Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Visit to Arkansas




Well we had quite the adventure to go visit Robyn's parents in Arkansas in early August. Robyn discovered the joy of 6 hours of flying with an almost 1 year old all by her self - lucky, lucky, mommy! Not really - sweet Jens picked flight day as his day to skip all his naps, we flew stand-by on Northwest airlines and there was only one seat left on the plane out of Portland so Robyn and Jens went and Jason tried 2 more flights and finally got out the second day. We had a great time visiting.

Jens got to see his grandparents, his Uncle CJ, and his great grandmother! Jens had about 3 baths every day, by the time he was done feeding himself in the high chair, crawling in all the dirt outside, and be viciously licked by puppy dogs! He also the cats were great, especially the yellow and white cat Merlin, who is in the photo. Jens was very busy discovering his new territory at the Robyn's parents and even found that he could perfectly fit in the dog's water dish (oh that was real exciting). Also the great joy in Jens' eyes when he found the over sized frying pan and how well he could fit into it, the week was a lot of fun at laughing with Jens as he discovered new things to do with his time


Thursday, August 7, 2008

Birthday Party!




Can you believe it - Jens is already one! So we celebrated with a small party in his honor - he was only there an hour before nap time, but none the less we had a great time. Jens got to have some actually birthday cake - yes just a small bite - mom let him smear frosting all over his face that was his favorite part. Jens had a party on Saturday and on his actual birthday - cousin Kaleigh and Aunt Janice came over with another cupcake for him and to sing to him.


Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Swimming lessons




Jens has been doing daily "swimming lessons" with mommy at the local pool. We are officially an "angelfish" and Jens is doing really well - he is getting used to the water and will kick around a little bit and float on his tummy. Most of the time he just really enjoys watching all the big kids goes down the slide, but he does love floating around and splashing. Daddy even got to take Jens out for some pool time too.