Time Out

Grammie Kris was here for a couple days helping out this week. She got to see how much more articulate Jake is now even sice Christmas. When we moved to Atlanta we started using times outs to discipline Jake when he misbehaves. I remember watching James use them with Finn in Hawaii. So everytime he needs correction I try and copy James by being as serious and dramatic as possible. Sometimes I have to choke back laughter but so far it has worked pretty well and he now will run over to his "seat" and stay until his time is up. I had to take a picture recently becuase his face was so cute and sad at the same time. So thank you James for showing me how timeout is done, it will make the rest of this year much easier to deal with.

Below I placed another funny picture from Christmas. Jake loves dogs and Tucker was pretty good with him. He even let Jake ride him a few times. We skyped with Grandma Cuda a few days ago and he was more interested in seeing Tucker than anyone else

Indoor days

The weather is back to cold and rainy outside. I feel like I am back in Portland again with the amount of overcast, cold and rainy days we have had here. The locals say this is not usual but I am starting not to believe them. We played catch for a while today before nap time. Usually I throw the ball at him and it bounces off his head or chest and he says "Almost!!" But this time he started catching more of them so I got out the camera. Fortunately he seems to be a clutch performer and didn't get a case of nerves while the camera was rolling. Amazing how much like a little boy he has already become. When we moved to Atlanta he was still a baby.

15 Weeks and Counting

Well not that much new is going on around here. We still are getting used to a real winter and right now I really miss Hawaii. Mandy is now 15 weeks pregnant and already showing. I guess I will have to start taking pictures every week again like we did with Jake. Jake seems to be getting new works every day, he is sometimes hard to understand. Usually if Mandy and I are both listening one of us will understand what he is saying at any given time. I don't have any new ultraound pictures of the baby but only about 5 weeks until we can find out if its a boy or girl. I think ill start a poll on what we are having so far our friends are all guessing another boy.

Football

Jake has learned to cheer for football and it seems to be one of his favorite words right now. I let him wear my Oregon hat that sadly has to be retired until next year after the embarrassing loss to a crappy Ohio State team. I think this is how James must feel every time the Lakers come to Portland and lose.

It's cold in Atlanta

It seems as if Atlanta was transported north of the Arctic circle these days. It actually snowed last week and patches of snow and ice are still covering the streets. Jake doesnt seem to mind the cold too much. He even doesn't mind putting on his jacket most of the time. I intentionally let him go outside without one and after a few seconds he changed his mind.

It has been a while since the last post and we have been several places. Back to Portland for Christmas, home again for New Years and recently to Augusta for a wedding shower. No, I did not personally attend but I had a good time relaxing and watching movies. They have a cat " Mr Bob" that makes Kili seem antisocial. Jake was actually carrying the cat around the house and never go scratched.

The approach from behind....

He then gets his death grip on the kitty...

There is no escape...

A new Keiki

Most everyone knows by now that Mandy is pregnant again with our second baby. We went for the first OB visit today and got a dating ultraound and it seems she is now 11 weeks along so the due date will be in early July. It's too early to tell if we are having a boy or girl but so far we can see 2 legs 2 arms, a beating heart and a brain, all good things and it's still a pretty exciting thing to see the baby at such a early age. It definitely made the whole thing seem real.


This picture wasn't the best but it was the only one the tech handed me and everyone seemed to be in a hurry. I hope to get better ones at future visits.

Jake is feeling better now and back to his playful self. He even is taking his antibiotics without a fus tonight which is a great thing considering we nearly had to tie him down the first few times.

Some days are sick days......

We officially have a nanny now and we are very happy so far. Part of the reason for the nanny is to keep Jake from getting sick so often. Out of the past several months his nose seems to continuously run and at least once a month we had to scramble to find someone to watch him at the last minute. Unfortunately Jake had one more bad cold/flu left in him. Jake has been sick in the past but no matter how bad he got he always played and laughed between the fevers and puking. He seemed to get sick enough on Friday that we started him on Augmentin and we are glad that we did that. All day Saturday Jake was had high fevers and cough that made him puke and was generally miserable. If it didn't involve watching Nemo or drinking apple juice he wasn't interested. It took some serious coaxing to get him to take the medicine because it tastes bad and Jake pretty much likes everything. One cute side to the illness is that every time he coughed and woke himself up at night he would cry out "mommmmmy.....mommmy" This was too much for mandy to handle and even though he would fall back asleep on his own she would go downstaris to give him a drink (or poke me in the side until I did). Today he is at least playing some and seems to be on the mend as you can see from the picture he was more interested in playing with the laundry basket than helping fold the socks. (I can't blame him)