Jay’s Blog
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Jay was dressed up super cute on Sunday so we had some fun doing a shoot. Cas of course jumped right in too!
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Right before we came to Turkey, Ben’s Dad came to visit and help the ‘Love Kiev’ team that came from our home church in Canada. He brought Jay a little model of a Concord plane and explained the concept of ‘super sonic.’ Well, Jay has decided that everything that goes fast is ‘Super Sonic’ and…
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This week was Jay’s potty party! What a celebration it was – eating and drinking, salty snacks and sweet treats and every yummy drink you can think of. Oh baby! Well, he’s done extremely well. What a great little guy growing up way too fast! He makes us so proud every day. Being a great…
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An exciting Easter surprise came in the mail: an activity book, chocolates, and a sticker album from Nanna and Grandpa! But the best part of all for Jay was the singing card! He wouldn’t stop pressing that button! Finally for bed we had to hide them away, only of course to be found the next…
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The middle child, there are all sorts of books written about being one, but I’ve never been one, so it is interesting raising Jay. Now that Cassie is off at school it is tempting to be able to get a whole bunch of things done during the mornings while Kai is sleeping, but I’m resisting…
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Skyping with Grandma! For many, sitting down and having a little chat with Grandma is no big deal. But our kids do most of that over skype, so it was quite impressive when Jay stopped flicking the light switches and running down the hallway long enough to put on the headphones and have a little…
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Jay loves to talk. It is so great because he has lots of interesting ideas and he is starting to reason really well. If we ask him “Jay, why do you keep banging the truck against the table?” a few weeks ago he would just answer, “Because I am.” Now he says, “Because I like…
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Yup, Jay is entering the why stage. It only started about two days ago but yesterday he really got on a kick. The interrogation began when I went to change his bum. “Why Daddy?”“Because when we eat we put food in your body, so we excrete what we don’t use, the waste.”“Why?”“Well we have to…
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“Inukshuk Mommy, that’s a big inukshuk.” A little context for you? About four days ago we built some inukshuk by the front gate of our house. They are small things, around the kids knees in size. But we had a lot of fun making them together. And of course, we used flat stones that balance…
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Anyone who knows Ben knows that he is the typical younger brother. He loves to bug people, tease them, and drive them a little crazy (especially if they have a good sense of humour). Well, Jay is just like his daddy. He loves to bug Cassie already. It causes many little squabbles, but underneath…
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I’m Lovin’ It! It’s true that those words usually refer to McDonald’s (which I can recognize from a long distance), but this time they refer to the joyride that Uncle Mike provided. Unbelievably, they took apart a little bike, packed it in a suitcase and flew all the way to Ukraine with it. So on…
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We love this little man. So cute, playful, happy, tagging along with his big sister, sharing, running, watching Daddy, he’s amazing! He’s also mischevious. Well, maybe too curious is a better way to describe him. He loves playing with water. In the bath, he drives his cars through it, then fills the cups and then…
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“It’s my favorite!” Considering everything is his favourite, he doesn’t quite get the concept, but it sure is cute how he emphasizes the word favourite like nothing else will ever compare, until he finds the next toy, or type of food!
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Jay asked his first full question today. Ben was lying on the couch today and Jay asked him, “Are you reading the bible Daddy?” Totally grammatically correct! :) It was so cute. I love how he talks, even the mistakes he makes are cute. My precious children!
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Mater and Lightening the Queen (spelling purposely wrong). These are Jay’s favorite heroes. “Watch the cars movie” is a line that we hear all day long, but it is so sweet how he loves cars and trains and airplanes. He has a special ‘Trucks’ drawer for all of his vehicles and it is open all…
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Jay has discovered high heels. Yes, one day he might regret this is recorded in his blog, but for now it is so cute! He gets out Mommy’s shoes, or Cassie’s shoes and says ‘Hiheels’ (all one word of course), and then he stomps around the apartment! We move into a house in a week…
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We have tried to miss Jay’s afternoon naptime a few days in a row. It is hard to stay home in the afternoons when you are on vacation and want to go exploring, but after two dinners of a screaming Jay we have decided that we will make afternoon naps a priority! Budapest will just…
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I am beginning to think that the term ‘Verbal Processor’ is really just a way of describing someone who talks ALOT! But there is just no better way to describe Jay. Every thought he has is verbalized and repeated over and over until he is acknowledged. Right now he is on a boat kick. Because…
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It is hard to believe that during this past month in Georgia he has learned an enormous amount of words. Please, Thank you (in French, English and Russian), Sorry, Careful, Airplane, Train…pretty much anything you ask him to repeat he will learn. The ability of a child to learn languages is amazing! He has also…
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We wake up every morning to the screaming words, “Momma, Momma” coming from Jay’s playpen. If it takes us too long to get there, he moves on to “Dadda, Dadda”. And from there straight to freaking out – so we try to make it there before that happens… After picking him up, he immediately begins…
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