Poop Face

Cason has still never slept through the night. The longest he's gone is 4 hours or so. Not that I try THAT hard yet. He won't be learning within the next week or so because he's starting to get a cold. He woke up coughing and sniffling like every 30 minutes last night. It was rough. But we DO need to start making it happen, since another sweet one's headed our way.

His window lets in tons of light all night, from the giant streetlamp on our corner, AND it's really bright on that side of our house in the early morning. So tonight we got some dark curtains to put in his room. Jess and I were sitting on the floor of Caso's room putting them on the rod, while the kids played near us. Paige came over to me with a wet wipe, acting like a mama and cleaning my face. I held my face up and let her clean me up for a minute. When she went to put it in the diaper trash I noticed the wipe warmer wasn't open. Usually if they pull a wipe out they leave it open. So I got nervous and asked Paige where she got the wipe from. She didn't answer, so Jess asked "Did you get it from there?" and pointed at the warmer. She shook her head and said "no." So I asked "Did you get it from there?" and pointed at the diaper trash. "Yeah." she said. Of course. It was a wipe that somehow didn't fall in with the last diaper, and was sitting on the top of the trash. She'd been cleaning my face with a poopy wipe. Awesome. We were cracking up. I of course went straight to wash my face really well.

Cason's been so imaginative lately, it's awesome. He likes cooking with Paige's kitchen, and he puts on an oven mitt when he opens the oven, and I'll usually hear him saying "Hot. hot." He also likes to "clean" the dishes in the sink. He'll put them under the faucet and make the sound: "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". He also crawls around meowing sometimes lately, and the last day or two he "pretends" to be a baby. Because he's so big now. He got on the chaise yesterday and put clothes on him like a blankie, and made gaga sounds while Paige mothered him. She always squeezes his cheeks and says "boogie boogie baby." He liked it. (Yeah, that's the vacuum attachment again, they love that thing for some reason.)
They're both feeling sort of sick. Paige was on the couch with a blanket for hours today. I just let her stay there watching movies because she didn't feel good. Cason is more sick, but he still played. He just screamed his head off if I walked more than 2 feet from him. Ha. Which made it hard to do laundry or cook today. Especially since I was trying to be a good pregnant lady/mom/wife and make a meal involving a lot of vegetables. Hard to chop much when a little fella follows you around the kitchen, screaming with his arms in the air. It also wasn't helping that today I finally started weaning him. Which just meant I wouldn't nurse him from about 11:30 this morning, until tonight at bedtime. He wasn't happy about it though. It was actually a good day, though. He actually had a lot of fun today, when he wasn't feeling emotional. :)

Look at him yesterday, he was cuddling Jess like this for several minutes.
Speaking of emotional, Paige has had meltdowns for a couple of days. Tonight it was because I said she had to eat her soup before she could have any cake. She was SO sad, and angry. She ran to her room and yelled things at us from the doorway. Lately she screams like it's the end of the world and it's our fault. But what she's screaming is usually something nice. So it just ends up being funny instead of upsetting us like she probably wants to. The last week I've heard her scream "MY GRAMA IS GREAT!", "BUT I WANNA BE YOUR DAUGHTER!", and "BUT YOU'RE MY FAVORITE MAMA!!!" Haha. But I mean she's SCREAMING, angrily. And tears are flowing down her face. Weird.

Horse Theft By Helicopter

I got Sixteen Candles from Netflix, because for some reason I was under the impression it would be good. We thought it was pretty dumb. This boy:
was hoping we'd let him stay up late enough to watch. I said something about picking him up and he jumped under our covers and snuggled up as fast as he could. He's a good boy.

Jess and Paige made tons of people out of play-dough this morning. They're all family members, and Jess can point out who each one is. (He can also name more My Little Ponies than anyone else I know, along with their hobbies and personality traits. I love him for it.) They ran out of play-dough before they could make everyone in the family, though.
Jess is awesome at playing with them. I am in some ways, but not like him. I kind of lost some of my little kid imagination, which makes me sad. Not Jess. He and the kids were playing some game one day, with all their toy horses and ponies, and Caso's helicopter and pilot. When I came in they brought me up to speed with a description of the game. All I remember is Jess had named the pilot "Christiano Vasquez". He and another toy were partners, and horse thieves. That's all I remember, but Jess has now told me that Christiano and the Juggernaut (his partner) would steal ponies/horses, and fly them to the mountaintops via helicopter. The other ponies waited for nightfall to go and rescue their friends. Wow. When I play ponies, our ponies say things like "Hi? How have you been? Oh, it's your birthday? Happy birthday. Let's make a cake and have a party." I assume she prefers to play with Jess. Haha.

Christiano Vasquez.

Did I Mention...

...Jacobs baby #3 is on the way?

No?

I know I should call EVERYONE, but I'm lazy. And honestly close friends and family are the only people who care to read my blog, so it's not like strangers found out before you. Ha.

"..Don't Be A Nerd"

Paige just asked me to get her some string, to tie up one of her ponies. Her games always involve some bad guy, usually a pirate, capturing and tying up ponies. I said "There's a ribbon right there that you used last night, get that." So she said "You get it!" I said "No, it's right there, you can get it." She goes "Okay, okay, don't be a nerd." Haha.

Last night I was brushing Paige's teeth and Cason climbed up on the potty and sat straddling it, and said "Potty". Then he said "Cheeeeeeeeeeeese" when Jess came in with the camera.
Don't mind the chocolate drips all over his shirt, we'd just gone to let Grama's dog out to go potty, and they remembered Grama always has fudgesicles in the fridge.

Mystery Science Theater

We were hanging out outside this afternoon, and I looked over to check on the girl, and she'd set up her babies on the swing like this, and was watching them from her playhouse window.
I came over to take a picture, and told her "Cool! I like how you have your babies use the swings." She goes "No, they're just in their beds." Ha.


The other night we set up some blankets on the living room floor and watched The Time Traveler's Wife. Cason wasn't at ALL sleepy, so he watched a little of it before we put him in his crib. He was really into it. He set up his folding chair right in front of us and watched intently. Once in a while he would comment, and I felt like I was watching Mystery Science Theater 3000, with his comments and the silhouette of his head in front of the screen. In one scene the main character goes to get his hair cut, and it shows a closeup of the barber's tools. Cason had been watching quietly, but when he saw the scissors he pointed at the tv and yelled "SHARP!" We were cracking up. It seriously looked so much like Mystery Science Theater I had to get a picture of his little silhouette, but this is the best I could do(and you can't really even tell what it is, sorry):
He also put on a pair of his daddy's (clean) underwear, upside down and with his waist through a leg hole. Then I guess he decided to do some lunges.
He's been repeating things a lot, usually the last word of whatever sentence one of us says. Paige LOVES it. She tells him to say things and then CRACKS up at how he says it. She's been telling me "He says a LOTTA words!"

V Day # 2

We had a wonderful Valentine's Day. We woke up the kids with their cards from us, which Jess picked out and did a PERFECT job.
They were so cute, still looking all sleepy and "reading" their cards.
Then we brought in their little gifts. Cason got a big bouncy ball that lights up, and he was pleased.
Paige got the last My Little Pony they make that she didn't already have. She was VERY pleased.
I made Jess and I some breakfast burritos, and a heart shaped puff pancake for the kids.
After we ate we got right into decorating the cupcakes I made for us last night. They loved it.
Cason didn't last long though, he decorated one and just ate the second one.
Paige wasn't messing around, when she decorates she DECORATES.
She hated the taste of all the sprinkles though, and made me scrape them off for her.

We drove around delivering the cupcakes and some of the Valentines Paige made to a few people, and then met Jenni, Danny, and Rylee at the park. The guys played basketball for a while and Jenni and I talked and let the kids play. It was fun, but I of course forgot to actually USE the camera I made sure to bring with me. When we're home I take 50 pictures a day, but I forget to take any when we go places for some reason.

Paige and Cason got the cutest t shirts from Trudi's good friend Mary. They had velcro on the front, and she made cute little things like this ice cream cone, so they can switch them when they want and have different t shirts.
My favorites are the ice cream cone and cupcake, but I love all of them. (The monsters are dang cute too) Cason's set also has a cute puppy, but I'm not sure where he put it.

V Day # 1

I realized I never posted the other day about something I heard Paige saying when she was playing with her ponies. She had them kind of chasing each other all over the couch. One "jumped" off the couch to the floor, and the one chasing it was yelling down to it, "Because I KNOW what you're up to, Scootaloo! I know what you're up to." Haha, I love that stuff. Anytime she hears me tell Jess something she said like that she'll interrupt and tell us "Oh, no, it's just my ponies are talking." Ha.

I got to sleep in this morning, and when they DID come in to wake me up they did it by delivering Valentines. Jess bought a box of cute Pixar Valentines, and they "signed" them for me. Paige brought 3 in and Cason had 1, and they brought them in to me. So cute.
Paige's "signature":
and Casons, in pencil:
I love them. Best Valentines ever.

Tonight Grammy babysat so Jess and I could go to dinner. It WAS our Valentine's Day dinner, but we wanted to go to the Thai place, so we went tonight because they're not open on Sunday. It was delicious, and I even got my gifts. This, finally out on dvd:
THIS locket, which he picked out himself, and I LOVE:
I was supposed to get to sneak out to shop for him, but it didn't work out, so we went to Hastings and he picked out his own gifts. Which is probably fine with him anyway. He of course was torn between a book and a movie, so I forced him to get both.
Now we will spend tomorrow showering our other little sweets with love, little presents, and cupcakes.