Mike has been traveling a lot so me and the kids have been playing. Jay and Amaya are the cutest little ones. Even though it's not easy to be a single mom, I sure love my kiddos and I am so grateful they are so good for me. Here are some recent pictures of them...
Amaya LOVES to eat!
Jay got this cool wood kit from Aunt Melissa and Uncle Reed for Christmas. We decided to take the shirt off before painting.
In Tucson we love to play outside. It's where we spend most of our day.
I love that my babies love each other. Jay is an amazing big brother. He is quite patient with our yittle My My.
We decided to buy a pass to the Tucson Children's Museum since we often find ourselves with plenty of time and a desire to get out of the house. Jay had a blast there.
So did Amaya, learning how to crawl. She's so close!
Jay has been cracking me up lately with some of the funny/cute things he says. Here are a few gems.
- We were in the doctor's office when Jay took a drink of juice and then started coughing. When I asked him if he was okay he said, "Yeah mommy, I just started coughing because my juice went down the other throat to my arm." I thought about if for a minute before realizing that he meant it went to his
lungs. You know, arms, lungs... potata, potatah.
- I love having two kids. It's so fun seeing them interact with each other. One morning I woke up to hear Jay and Amaya "talking" back and forth. I went into Amaya's room and there was Jay peeking up over the side of her crib smiling at his baby sister. She had a huge grin on her face too. Totally content that brother was there to greet her.
- We were playing trains the other day and some of the trains were being "bad" so Jay decided they needed to go to jail for a while. I told him that maybe we should teach the mean trains to be nice. Jay thought that was a great idea so he proceeded to let Thomas teach the mean trains how to be good. My favorite part though was when Jay had Thomas tell the trains, "I learned how to be nice because my grandma taught me. Now I can teach you!"
- Jay
loves the word toot, as evidenced by the name he gave Amaya, "Tootie." He pretty much uses it all the time to replace... well, any other word he wants. For example I'll say, "Jay what do you want for lunch?" and Jay will respond with, "What do you want for toot?" Then the other day he solidified his feelings for the word toot when he told me, "Mom, toot is my funniest word."
- Jay loves seeing flags. He has seen a lot in his lifetime in the different countries we've visited. He can now recognize when a flag is a United States flag though and he points them out constantly. The other day we mentioned you can also call it an "American" flag. He picked up on this and the other day when we were walking down the street he said, "Hey mom, look! There's a miracle flag!"
- As we were driving home one day Jay saw some cirrus clouds. He said to me, "Those clouds are funny looking. They look like white hair - that's because they're so wooshy."
- Walking out of church one Sunday Jay saw a cement electric box embedded in the ground and said, "Daddy, who died here?"
