Some Family Notes
The 4 of us went to Chicago last weekend and had a blast. Trish had meetings at the Chicago Ethical Society all day Saturday with her religious education colleagues. Jake and I took Porter and Jessie to the Shedd Aquarium. A good time was had by all. Porter about pulled Jake’s arm out of his socket running around looking at stuff while I wheeled Jessie around in her limo/stroller. He had a blast with the penguins and jumped whenever the dolphins did. There was a lizard he really liked that had a fat tail and shimmery back. He was very tired.
Here’s the real juice though.
When we got off the bus and got situated on the sidewalk I realized that I left the diaper bag on the bus. So, my man Jake chased down a bus (#146 to be precise) in an effort retrieve it. He got it, nary a breath lost, commenting that it felt good to do a sprint. He caught a bus people. Dang. That Uncle Jake is a bad mutha…Shut yo mouth…I’m just talkin’ about Uncle Jake.
Here’s some stuff about our shorties.
- Porter likes to pretend to fall down and act like he’s stepped on banana peel.
- Jessie get’s really excited when she sees a balloon. Starts kicking her legs and spastically vocalizing.
- Little man is doing really really great with his potty training. Since my last post about it he had a severe backslide but has bounced back most stellarly.
- Baby girl is really starting to talk a lot. She babbles all the time and we’re steadily trying to figure out what she means when she says ‘Hah Tah!’.
- Bedtime stories for Porter lately have been involving the ever popular Popsicle Guy, Dr. Octopus, our friend Megan, and Baxter Acres Park (where we go frequently). The subject can be just about anything, depending on the bad guy (most often Mr. Hit, who hits people) but we usually inject a bit of morality into it.
- We had forgotten how much fun it was when Porter would sit up and start to bounce. Jessie does that now and it’s a riot all over again. She responds to music pretty well (seems to like The Beatles), and she absolutely loves to watch someone dance. At Ella’s birthday party recently there was a part where all the kids were dancing around and she almost knocked herself over kicking and bouncing because she was so excited.
- Porter is starting to jump a bit. He can get a little clearance on the vertical and generates much force when leaping onto my back from the couch.
- This morning when I was feeding Jessie I noticed that she was staring at her hand, wiggling her fingers. It seems that she became aware that she has some sort of influence over their movement. Nevermind they’ve been scooping Cheerios into her mouth for a couple months now. That was simple survival instinct, now were close to premeditated eye poking.
- We can look at pictures of Porter when he was 9 months old and see who he is now. When I look at Jessie I try to see who she’s going to look in a couple of years. She’s really filling out and looks so big.
Those are a few notes. I had some swank pictures laid out to accompany but the card in our camera decided it was ready to perform an unauthorized (and frankly unnecessary) reformatting. Oh well. We didn’t really need the past 2 or so months of our kids lives recorded anywhere. A disadvantage to gobs of memory is that we tend to leave pics on there for a while. Used to anyway.
Porter hasn’t done any interviews lately, and the only sounds you get from Jessie are her 2 teeth on the mic. Soon though.
Take care y’all.