we get sick of him!

Speaking of Jay, last night I was calling him "monkeybutt" and he responded by saying "butt is a bad word you dingleberry!" I laughed my head off. What a funny guy. Lately he has been turning into a superhero called "Magnet Man" who sticks to things like legs, refrigerator doors, regular doors, etc. He grabs onto the refrigerator door handles and pulls himself up, or he'll grab onto the door knob and will hang from it. He's a funny kid.

In other news, Rex is pretty much walking. He walks about as much as he crawls now, and will take 10+ steps at a time. And he has two top teeth in addition to the two bottom teeth he has had for a while.