Kids say the darndest things...

Jonathan has been on a roll lately. Not only is he of half a mind (in or out) he has kept us laughing at his adorable conversation. Last Friday night we went to PeiWie chinese for dinner and Jon Jon wanted to save his chopsticks. I had already brought him a spare set so that he could use it on his leftovers, but somehow he made it to the car with his already used set. Jason took them away and told him to get into the car. I was putting Spencer in the back seat at the time that Jon got in and he said with his sad little face, "Mommy, I'm fired." I replied, "Do you know what fired means?" and continued to explain that fired means that you have a job and someone takes it away from you. Then Jason got in the car and Jon Jon-still sad, said "I lost my job.". It was so cute and funny. What a crack up! Saturday we went to the Spiderwick movie with the kids and after the show Jonathan ran out of the room to the arcade. Jason found him there a few minutes later. The next time I saw him he said: "Mommy, I lost my job again". I wonder if this is going to be the thing he says whenever he gets into trouble.
Last night we went to visit my Mom in Orem. As we were leaving I noticed in my rear-view mirror that there were two deer behind me. I was glad that I looked before backing up. I said:
"Jonathan, look at the deer!" By that time the were in the neighbor's yard and were standing very still. Jonathan finally found them and declared: "They're their pets!"
Now that would be interesting to have 2 does as pets!
What a funny bunny!

Half a mind

What a relief! I've finally finished the series 7 and 63 FINRA exams! Now that is out of the way, I can get down and do some serious blogging...

Things are going well here on the Jason Gray family front. The boys are over their colds, and Spencer is over his bronchitis. Spencer is rolling around like crazy, and now army crawling using his elbows and toes to inch toward whatever it is he wants at the moment. He is also becoming very forceful in his opinions. Jon-Jon is coming up with some crazy stuff recently. A few nights ago, they were getting ready for bed, and Jonah said to Jon-Jon, "You're out of your mind!" To which Jon-Jon's rejoinder was: "I'm not out of my mind! I'm half in my mind, and half out of my mind!!"

It snowed today, again. I absolutely cannot wait until June and Carlsbad/San Diego!!

Happy Valentine's Day

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Bad Medicine...

I'm sure Jason will come and make this better. This is officially my first blog on our family site. We had a lot of fun at Peter's party tonight. Hope he had a happy b-day. I am actually working right now, but it is rather slow late at night. I am also listening to Spencer cry his head off in his crib. Poor little guy has had a lot to contend with this week. First I took him to the Doctor for his 6 mo. check up and Dr. Allred alterted me to the fact that this seemingly happy child had a double ear infection and prescribed an antibiotic treatment. Spencer is such a happy child. The nurse came in and gave him 4 shots in his legs and he cried until I picked him up (about 10 seconds). Once picked up he immediately stopped crying and smiled at the nurse. She was very surprised and stated that usually she gets the opposite reaction-in other words the babies are afraid of her after she gives them nasty shots. Well, we went home and started on Spencer's treatment. 3 days later I realized that Spencer had had a fever for the last 2 days-when the medicine should have been getting him better, he seemed worse. He was coughing terribly and not sleeping well-even though he was on the meds. I took him to the Dr. again and he said that the ears looked much better, but that his lungs have Bronchitis. He gave him a breathing treatment at the office and sent us home with a lovely breathing mask (what baby wouldn't love that) and medicine chamber to give another Albuterol treatment every 4 hours. The treatment did seem to help him sleep better. Skip to 2 days later with a baby boy completely covered in hives from head-to-toe. Dr. visit #3. Spencer is allergic to Amoxicillin-just like Jonathan, AND the ear infection is back. So now we have to wait 2 days to start the new round of antibiotics just to make sure he isn't allergic to this new one. During that 48 hours we alternated motrin and tylenol as well as benedryl and albuterol. Poor kid has just about had it! So tonight he gets a yeast infection!!!! Bring on the Monistat! He is amazingly happy for all the medicines he is on. (oh, except when you put him to bed:) I hope we get through this one pronto!

Did someone say Valentine's Day?

Well, people are sick at our house too...Jonah and Jonathan have been going in circles with colds (Jonah stayed home from school for a week), and Spencer suffered his first, which caused a double ear infection, and now has settled into bronchitis. Fun fun. He remains very cheerful for the most part, despite the bouts of misery and complaining and foul-tasting drugs, the poor thing.

He received 4 shots at the doctor's office the other day. He cried very boisterously for a few seconds, and when Dacia picked him up, he turned on the biggest smile at the nurse, who gave a startled resonse, "Well I've never had THAT reaction before!" Yes, he is our smiling baby, and Dacia has nicknamed him "Smiles". Course, with all the drugs he's on at the moment, I still call him "Thunderpants," though perhaps "Lil Windy" is more appropriate. He just goes on and on. Interesting. He has started clapping, and is also now very mobile. His chosen mode of travel is rolling of course, and he becomes quite frustrated when he rolls himself over to an obstacle that arrests his momentum--like daddy's big, fat foot.



Spencer is also eating solid foods (sometimes), and he pretty much hates anything fruit, or rice. He can handle sweet potatoes at this point. It is really funny, because when he objects to what he is eating, he is quite verbal about it, "Dubl, blb, dbler, bllrlblb," while the food is pushed out of his mouth due to the motions of his little tongue. Pushes the mush right back out, much to Dacia's consternation.

I must admit, that I am a huge fan of the photo montages, because I can put a lot of photos in one space on the blog, and people don't have to scroll way down the page to see them all. And the music. Very cool. Kudos to Heidi Mae for showing us the coolness of it all...