Shepard Jones

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

HEADLINE:

Shepard's mom incredibly slack of late due to who knows what

Instead of trying to instantaneously recap the last TWO months, I'll just tell what I loved about the last few days...

Easter-egg dying party

At night when we're settling in for sleep (at long last, usually), Shepard usually turns on his side and throws his arm over me. Like a sleepy side-hug. It's awesome.
Last night, Shepard and Daddy built a "house" out of sofas, stools and pillows in the lounge. Then Shepard decided it was Mommy's birthday and had me over for (fake) cupcakes, (real) dance party, and he and Daddy sang (real) "Happy Birthday" to me. I invited Henry Hugglemonster and friends and Shepard did their voices. I like watching his imagination at work.
Shepard asks me about 492 questions every day. I love his curiosity. I wish it had a shut-off at 9 pm, but I love that he's curious and wants all the answers. Questions lately have included:

Why do we have hair?
Do boogers have nutrients?
Why did the sky go boom-boom last night (thunder)?
Why are eyeballs round?
Why do we have eyelashes?
Why do eyelashes fall out into your eye?
Why is there an American flag there?
Why does Elsa have frozen powers?
Why do you not know?
Why didn't you write the movie?
Why don't you work for Disney?
Why didn't Mr. Disney invite you to work for him?
Is that tree a forevergreen?
Why is sugar a treat food?
Why doesn't it have nutrition?
Why does William have a girl baby (baby sister)?

A few nights ago, Shepard led Gigi and I (with capes) on a mission to blast the bad guy (Pops) with hot rocks and make him go away. We ran through the house yelling and being excited together.
I should have bought stock in Chick-fil-A years ago. I think they put toddler-crack in their food.
This morning when he woke up (in our bed because of the thunderstorm), he asked, "Am I four yet?" Not sure what four holds in store for him, but it's funny because I have a distinct memory of asking my own mom if I would EVER turn 4.

Aren't they cute? Next year we'll do way more. I need my own dozen.

Easter basket in jammies

Friday, February 7, 2014

To the mountains! Part two.

A few more snapshots of the weekend in Tennessee.

From the cabin porch

Great view from the cabin

Thursday, February 6, 2014

We had a little family getaway to celebrate our friend Mike's 40th birthday. This was likely the first trip to the mountains that Shepard will remember. He was very excited about seeing the mountains, the tunnels, the icicles and the leftover snow.

What fun.

Learning about the art of snowball fighting

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Daily Outtakes

Oh man, are we getting to the fun stage of lots of funny replies and musings...

Shepard: "Owwwww owwwww owww! It hurts!"
Me: "What hurts, sweetie?"
S: "My finger. Owwwwwww."
Me: "Aw, let me see..." (going in for the kisses)
S: "I don't need kisses, I need p'roxide."

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"Mommy, why did you paint your fingers?"
Me: "I thought it made them look pretty."
S: "Oh. Are they MAGENTA?"

Yes, he used the word magenta.

February 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

A tiny snow day

We had the tiniest dusting of snow, so of course, we had to suit up and play for a few minutes. This happens only about once a year. Last year, we had a really good one and I made a MOVIE about it. This year, we just snapped some photos. Is this me getting lazier? I hope not.

Is that a HALO!?

Regis loved it.

Monday, December 30, 2013

Have a good holly jolly Christmas

Shepard loved Christmas music this year. Particularly the instrumental "Sleigh Bells" remixed with "Santa Claus' Party" from the Elf soundtrack and "Holly Jolly Christmas." He kept asking why are they saying "Holly Jolly," and all I could come up with was "it means really good." So he sings it "Have a good holly jolly Christmas" now.
The WHYs are killing us. And fascinating. He analyzes EVERYTHING. From pictures in storybooks, "Why is the man driving that truck?" to weather "Why are the clouds smoky?"...to everything. It's non-stop. I'm doing my darndest to answer all of them patiently and with good age-appropriate facts. However, when he asks my why his pee pee has an "egg," I defer to the Husband.
I digress.
Christmas was mostly lovely. After a whirlwind few weeks leading up to the actual vacation (oh Lord, why was it so crazy!?), we were blessed to have a long span of days together with family. We even got our Illinois family for Christmas this year!!! Then, Shepard got a little virus just in time for Christmas Eve, Day and part of the 26th. He was barely sick all year, then got wiped out for the biggest 48 hour timeframe. Sigh.

Here's a photo recap.