life and times of the j's raker

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Fly On Our Wall

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a fly on a wall in someone's home?
Me neither. haha. ok. That's a total lie! I am extremely nosey and whether Daddy J will admit it or not, so is he!

I think I will start a series of blogs called "Fly On Our Wall"
So, if you were a fly on a wall in our home, these are some things you might hear. Beware, this first one is a doosey. And come to think of it, since Daddy J is an engineer (and I am very scientific minded as well), you might actually learn a lot through this series :)
Or, you might take up the practice of eye-rolling. See below...

Setting: we're all laying on the living room floor; Baby J is playing with different shaped blocks and small balls, paying no attention to daddy; Daddy J has a toy hammer, a rectangle block, and a small ball; Daddy J is using the hammer to hit the block [which Mommy J is holding stationary (*i hope this doesn't make me an enabler*)] to make the ball move

Mommy J: "You are going to get him into trouble. He is going to go to kindergarten teaching all the other kids these tricks."

Daddy J: "Good. It's simple physics. He can teach them Transfer of Momentum. When the stationary block is hit with the hammer, the momentum travels through the block to the ball and makes the ball move."

Mommy J commences her frequent practice of eye rolling.

So, if your 1st or 2nd grader needs help with simple physics or simple calculus for that matter, send them to Baby J :)

These are some examples of Transfer of Momentum. Hope you learned something today :)

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Things We Love About Our One Year Old...

...and some we don't love but need to remember!

His sweet little voice, full of excitement yelling for "Da-deee!"
Hearing him so excited to see Da-deee and play with Da-deee
He has the absolute sweetest and goofiest smiles

This would be a sweet one

and this a goofy one

He wakes up happy. All the time. And when he is picked up after sleeping, he lays his head on the shoulder of who is holding him, tucks his arms between himself and who is holding him and just melts. HE IS SO SQUISHY!
Finding the broken (completely removable) fridge handle never ON the fridge but in random places-like under the couch or in our bedroom.
Needing to be creative with warning words and ways to say "no" and get my defiant persistent son to respond, appropriately (being the operative word!)
Taking pictures like this:

he climbed in this
small basket himself

He gives kisses...yummy! and that makes my heart smile!
Finding kitchen towels in the living room because they are so fun to continually yank from the oven door handle and drag all around the house.
Watching him tackle our very fat, docile cat. Like this:

which is actually very comical to watch

He LOVES playing chase with Daddy and Daddy loves it too!
We are learning to speak gibberish
He tries to say "I Love You" which sounds a lot like "ayeeeeoouu" and we LOVE that!
He can eat people food which makes life so much easier when we are going, well, anywhere
This is almost constantly what my living room and kitchen floors look like no matter how many times a day or how much energy I expend trying to keep things picked up.