Grout and Jensen's girlfriend

Well, we survived Jeff being gone last week. We kept busy with our MOM Club activities. Jensen got to play with Jaci, our neighbor next door while I mowed the lawn and went to our monthly Moms Night Out. Jaci is 5 months younger than Jensen and they have a blast together. We trade babysitting with them a lot and its very convenient since its right next door. They even got him to go to bed at their house on Thurs night!

Jensen and Jaci sitting in a tree.....

Jeff got home safely on Friday afternoon and we hung out down on southside until it was time to pick him up at the airport. He brought Jensen two shirts and a baby white tiger and he got me a box of yummy chocolates. Good hubby! Do you think I have any left today? Our course not...

Jesen actually took a nap two days in a row yippeee! He slept on the floor but I don't care
While he napped Jeff and I worked on grouting the shower finally. You've never seen someone so excited to grout.....until about an hour into it when I was covered in gunk and my arms were falling off! Since I'm the shutterbug, all the house construction pics I have are of him so I told Jeff to take a pic of me working hard since I do a lot of the work. Well he is a turkey and this is what I got. I should know better than to give him my camera! But of course it is still not done because we have to wait for the grout to cure for 10 days before we can put the acid stuff on to clean up the haze. In the meantime, I plan to paint the walls and shop for a shower door. More pics when its done.....
Today (Sun) we had a birthday party for Jeff's Aunt Janet and his dad. They both have Sept birthdays but his aunt was sick and couldn't make it so that was a bummer. She and Jeff's Uncle Terry just got back from a cruise to Alaska and brought back some long suckers with stuffed animals for Jensen and the girls. I got a cute pic of them enjoying them.
We ate a bunch and enjoyed cake and ice cream, yum. Of course there was the usual Jones silly shenanigans. This is Jeff's dad Jerry and his Uncle Jimmy being themselves! See where Jeff gets it!

Oklahoma State Fair 2008

I took Jensen to the Oklahoma State Fair yesterday and we had a great time with our friends Kathie and Hannah. We visited the petting zoo first but Jensen was acting like he had to pee but refused to admit it. He finally said he had to go after a while and we went to the luxuious port-o-potties to take care of business. He took one look in the hole and said huh uh, I don't need to pee. I could not get him to go and I spilled the animal food on my head grrrr! So we go back to the stroller and he immediately pees everywhere. Luckily I had spare clothes but he had to sit on my jacket the rest of the day. It was not a good potty training day at all!

Anyway, we rode the space needle and saw the pig races twice because Jensen liked it so much. He also rode his first fair ride all by himself and played his first carnival game. I was so proud he he. Jensen also loved the baby chickens that just hatched. We just happened see my friend Raven that I have known since we were toddlers so that was neat. Of course the food was fantastic and there was no line to get a cinnamon roll so that was awesome!
Jensen said all morning that he wanted to ride a roller coaster but he decided on this jeep ride

Jensen got a little too much sun because I didn't even think to put sun block on since its so mild outside. Poor thing had pink cheeks for the first time-won't be the last though since we are a family of albinos :)

We are hoping to go to the fair again with Daddy when he gets home. It's a tradition for us since Jeff and I had our first date at the fair!

Granolas and Little Gym

The last week has been pretty normal. We went to toddler aerobics on Monday with MOMS Club. Yes, there is such a thing....the kids get to dance, sing and play. Jensen for some reason isn't really a big fan but we go anyway and I end up holding him. He's 32lbs now by the way so its aerobics for mommy too. This time though, he did a lot better and he always loves the parachute play. He went to school on Thursday and it was "Granolas with Grandparents" day and Jensen was very proud to have both his Grandma and Mimi come eat a snack with him in his classroom. He stayed dry again all day but didn't take a nap this time.

Grandma (Jeff's mom), Jensen and Mimi (my mom)

I've been sort of at a loss for activities lately but I remembered as a kid that it was fun to play with shaving cream so I bought some and got out a cookie sheet to spray it on. Jensen wasn't too sure at first but he had fun for a few minutes playing in it.



Two peas in a pod! I think the cat would be doing the same pose if he could! This is what they looked like when I came home from the gym the other night. They like to watch Pink Panther and Tom and Jerry while I'm gone. Its funny if you ask Jensen what the cat's name is on the cartoon he says "Toman"as if the AND is part of Tom's name...cracks me up!




We had fun at a birthday party at The Little Gym on Sat for our friend Kyan who turned 4. Jamie (my SIL) is sick with pneumonia so we picked up Jenna and Jillian and took them with us since they were planning on going too. The kids had fun on the balance beam, jumping and playing. Later that evening, Jensen got to play with some of his cousins on Jeff's mom's side since his Aunt Joyce was in town for a visit from Phoenix. It was a busy fun day!

Monkeys on a bar

Silly kids sitting on Little Jerry aka Uncle Bub (Jeff's brother)
Jeff left this afternoon for a "nerd convention" as I call it in Las Vegas. Its called VM World and its a trade show/training for network virtualization...... I think. He'll be gone til Friday so Jensen and I will have to fend for ourselves and keep busy until then.

Back to "school"

Jensen carrying his napmat in to school

Jensen started Mother's Day Out Thursday for his second year. He has a new classroom and teacher but some of the same friends. He was really clingy when I dropped him off and said he didn't want to stay until I told him MiMi (my mom) was going to pick him up later. Then he said ok bye Mommy. We were so proud that he stayed dry all day while at school and listened well. It was so nice to have my "day off" again and got a lot of stuff done.


Jensen has decided his favorite color is yellow which is neat that he has his own favorite about something. We went to get snow cones Tues as a special treat and he ordered yellow all by himself. Sticky yummy!

Labor Day for sure

Last weekend was a 3 day weekend for Labor Day so we labored....a LOT! We got the shower floor tiled and all but the edges of the bathroom floor tiled. We would have completed it all but we had to let the tile we laid dry before standing on them to do behind the door, plus we were pooped. By the way, do you know how many different types of toilets there are? I swear we were at Lowes two years trying to find one that was not to expensive but not a cheapy, elongated bowl, regular white, blah blah. They even have some that say it repels germs (do you really think it does?) Anyway, we feel really guilty about it but sometimes when we are doing a project we have to park Jensen in front of the tv so he will leave us alone. On Monday though, my wonderful friend Kathie who lives in our neighborhood let Jensen come over to play with Hannah so we could work. Hopefully we will have all the tile in place by the weekend so we can grout....its such a joy, not! I will post pics once its all done

Here's some pics Kathie took of Jensen and Hannah playing. They were born about 2 weeks apart but she is a petite little thing and sooo sweet.

Kathie said Jensen was pretending he worked at POPS a landmark resturant near here that we like because the have over 400 different types of soda pop.

Its been a hectic with Jensen sleeping in his big boy bed and potty training at the same time. He usually goes right to sleep at night but naptime has been a nightmare. In his crib, he always slept 2-3hrs but since being in the toddler bed he has only napped 3 times in 2 weeks. You can tell too because he becomes a cranky, wild child. Plus, I'm really missing my time to get things done while he's asleep ack. I mean, when am I supposed to blog jeez! Ha I hope once the newness wears off he will go back to napping! This is him passed out sitting up on the couch before dinner.

At the end of a long day, I like to relax by getting some scrapbooking done. My friend Jonelle always posts her layouts and I enjoy seeing them so I thought you'd like to see what I've been working on. I just finished Christmas and New Years of last year so I'm not too far behind but time marches on and there is always more events to add. These pictures aren't the best but you get the ideaGirls' 3rd Bday