Comments on: Jasper’s First Swim

By: ariana

ariana — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:55:51 +0000

Hi Litsecita,
Wow, what an amazing set of circumstances that brought you here! So glad you decided to stay and get acquainted :)
The song is “Sea of Love” by Catpower.. a cover obviously, but I like how she made it completely her own!

Hope your thesis is coming along well..
Ariana

By: Litsecita

Litsecita — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:19:17 +0000

Hi Ariana!

I only discovered ur blog a week ago and am a huge fan already (the funniest thing is how I found it…I’m writing my master thesis and I’m writing about aid organisations…one of my interview partners mentioned that a specific UN organisation is said to be very bureaucratic, thus having “big head, small legs”…so I wen’t to google if “big head, small legs” is proper English and can be used for my writing…but guess what? I didn’t find anything about UN organisations but the first hit was a mummy blog where somebody was writing about “big head, small legs” of a baby…that was u!!!! ur blog kept my instantly hooked…not good for my thesis – had to take a 3hrs break to read it – but soooo good for my well-being!!! It finally made me laugh again in all those weeks of stressful work :-
)
It keeps me awak and smiling when I’m in the library…
So what I actually wanted to ask:

what’s the song in the video of cute Jasper’s first swim?
It’s wonderful!!

By: ariana

ariana — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:01:14 +0000

I WISH he would wear a hat!! The second I try to put a hat or even the hoodie of his sweatshirt on his head he totally freaks and proceeds to throw a tantrum until it’s off (so strapping it on doesn’t work either!). He’s such a drama queen it’s ridiculous.

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[...] next day we met up with Jeff’s cousins and their three girls and went to Bowline park which I already blogged about (video and all!) but I just wanted to share this picture of Jenny [...]

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:15:36 +0000

P.S. Your little beach bum needs this hat:
http://www.gymboree.com/shop/dept_item.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524445981249&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374306245557&bmUID=1247516053421&productSizeSelected=0

Jake has it and it offers good protection for the back of his head and chest, and he didn’t try to take it off too much!

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:06:30 +0000

Such an adorable video, and thanks for the tip on that fun-looking park! We’re always looking for fun things to do in the area! I love the birthday party idea! We just ended up inviting a ton of people (without realizing it), and I just ordered all the food, and made some cute monkey invites and cake. Usually, I’m the type that has to make/design everything myself, but I’m so glad I got it catered!

By: Sarah Beth

Sarah Beth — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:16:00 +0000

Cute video! He seems to really like the water. Do you just put him in the bath tub now?? Kaity has been in the bath for a while now, just easier. She LOVES to splash around ( which is hard when you have carpet in your bathroom!).

We are planning a huge birthday bash because in our family/exteneded too there 4 birthday’s and our anniversary in 2 weeks span. I made the invites on scrapblog.com and included a scrap page of each Jake (will be 3) and Kaity, then did the invite on there as well and had them printed at Wal-mart. Cheap and so fun! My plan is to do a big cupcake for both of them though, something fun and colorful. No theme really, just FUN!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:41:01 +0000

Great video — looks like you all had a blast — especially Jasper!
I still have three months until Finn’s first, but it sounds like I should get thinking; I have no idea WHAT to do….

By: Keri

Keri — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:02:47 +0000

I love the video and the pool looks fabulous, too! Can’t wait to see what you have planned for the big first birthday party. I need to get on that:-)!

By: jbhat

jbhat — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:07:32 +0000

What a fantastic place! You are so lucky to have it available to you, and it sounds like it would be the perfect place to host Leopalooza.

I think the general rule for a kiddo’s first birthday is that it not be too overwhelming for them and to keep the guest list down to fam and close friends. Our kiddo’s birthday is on New Year’s Eve Day. Pretty much every year, we have done a brunch at our place for family and friends. One year we did that in addition to a party for his PEPs friends at a Children’s Museum, but I prefer the low key brunches, personally. With this next baby, I am looking forward to a summertime birthday for more outside options.

I too wanted to say that it was nice to see Jeff in the pics, and hope that you guys are doing okay.

jbhat