What's New With Us!

Just a quick post to say hello to everyone and give a quick update...nothing really going on. Pa got Sage her first big girl bed in an attempt to get her to sleep in her own room. Note to anyone who goes out to buy a mattress, really barter with them. My Dad got them to go from $1,400 to $500 for a Queen with a 10 year warranty. Everyone asks (even the delivery guys) why a 2 year old needs a queen size bed, and we say...well they don't come in Princess size and she gets anything she wants. So last night was our first night in the new bed...I laid in there with her and shut the door and she cried...I want my Daddy...I am pretty sure that Jeramy slept on the floor outside of her room. Her other Grandparents just got back from Australia and Disneyland and brought her this huge Mickey sourdough bread. We finally put Grandpa Cal's chair in the living room and she and Jeramy snuggle on it every night. Lami too. Sage thinks she can sit on Lami and ride her like a horse like she does with Toby, Lami is great, she puts up with it.

We all just got over a nasty cold over here. It was actually Sage's first cold and fever. She HATED the bubble gum medicine, and it was interesting trying to get her to take it...I finally just buckled down pinched her cheeks and clamped her mouth shut. When we went to the doctor she weighed 22 pounds on with clothes, a big jacket, heavy shoes and the nurses hand, so I am guessing she is still around 20 pounds. She may be small but let me tell you she had a BIG attitude! Whenever you try and tell her not to do something she says..."Mom" in a really condisending way and tries to reason her way out of it. I wonder where she learned that.

I went on my first trip away from her since she was born and went clam digging with Jeramy and some friends...but mainly I slept the whole time, I wasn't digging. Jeramy was so sweet he bought me my very own pink clam gun! I ended up out digging him both days, guess it was my new pink gun...lol...We are planning another trip in April to meet up with Katy and Mike like we did last year so that should be really fun!

The first picture of her is her new thing, running around with no shirt on. And she LOVES playing with Jeramy's bino's so he took 2 orange juice bottles and red duct tape and made her very own bino's, which she loves, she runs around the house saying...I see you.

To Sage from Daddy

Daddy's turn to tell you a few things about him like Mom did in your first Blog Book.....

1. Likes hiking near St. Helens in the mountains with his friends.
2. Likes to fish with friends and family.
3. Loves to spend time with family at the beach clam digging (even though mom can out dig him) 4. Even though mom didn't like too, Dad got her to camp because he loves it, and you were 7 months the first time you went.
5. Daddy use to race Moto-Cross, his number was 4. He can't wait to get you your first motorcycle with training wheels.
6. Hates computers, and is yelling at mommy now for making him do this.
7. Has a green thumb in the garden and has the best green peppers!
8. Had to go to Disneyland every summer with your Grandma and Grandpa, liked Space Mountain...Mommy and Daddy went with everyone when we first met, but Mom doesn't like rides and she held all the purses.
9. Everybody calls Daddy, Junior because he works with his Dad...but your cousins call him Uncle Norris from the night Avery was born.
10. Favorite ice cream is chocolate chip mint.
11. Right now Daddy has 10 tattoos including your foot prints from when you were a baby, Mommy's name and Mommy's name in Korean on his ring finger.
12. First concert he ever went to was New Kids on the Block, Mommy's first concert was No Doubt and Weezer.
13. Use to play roller hockey.
14. Was the guy who put out the speed cones at Skateland, Mommy can't skate and after seeing Daddy skate for the first time realized..."I married the speed cone guy"
15. One of Daddy's best friends Robert, who Mommy went to school with, introduced us because Robert and Mommy were neighbors.
16. Has gone to Tahsis 2 times with Andy and the Holmans.
17. Has built scaffolding for 11 years.
18. Loves getting our "group hugs" from wife and daughter.
19. Toby is very much Mommy's dog, while Lami who is very obnoxious is Daddy's dog, even though he will tell you otherwise.
20. Went to Lydia Hawk Elementary, Tumwater Middle and High School.
21. Got a Fish Craft drift boat shortly after meeting Mommy, and you loved going to play in the boat. We also have a jet sled that we have never used since we bought it.
22. Mommy and Daddy's first house was on 58th Ct near our current house on Alder Glen Drive. 23. Daddy's first car was a tan Chevy Monza, who he got from Uncle Dusty's Grandpa.
24. Favorite food is elk backstrap, which Mommy hates!
25. Favorite color are blue and green (the color of your and Daddy's eyes).
26. Has been friends with Uncle Dusty for 24 years, they met when they were 6 years old when they were neighbors on the East Side.
27. Kareoked "Family Tradition" at our reception.
28. Daddy's middle name is Lee, like his Dad...and his first name starts with a J like his Dad and Grandpa Jernigan.
29. Wanted to find out the sex of the baby, but was really glad we didn't so that Daddy could tell everyone in the waiting room It's A Girl!
30. Shot a porcupine in Shelton and it is stuffed in our garage.
31. Played the trumpet in the 5th grade, while Mommy played the violin.
32. Won $5,000 in the largest black mouth tournament in the world with Uncle Andy and Uncle James.
33. The first year Daddy and Mommy were together he shot a 4x6 on Mom's birthday.
34. You got your Daddy's adventourus spirit, and are a dare devil, where Mom is a sissy.
35. Daddy was always worried about you choking on stuff and took 2 Infant CPR classes, and always insisted we have a nose bulb thing with us incase you choked, and gave you the hymlic last Christmas. Everyone was always impressed with how hands on Daddy was. He fed you first, changed you first, and gave you your first bath, because Mommy couldn't because of her c-section and you being in the NICU.
36. Is really good buddies with Uncle Dan, and is on the phone with him right now, and he went clam digging with us a few weekends ago. Daddy fit right in with Mom's family who also bow hunted and loved to fish.
37. Played football for the Lacey Sirens when he was little.
38. Mommy and Daddy called you Peanut, and Sis.
39. Daddy's first job was at Skateland.
40. His favorite cereal is Life Cereal.
41. If he could live anywhere in the world it would be in Alaska, while Mommy prefers Hawaii.
42. Your middle name is Donna after Daddy's Grandma Donna Jernigan who he was very close to.
43. Loves to play in the snow, especially the hill at Lydia Hawk. He can't wait to take you sledding when you are bigger!
44. You and Daddy sleep in the master bedroom, because Mommy can't sleep through all of your kicking and moving, so she got kicked out to the guest room.
45. Likes to feed the squirels and watch Lami try to get them..he use to have a pet squirel when he was little.
46. His first dog's name was Spotty, who was a chihuaha.
47. Favorite pizza is a Meat Lovers Pizza.
48. Was the only Daddy at the meeting Mommy had to go to when I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in a room full of pregnant women. When we got home, Daddy made little snack packs for Mommy and you that we could eat. He would count out the exact amount of chips etc and put them in baggies so we could eat them.
49. Daddy never thought he wanted to be married or have kids, but now that he is, he wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
50. Always says to Mommy every day, "Have I told you how much I love you today." Without fail, every day he says it to Mommy for as long as we have been together.

A Weekend to Remember in Prosser

This last weekend since Jeramy was going fishing with buddies on the Grande Ronde River, I got the chance to spend some time with my cousins East of the mountains. First stop was to Katy's where not only her 4 kids were there, but Emily's 3...soon to be 4 (as she was in Las Vegas) and my 1. So 8 kids in total. I do not know how Katy did it all week...what a stud..I almost broke down the couple of times that I was left alone with them for short periods of time.

After Katy's I got a chance to go visit my Aunt Marlene who is my Grandma's sister and learn more about my grandma that I never thought to ask when she was alive. Such as where she was born...Pacific Beach and that Aunt Marlene was the only one who wasn't born at home. That she went to Olympia Highschool until she dropped out to go work for the telephone company, I learned about her 2 best friends, Dorothy Darcunans and Ruth Jackson, who took her to a dance where she met my Grandpa, He had just returned from the war and recovery from an injury he sustained in his hand. So he went out and bought a fancy suit, but then got in a fight at the dance either over Grandma or about his hand...at any rate Grandma ended up taking him home lol. My Grandma would always tease Aunt Marlene when she was little and upset by saying "Rip A Tip A Now" and would occassionally do so as adults because they were so close. I learned out of all of my Grandma's siblings there were 3 that went by their middle names, Albert "Gene", Helen "Patricia" and Alice "Marlene." And Uncle Buster got his first name because when he was born he didn't cry and the doctor patted him on the butt and said, "come on Buster cry," Grandpa Duncan use to call Thelma "Bill" most likely from his desire to have a boy and his friend Bill. She later drown whe she was only 13. The family moved around alot but Duncan Eddy still holds the world record for the amount of shingles sawed in an 8 hour period..that has still not broken to this day.

It was just really nice to spend this time with Aunt Marlene and learn about not only her and Uncle Roy as well as numerous questions I never thought to ask about my grandma until it was too late.. It dawned on me that I didn't know much about my Grandma until it was too late, so I am fortunate to get a front row seat to the show.

I would encourage all of you to find out as much as you can about the people you care about so that someday you can pass those memories off to the ones you love.

I was so busy this weekend I didn't think to take any pictures, hopefully Auntie Katy took some she can send. But here are some pictures of pictures with my Grandma in them.

Let's see other than that things are going great. Jeramy is working more, and Sage is trying to work us over more, and for the most part getting away with it. It is really hard sometimes to keep a straigh face when she argues with you when she is in trouble. Also, when she was little I was so OCD about anti bacterializing everythingn she would touch...even public toys such as at Chuck E Cheese, I'd always always wash her hand with the countless hand sanitizer I would have on me...never EVER let anything go in her mouth...now, not so much :o) I guess we are all growing up....now I just need to reclaim my spot in my bedroom from her because she (and he) likes to cuddle with his daddy.

Enjoying the Sunshine

While the sun made a brief apperance, even though it was freezing, we decided to take advantage. First we went to Skateland with Jeramy's family (Uncle Sean, Cousins Andrew, Tessa, Alex, Anessa and Great Grandma Yvonne) Sage loves going around in her stroller with her Dad, as Mom refuses to put skates on. Sage also put on her first pair of skates...they were so tiny...she is a much better skater than her Mom!! She didn't want anyone to help her.

Pa and Ma and us went to the zoo. It was so much fun...Sage LOVED the walrus' and did her Pee Wee Herman laugh whenever they would surface. She hated the octopus, but who blames her, those things are gross.

Then on Sunday, Jeramy took us up to Mt St. Helens. Along the way we stopped at resturants we haven't gone to for breakfast and lunch which was fun. Sage spotted a playground while we were there and had so much fun going down the slide, it was hard to get her to leave the slide and Jeramy away from the bino's looking at the hundreds of elk in the valley. On the way out we stopped at one of the center's and enjoyed the view. I have to laugh at Sage in our new Ergo on Jeramy's back...she looked like a frog stuck on his back.

All in all a GREAT weekend, now comes the rain, so we can't wait for summer to be here for good! This weekend we are off to the beach for the clam tides!

Winter Olympics 2010

Now that I am doing these posts as a tangible thing for Sage to have when she grows up, I want her to have as much information as possible.

My dad got her this Vancover Olympics hat when he was up there for work. We are about to watch the opening games. I have been lucky enough to see 2 Olympic Stadiums in the world in Seoul Korea and Barcelona Spain, I look forward to taking Sage to see her first Olympic Stadium in Canada someday. I think I heard that Canada has never won a winter medal before and just heard that there are more people in California than in all of Canada, and that 90% of their population is next to the American border. Although it is off to a bad start with the death of a 21 year old luge'er from the country of Georgia, during practice. There has been much speculation on this course as being the fastest in the world with dangerously steep turns that many deemed as unsafe and questions were even raised before training even began...the last death at a Winter Olympics was in 1992..even the gold medal favorite has crashed during training..many are saying they are being treated as crash test dummies. On the bright side we are realizing how many Olympian's are from Washington and think it is pretty cool. And that Apollo Ono could become the winningest Winter Olympics medalist if he gets 2 medals on the speed skating short track. One to tie, two to hold the record. Plus he won the discoball trophy on Dancing With the Stars, and I believe he is also from Washington. So that is pretty neat!

Sage's vocabulary has been growing so much every day. She is doing her ABC's and will try and say any word you ask her to. She put her shoes on today for the first time. She is becoming quite the helper with giving the dogs their dog food and 9 o'clock treats, helping me with laundry (well taking out the folded laundry I put in the basket) and the dishes (well taking the spoons out of the drawer after I unload the dishwasher and hides them in various places around the house like my pillow case). She is funny too...she has this PeeWee Herman laugh that is hilarious, I will get a post up of a video of her doing that. She is constantly asking questions.."What's That?" and is very inquisitive. You can't really read a book to her, because she grabs it from you and starts reading aloud to herself. She loves going to the park, and I can finally sit on the bench and just let her go, because she climbs up and slides down all by herself...but she cries and cries when she has to come home. We really need to get her in some children's groups as she does not like the gym anymore and cries the whole time, and is very clingy when we go to the Children's Museum. We are still working on getting her into her own room, potty training, and ditching the pacifier...I was so happy to find extras of her favorite blanket at an outlet mall that I bought every one they had so I could substitute while I wash one, and save some if she uses them for a while, even though we tried really hard for her not to have a security item. And of course like every 2 year old, really tests us lately and spends alot of time on her time out turtle. But we are having fun! You really realize how fast all of this goes, I can't believe how big she is getting and how fast is has gone by. I need to remember to blog all of these things so she (and we) can look back and see how far she has come. My friend has a really sick child and knock on wood, and praise God that we have been so lucky so far because I think it is going to be so hard on me that I will probably fall to pieces, but then I think, we made it through the NICU, and bringing home a baby that weighed less than 4 pounds...and like my cousins have told me, the challenges don't end with age, they just change...I can't wait...but Jeramy and I are the very definition of a Helicopter Parent, who constantly hover over her...I call her my Golden Egg since we can't have any more kids, and we fought so hard to get her here safely...that of course we are HUGELY overprotective. Even though when she was a baby we didn't let her out of the house for 2 months, selective people could see her, and we were compulsive on hand sanitizer when she was so small, but now, I saw her sucking on her shoe, eating stuff off the ground, playing in dog food and I am now like...ehhh...but I still issued a shellfish warning the other night and sent her with benedryl, and every other medicine we had like incase she skinned her knee, got stung by a bee, needed mosquito repellant, had tooth or stomach pain. LOL

TuTu

Today we played dress up, and unlike my husband's camo print request, Mommy dressed her in her little tutu. When she had it on she went flying towards the mirror to say "Side to Side" and twirled. She really likes looking at herself in the mirror lol...

Then in the last picture I asked her to show me "The Face" and here it is...she scrunches up her little face and lips...and lately she will do the face and cross her arms across her chest in a grand gesture that starts above her head and then slams into her chest and says "Hmpp". Some times a big, "NOOOOOOO" comes out...Boy are we in trouble or what? Timeout Turtle has been getting alot of use these days...I dont' know where she gets this from (wink wink).

Lazy Dayz With The Jernigans

Today was a very lazy day at the Jernigan household (for some)...and tho I thought she was done taking naps, Daddy came to the rescue and got her to sleep. He has always been great at getting her to go to sleep...me not so much...I took advantage of Jeramy and Sage falling asleep before 9pm and got a bunch of stuff done, so much that I forgot to go to bed! Then I utilized Jeramy being home to catch up on everything while he entertained her. My washer and dryer have not stopped since yesterday morning. Still have not gone to bed yet, but Jeramy keeps laughing at me as I type this saying "your eyes aren't even open" Lol...between not sleeping since Monday night, and doing a marathon laundry, housecleaning sprint while I had someone to help with Sage...I am officially exhausted,

By the looks of it so are Lami and Sage...Lami always has to be right next too Sage no matter where she is, she has always been like that, and it is very sweet. Also, in the mornings Sage's new thing is running back and forth yelling "Mom and Dad" and giving us great big hugs on our legs...Then she gives great big bear hugs to Toby and her buddy Lami..

Ok I am off to take a nap!