Christmas Season

This year is going to be so much fun for J.R. (and us) at Christmas. He understands so much more and almost every morning he tells me that it's Christmas time. We have a ritual in the morning that we've started this Christmas season. After I wake J.R. up at 8:30am (Yes, he's a sleeper like his daddy!) we go down stairs and plug in his little Christmas tree and then he tries to sing Christmas carols... well kind of... Here's a picture of J.R.'s big Christmas tree before presents are under the tree. J.R. thinks that any package that gets delivered to our his is for him so it will be interesting to see how he'll respond to presents that aren't his... a good learning experience for the little guy!

This last weekend I brought out all the Christmas decorations. J.R. LOVED this music box that has Christmas symbols go round and round. I took this picture. He looks so innocent and sweet. I can only imagine what he's thinking!

I've had a long week and it's only Wednesday! I've had a major install and I'm designing other big projects this week. I won't bore you with details but Tony noticed how exhausted I've been the last few days and my hubby cooked dinner. He hasn't cooked dinner for me in years.. literally! He's such a good guy I'm a lucky lady, here's a picture of my big guy cooking!

Now this is priceless! If you notice J.R.'s hockey game is on the couch and there is his piano with a microphone next to the couch. Well he was playing with his hockey game then he decided he needed to sing, "Oh Canada", Canada's national anthem. A few nights ago Uncle Scott and J.R. stood in front of the hockey net and sang the US national anthem with their hands over their hearts. Then they started singing Oh Canada over and over and over again! 

One last funny J.R. story. The other night after J.R. was home from school, he was sitting on the couch watching tv. Out of the blue, he told said, "daddy, my wee wee is getting big like yours". I was in the kitchen and Tony walked over to me trying not to laugh too loud. The funny thing is that same morning after waking up, J.R. was sitting on the couch watching his cartoons while I was getting his breakfast ready and he told me, "mama me wee wee is getting big like yours." I told J.R. that mommy doesn't have a wee wee and J.R. responded, "oh, let me see". I told J.R. he couldn't ask to see girls private parts. I told Tony, he gets to have the SEX talk with his son when he's 16 because I had the wee wee talk with him when he was two! 

Happy Turkey Day!

We went to Grandpa's  house for Thanksgiving this year. Tony, Uncle Scott, J.R. and myself drove to Phoenix the night before and we went to the Coyotes hockey game. J.R. had so much fun, here's a picture of him at the game!

J.R. had fun at grandpa's house. He amused us all for 5 days straight! J.R. asked papa about the band aid on his finger. J.R. has always been fascinated with band aids. Papa said he cut his finger and J.R. told papa that he had to be VERY careful!

Here are some pictures of J.R. at papa's house.

At papa's J.R. gets to sleep with mommy and daddy sleeps on the pullout couch. My favorite time I spend with J.R. is bedtime. He is so sweet! Here's a picture of J.R. pretending to sleep. You can tell by the big smile on his face.

Funny Kid

Just a few things to post, a few funny things that I want to remember when I'm old and grey!

J.R. has been to the er twice in one week, first croup and the second time an ear infection, hopefully this Sunday we can go without an er visit. Anyway, we were coming back from the er last Sunday and he's watching his hockey dvd in the car for the millionth time and he's pointing out daddy's team the Oilers. Tony asks J.R. who's mommy's team and J.R. says she doesn't have a team and he was right! Then Tony asks J.R. who's Uncle Scott's team and he says um, I don't know. Tony told him it was Tampa Bay Lightening. A few days later we were watching the hockey network and J.R. points at the Tampa Bay Lighting hockey player in a commercial and says, that's Scott's team! We all cracked up and couldn't believe he can recognize different teams by their uniforms...

J.R. is so excited to go to a Blackhawks game in January when we're visiting in Chicago. He talks about it everyday! This kid loves, Buzz Lightyear, SpongeBob and hockey, especially the Blackhawks... that's J.R.'s team the Blackhawks! We go to school in Blackhawks attire at least once a week.

It's been a long time since my last post.

Can you believe my little guy is this small. I took this picture a few weeks ago so I'll always remember how small my big guy becomes. He fell asleep in our bed that night and got to spend the night with mommy. J.R. always says he will sleep in daddy's bed and daddy will sleep downstairs on the couch or in the other bedroom.

Here's some fun bedtime pictures. We've started flossing our teeth, that's been pretty comical. J.R. loves the picture of him with his fists out, he does this all the time. It's pretty funny!

Here are some pictures of J.R. at his school Halloween party. I volunteered that day for 3 hours at his school, the best 3 hours of my week. J.R. was Buzz Light year from Toy Story! The bottom picture is his favorite teacher he had over the summer, Miss Alexis. He loves her and I think that's his first crush! She comes to babysit sometimes and he blushes.. I've never seen him act like this only with Miss Alexis.

Here's J.R. on Halloween night. We went to our old neighborhood and hung out with Margie and Bill. J.R. had a blast... we all loved it and missed our old neighbors!

We went to a Wrangler's hockey game and Uncle Scott came with... A wonderful older woman got a puck that came over the net who sat next to me. She gave the puck to J.R. and he slept with that puck for a week. He was SO happy and celebrated all night!

Here are some fun pictures of J.R. over the last few weeks. The first picture is J.R. playing around the house. The other two were from last Friday, date night for J.R. and mommy. We went to see Puss and Boots then had french fries and ranch after the movie.

 This is just a funny thing I don't want to forget and can't resit posting. Over the weekend J.R. had a baseball game. After the game we had a birthday party for a friend and when we got home J.R. got out of the car and said, "Mama take my hat, it killed my hair." I couldn't believe my ears and asked him to repeat what he just said. He continued as he pulled up some locks of his hair, "look my hat killed my hair." J.R. is his father's son, this guy is a riot.

At 1am last night, I heard J.R. cough. I still have his video monitor going and he's almost 3 years old.. I laugh that it will be there until he moves out of our house... Anyway, he coughed and went into his room and he was wheezing and not catching his breath. I yelled at Tony we were going to the emergency room. As I walked in the ER, the nurse heard his cough, saw my stark white face and said, "Oh honey, he is fine, he has croup. This is the best thing he could have because we'll give him a shot, it will open his throat and he'll be fine." Color then returns to my face then I see Tony running into the ER with the same white face and she tells him the same thing. Thinking back I have to laugh, the doctor's and nurse's at ER's must get some crazy looking parents... Tony and I were those parents last night!

Here's a picture of J.R. taking a nap in daddy's bed with mommy this afternoon. He's recovering quickly!

A good laugh!

Monday night Tony was grabbing his computer to skype with his parents and he told J.R. to go over to his computer. J.R. responded, "I have to make this goal first, okay boss?" We all busted out laughing... Tony calls me boss.. whenever I ask Tony to do something he typically responds, "Okay boss!"

Last night Todd and Kevin were over and they played with J.R. for a little while. I took J.R. upstairs for our nightly Sponge Bob while Todd and Kevin were still at our house. After a few minutes of Sponge Bob J.R. asked, "Did Todd leave?" I responded, "maybe". J.R. asked, "Did he leave in his Porsche car?" I told him no so then J.R. asked, "Did he leave in his Ferrari?" I died laughing...... this is Tony's son!

J.R.'s first baseball game!

 So we had J.R.'s first t-ball game this weekend. It was such good comedy watching 3 and 4 year olds try to play baseball. We had a blast! J.R. is the youngest on his team, he'll be 3 in 3 months. He did really well, he hit the ball pretty far and played first base. He typically doesn't like to field and only likes to bat (just like his daddy and mommy) but during the game he LOVED playing first base. We think he liked the fact everyone had to throw the ball to him then he got to throw the ball to home. I got some great videos! We have now gone from practice twice a week to only having a game every Saturday. I LOVED his uniform, it was SO adorable seeing my little guy's name on the back of his uniform. I'm sure this is first of many uniforms we buy!

Daddy getting J.R. ready putting on his baseball socks!

This made me smile!

Playing catch with his teammates.

This was adorable. The coach had them line up and spread their legs against the fence!



Beautiful sunny day!

We had a fun weekend. J.R. wore his current favorite monkey pj's to bed Saturday night and part of the day Sunday. I ran errands Sunday afternoon and when I got home Daddy and Uncle Scott finally changed my little guy into an outfit. Here's some pictures of J.R. in his fav pj's with his tummy showing!

Here's J.R. at mommy's work, well kind of, I work out of my home office but we just installed some furniture at the VA clinic in NW Vegas and had to stop by while our guys were working late Friday night. This is the main feature item in the clinic, the bubble machine,J.R. was fascinated as were we all.. this thing was so amazing!

I know this blog is about J.R. but I have to post something about the best buy I have ever made in my life! Here are some shoes that I purchased during a silent auction on Thursday night. These are designer Lanvin shoes that I stole for $75.00. I'm still shocked I was the highest bidder and still smiling.. guess this means I have to buy the "perfect' outfit!

I'm giggling to myself right now looking at this picture! This is J.R. this morning before he went to school. Yes, he was emphatic about wearing this to school. Not exactly what I would pick but hey we have to pick our battles right? He wore his hockey shirt, hockey pants and hockey socks... all purchased by Nana and Papa in Chicago!





Scared of the dark!

We had a full day and didn't get J.R. down for his nap until 3pm so we woke him up at 6pm and headed to the batting cages which is across town. By the time we got there it was 7pm and dark. The past few months J.R. has not liked the dark. If it's dark you have to hold him or at the very least hold his hand. He falls asleep with his light on in his bedroom and we have to turn it off later in the night. It didn't occur to us that J.R. would have an issue batting in the dark.. there's lights.. right... well it was a no go! He wouldn't even get in the batters box! Tony and I batted but J.R. watched. We won' t try that again.. at night anyway.

We ran errands today, J.R., Sandi and myself. J.R. was adorable! I went into a shoe store to try on shoes and J.R. helped me like I always help him. He would grab the shoe and hold it on the ground and put my foot in the shoe. Here's a picture.

Here's a picture of J.R. hugging Sandi from behind. Sandi watched J.R. for us last night. We had a wedding to go to. Here's a picture of us before we left the house. I realize with all this J.R. mania, I rarely take pictures of Tony and myself. The tux Tony is wearing was the same Gucci tux he wore at our wedding. I must say, he still looks handsome!

Lastly, here's a picture of J.R. in his favorite place, our bedroom watching Sponge Bob before he goes to bed. By the way, J.R. can now show you one, two or three fingers when he's trying to negotiate how many episodes he gets to watch!