Jasper Visits Dada at Work

I had a nice surprise visit at work today by Anastasia, Jasper, and my sister Molly. Jasper took a little tour of the office, then we all went out to lunch at Kell's in Post Alley. 

"Okay Dada, this is all wrong. You don't have a single Elmo on this drawing."

 "We can fix that pretty easily though. Good thing I'm here. Now, you just hit this button over here and..."

"...whoops. Um, I.T. can recover those files right? Gotta go!"

 "Hello. May I scan those for you?"

"This will never go through. It's folded up all weird. How did this place ever get anything done before I got here?"

"Okay, well, my work here is done. See ya!" 

A Tour of Our New Home by Jasper

Oh Hello. What great timing you have, I am just finishing some blueberries and cereal. Let me show you around my new home.

Come with me!

 

This is the dining room. I spend quite a bit of time in this room, in this chair (sigh).

This is the kitchen. I have personally opened each of the lower cabinets and have confirmed they all work.

Here we have the living room. The windows are just low enough for me to be able to look outside and keep an eye on birds, neighbors, and airplanes.

Alright, now we can see my room! I have more space which I really like.

Here is the office, my parents still need to sort through things and get organized. I need to talk to my mom about this photo--it's quite dark.

This is my Mom and Dad's room. It's super boring. They need to pick out a window covering, get some pictures on me on the walls, and buy some bedroom furniture. 

Mom and Dad's bathroom is looking pretty good. There is also the main bathroom, but we don't have a picture of that. It's just a bathroom, you aren't missing much.

This is the deck off of the kitchen and a view of the yard. Oh, Hi Annabelle! Our dog has to be tied up right now, but my dad is working on a fence so she can roam around the yard soon. And you can see the water table my aunt and uncle gave me for my first birthday. I love that toy!

Soon the gravel and garden will become a lawn for me to run around on. My parents have a lot of work to do back here.

Now let's head downstairs. I am getting very good at the stairs by the way.

Here is the guest room where my grandparents stay when they visit!

The guest bathroom.

And can you believe I have a huge playroom? This is pretty cool, it features an ABC mat given to me by my grandma and a railroad activity table my parents found at a garage sale. I find many more toys down here too.

Here's a view from the driveway. You may notice a little blue blowup whale--that is a sprinkler for hot summer days. I gave it a lukewarm, somewhat suspicious reception, so my parents will try again later.

And here is a view from the street. 

This concludes the tour! Did you enjoy my presentation?

Come back any time!

Stuff We've Been Doing Lately

A lot has been going on since Jasper became a one-year-old. We've been so busy lately, we just haven't had time to post any new photos or tend to all the new videos we've taken of Jasper's shenanigans. Soon, however, things will settle down and we'll have time to share some funny videos with you and more regular posts. Why? Because we just bought a new house!

On April 11th, we put our current house up for sale and received an offer that very day! After a few negotiations, we reached mutual acceptance and ever since then, life has been very hectic. I had some work to do to the house to make the buyer happy and of course there was the small matter of finding a new house!

Well, after lots and lots of searching and a few disappointments along the way, we have a new, much larger house waiting for us in North Edmonds! We move next Thursday, which is great because we'll have all of Memorial weekend to get settled in.

That's the news. Now to share a few new-ish photos of Jasper...

Much like his father, Jasper is a big fan of  sweater vests. Socks, not so much.

I'm pretty sure this expression is Jasper's response to me saying, "No, no, you don't look girlie in that outfit at all..."

Happy Easter!

Rollin' with his homegirl, Brecken.

Elmo has been teaching Jasper how to brush his teeth. He loves brushing his teeth!

Jasper has become very helpful around the kitchen, especially with unloading the dishwasher.

Occasionally, we catch Jasper trying to cast a spell on his feet.

Trying to strike a "natural" pose, even though he totally knows the camera is on him.

"Hey Jasper, guess what? Our new house is twice the size of this one. You're going to have twice as many rooms to explore."

"SRSLY!?!?"

"You know what would be great right now, you guys? Some splashy time. Just sayin'."

Jasper's First Birthday!

Anastasia and I will both have more to say on our first year with this amazing little guy, once we get a little more free time. For now, here are some photos from Jasper's birthday party!

All photos by our super awesome friends, Todd and Debbi (Debbi's also my cousin, but I forget that sometimes because we're really good friends. Except when she makes jokes at my expense. Then I remember she's a cousin).

Hello. My Name is Jasper and I am Eleven Months Old

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Bunchie Show. Today I'll be showing you how to properly handle one of these walkers...

 

Now, you'll want to make sure you have both hands on the handlebar, about equidistant from the center and then...

Oh, hold on, everyone, I see my mother over here. Be very quiet, I'm going to surprise her...

RAAAWWRRRRR!!!

Oh no! It's a trap! Everyone save yourselves!