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Here is Jaimin right after waking up this morning. He was so excited to wear his new shirt. He walked around the house singing "walk this way, talk this way." What a weirdo!

Here are a few pictures of Marks birthday. The boys decorated his cake. They also gave him a bird for his gift from them. Jaimin likes to make it kiss our toy bird. Also every year for his birthday we take a trip to the zoo. The boys had a lot of fun unfortunatley Jones spent most of the time in the wagon because he got his cast off 2 days ago and it is very sore.

So this is what I walk in the kitchen and see almost every day. For some reason Jaimin loves to cook eggs, the only thing is he refuses to eat them. Most of the time I will let him make them. I will put them in a dish for him and most of the time he says "no, for Jones"! I think it is kind of cute I just wish he would at least try them. He is the most picky eater I have, I actually got him to eat meat for the first time in 2 years so hopefully one day he will try his eggs.

Well after spending about 4 hours at the doctor today they decided it was fractured. There is a small fracture on the inside of his heel. And they believe he broke the growth plate in his ankle.
He thought he was really cool once he saw the cast on but after a few hours he realized that it can be very annoying. I guess that is what you get for jumping off the stairs.

Here he is at his jumping point. It actually made him nervous to be sitting there so hopefully he won't be jumping again anytime soon.

Do you think they ever learn?

So the other day Jones decided to jump off the side of our stairs from about 8 stairs up, and ended up hurting his ankle. Two days went by and he was still having a hard time walking on it and at times would just crawl. So we took him into the doctor that night for x-rays. As of right now they don't think it is broken but they said there was a lot of swelling around one of the bones. We were told that sometimes the break doesn't show up until after the third or fourth day when it starts to heal. So in a week if he is still walking funny we go back in for more x-rays. Anyway he has to wear an air cast for awhile. As soon as we got home from the doctor he jumped up onto the counter, (another place he likes to jump from). You would think that him hurting his ankle would keep him from going to high places but obviously not. Luckily I walked in just in time to catch him from jumping off. I guess kids are made to keep their parents on their feet.

Going Private

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California Memories

Here is a video of one of the many times Jaimin lost his binky while living in California.

Spring Fever

So I thought I was the only one getting spring fever. Last week the boys decided it was time to start riding again. It was freezing outside but you know boys, they could care less. They had fun but it didn't last long. Jaimin would get stuck somewhere and would lay on the front of his bike saying "yo help, yo help", it was funny. So besides being ready to ride their bikes, their new thing is to go run laps, for some reason they love it. When we get home they head down the driveway and run around the circle. The other day Jai was in the house and just took off and did 3 or 4 laps of going down the driveway, around the circle, and back up the driveway. By the time he did his last lap he could barley get back up the driveway. I guess it is good for them, maybe I should start doing it with them.

ANY SUGGESTIONS?

So I need some help. As most of you know Jones is in Kindergarten this year. He hasn't exactly loved it but he has been fine with going every day. Well out of the blue last week he decided he hated it. I took him in crying because he didn't want to go but I got him to stay. Well 3 days later he did it again, he started crying on the way in and then as soon as I left his classroom he ran out sobbing . I ended up staying for 45 minutes before he calmed down enough to stay by himself. When he got home we had a big talk with him and could not figure out why he didn't want to go other than he didn't like it. So since the big talk he has been fine, until today. As soon as he started getting ready for school the tears started coming. Fortunately I didn't end up staying as long this time but I did have to force him to stay and I had to promise him that after I took Jaimin to school I would come back and sit with him. I ended up going back about an hour later and he said he was fine and I could go home. I don't know what to do, I have talked to his teacher and she is oblivious to anything, the counselor said he would keep an eye on him, and I have tried many different bribes. Has anyone had this problem with any of your kids? If anyone has any suggestions or ideas to what could be wrong or what we can do about it, PLEASE let me know, it breaks my heart that he gets so upset about it. By the way his teacher does nothing to help, she just stands there and looks at me fighting with him, is this normal for a teacher?

What a kid!

What a kid! So Jones is usually really good about helping around the house. Lately he has been extra helpful. The past week he has surprised me a few different times with making beds, vacuuming the whole house, and cleaning the toy room. Well tonight I was laying in bed with Jaimin and I kept hearing Jones in the kitchen doing stuff. I couldn't figure out what it was he was doing because I had already cleaned the kitchen. So I decided to go in and see what he was doing, expecting a big mess. Boy was I wrong, he had set the table with drinks, napkins, and all the utensils and he had made dinner for everyone. He also cleaned up from making dinner. We all had Eggo waffles for dinner. I was shocked. After dinner he put the dishes in the dishwasher and cleaned the house. For some reason he wanted to organize every ones closets. He tried to do mine cuz he said it looked bad with shoes on the floor but I told him that I had just cleaned it. It made him cry, I felt terrible. Luckily he found plenty of other stuff to clean. Man if he keeps this up and Jaimin learns to follow I will be bored with nothing to do. Anyway all I can say is he is going to have one happy wife when he gets older.