Wolvertown

intermittent updates from chronic underachievers

A New Year

So it’s now officially a new year, although we pretty much skip the celebratory fun these days, since bedtime works best at 8 or 9. In the spirit of the new year, how about a few of the new things happening around our house:

  • Jack seems to have a new word or two almost every day now. Some of his most recent include BO-GUL (give me a bagel with cream cheese right now), ALL-DUN (get me out of this seat right now), MOKE (bring me some cold milk in the middle of the night), PEACOCK (peacock). He’s also starting to fight back against his big sister’s incessant hugging and general neck-grabbing. She can’t say we didn’t warn her…
  • Speaking of Lindsay, she has new words all the time now - reading them, that is. I can’t tell you how sweet it is to be driving around and have random words shouted from the back seat as she watches for signs and billboards.
  • New for Jenn and me is a soon-to-be-launched home church here. We still really have no idea what to expect with this one, so we’re just starting to invite everyone we know who might be interested in seeing a new way to “be church.” Students, neighbors, friends, who knows. Anybody who wants to study the bible in a familiar setting is welcome.

Masonisms

throwin’ the dough

Originally uploaded by Kit & Brad

“I like pizza in my mouth.”

“Boys take bath. No, Mama. You can’t come in here!”

“Share at me.”

“We’re a team.”

“Firemen love their work.”

“NO, HOOSH! You can’t come in the kitchen!”

“Go ‘way, mean dog!”

“Na got boots for me.”

“I want mail.”

“Whole lot of noise.”

“Mine!”

“I want my Dada on my fire truck.”

“You can’t do that to me.”

“Mama, READ!”

“Thanks, you’re a nice fire girl.”

Chocolate Cake

chocolate cake

A couple of nights ago, we were sitting around enjoying some of Jenn’s homemade chocolate cake, from my mom’s recipe. It was delicious (and short- lived). Of course, Jack already has learned that doing something funny gets attention from his big sister, so he starts oozing cake pulp from his pursed lips. Lindsay sees what he was doing and says, “Ewww! Look! He’s making icing!”

In addition to his icing-making skills, Jack is starting to walk! Go watch some of his first steps now!

Expanding Wolvertown

Originally uploaded by Kit & Brad

Wolvertown just expanded. Brad, Kit, Mason, and Sydney Wolverton have joined the Wolvertons of Ohio to make an even better Wolvertown.

Dairy Air

Jack’s favorite foods, which seem to change almost daily, include toast with butter, eggs (yolks only, thank you very much), yogurt, shredded cheese, the bottom of his sippy cup, sausage, gravy, sausage gravy, those little crispies from KFC chicken, biscuits (pref. with gravy), pot roast, and many fruits. The combination of all the dairy products coupled with his continued infatuation with the bottom of his sippy cup, which usually contains a delicious milk cocktail, has lead to a chronic ‘dairy air,’ if you will, in the vicinity of his high chair. Conveniently, high chairs are designed to be approximately as cleanable as the bottom of a refrigerator.

When he is not growing teeth (7 so far) or otherwise in pain, he is the most agreeable, sweetest baby boy we can imagine has ever been. When Jack laughs, which is often, everybody laughs with him. To hear him makes you want to grab him up and pat pat pat his little derrière.

He’s My Boy

He’s one handsome dude, don’t you think? See those teeth? He pushed those babies out in about 10 days. As of now, six of ‘em. Once he had them, he watched longingly as I ate homemade biscuits and gravy in front of him, so I had to give him a little taste. I can’t be positive, since his mom is always trying to “encourage” him to “try” “healthy” foods, but I’d like to think his first big-boy food was his daddy’s biscuits ‘n gravy. Mmmm… gravy…