Tricks

OUR SCARY NEWS OF THE WEEK: We have been poisoned by Salmonella. I was watching the news this morning and in Utah the “Great Value” brand peanut butter and the “Peter Pan” peanut butter were being recalled because the batch number starting with “2111” was contaminated with salmonella. No joke. So, after I heard that, I ran to the cupboard, pulled the Great Value peanut butter down, and frantically read the bath number. Yes, unbelievably, my batch number was 2111. Trevor, Jace, and I have all been poisoned. If not for your prayers we might all be dead by now. Our jar is a 28oz one and it is almost gone! That means we ate almost 28 oz’s of Salmonella! Isn’t that exciting!?!!! Here's the proof!
Valentines Day was so much fun! Trevor and I had a picnic up in Rock Canyon Park in the exact spot he proposed almost 2 years ago. We then drove to the first place we said, “I love you” and exchanged gifts. Jace was a sweetheart and gave us the gift of sleeping through everything—what a good baby! We then went to the mall and walked around with Jace looking at all the fun V-Day things and Trevor got his traditional large fresh squeezed lemonade from the Pretzel Maker. He says it is the nectar of the Gods.
Apparently Jace got sick of being a good baby because he started inconsolably screaming his head off at the mall and we had to quickly run to Blockbuster and get a movie and pizza and rush home to console him.
Jace is growing more and more every day and learning so many little tricks! His newest trick is a devious one, if I do say so myself! He just developed the “arch the back to get picked up” move. So, I will set him in his swing and he will swing quietly until he realizes that I am not there and then he will start calling for me to come get him. If I don’t pick him up immediately, his yells will get more and more ferocious until he is really telling me “what for”. Finally I will come over to see what the problem is and when he sees me there, he will quickly arch his back so that he is being supported by his shoulder blades and heels of his feet in the swing just centimeters from rolling out of the swing. This is to say, “If you don’t pick me up, I am going to throw myself over the side of this swing!” It works every time, that conniving little boy!
Jace hates to be set down. Sometimes I can trick him into laying on the floor by doing the “diaper changing maneuver.” He loves to have his diaper changed, so I will lay him on the floor next to the T.V. and change his diaper. I do it really slow so that he will get engaged in the T.V. show. Then, when I can tell he is really interested, I will slowly slip away and he doesn’t even know I am gone until the show’s over. It’s great! He also has started taking baths alone. I used to have to hold him the whole time or else he would get afraid. Now, I just put a little water in the bottom of the tub, set him in, and he has the time of his life! He has started kicking and splashing himself and it is SOOO cute!
Another new thing he has started doing is “sit-ups”. We will have him on the ground and he will use his stomach muscles to lift his back and head off the floor to a 45 degree angle—it’s incredible! And when we lay him on the couch, he will do the same thing. He is so tough! We are still waiting for him to finish rolling over—he just can’t get his little shoulder out of the way, but he is making great progress! All these pictures of Jace and Grandpa Chapman are adorable! We went to visit them a couple Sundays ago and Jace and Grandpa looked like twins in their matching Sunday outfits, bald little heads, and cute cheeks! Look at those two handsome men!