Javan loves pushing harrison in the stroller

The juggler showing Javan how to juggle. Since then Javan talks about juggling all the time.

Labor day weekend fun!

Well, we had quite the busy Labor day weekend!

Friday night we went to the Kansas City Irish Festival at Crown Center.  Lots of good food and music and we got Javan an all evening pass to the inflatable jumping rides.  It was great because we  went with some new friends Adam and Angela (I babysit for their baby, Harrison) and its nice to begin to develop a friendship with them.  He had a BLAST.

Saturday morning, I already blogged about Angela and I went farmers marketing and Javan and Lance went to the home depot workshop.  Afterwards Javan went to our new babysitter's house, Nancy.  Nancy has a little daughter named Alex and a small daycare in her home so they played and played and did crafts and I was really happy to have Javan there while we went to Lance's friends wedding.  The wedding was a golf theme and it was on a golf course.  They had the most spectacular weather for an outdoor wedding and it was, of course, beautiful!  After the cake cutting at the reception, Lance and I left and went for a walk around the golf course... a looong walk... in the dark...didn't really think that one through. haha. But we had fun (even thought we got a *little* bit lost on the paths :-)  It was so nice to have some time to talk and enjoy the quiet.

Sunday was housework day :-) Lance put vents in our soffits while I stood at the bottom of the REALLY tall ladder (like I'm going to actually be able to do anything if her fell...haha)  Then we touched up some paint and Lance painted our mailbox. The exterior of the house is really looking nice now.

Monday we went to the Renaissance festival and met up Shane and Shana there.  Sooo fun and the weather was perfect!  On the way back we decided to skip the home cooked meal and hit Ruby Tuesdays.  We were pleasantly surprised to find out that between 3-6 everyday its 1/2 price appetizers.  So, we got a nice meal for only $15 including the tip!!!

Today Chad picked up Javan, so its just me and Harrison :-) I've already had the highlight of my day when Javan gave me a hug goodbye he sweetly whispered in my ear "I agape love you, mommy" Which isn't something Javan always says to me... its like he knew I needed to hear that today :-)

Now, off to cleaning and laundry....

I will post some pics soon.  My waterbottle leaked in my bag at the festival yesterday and ruined our brand new camera!  Can't believe it! So, we have to take it back to the store today and hope we can return it.  When we get a new camera, I will post pics.  In the meantime I have a few i can post that are from our phones.

Javan quote of the day...

"If you don't want to play with me... fine, then I will play with you!"

The football holder made by Javan

Lance and Javan at the Home Depot Kids workshop. Jav is making a little stool or a football holder (depending on how you look at it). Meanwhile mommy got to go to the farmers market with a friend. Woo hoo!!!

Well check

Today Javan has his well check visit.  In the car on the way there Javan said "I am the bravest in the world."  I asked why and he explained  that he's not afraid of "spiders, snakes, thunderstorms...." and he mentioned a few other things that I can't quite remember... 

Anyway, healthy as a horse :-) 37.8 lbs 42.4 inches 57% for weight and 82%  for height.  The md told me that next year he has to get 4 shots before kindergarten so if I wanted to break them up and give him some this year, I can.  I said... "No, I'd rather wait until he is a little older" she was fine with that and left the room to get something.  While she was gone, Javan said .... "Am I going to get a shot today?" I told him "no, not until next year... unless you want to". Jav:  "I'm brave, mommy"  Me: "Ok, so you want a shot?"

And so he did....my brave little one got just ONE shot and did so great! No tears! He didn't like the bandaid though and the first thing he did was take it off in the car.  he said that next year when he gets three shots he is going to take the bandaid off right away too! 

Harrison!!!!!

I am constantly overhearing Javan yell "Harrison....!!!!" usually followed by a stop that or don't touch that or something along those lines...

Today it was....."I am TRYING to make the coolest fort in the WORLD [loudly screaming the word "world" and drawing it out so the word lasted a few seconds....] ....and you keep knocking it down!!!

Its almost as good as sibling rivalry... actually its better because Harrison goes home at the end of the day ;-)

And Javan says...

"...and then we will make it really dark and put on a movie and it will be as COOL AS ICE..... "

Pretty sure this song isn't in my ipod so I'm not sure where he got it from but it was hilarious.

In case you have never heard of the song cold as ice by Foreigner....

should I ever have low self esteem....

i don't think it is possible to have low self esteem when I'm hanging out with you and Lance.  I think Lance's constant compliments are wearing off on you.  haha.

Today I was looking at some pictures of a friends fb page and one popped up with me in it.  You point to the picture and says "Who's that pretty girl?" and then looked at me with your adorable little grin.  Love YOU!!

The things you say...

**Last night I was laying with you before bed and you leaned over and hugged me and said "Your beautiful, Mommy."  I said ..."Aw, thank you" then you laid there and thought about it for a minute and said "Actually, your more beautiful than anything I've ever seen"  

**Today we were talking about Lance's house and how we are trying to sell it to someone.  I told you that when we sell Lance's house we might be able to sell our house.  Javan asked where we will live.  I said "well, we will buy a new house" and he goes "how will it fit?"  How will what fit, Javan?  "How will the house fit in the store??" hahaha.  

Ran out of milk...

So we made muffins :) Much to Javan's delight!!

boredom

This is Javan getting creative in the face of boredom. He created a fort out of our rocking chair (something that happens daily) and is "reading" in there.

A work of art

Javan drew a picture of me and Lance and Javan jumping on a cloud....ok its an abstract picture... Haha. Whatever. I think its totally AWESOME!!

Parenting at its best!

In an effort to get Javan to eat his broccoli raw I told him "Hey did you know that if you eat lots of broccoli - it makes you TOOT!!!" Hey, it worked! You do what you need to do, right? hahaha

Things I never thought I'd say...

My good friend Lara wrote in her blog a list of things that she never thought would ever come out of her mouth. In keeping with that tradition, I thought I'd compile my own list. Well, just 2 things that were said this week that were blogworthy:

1. If you point that finger gun at me ONE MORE TIME....!!!!

2. I don't care HOW hungry you are... you don't eat PAPER! 

(this was after her, apparently feeling guilty, ran upstairs and said "I was hungry, mommy, that's why I ate the paper..." Gotta love it when kids rat themselves out!!

New blogging abilities :-)

Thanks to my good friend Lara I learned how to send blog posts to my blog through my email.  SUPER COOL!! Maybe I can actually keep up with updates of the Jav-man! So, this is my test blog post. Lets see how it goes......

What is your favorite color

What's your favorite color?

The question of the day. Everyone you talk to, you has to poll their answers... what is your favorite color....

and then you respond, "My favorite color is ALL OF THEM"

You have asked me what my favorite color is so many times now that NOW I have to SING my answer. Apparently, just answering the question in a regular voice isn't as exciting.... or something.

It all started around Thanksgiving someone asked you what your favorite color was. I'm not sure if anyone had ever taken the time to ask you that question. Your answer was "Brown" but since then you started asking EVERYONE what their favorite color was.

And then you asked Tayton. And her answer was "All of them, because they are all great colors."

What a great answer!!

So, from then on that has been your answer. You still enjoy finding out what everyone else's favorite color. I tried to get you to switch it up and ask what your favorite animal is....

but no. you are just fascinated with colors right now.

Today we watched "A Christmas Story" for the first time. This movie has been one of my all time favorites at Christmas time for several years now.

Oh man.

There were so many parts in that movie that I know you were just laughing because I was laughing histerically but you had no IDEA what was so funny.

I love to hear your laugh.

When the movie was over I asked you what your favorite part was. I was expecting you to say "when he got the bb gun for Christmas" or "when the boy got his tongue stuck to the pole" something really funny like that.

but no.

Your favorite part was "when the boy with the wolf hat got him and then he was crying in the cupboard."

seriously?!?!? I guess I will never understand since I'm a girl. Nomatter. I loved sitting on the couch with you and giggling with you.

ps. this might be the last Christmas we watch that movie until you are a little older. Censorship was a little more lax in the 80's.

A great day and a Doppelganger

Today was an awesome day with you. You were just so adorable and we had so much fun together!

We were in the kitchen and out of nowhere you gave me a huge hug and said "You are the BEST mom ever!!!"

I needed to hear that. As hard as I try, there are times that I feel like I'm just not cut out for this job. I'm glad to know that, to you, I'm the best mom....

Then, later today we were sitting on the floor playing a matching game where you match to letter to the picture. So, I picked up the picture of an umbrella and said "This one is tricky because you call this a brella but it is actually pronounced UMbrella. U U what letter makes that sound?" and with that sweet little smile you say "The Letter U like in U love me!" *melt*

I got a letter from a women whose 8 year old son decided to google his name and found Javan's blog. Believe it or not, there is another Javan Conder out there. He lives in KY and check out this photo of him... you kind of look alike (it might just be the spikey hair)!!! Bizarre!