Last month in his 20s

So insane.  Today Jayden is 29 months old.  He's such a kid now and so not a baby.  To remind you, this is what he looked like in September 2012:

And this is what he looked like a year ago today, February 12, 2013:

And this is him today, February 12, 2014:

We were all excited for the Duke-Carolina game.  But the Pax winter storm had other ideas.   Oh well, we'll be ready  for next Thursday.

He has de-chubbified like nobody's business.  His face looks like a kid's face, not like a baby face.  It makes me excited and sad at the same time.

So.  Since it's been a whirlwind few weeks and I've barely been functioning, at work or at home, I have a lot of updates.  And I'm going to remember none of them.

Jayden and Gramma had a great time, as was expected.

Outside with Gramma on Friday.

Kicking his heels up in the backyard.

On the swide at the pahk.

Watching the game.

Burying cars in the sand.

 And meanwhile, while he was doing all of that fun stuff, I was doing this:

Kickoff.  Super Bowl XLVIII.

It was all but decided at this point - SEA - HAWKS!!!  Super Bowl Champs!!!
(you can see the Denver fans in the background were not so happy)

Since we got home, we've kept busy.  My job has been one thing after another and Carmen has been busy as well.  We're all incredibly grateful to be home.  We got to spend all of last weekend at home, with very few responsibilities.  Jayden actually came down with a crazy fever on Sunday and was lethargic so the three of us pretty much spent the day on the couch watching movies.  I was worried for Jayden, but it was actually kind of wonderful to be so lazy.  Jayden kicked his fever Sunday night and was perfectly healthy on Monday, thank goodness.  His body seems to do this when he gets exhausted - when he really just needs to sleep his body gets a 16-24  hour fever, as if it's telling him to shut down.  Smart.

We went to a dinner at Carmen's boss' house with the rookie clients.  Jayden gave a few people high fives but spent the rest of the time running around the pool and generally being silly with me and Carmen.

And climbing into this chair so he could be "taw-wer" (taller).  

Friday morning Jayden wanted me to take his picture at breakfast to show him how much yogurt he had on his face.  It actually wasn't that much, compared to normal.  But if Jayden requests a picture be taken, you might as well take advantage of the opportunity.

(after posting, I realized I'd already posted this picture.  Sorry for the repetition.)

Saturday we were back to swim lessons.

There was a lot of splashing.  I had managed to come down with a nasty cold so I sat this one out. Carmen and Jayden had a good time, and one of the other dads was mentioning how much fun he had the weekend before with Gramma in the swimming pool.  :) 

And then we ran some errands at the mall and rode the carousel!

He actually rode on the horse and enjoyed it for the first half.  It was a little too long for his taste and by the second half of the ride he was grabbing at me trying to get off.  He made it the whole ride on the horse, though - it was pretty cool!

Sunday was our low-key day and I didn't feel right forcing pictures on him.  Today I had the day off (thank goodness for my office taking all state court holidays).  I slept a little extra after Carmen and Jayden left, went for a run and did some work for a few hours.  I picked Jayden up early so we were home by a little after 5.  It meant we got to run around in the backyard for a bit, which was wonderful.

Showing me his watch.  Juju found a box of stuff that her daughter had given her that she was done with and Juju gave Jayden a few items.  One was this watch.  It's a Lightning McQueen watch.  Couldn't be more perfect.  Until two minutes after this picture, when the watch was "hurrting" him.  Oh well.

Mommy.  Seriously.  Another picture?

He refused to stand still.  "I wunning Mama!"

Gramma you'll be happy to know that he now sets up his own obstacle courses and makes me run them with him until I get almost sick from dizziness.  It's awesome.  But it is really cute how he sets everything up and tells me exactly what we're supposed to do - "wun awound the chaiw," "jump ovew the bat, mama," "pat the caw and then wun back on the gwass," etc.

Two more days of work and then a three day weekend!  And the only plans this weekend are evening plans for Carmen and me - Katrina is coming to hang out with Jayden.  I'm sure it will be a disaster, but I'm hoping we can give them some time to play together so Jayden can learn to like her.  We'll see how it goes.

Jayden tells me all kinds of things now, which is wonderful.  But it is unclear how much of it is real.  Today at dinner he told me and Carmen that there was a snake at Juju's today. I asked if it was green.  He said no.  I asked if it was yellow.  He said no.  I asked if it was purple with pink polka dots.  He looked at me and said "YYYESSSSSS!!!!" with a sly smile on his face.  And Carmen and I burst out laughing.  He says so many funny things like that, I need to get a voice recorder so that I can record these crazy conversations we have and then relay them to all of you.

I'll work on that.  I'm sure I can do it with my phone if I take the time to figure it out.  I hope everyone is having a good week.  And hopefully I'm back on track with my posting.  :)