County Fair

Petting a BunnyBest Buds petting a goat
More goat lovin' with Josiah

Jesse's first County Fair was a HUGE success. We literally spent 2 hours in the livestock barns. His favorites were pigs and cows, of course, but loved petting anything that would let him. Had his first funnel cake and corndog too...he couldn't eat those fast enough!

I didn't get much video because it was just too fun experiencing it all with Jesse...but below you will find my only video from the fair, as lame as it is.

Farmin' Fett's

The sunflowers are as tall as Jesse!

Enjoying a tomato from Mommy's garden and then proceeding to spit it out!

Banana pepper...2 more inched until it's mature.

A glance at the garden along the side fence.

The garden in the raised bed.

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Jesse "watering" the squash, zucchini, and cucumber.

Twi-Moms

Oh yes. That really is me in a teeny-bopper Edward t-shirt with a cup that cost me $6 at the movie theater on opening day of Eclipse. And, yup, I bought my ticket a month ago. And did I mention we were an hour early and the first ones in the theater?! I think I have earned the title "Twi-mom" today.

I heart Edward.

A$, we had a moment of silence for you since you couldn't come.

Jesse

Jesse and I are FINALLY on the upside of things here in Kansas and getting into our own groove. I've got the hang of this single mom stuff now too.
We webcam all the time with Garret and every time Garret is amazed at all the new things Jesse is doing. I guess I don,t realize how much is new since I'm with him all the time. His speech is just exploding right now. Here is what Jesse can clearly say now: no, cracker, nite nite, wet, knees, ok, boat, sit, stay, berry, cake, cow, dog, puppy, bye, hi, book, diaper, boobie (yes, that's spelled right!), bra, shoe, boo boo, booty, hair, nose, eyes, mouth, juice, eat, more, all gone, cow, horse, woof, cat, hot, cold, car, bubble, outside, inside, cheese, truck, tractor, fly (as in the insect), apple, pants, shirt, bird, fish, poop, pee pee, potty, help, phone, hot dog, cake, cookie. Here is what he thinks he's saying or has another word for: socks, downstairs, teeth, back (as in put away), bull dozer, buckle, monkey, George (as in the Curious one), air plane, helicopter, motorcycle, slide, balloon, flower, toes, foot, milk, light, dinosaur, snack. Wow, right?! It's no wonder I'm so exhausted at night, my full time job is now translating!
Jesse is quite an outdoors man and "helps" me in our garden and picking up dog poop. He is more aware of the dogs now too, which they don't seem to care for actually...but they sure like him when he's eating though. His big obsessions right now are cars, dinosaurs, and books. I don't put cartoons on much, but he sure loves to watch anything with singing and dancing...I can usually count on him to watch some of So You Think You Can Dance with me the next day.

I'm catching up on things, look for more pictures and a few videos by the end of the week hopefully!

North Carolina

Jesse and I flew into North Carolina for our good friends Josh and Jamie's wedding! All 4 doting grandparents were there too, so Jesse was in all his glory!

For some reason I'm having trouble uploading the other pictures, so there's more on the way if I can get it to work!

April

April has had many ups and downs for the Fett's both in Kansas and Iraq...but we're holding on stong and got thru another month of this deployment! Here are some of our "highs" of April.

Jesse loves to color at the table now.

He built this tower all by himself.

The only way to keep him happy when I'm getting ready now is for him to have his own make-up to put on...sorry Daddy!

I just love this series of videos...he's really showing an interest in his showmanship these days!

Walks

If Sadie and Diva are lucky enough to walk with Jesse and I, this is how we roll.

No ifs, ands, or buts about it...Jesse insists on "walking" Sadie.