Ding Dong - Who's Home?

Jasper LOVES to ring the doorbell.

Mike usually indulges him a few times too many when they come home each night after walking down to the mailbox.

We snapped these shots on Easter Sunday. I am sad to say that they are the best photos we got of any of us! Not exactly your traditional Easter photos.

Traveling Family Home Evening

Tonight we walked over to my friend Kerri's house. We gave her some yellow roses from our backyard and enjoyed having Family Home Evening outside in her backyard.

The weather was perfect and we enjoyed seeing the fruits of Kerri and her husband's labors in their newly landscaped backyard.

We had a lesson the Resurrection and then we went inside so Kerri could play "Jesus has Risen" for our closing song. Jasper had a great time plunking away on the piano with Kerri.

I am posting videos of Jasper at the piano for my folks. Enjoy!

Helping Hands

Today I was standing at the island writing out some Thank You cards, and of course my little buddy had to get in on the action.

Jasper climbed right up on his stool and clamoured through the cards.

I decided the easiest way to help him feel a part of things was to trace his tiny hand on the inside on each of the cards.

Jasper was thrilled to participate and be in on things.

Favorite Reads

Jasper's current favorite reads are The Friend magazine and some Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme cards.

Jasper likes you to read him ALL 26 of the Nursery Rhyme cards at nap time AND bedtime. So...I now hum "Three Blind Mice" and whistle "Mary had a Little Lamb" all day long.

The Nursery Rhyme cards are 8 x 10 and laminated. Jasper can manhandle them with minimal damage. Which is good, because I think that Jasper has a crush on Little Miss Muffet. That's his favorite card.

His favorite part about The Friend is the "Friends in the News" section with pictures of other kids.

The neighbor girls are on Spring Break and they came over to play with Jasper today.

When I went upstairs I found all 3 girls and Jasper in his play tent. They were taking turns reading Jasper his nursery rhyme cards one at a time. It was really sweet. They also took him on a bike ride around the neighborhood, which he loved.

Easter Egg Hunt

This morning was Jasper's first Easter Egg Hunt hosted by our church's play group.

Jasper was thrilled when he spotted the big slide as we pulled up to the Mission Hills Park. He went up and down slide over and over and over.

Miss E. joined us on our adventure and was Jasper's personal egg hunt assistant.

I was able to distract Jasper from the slide for a few minutes and so we could have our own little egg hunt while the adults were still hiding the eggs.

There were a lot of kids there, and I figured that once the big kids were let loose Jasper wouldn't have a chance to look for any eggs.

It took Jasper 2 seconds to figure out that the eggs popped open and candy spilled out. He shoved as many jellybeans in his mouth as he could.

But after that it was back to the slide for Jasper.

He had his ball radar on at the park and ran over to see if he could join the kids who had a baseball and the family who was playing with a beach ball.

More Hummus Please

Jasper is addicted to hummus. I've blogged about if before, but his love of hummus seems to be increasing. This morning during our morning snack Jasper kept reaching out for more!

I gave in and bought some Babbas Hummus and chips at the Costco roadshow last week. It was sheer torture to drag Jasper away from the sample table. We ended up getting the Jalepeno and Cilantro and Avacado and Cliantro hummus. It is so good!

Piano Man

Jasper pounded out the notes for the opening and closing songs for Family Home Evening tonight on his little star piano.

Our lesson tonight was "I Will Be Reverent". It went right along with the fact that we are trying to teach Jasper how to fold his arms and sit still during prayers. If you have any suggestions --please let me know.

Berry-licious

Mike treated us to his famous Belgian waffles on Saturday and Sunday.

These huge strawberries made them even more delicious!

Monster Truck Massage

While we were in Utah, Jasper walked on my dad's back and let those little toes work some magic on his back.

Jasper has increased his massage repertoire to now include the use of his favorite truck.

The wheels actually work really well to get down into those troubled spots. He even offers a calf massage.

Roses are Red....and Pink and White and Yellow

While Mike was at the General Priesthood Meeting on Saturday Jasper and I made a run to Star Nursery to see if any of the rose bushes that are on sale were left.

Jasper LOVES to ride in the wagons. We go up and down the isles talking about all the plants while Jasper yells "Wheee".

We came home with some pink and white hybrid tea roses.

We are currently enjoying the blooms of the yellow roses that we bought last week.

Lake Mead Drive

We went shopping for a spa tonight. We ended up getting a tour of the factory, which was very interesting.

Afterward we took a nice drive out to Lake Mead to look around. It was too windy out to walk around, but we did have a beautiful drive.

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

I made Jasper squeeze into this 12 month onsie for our day at Disney.

I bought it for him when I was at DisneyWorld for a work conference while I was pregnant with him.

At the time I didn't know if I was having a boy or a girl. I was 13 weeks along, and I just knew I was having a boy.

I just didn't know how cute he would be!

I sang the Mickey Mouse club song while I shot these photos, and as you can see in the last photo, Jasper was singing and dancing along. It's quite a show tune move. Sorry you can't see his jazz hands in the photo.

Disney Day

Jasper and I took a quick trip down to California to take advantage of the promotion at Disneyland to get in free on your birthday.

What a fun day we had!

We drove down the morning of my birthday. We were lucky enough to meet my high school friend Katrina and her daughter Kimberly.

Spending the afternoon and evening with them was wonderful.

Jasper's favorite ride was our first ride, Small World. He loved all of the characters singing to him. I included a 12 second clip from the ride at the end of this post in case you want to get the Small World song stuck in your head.

The Casey Jr. Train was a lot of fun. Jasper let out a big "Wheeeeee" on the roller-coastery part. Waiting in line almost put us under. Overall, the rides were great and standing in line was hard for Jasper. He did not want to stand still.

The meltdown continued on the Carousel. Luckily the refried beans at that Cocina Cucamonga Mexican Grill helped to settle Jasper down.

Jasper and Kimberly liked the Tikki Room. The birds were very enchanting to them. Katrina and I really enjoyed our Dole Pineapple Whip.

We hit the Pirates of the Caribbean and again Jasper let out a few "Wheeee's" on the 2 waterfalls. Katrina always had us sit at the front of the boats so the kids could have an unobstructed view.

Jasper's favorite part of the Jungle Cruise was when the baby elephant squirted his outstretched hand. We topped the night off enjoying the fireworks display.

The kids were absolutely exhausted at the end of the day. (Actually, we all were).

Note the kettle corn on top of the stroller. Katrina bought us each a bag to nibble on during our drive to her house. We both love Kettle Corn.

Thanks for a great day Hiramoto ladies!