Wild times at my house

Here we all are sitting ever so nicely!

Jacob, Presley, Hayden, Samuel, Carson, Keira & Olivia

Today I had a bunch of my friends over to play and we subjected the mummies to some wild times. At first when they all arrived I was all quiet but then I decided to let loose and demonstrate my vocal abilities by shouting loudly. Then my friend Hayden sampled the strawberries all down his new shirt. Presley showed us her new earrings and sat quietly while the wild ones ran around. My buddy Samuel showed us his toddling around the coffee table until he fell. Keira ran around trying to sample everyones cups and then she decided to join me in my box of toys (I think I stepped on her too). Olivia stayed close to her mummy but she did try to stick the bucket on her head (ya I like to do that too!). My friend Carson who is the youngest tried to stand up on the wood floor but his mummy didn't put gripper socks on him (don't worry Carson, I'll teach you how to stand on furniture!). We had a great time and I think we even managed to swap some tricks with each other. I tried to show how to stand up on my table toy but mummy foiled my attempt. Some of the others tired to help my mummy by cleaning up with my vacuum and broom and the dishtowels (mummies really like the help). Toys were a flying everywhere especially the ones in my hands (sorry to anyone I poked with my sword). It was a fun afternoon and it definitely tired me out, so I had to nap to restore my energy for tomorrow when my cousins come and babysit me. Hmm, I wonder what devious things I can plot!!!!

Vancouver Sun Run - Completed!

This morning started off different from any other that I have had so far. Mummy and daddy whisked me out of my cozy slumber at 5:45am and bundled me into the car for a short car trip to Mission where we took an even more exciting trip. My first TRAIN RIDE! We met up with some of daddy's friends and took the train past water, towns, other trains, boats and wood piles and finally stopped at our destination- Waterfront Station on route to the Vancouver Sun Run. When we got off the train there was a trillion people (okay there was actually only 54,000). Mummy and daddy told me that we were going to go for a very long walk with all these people and see all sorts of different sites and hear alot of music. That sounded fun but then we got stuck in a big jam of people and had to wait like forever. Mummy was worried that someone was going to walk over my stroller where I was sitting so she lifted me up to her shoulder and wow there were balloons everywhere (oh ya and tons and tons of people). When we finally got to move we had to wait in with another bunch of people for our turn to start walking (I'm not really sure why you have to wait to walk cause it's not like we couldn't use our legs).

So all this waiting around really tired me out so apparentally by the time that we actually started the walking part I had fallen asleep and missed the excitement of walking past the starting line. Mummy and daddy were enjoying the walk and when i woke up around 4km into the walk I got to enjoy all the noise and people around me. I saw people wearing tires on their backs, other mummys and daddys pushing two babies in one stroller and lots of colourful shirts.

I also got to eat on the stroll. Mummy had this technique where she would plop food onto my tray without stopping. She even managed to clean my sticky hands and face. Then when we wanted to go faster, mummy would walk in front of the other people to slow them down so daddy could zip me and him past all the slowpokes. It was very fun.

After an hour and 35minutes we made it to the finish line and daddy ran ahead to catch this picture of mummy and me

So there you have it, I have officially competed in my first ever marathon (and so did mummy and daddy). I think I might be able to take on a biathalon next!

It has started!!

Well this has been a very busy week for our little monkey. For Easter we bought him a potty seat for the toilet and this last Thursday, Steve sat him on it and he pee-peed in the toilet. He was very excited but then when we put him in the bath he tried to pee again and couldn't figure out where his stream was. This evening I put him on the potty again but no go until I put him in the bath and then he immediately peed and tried to catch the stream coming out.

So I'm not sure if it will be an easy thing to train him or not cause he appears to like peeing in the tub and making splashes on the water. Yup he's definitely a man in the making!!!

Then if Thursday wasn't exciting enough for him he decided to test the theory of gravity. The theory is if you put your legs over the sides of the crib and you have no fear, will you fall out painfully or tumble lightly. Well Grandma got to experience Jacob's first tumble from his jail bars. She put him down for his nap and shortly after listening to him play nicely, she heard him crying quite loudly. He wasn't in his crib but was crying beside the rocking chair not really sure what to do. Now you might think this would stop his climbing attempts but nope he's determined to master the technique and get out of bed lightly. This weekend, Daddy is putting the gate across the top stairs in case he makes an escape attempt while half asleep.

Jacob has also discovered that when mummy says "No" she really likes to repeat herself a thousand times and when that doesn't work she tries some other methods like dumping water over his head (now before everyone gets in an uproar it's because i had raw chicken on my hands and couldn't wash them quick enough so I grabbed the water glass beside me in the hopes that he would stop what he was doing). Well I soon discovered that water doesn't faze him and that he enjoys playing in it (Like duh mum cause he plays in the cats water dish all the time!) So I must now use my high panic "No" to get him to stop (and even then it's only for a few seconds). My son is unfortuately going through his rebellion stage now. When I say "No", he hears "Well sure go ahead" and so he climbs onto the tables, tries to pull things over, sits in my plant (cause he saw the cat do it) and touches things that he shouldn't. When I try and stop him he figures that if he throws himself backwards or cries real hard or stomp his feet that I'll give in. Most of the time i win but sometimes he wins in that I will let him do something as long as it's safe (I mean cat food won't hurt him and if he coughs up hair balls then I can clean it up)

Mountain biking

Good Friday was definitely a good day. Mummy bought me a nifty new seat and then she had daddy attach it to her bicycle. Then we loaded her bike and daddys onto the roof of daddys car and set out to Rotary trail for a little exercise. What a fun time, I got to sit in front of mummy and see everywhere that we were riding (of course I also got to expericence bugs in my teeth and eyes). We went for miles and miles and we rode over every bump there was.

Then daddy thought i should experience how mountain biking really feels so we jumped this knarly log and flew through the air and landed safely in the dirt. Okay so we really just posed for this picture but daddy says when mummy's not with us he'll take us for a ride down peach trail and we can be real mountain bikers!

When we got home, both mummy and daddy were whining a bit about how sore their butts were. I'm not sure why cause mine felt fine. I guess the folks just aren't made for this kind of riding!

Horsing around

On Saturday, Jacob went with his cousin Kristen to visit the horse that she has been learning to ride. Jacob had a great time meeting Jewel and even got to brush her and then go for a little ride with his cousin. It was great that he didn't freak out when he was put on her and even better he didn't fuss when Jewel gave him a kiss on the top of his head and left a bit of drool. I'll definitely have to take him riding when he is a bit bigger so that he will develop a liking for horses.