Feeding the Ducks!

Duck Time!!

We went to Golden Ponds to feed the ducks. I had been wanting to take Jadeyn duck feeding for weeks, but wasn't sure if I could contain him well enough to keep him from following a duck in the water. I'm sure glad we waited for Kevin. Jadeyn was ecstatic to see the ducks and geese and had no fear of running out among them, or chasing them back into the water. He had a blast! Only one bummer. A "duck lady" showed up right after we did with a bag full of bread and kind of took over in the feeding area. She stole all our ducks away calling, "here babies, come here babies!" Kinda strange.
What a beautiful fall day. Since we had an early snow and really cold days, all of the leaves that hadn't changed yet have simply died and are falling off just dark green instead of red or gold. Its a bummer to have missed out on all the beauty that we normally have. Now that those cold days are over, we are enjoying the gorgeous 60 degree fall days again!

Coloring

Jadeyn loves to color and mostly tries to stay on the paper. I've received lots of helpful advice from friends and family as to the best methods for getting crayon off of tile floors! Why is the red so much harder to remove than the blue?!?? Jadeyn's favorite color crayon is green: light green, forest green, bright green...he will always find the green!

Our little intellectual

Our Little Intellectual Boy!


Well, at least WE think that he is brilliant. Here he is trying on mama's glasses. Aww! How cute!

Colorful Fall

Fall is here again. From the sound of the weather report, winter will be right around the corner so we have to enjoy every second of the beautiful crisp fall air. Jadeyn and I played in the leaves today and had a blast. He couldn't quite get the concept of tossing the leaves in the air, but he had to have succeeded with a few of them, since I found a few leaves in his diaper later on. How did those leaves get past the jacket, sweater, onsie and jeans!?! I put Jadeyn to work early raking the leaves. We didn't get much accomplished, but oh well, it'll be fun to rake again tomorrow!!

Cross-Eyed

Its probably not the best thing for an Optometrist to teach his son...but Jadeyn was a quick learner. He has learned to go cross-eyed!! In this video we only caught just a brief glimpse of it right at the beginning of the video, but its pretty dang cute!

One last fishing trip!

We went out for one last fishing trip before winter arrives. We decided not to can't because the weather was only supposed to get to 50 degrees, so we went to Flatirons Reservoir for the day. Not bad fishing, but the trout were all pretty small. No bother, we had a blast anyway. Jadeyn and I occupied ourselves in the rocks,m dirt, leaves, mud etc while Kevin fished.

Jadeyn even got to keep up his tradition on napping by the side of the lake again. I can't think of much more adorable than that. While he napped, we read by the lake. Perfect.
When we were packing up to leave, we both must have turned our backs for just a moment and heard Jadeyn scream. Oh dear: he was about five feet out in the lake in water up to his knees but drenched head to toe!!! He had done so well for five hours, then just as were are ready to go home, what does he do?! He had gone in after a leaf, tripped, faceplanted in the water but hopped back up so fast! Once we got his coat and pants off he was as happy as a clam again!!
Fun day!

Cookie Dough

Ahhh! He's definitly our boy. Jadeyn has several little quirks about himself that reflect us excactly. As seen in this picture: HE LOVES COOKIE DOUGH and chocolate and sweets...etc etc etc! Well, that one might not impress you much, but here's another one. He is carrying on the Johnson trait of refusing to eat the last bite of food on his plate. Even if he can't see the plate, or yogurt container or whatever he is eating: he will refuse the last bite! Sorry to say: he got that one from me. He is a big time organizer: Kevin's trait, not mine. If a drawer is left open, he will close it. He will line his toys and shoes up (then he might mess up the whole thing right after though!).
These are just some small example of our little squirt emulating his parents. Hopefully we can teach him the good ones!