no blog, but new home movies

So I haven't blogged in over a month, but David did make four new home movies. Three are from their Thomas the Train outing and the fourth is when Alex's first met baby Isabelle. Scroll to the bottom of my blog and click on each one. Enjoy!

Baby Isabelle is here!

Isabelle Dawn Jachmann was born at 9:15 am on Friday October 30th, 2009. She weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and was 21 inches long.

She came home from the hospital on Halloween!
Alex welcoming us home from the hospital.
Alex was very excited to see and hold his new baby sister!
Daddy's little pumpkin!
Alex and Isabelle on Sunday morning.

Baby Girl Names

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Visit from Kirstin's family

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Alex's Creation

Ahoy Maties! Check out Alex's master plan to create a ship.

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Homemade Jam and Candied Figs

I'm not normally the type to play Home Ec'y Becky, but this year I took advantage of the $1/pint blueberries and made a batch of freezer jam with five pints and we devoured the other five pints fresh. You read right--I ain't to the point of canning anything yet! Speaking of homemaking skills, Alex and I also made a batch of candied figs this summer as well. Alex loves fresh figs but is enjoying the candied ones as well. He says they're chewy like raisins. My sister turned her nose up to them, but her little boy Dallin enjoyed smacking his lips chewing on them and kept asking for more!

Here's a couple of pics of Alex enjoying a PB & J with the blueberry jam smeared across his face--Joker smile revisited!

Mormon Night at Angel Stadium

We had a fun time going to the annual Mormon Night at Angel Stadium.

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Alex's 1st Swimming Lessons

Alex took swimming lessons for the first time this summer and had a fun time getting more comfortable in the water. His only regret was that they wouldn't let him jump off the high dive!

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Pioneer Day

We had a fun time dressing up at our Stake's Pioneer Breakfast.

Potty Time

Potty time is the most frustrating time for me. Alex is the slowest eater on the face of the planet, but he is even slower in the bathroom. He has been a month in underwear, and he's doing fine going potty, even though he waits till the last possible moment and does the pee pee dance while attempting to pull down his pants. Then, after he goes, he lays down on the bathmat in child's pose until the end of time. I have often threatened to take the rug out of the bathroom and he tells me that would make him sad. I either have to sit in there with him and prompt him thru each step in the process or let him hang out in the bathroom (of all places) for a half an hour on the floor before he runs out naked without flushing or washing his hands. So today, I prompted him from the next room while I was on the computer. When he was done, he came into me with wet hands. I asked him if he dried his hands and he said yes. So I go to use the bathroom a little later and find the towel on the counter soaking wet. I asked him to come in the bathroom for a minute and when he came, he said, "What? Did I leave the light on?".

On a different note, he has been waking up to go potty in the middle of the night. I didn't expect him to be nighttime potty trained for a while. Being 8 months pregnant, I really am not in the mood to get up and help him and quite frankly he doesn't want my help because he's a daddy's boy. Dancing frantically, he wouldn't pull his pants down until daddy arrived. So, I just let David take care of these moonlighting activities.

I'm so tired of the hand holding and wish he would just do these things on his own and at a quicker pace. David called him a slow poke last night at his potty time and he said that made him sad. His frowny face is almost as hilarious as his fake laugh when he wants to join in the fun.

Alex's 3rd Birthday Movies

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Independence Day

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Aquarium of the Pacific

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Alex's 3rd Birthday Photos

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Easter 2009

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European Vacation

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Alex's new bedroom

We were shopping one day and I decided to update Alex's bedroom. Kirstin decorated his bedroom when he was in a crib with a Classic Pooh theme that I already had been collecting. But since his move to his big boy bed, he's had kind of a mismatch of things. So I let Alex pick out a theme at the store and he chose cars and trucks. I changed his Pooh drapes to to cars and trucks, along with his bedding. Alex likes his newly revamped big boy room.

Help Yourself

One day while I was on the computer, Alex said, "Mom, come see!" He had gotten out some Cheerios, a bowl, a spoon and helped himself to a bowl of cereal.

Martin Luther King's Birthday at Disneyland

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Christmas Time 2008