Sarah and Adam: The Next Generation

Zorricks and Sealups, Yeah

Today, upon returning from the aquarium, Jasper announced, "Baby Sturgeons are called Zorricks, and big boy sturgeons are called Sealups, because they are like grownups."  The logic of the three year old mind still amazes!

Gus has entered the phase where "yeah" is his all purpose answer.

Me: "Gus, what did you do today?"
Gus: "Yeah."

Just now, as we spoke of Hawaii, Jasper asked, "Is Mama Yaya going to come on the airplane all the way with us to Hawaii on vacation?"

J quotes

Jasper's on fire this morning:
"I need a drink to help me calm down."

Describing Adam's breakfast cereal, which Jasper was sharing and which Adam was trying to cheerlead to Jasper as a great new cereal: "It has lots of fiver [fiber] in it!"

And Gus, last night, from his crib between 12:30-12:40 am until Adam finally gave in: "Daddy right now! Daddy right now!"

I'm going to spill my oil, just kiss you

Jasper has decided that he is Jay Jay the Jet Plane. (A character from a PBS show that he got to watch a few weeks ago when he was sick.) He carries this to extremes:
"I need some fuel!" (I'm hungry)
"You hurt my wheel." (After someone injured his foot.)
"I'm going to spill my oil." (I need to pee.)

Also, Jasper has now been potty trained for about 3 weeks. We keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but, so far, it's been great!

Gus has been having a hard time sleeping lately, and we've fallen into one of those slippery slope traps, where, after we lay him down, he stands up and says, "Just hug you!" or "Just kiss you."  He took it a step further, recently, "Just kiss you!" The other day he said, "A big kiss, a big kiss." Then after he got his big kiss, he said, "A litle kiss, a little kiss." Needless to say, this was not conducive to sleeping, and we've had to make a rule against any hugging or kissing after one enters the crib. (We do a lot of hugging and kissing prior to bedtime to make up for it, though!)

Another funny thing about Gus these days, he's gotten very particular about his beverages. He likes warm milk, but then recently started to distinguish between soy milk and cows milk. So when he orders his milk up these days, he'll ask for "Warm soy milk," or "Cold cow's milk."  Today Gus actually asked for "Warm water."

Videos from last fall

These are a few videos from last fall that it's taken us a REALLY long time to edit and post. Sorry!

The Obama catechism, and zoo animals: a long rambling conversation with Jasper


Gus medley


A visit from Diane & Harvey


Lots of singing from Jasper, and a little from Gus


Bob the Builder stories--Jasper's favorite characters

A few anecdotes

I say, “we’re going to go to Hawaii”, and Gus gets this panicked look, and burst out with, “Bring Kitty! I bring kitty, too!”

The other night, at bed time, Gus starts kissing all of his stuffed animals goodnight. He gets to the end of the row, where his power drill is sitting on top of a bookshelf, and he leans down and kisses the power drill, too.

Jasper has become quite the little boy.  Today when I came home from work, he said, "I'm so glad to see you!!"  And then when we were watching a Blue's Clues podcast, Jasper exclaimed, "I love this!"

Tonight, at the dinner table, after I suggested we might have refried beans, Jasper thinks it over, and a minute later, says, "I love those guys. I love those black guys. I love those little black bean guys."