Isms...

If you know Justin and this family, you know English takes on a life of its own in our house.. I had to write down some of these conversations before I forget..

Jbird: To the tune of Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer "OOOOOH, Liv-vun On a PRaaair-ie" ..

Campbell: upon buckling him into the car, leaving the mall..."aaaa!! I have to tinkle sooo bad... the batteries in my tummy just stopped working"

Jbird and friend conversation: "So, Jbird, what do you want to be when you grow up?" .. "I don't know, probaby a professional basketball player".. friend says, "um, hate to crush your dreams, Jadyn, but um, I never even watch girls basketball"... "Ya," says J..."I know, I've been to college games and there is like NO one in the crowd... so I guess I'll probably play on the mens team"

Campbell: En route to pick up Jadyn at school, I tell him I have to run in and give Mrs. Green (aka his buddy Kate's mom) something... "What?? Mrs. Green TURNED INTO A TEACHER??.. in teacher CLOTHES???" he asks...

Oompa Loompa (number 6)

Jadyn's summer has been jammed packed with tons of fun camps, including an amazing drama camp where they put on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Oh, the drama, could not have been more apropos. Overheard in the car on the ride home one day, "you know, comedy is really my thing.. I mean it is really what it's all about". so true, so true. J did awesome, learned a lot, wore makeup and memorized all of her songs and dances... still being used around the house "What do you get from a lot of TV, a pain in the neck and an IQ of 3".. hey, I resent that.

Who can resist??

This cute Brownie selling cookies outside of the local Vons on a rainy Sunday afternoon?? Um, only lame rude people, I guess. Didn't dissuade our Jbird.. She was a stellar salesperson shouting after those weirdos who ignored her "THANKS!! HAVE A GREAT DAY!!"

I hope this doesn't mean she'll be ringing the Salvation Army bell at Christmas.. I'm thinking chanelling that energy into making millions selling ... whatever her little heart desires... right now, her long term goal is working at an ice cream shop.. and she keeps telling everyone "My dad got fired by giving away free scoops, so you can come visit me, but I can't give you anything for free"

Nothing's cooler...

than the SCOOLER... Jadyn's invention for the "invention convention" at school. We are so proud of her.. she thought of this INGENIOUS adaptation to your average scooter. What does the SCOOLER do? Well, in Jadyn's words... this detatchable (industrial strength velcro) cooler, allows you to keep on playing and have your drinks and snacks with you so you don't have to go inside. You can sit on it, you can kneel on it... you can kick it at the park all day with your Scooler.

I don't know why I'm worried about getting another job. I need to patent this thing right away. The envious eyes of other kids as she rode her invention into school on the day we finished.. you should have seen it. By far the best one on display at second grade Open House (yes, she wanted to wear 'teenager shirt' again).

****taking orders now*** Jadyn overheard this morning saying that a Scooler conversion of your ordinary scooter would cost "Four bucks for friends, Five bucks for non-friends" what?? that's like selling yourself short, J!... "well, if you want the whole thing, it's still 60 bucks" um, okay. ********

Kick the year off in (Jbird) style...

with another quotable quote... "Micah has all of these Star Wars toys.. they match the movie.. and they're super old, like from the Two-thousand Eighties, when he was a kid" (ps. Micah is like 28 or something)..coming from someone born in 2001.. I guess the 19- 80s seem like, well, a century ago. wow.

Away in a manger...

A little jaunt to Portland for a quick weekend in the snow and some time with Nana B's MANGE (as Jadyn calls it).. As always, the weekend flew by and we didn't get much done since the snow kept us homebound.

First Grade graduation

Jadyn poses on her last day with her awesome teacher, Miss Schindler....

How did it all fly by? Looking back on the first month of this school year, Jadyn seems so young.. Campbell was just born, everything is a crazy blur. We all really lucked out with such an awesome, caring teacher this year. Jadyn idolizes Miss Schindler and has learned so much... reading, writing, 'rithmatic... in addition to tons of cool artist appreciation projects she did with them, telling time, performing, watching butterflies grow from caterpillars...

As far as non academic growth this year... Jadyn has spent many afternoons feining injuries in the nurses's office, playing basketball with the Jr. High volunteers, making mini-pencils and not eating her home lunch.

On the way home from the last day celebration, I had Jadyn and Taylor in the car. I was eavesdropping on their "recap" from First grade.. reminiscing about the level they just barely missed in math, boys, trouble makers, etc... They then included me in the conversation when Jadyn says "I really want to take gymnastics again".. Taylor echoed her sentiments... and I said, "well, we just haven't had time and probably won't do it this summer.. but when you guys get to college you can do whatever classes you want" (way to give them goals, eh?)... so they got all excited. "YA, when we go to college, we're taking gymnastics for SURE" ..all I could think about was how obsessed Stef and I were when we were that age with Mary Lou Retton and gymnastics (that OUR mom didn't let us take).. and they say you turn into your mom... it's so true.

They asked me what classes I took in college. "Sewing, fashion, yoga, art... and some math, science and english... you can pretty much take classes in any subject you want in college. It's awesome"

"RAD!!" Jadyn says. "I'm taking fashion, 'LECTRIC guitar, and gymnastics"

What a renaissance woman.

Newest Sous-chef in town...

...or SHOE-Chef as Jadyn says.Some of his new favorite things are this musical pot/ pan combo thing that Olivia handed down... and a wooden spoon.

It's a magical life.

Jadyn starred in her first play last week in school. Stone Soup. It was adorable. She didn't have a speaking part, her role was tamborine player. (I'm sure Turners will have some fotos of the event posted.. Justin had the camera, I had the baby).. anyway, her only line was introducing herself after bowing at the end... and singing along in the chorus, of course. She practiced and practiced, but for some reason kept saying "I'm Jadyn Heit, MU-GICIAN number 4".

I'll take it as a complement

As I've mentioned, both Heit children share my love for TV. I have to laugh when Jadyn says "we have to get that" to every infomercial product that looks like it will change our lives, or her toy closet. I was the same way. Love that crap. So I happened to be walking past a "Hanna Montana" intermission and the commercial for the Betty Crocker Cake Decorating Kit was on. As background, Jadyn's entire 5th birthday party was planned around the fact that I was going to make the baseball cake just like the infomercial for the ball-shaped cake pan.. it was a great baseball fest.. and the past few round cakes have been soccer balls... wonder what next year will be??? anyway, I said, "Oh, J, that looks cool, we should get that!" and she sighed, "Too bad we can't. We're not 18" (she must have heard them say "call in with your credit card if you're 18 or older") ???... love her.

Oprah is a brand

Jadyn was helping me make dinner and asked, "why does the spinach say Oprah?" ha!! I'm willing to wager that Vons was banking on that connection to sell more spinach.. and other healthy stuff.

It's endearing when you're 6.5 with a toothless smile...

some priceless Jadynisms to remember...

"are you sending Desiree a tex-mex on your phone?" haaaa.. I love tex-mexing.

" after the shampoo, I need the air-conditioning"

-Isms are still a part of Heit life....

my short term memory just isn't what it once was.. I keep forgetting the hillarious stuff my husband says... till now..

I got an email about "paying the bills" and getting us out of DEPTH...haha

and big sister was in the back seat with Cam..when I asked her what he was doing, she says "oh he's just CHILDREN"... hmm..is that like "chillin'"?

Welcome to your new world, little (teeny) man!

Happy BIRTH day!

Last shot of Campbell "backstage" ... the scariest morning of my life.. I was a wreck.. freaked out about the surgery and still in disbelief that we were about to meet this little human. Before Jadyn left for school, she predicted the baby would be "Chloe"... and Dad and I woke up still deliberating on our choice of boy names

After nearly passing out from the glimpse of the surgery.. Dad has the surprise of his life with his baby boy... of course no event complete witout a good "justinism"...he's wearing his OR "SHrubs"

fresh out!!!

J.bird meets big C for the first time... she's pretty stoked on her "big sis" gifts, too.

the 3 split seconds that he stays swaddled.. his little legs and arms kick out of the burrito wrap in no time.


Thursday afterschool.. officially ONE day old. And big sis is so proud.. wore her "badge" all day. Skipped soccer practice to come visit her bro.



Friday morning in our glamourous hospital room.. He's getting bigger, right?




Big Sister comes for a visit on Friday afternoon. She is the offical "rotector of her baby brother," she told everyone at school... I think that means PROtector... awe, she is her father's daughter.


Campbell in his ONE outfit that fits him... I don't know why the hospital puts newborns in these karate shirts that I swear are size 2T... He was so happy to be in his fitted frenchie onesie. aaah.

After the days and nights that all ran into one another at the hospital were over and it was time for Campbell and me to see the light of day...we were so anxious to get home to our "new" life... and really put that diaper genie to use. ha.

Kirbys welcomed the newest kid on the block... Look out Olivia... you're old news. ;)

First Grade!! Already!

"I was doing a shaka"


Someone was a little bummed at me that her new shoes were still too big this morning... but she was so cute on her big first day... when we were talking about how she is going to have a much longer day than kindergarten she asked , "So, are we just going to do big-kid stuff all day?"... it was a scortcher today as we dropped her off and followed her (psycho parents) to the classroom... sooo hot out in the "desert" where we live?? for the love of god. My pregnant self was sweating bullets and only more mortified when my loving husband kept drawing attention to the makeup running off my face .... despite the heat and my not-so-conspicuous offers to take them home, she INSISTED on wearing jeans "just like Julia"...oh, and some "old" kindergarten buddies reunited on the playground.

Note to self: remember this...

I always say I'm going to write down all of the precious little kid things that Jadyn says before she's not a little kid anymore.. and so many of them have long been forgotten.

yesterday, Jadyn was telling us about Grandpa. He's been in the hospital for a while and we're all worried about him. Jadyn told us she was a little scared at first, but that he was doing good and just needed to practice his words and sounds... "he LUSulally practices the vowels.. like A, E, I, O.." She went on to explain, he has tubes in his nose, so I might not want to go.. it's probably best that she and dad handle it, because she knows how to talk to him. I asked how he sounded; how his voice was, and she said without skipping a beat, "It was really deep... You know, like the low black keys at the end of Beethoven" awe, the innocence of a musical prodigy. (wink)

Sweet dreams

"don't have any night BEARS," says Jadyn on her way to bed.

Classic

A certain 6 year old in our house is learning piano.. she takes vocals, too.. so imagine the sweet sounds coming out of her little pink room. She tells us all she's playing BIG-TOE-Ven...Love it.

Bird's Eye view...

from the mouth and mind of Miss J.Bird Heit... another funny "pearl" of how a 6 year old sees the world.. while taking a bath (no, miss modesty would not allow pictures) she pulls back her shampoo-covered hair and says "Look, I'm a manager" Justin and I looked at eachother after a brief moment of befuddlement and cracked up... the shampoo looked like a hairnet over her head!!!! ha! What a management position to aspire to, dear Jadyn. This is following an afternoon of fine dining at In-N-Out.