Home, (Freezing @*^#$^) Sweet Home

we arrived home yesterday late afternoon from a week-long vacation at camp papa and mama. we had a great time and i got a little reprieve from being a 24/7 mommy-on-call. thank you mom and dad for helping me out with the little ones. hard to believe it was nearly a week - it went so fast and i don't even think my folks were sick of us yet! i would have stayed longer, but it's supposed to be minus 7,000,000 degrees the next few days and we weren't too jazzed to be driving in that and i do have a very important superbowl party to be here for. priorities, people. anywho, we had a lot of fun hanging out with my folks and my sister-in-law, jess, was in town for a day so she finally got to meet jasper and we got to hang out for a night so it was fun to see her too.

annie discovered Cinderella while at grandma's house. it's "ella? ella?" nonstop. we must have watched that movie (on VHS) about 6 times and that might be an underestimate. i was just amazed that she could - for the most part - sit still for that long. might be almost time to take her to her first movie. i can't wait. she'll probably pass out from the enormity of it all. she's so used to our teeny tv that when she sees a movie on the big screen, it'll just be too much for her.

what else? hmmm... japper is doing great. he's getting big. i swear. he loves to sit up now. you know, he can't do it yet, but he really wants to and prefers to be held in a sitting position. his latest trick is when we put him in his car seat, he leans way forward so his head is like this. every time i look in my rear view mirror and see him slumped forward like that i think about how if i were britney spears, the social services people would be after me. seriously though, japper does this to himself. you can try to put his head back, but he fights you for it. stubborn. also on the japper front: we are going to get some rice cereal today and get him going on that. i think he's going through a growth spurt - he's been waking up between 3 and 5am the past few nights and he's staaaarving...so i think he needs some more substance. cereal time! woo hoo! he still won't take a damn bottle to save his life, so i don't know how cereal will go but we're going to go for it anyway.

i'm way behind in my monthly updates too, so be looking for those to come soon. have a good day - and thank you to Punxsutawney Phil who didn't see his shadow today and promises us an early spring! yay!