Jasper’s Two Year Pediatrician Visit

First of all, the stats!

Wt: 27lbs (and five grams, but who even knows what that means?)

Ht: 34.5″ (Does this mean he’ll only be 5′9″ as an adult?)

Head Circumference: 50cm

Which puts him, for the first time in…

22 Months and the Best Father’s Day Weekend EVER!

Dear Jasper,

Saturday you turned 22 months!  It was also father’s day weekend and I think that we had the best weekend we’ve ever had together.. Saturday we went to your pop-pop’s family picnic in Pennsylvania, they have…

Coming Out of His Shell..

shy guy

For those of you that have been reading for a while, you may remember that Jasper has a bit of a shy streak.. ok, a BIG shy streak. Or maybe it’s more of an independent “I don’t do what…

Jasper’s First Haircut

Of course I was that crazy mamarazzi snapping a million pictures.  Perhaps a little overzealous given the conservative results – we only asked her to clean up the crazy flyaways (see the first picture for the evidence). No buzz cut…

Jasper Counting to 10!

I have no idea if most toddlers Jasper’s age can count, but I never actually practiced or taught him to count so imagine my surprise the other day when I said “One, two three” and he replied “Four, five, six!”…

Mr. Manners

“teatoo for the dental floss mommy!”

This is too funny not to share..

There really aren’t any words that Jasper says regularly that I don’t understand, so imagine my surprise when he started saying what sounded like “boobies” when…

Let’s Discuss: Big Kid Bed?

When we were shopping for cribs I remember just wanting something clean, modern and inexpensive. Whether or not it could convert to a “big boy” bed wasn’t really at the top of my list of priorities.   Imagining my as of…

Jasper Sings Happy Birthday

Actually, I’m not sure this really qualifies as singing, but he says it a whole lot!

Seriously, he’s OBSESSED with happy birthday. It started when one of his daycare classmates had his first birthday last week and everyone sang…

It’s Official, Jasper is a Baby Genius!

Normally I’m fairly tongue in cheek when I proclaim Jasper is brilliant or advanced – (well aware that each child is the second coming in their mommy’s eyes!) but this COMPLETELY floored me:

Neither of us ever taught him…

First Words.. Bye Bye Banana

I’ve neglected to blog about a pretty exciting development over the past few weeks.. Jasper has started talking! Since this is, after all, his virtual baby book, I figured I’d better post it for posterity so when he asks me…