As Promised....

As promised, I am posting two videos of Jamey that I just love. Both are also on my Facebook. The first shows some of Jamey's talking skills.

And here is one that shows that Jamey knows just what to do when we do "Ein Prosit" at the end of our dance shows. This is what we sing as a toast, and during it, we wave our arms in the air, like we are waving around a mug of beer. Apparently, Jamey has been paying attention.

There-ya-go.....

It has been a good amount of time since I have updated Jamey's blog. Now that he is walking... no, running... I spend most of my time trying to keep up with where he is going and what he is getting into. Today, while Glenn was cleaning up the kitchen after dinner, he disappeared into the kitchen and came back around the corner and immediately dumped the tin of roughly 100 straws that he had found. This was almost as good as the time when he dumped the box of roughly 1000 coffee stirrers when we visited school. Lucky for me, he helped clean up, by handing me the straws to put away.

In any case, I am going to put in a few little snippets of Jamey now-a-days. In one month, he has become quite mobile and quite vocal. From week to week, he changes in that way. About two weeks ago, he had his 15 month appointment, which left him with a positive result and an all-clear from the doctor. He is now 24 lbs (45%) and is in the 80% for height. Determined not to disappoint in the brains department, he is STILL in the 95% for head size.

-As many people have already said to me, you never realize some of the phrases you say ALL THE TIME, until your 15 month old child begins to say them. Luckily for me, one of those things is "Thank you". However, I realize now that every time I give something to Jamey, I say, "There you go." And how do I know this? A good amount of the time, when Jamey hands me something, he follows it with a quick, "There you go", which sounds more like, "There-go". Be careful, though, because it sounds much like his "Thank you".

Other phrases he can do: Up, Tickle Tickle, Gabba Gabba (in reference to his favorite TV show), ball, apple, banana, more, milk, buh-bye, and hi. Of course, there are many Mama's and Dada's mixed in there too.

-Like parents, like baby: Jamey's new favorite snack is croutons. One afternoon, while I was cooking, he went into the pantry and pulled out the bright blue bag of croutons. When I put it back, he went back a few minutes later and selected the same bag. So I gave him a few. After that, it was pretty standard for him to push past all the other bags of food in the way in order get out those croutons. It has gotten to the point where we have to hide the croutons because that is all he wants. One day, he mistook the "Lipton's Ready to Make Tomato Pasta" for his croutons and demanded to snack on it. Instead, we just made the pasta as part of our dinner.

Both Glenn and I, as children, LOVED croutons. We sat at the dinner table the other night, reminiscing about how we used to have our parents smuggle plates of croutons for us from the salad bar. Apparently, even these types of things are genetic.

A video of Jamey talking is soon to follow.... Until then, here is a picture of Jamey and Christopher at one of our shows!