2 Peas in a Pod

Joey and Jeanie are such two little peas in a pod! They enjoy playing and causing trouble together!

In this video here there is red sheet that Joey has pretty much adopted into his play things... he has us sit on the rocking chair and tighten up the sheet with our feet on his chair... he then climbs up our legs and when he reaches our face he lets himself slide back scream as he goes acting as if he lost his grip and was falling down a cliff. It is really quite hilarious! He is getting so funny with his pretend play. You also hear the Wii in the background with Super Mario Cart playing. Joey is obsessed with 'making' us play it! He chases us around with the Wii wheels crying, "wace wace!" (race). I guess he just likes watching the different vehicles move!

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Poor Jeanie kept getting the sheet stuck on her head! She loves pulling stuff over her head! Any article of clothing or dish towel she finds in her reach she tries to put it on and keeps pulling it onto her head! She is such a cutie! She tries so hard to keep up and put up with her crazy older brother. She adores him and laughs at so much of what he does! I love the age gap between these two. Sometimes it has been VERY difficult, but it has been worth it!

Park time!

I am very often taking and posting pictures of our happenings at the park... so I apologize if you get bored with those! Joey is always just to cute and funny that I can't really resist trying to keep those fun moments forever and sharing them!

Our walk to the park proved to long! Both tykes were totally out by the time we got there!

Enjoying our snack break!

I tried and tried to get video of Joey preparing to go down the slide with his, "un, two, twee... GO!" When I had the camera out he would only say parts or had to be reminded. I tried several times and also got some more really fun videos of him playing... but I had to refrain from posting them all since that would take tons of your time to watch my little tyke play at the park! This is my favorite segment though- I would have to call it the quintessential Joey at the park. Busy busy busy having fun fun fun!!!! (Not that anyone needed a reminder that Joey is busy :) )

I realized the other day I don't let Joey have much 'artistic' outlet anymore. After our permenant marker and crayon on the couch and walls incidents all of our pens, markers and crayons are so well hidden that I don't even remember where they are. I am not sure if we will do this particular project again but we had a lot of fun. We took some shaving cream and dropped in a few drops of food dye and Voila! We had a 'paint'. It still did dye his skin for a few days but it was fun to play with. We originally started painting using q-tips... but Joey got really creative and started dipping rocks in.

Wonderful dirt

This group of pictures are all taken on the apartments property. As mentioned before they are very much in the middle of some big overhaul of the property and what is going around the property now is lots of piles of cement, dirt, and Joey high weeds. With all that... Joey actually seems to be in heaven with the property in its present state!

I think this mirror and shed are actually just over the property line and belong to the neighbors behind. Jared took these photos with his cell phone... I think they turned out rather neat!

I mentioned before that Joey was in heaven with the piles of dirt... well, it seems like his two new buddies in the complex are pretty much in heaven with it to!

makeup artist

Well here is an embarrassing moment for our normally masculine little boy. I guess while I was in the shower Joey found and used some of my makeup. When I discovered my eyeliner and blush missing I found Joey skillfully applying some to his own face. Instead of hooting and hollering like I normally would I went ahead and grabbed the camera... which to Joey it seemed like even greater punishment.... He DID NOT want his picture taken and the moment instilled forever. "I'm so ashamed..."
-Joey

Picture stay!

A few days ago we were hanging up pictures. Joey observed us holding pictures against the wall and discussing their placement. We went and had dinner and afterward Joey got started on places pictures again! Silly boy!

Just some fun pictures of the kids!

Poor Joey, He was so exhausted and hungry with all of he moving and such! He fell asleep eating a pop tart! And as for how he is sitting... for months he had refused to sit in a high chair anymore... but since this was the only chair available he was all to happy to be in it and just lounged back. I wonder if having the dining area be away from the main area has helped him eat more... before he was always distracted and would rarely eat even if it was something he asked for. Now he seems to be a bottomless pit!

In the last post I talked about all the big trucks outside our apartment. Yesterday I went ahead and found the box that had Joey's trucks.... he was so excited and played with them with new gusto and understanding! In this picture he is yet again asleep! If you knew our son... he does not just lay down and nap or rarely sit still for much of anything. He is like a toy top, just goes and goes and goes and then, falls over!

We are almost moved in. I wanted to take a picture but Jared plans on coming home and putting up shelves and hanging a few more pictures... So I will wait to post pictures until that is done!