where to start?

It's been a looong time since I've blogged on this blog; I don't know where to start! I suppose I will start from what's most recent.

The apartment is roomy. Yeah, it has rooms. But, I mean there's lots of open space in comparison to our apt in Murray. It smells just as bad, if not worse, so I'm in dire need of an air freshener. Or 10.

I don't have any pics of the apartment yet as I am still organizing and unpacking. Please stand by.

Here is Joey in his new swing and swaddling blankets from his G&G Gilbert. He doesn't like his arms wrapped up tightly, so I give him a little room!

For General Conference, we visited Grandpa Roberts. Here is Jae on the ride down:

We went on a stroll to the park and played...

...and cried...

...and cried.

OK, he didn't cry THAT much! But, he didn't like being up there like that.

Jae and Joey got to dance together. It started with Joey table dancing, but then Jae wanted up, so it's just dancing on the chair ;)

Joey likes to be propped up; he doesn't like to be flat on his back. I think maybe he has some acid reflux or gas problems. His stomach seems to always be making noise! I discovered that he sleeps really well in his carseat, so that's where he sleeps now.

Jae hasn't been sleeping too well since the big move. He used to scream real loud and I'd throw him back in bed. Not literally, but I felt like it! He would cry for Jake and April and The Boys. We were able to Skype with them on Sunday and now he says, "Jake.. pu'er" and goes down the list. Sometimes he will throw "Utah" in there. (Since we Skyped, I've tried to tell him that we flew on a plane and moved to Pennsylvania and Jake, April, and the boys live in Utah). Anyway, he still wakes up once in the night and is up by 6am. :|

Earlier today Jae grabbed a can of Jimmy's V8 from the fridge and wanted some. I had to record it because Jimmy was at school and wondered earlier if Jae would like V8. Here's his first swig:



And, here's our little goofball at dinner tonight:

Thanks for reading! My goal is to blog once a week! In the meantime, wish me luck on getting this apartment in order!

P.S. Jimmy is enjoying classes and doing well! I see him more often than I thought I would. Let's just hope that when grades come out next semester, that I will continue to see him as often as I do, lol! We eat dinner when he gets home, about 4 or 5. I moved dinnertime up because that was Joey's fussy time. But, I think he caught on as he cries during mealtimes. That's so dumb!! But, early dinner works great since Jae goes to bed at 7 or 7:30.

jae-man

jae likes to put his diapers in the garbage bin.. which is nice! :) i also found my debit card in there one time.

he's says "cheese" when you ask him if he wants cheese and he still says "guh" a lot.

he likes to put rocks in his mouth.

he has fun at the playground across the street (behind some townhomes). sure will be sad when winter comes! maybe he will like the snow.

he likes to eat hail! :) not sure if he will like ones the size of golf balls. >.<

jae has grown out of his pajamas he got for his birthday.

jae has been weaned from the bottle at 14 months (a little later than i wanted) and he finally puts himself to sleep! mmm... maybe about a week, week 1/2 now. it's SO nice! just a little shout out and he's fast asleep.

jae dancing again

mikensi went to get a haircut with a friend. while friend was getting hers cut, mikensi chased jae around the salon. luckily it wasn't very busy! every time jae got near the stereo, he would stop and dance! the camera card was full, so this is a quick clip of jae dancing to crappy music! :P

mousetraps

jae has disarmed the mouse traps upstairs a total of 3 times in the past couple of weeks. i'm not quite sure how he doesn't get his fingers in there, but i'm glad he doesn't!

update

i'm trying to get back into blogging on jae's blog. facebook gets the best of me sometimes. ok, ALL the times.

at jae's year appt in aug (a month late due to traveling), he was 21 pounds and avg for height and weight (sorry, don't remember the stats). his head still measures on the small side of things, but it's perfect. doctor says his skin color is great! thank you, hawaii!

it's late, but i will get some recent pics/videos uploaded soon!

thanks for checking in!

jae and the chair

epic. nuff said.

jae's favorite commercial

every morning right after getting out of bed, we watch fox 13 news. for a couple weeks, they had a quizno's commercial that jae laughed about every single time he saw it. it's a rather dumb commercial, i'll post it below his cute video. anyway, he just gets excited watching it: