And another one bites the dust

And by that I mean another weekend ends and we're back to work tomorrow.  So sad.

We had a good weekend, but it was full of errands and busy-ness.  Swim lessons yesterday were good, although I think Jayden was a little traumatized by sitting down in the shallow end last week.  He arched his head back anytime we got him close to the water.  Ms Stacy (the teacher) is great and she gave us all kind of tips so that we don't push him and make it worse going forward.  He did get his face wet, but we didn't push him to go all the way under too much.

Saturday and Sunday we spent some time at a shopping mall, going to a couple grocery stores and generally chasing our nineteen month old everywhere.

Thursday night Carmen was home late, after bedtime.  Jayden was touching the chair Carmen usually sits in and asking "Daddy?"  He also tried to put on Carmen's flip flop over his shoe and was walking around.  On Friday I was home late and apparently Jayden was doing the same thing - touching the chair I usually sit in and going "Mommy?"  It's amazing how much he understands.

These are the toys at the mall that you put quarters in and they start moving.  Jayden was so excited to sit in the toy.  As soon as Carmen and I scrounged up the 75 cents and it started moving he freaked out and grabbed for me.  Hilarious.  We were only a little bummed that we lost our quarters.  Carmen was a little more bummed than me when he saw the gumball machines a few minutes later.

This was his "Jayden, smile!" face.  So sad.  Hopefully this isn't what it looks like for the rest of his life.

Goofing off at home.

"Posing" for the picture with Mama.  Clearly I did something wrong here.

Cruising Lowe's in the coolest shopping cart ever.  

This week hopefully won't be too bad, although Carmen will be out of town Thursday and Friday which will make life a little more difficult.  And then it will be the weekend again!  It's terrible to live weekend to weekend, but sometimes that's the way it has to be.

Jayden is a monster, in the best way ever.  He copies everything we say.  He says "pweez" when I ask him to - most of the time.  If I tell him to say "Come on Daddy," he goes "Cama Dah-dee."  It's hilarious and oh so cute.  We're trying to teach him "sorry," so that when he hurts me, which is about 86 times a day, he says "sah-wee" also.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  He says "blueberry" ("boo-berr") and waffle ("wha-ff") for breakfast in the morning.  He is still obsessed with agua, so we talk about agua quite a bit.  It really is impressive how quickly he picks things up once he's ready.  When we went to his 18 month appointment Carmen and I estimated he was saying 10-12 words and that might have been a little generous.  Now he's probably saying 40 words or some other ridiculous number.

A quick note for anyone wanting to buy him clothes:
He has about 20 shirts and 10-15 pairs of pants in the 2T range.  So if you're in the market for clothes for Jayden, 3T would be the next size up.  He probably won't be wearing these until next fall, so fall-type clothes are best - although we are in California so it's not like the weather will be all that different.  Also, since he spends most of his days at daycare, t-shirts are the most comfortable.  He is super cute in the collared shirts, but he's by far the best-dressed kid at daycare.