Mommy's Little Helper

Jace loves the vacuum cleaner. He greets it when we get home from somewhere and he'll even tell it goodnight at bedtime and put it to bed in the closet. I just think it's the funniest thing. We got him a toy vacuum for Christmas and he'd still rather play with the regular vacuum. In fact, we found a broken vacuum that someone put on the side of the road and I picked it up because I knew Jace would like it as a toy. But, he still likes our vacuum that we use for cleaning. He's always been a little scared of it when we're actually vacuuming, but I think he's starting to warm up to it. In fact the other day while I was vacuuming up the living room after taking the Christmas tree down, he came and took it from me and decided he would vacuum for me.






So, I guess that's one chore I no longer have to do because I've got a kid that is more than happy to do it for me!

No Naps

Today, we started 1:00 church. We have been really concerned how this is going to be considering that is right when Jace takes a nap. So, anyways, today was the first week of later church. Jace did very well throughout church. I knew he had to be tired. Tonight, I made dinner and Jace was in the highchair. Lance went into the bedroom after eating and I came in to check the computer. Well, all of a sudden, I realized it was too quiet and Jace wasn't telling us he was done or anything with his food. Sure enough, I went in to check on him and found this...

Poor kid fell asleep while he was eating his dinner. His head kept falling onto his sippy cup and he would just lift it right back up still asleep. I guess Sundays routine are going to be church and then bed at like 7:00.

Christmas Time is Here

Okay, so Christmas has now officially passed and it's 2010! Happy New Year everybody. We had a fabulous Christmas and I can't believe it's already over. It just came and went so fast. For Christmas Eve, we went to Lance's parents. They ordered Papa John's pizza (the best!) and we watched Charlie Brown Christmas and The Grinch. Then, we sang Christmas carols. Well, I played Christmas carols and everybody else sang. We also went to my brother's house for a little while and Jace got to open up his Christmas pajamas.


They're flannel Thomas the Train pajamas. It's so crazy because they're size 3 and the top almost doesn't fit him. Can't believe how big Jace is!

Lance's parents also decided to give Jace his presents that night because they just couldn't wait until the morning to do it. The favorite thing he got from them is a snow shovel his size. He pushed that thing around the entire rest of the night and still pushes it around our house. We keep trying to put it out in the garage, but everytime we go anywhere, he manages to find it again and bring it back in the house. Crazy kid. That night, after Jace was in bed, Lance and I decided to exchange gifts so that we could focus on Jace the next morning. Lance got me all of my stuff to do canning this year. I did some canning last year with his mom and had a blast, so now I have all the stuff to do it this year!

Christmas morning was a little interesting. We let Jace sleep in. Luckily, he only slept until about 8:00, so we didn't have to wait all morning for him to get up. He's never been that interested in opening gifts. We gave him his stocking first of all and that may have been a mistake. He got chocolate in his stocking and wouldn't open any gifts until he got to have some candy. Therefore, all of the pictures of him opening his gifts, he has chocolate all over his face. I guess Lance and I had waited long enough to give him his stuff that we weren't patient enough to wash his face before the gift opening. It was hard getting Jace interested in opening his stuff. But once we showed him to unwrap it, he actually got into it. He would open one gift and then wanted to play with it and wouldn't open another gift for a little while.


The main thing Jace got for Christmas is a vacuum. He has an obsession with vacuums. He says goodbye to our vacuum when we leave and it's the first thing he greets when we get back home. In fact, if you ever come over, you'll probably see our vacuum cleaner out because Jace won't keep it in the closet. The vacuum is named Dusty, but Jace calls it "Busty" because he can't make the "d" sound. We were hoping that him having a toy vacuum would solve our problem of him playing with our normal vacuum cleaner, but he knows the difference. He would still rather play with the big vacuum over his toy one. Funny because he's scared to death of the vacuum when I'm vacuuming the house.

Playing with the vacuum after he opened it.


He was so excited about it that he made us take it to Christmas breakfast.

Like I just said, after our house, we went to Lance's parents for their annual Christmas breakfast. Lance's aunt and uncle and cousins came over to eat and then we sang Christmas carols again. Lance's little cousin is about 5 years old and Jace had a blast with her. She acted as a little babysitter for Jace.


They just sat together the whole time and watched a movie together. It was the sweetest thing.

After breakfast at Lance's parents, we went back to my brother's house with my family and opened more stuff. By that time, Jace was tired and he didn't have as much fun.

Anyways, our Christmas was great. Still can't believe it's over. And now it's a new year and a new decade. I'm very interested in seeing what the new year brings. I still haven't set any resolutions. I'm not sure if I will to be completely honest. We hope everyone else had a great holiday season as well!

Sesame Street

I know I'm way behind on my blogging lately. I just don't have much to blog about anymore and honestly, does anyone read this anyway? I always get the desire to blog and then I don't think anyone's going to look at it. But then again...who am I to talk? I look at everyone's blogs and I never comment, so they don't know that I'm there. Then again, I don't blog only for other people. I blog for my own sake too. If I didn't blog, I would never remember what happened in our lives. Anyways...so at the beginning of December, my mom and I decided to take Jace to Sesame Street Live. I had debated back and forth whether to take him, but then last minute, I decided to just do it because he's had a huge obsession with Sesame Street lately. And sure enough, when the show started, I had about the happiest kid alive. He sat down and watched the whole show.


Me and my sweet boy.


All the characters dancing on stage.


Zoey came back to where we were sitting and shook Jace's hand. I didn't catch a picture of it and I wish I would have because he was just so overwhelmed with excitement about it. He is now in love with Zoey and can't stop talking about her.

I think going to Sesame Street has been one of the highlights of Jace's life! And it was totally worth it taking him.