Its a tough job being Jeffrey

Jeffrey was tuckered after a hard weekend. He has been weaned and it has takena toll on his ability to nap, never an easy sleeper this has really been hard on him. We had the battle royal a couple of weekends ago, after 2 days with no naps he passedout for 90 min in the living room.

Taking Calls

Our little man loves the phone, he pretends just about anything is a phone (the remote, our old cell phones we have given him, a plastic boat,...). Im not sure if it is b/c he sees us, esp Brian who takes a lot of work calls or that he so enjoys talking with others, like his grandparents and fan club. These photos crack me up, he is on the phone with Jane and Al (Brians parents)

A helping hand

Jeffrey has decided to start helping out around the house. He has always provided a little comic relief but now he wants to use the same tools that Mommy and Daddy use. We had a few buckets of mulch delivered on Saturday. In the monring he really enjoyed the rides in the wheelbarrow. But then it was time to get to work.

I am picking grasshopper legs out of my teeth

So the above was a message Brian just left for me. For those of you who dont know Brian will do just about anything (although always ethical) to get a new account. A new mexican restaurant is apparently serving these and gave Brian a sample, at least thats what I am hope as I have yet to hear all of the details-he did say the consumption was intentional so its not that they snuck it to him under the guise of a funny sauce or fried or anything. Just a funny window into restaurant life and how it touches our little family.

Reading TO daddy

So Brian was putting Jeffrey down last night and was a little confused, Jeffrey kept grabbing one of his favorite books and giving it to Brian and grabbing it back, Jeffrey likes to sit in our lap when we read so he tried that too, no luck. Im not sure how all Brian deduced what was going on, but he figured out that Jeffrey wanted to read TO Daddy. So Brian would read a page and pass the book to Jeffrey who would repeat it back to him, mind you Jeffrey knows the word Dog, woff, and thats about it thats in this Dr Seuss board book, but he would make similar sounds. He knew what pages had words he knew and would put in corresponding sounds for the words he didnt.

How cute is that plus its all the more evidence that our baby isnt stupid. I dont mean to sound harsh, but my logic is at this stage you hope your child isnt stupid b/c its too early to ID a REALLY smart child esp with parent or grandparent bias so you instead cross your fingers that they are WNR (within normal range).

It really is pretty amazing, in the last week he just keeps picking up new words and never ones you expect like milk or fruit, the things we say all of the time. I mean he says outside, which since he loves the outdoors isnt a total suprise. but he got bubbles for easter from Beck and the second time we took them out he was saying bubbles. Its just great, even with the word NO (he learned that one last week).

Saying good bye to the turkey legs

So one expects the baby who ate Salem to have had the turkey legs, but I just had to take some photos today to document them before they slip away. With all of the running around of this little man they are sadly disapearing.

And yes he is still loving that buddy the thumb