Snow

This morning we work up to 14 inches of snow. We were hoping that Jay would have a snow day but because the snow had stopped before dawn, he got out of bed and shoveled the snow. It took Jay about 2 hours to shovel all of the snow before he headed off to work.Amy stayed inside the warm house with Chase checking on Jay periodically throughout the morning.

Vacuuming At The Grandparents

Sunday afternoon we went to Griff and Barb’s house to celebrate Gwen birthday. Chase has a lot of toys to choose from when he is at their house. Today’s favorite toy was the play vacuum cleaner. He vacuumed the living room, the hallway and the front room before crashing to the floor by the sliding glass doors.

If only we could get Chase to use our real Rainbow vacuum cleaner. Someday that day will come, and we cannot wait!

Modeling After His Peers

Saturday night we had several of our friends over. While the adults were talking, the kids had a lot of time to play together. First they played with the toys on the carpet.
Caden and Luke then moved into the kitchen where they proceeded to race the cars on the floor. Chase quickly picked up on how much fun that was and he started to model them.

Amy had to get a video of Chase learning the best way to race cars.

Reading Time

The past several days, Chase has shown some interest in reading. He loves his chair and every now and then he will grab a book, hop up into the chair and read...
for a few seconds. Then he has to find something else to explore.

Sometimes he grabs a book and sits in the next best place, the Lego table.

Sometimes he doesn’t even grab a book, but instead gets up to date with current events by reading the newspaper.

And still other times he just sits with daddy while they read about current events on the World Wide Web...Daddy on the computer and Chase on his "Smart Phone", I mean Leapfrog Learning Phone.

Eating With A Fork

This morning Chase enjoyed some play time in the cabinet. If you have not tried it, clanging pots and pans sounds awesome early in the morning.
For breakfast, Chase was eating some toast and we have been working on his fork skills. Today he finally understood how to work the fork.

We are not sure what to make of the grunting sounds heard at the 30 second mark, but if you have any suggestions, please be sure to let us know.

Chase has the spoon down and now the fork, but we think that we will wait a few years before we introduce the knife.

BOO BOO

Today Chase got his first really big boo boo. Thankfully he was not in our care at the time or we would have felt really bad. After work, Jay went to pick up Chase at a friend’s house. When he walked in to the house, he found out that Chase had fell a half an hour earlier and that he had quite a big bump on his forehead. It turns out that Chase was very unlucky because he hit a coffee table and the only part of the coffee table that was not padded were the corners. This is exactly where Chase hit.

Being that Chase is an active boy, we think that there may be many more bump and bruises along the way. Hopefully Chase will NOT be like Jay and we will be able to keep him out of the emergency room getting stitches.

Feeding Time

Tonight Jay was eating his dinner, and as usual Chase was begging for some of his food. We put some Cheerios on Jay’s plate and when Chase begged, Jay gave him some. Baby saw that Chase was successful in begging, so he then decided to beg Chase for some Cheerios. Chase gave in but felt the need to feed Baby by hand. Baby took the food and Chase laughed and laughed and laughed.
Check out the video. So funny!

Amy Goes Back To Work

We tried to figure out a way for Amy to stay home with Chase, but right now is not the best time for that. Although Amy was extremely sad to leave Chase and go back to work, he will be in great hands. Amy’s sister, Gwen will be watching Chase when we are at work and we knew that he would have a lot of fun playing with his cousins, Braydon and Addison. We were right.

Hopefully he does not get too accustomed to Braydon and Addison and start asking for a brother or sister.