Catching up

Here's a quick catch up of Jeremiah's last couple of weeks. We welcomed G&G Schnitzler to our house on the weekend of May 16. They came to see Mommy graduate with her master's degree. Jeremiah did very well at the ceremony, considering he ended up sitting there for nearly 3 hours. Unfortunately, we're also working on potty training and he announced not too long before I was to get my diploma that he had to go potty. His daddy took him and they missed me crossing the stage. The good news is he went potty and I was excited about that!

Last Monday he went for a quick stop at the pediatricians. He has some lymph nodes around the crease of his leg that I wanted to have checked and also wanted another check of his little hernia. All seemed OK. We weren't able to do his bloodwork to check his iron that day because he had a little cold and the doc told us it probably wouldn't be accurate. The rest of the week was the general fun of enjoying summer arriving, going to the park, playing at Shelly's, etc.


On Friday afternoon we headed for Tipton to see Daddy. On Saturday we took Jeremiah to the park in Tipton and then drove to G&G Schnitzler's house. He had a great time at a birthday party for Kyle and Karl and was so excited to have cake! On Sunday he enjoyed playing with Kelley. They chased each other on the deck, blew bubbles and had a snack together. She also read him some books. Then, it was off to G&G Todd's house, where we made a trip for ice cream at the drive-in. On Monday, he helped Great-Grandma Z. put flowers out at the cemetery and was especially helpful with watering them.

Blowing bubbles with Kelley at Grandma's house

Tuesday, he had a great time playing with some of the daycare kids that stay at Aunt Sandra's. He was also really excited that she got him chicken and fries for dinner. Then, we were happy to see our own beds last night and he was back at his usual fun today, including spinning so much with one of the other little girls that he proceeded to then sit down and throw up. Yep, he's my kid!! No teacups for him, either!

Another full weekend

We had another full weekend at the Todd house. The busiest day was Saturday, which included some time playing with his cousins Emma and Isabella in the morning, a lunch with Great Aunt Glenda & Great-Grandma, an Illini/OSU baseball game and swimming with Aunt Sandra, Uncle Roger, Sophia, Isabella, and Emma. Yes, that's right. That was all one day. He crashed on Saturday night just minutes from the pool.

Uncle Matt, Daddy, Jeremiah and Great-Grandma Todd at the game.

Great Aunt Glenda, Jeremiah and Great GrandmaJeremiah and Daddy say "Cheese" at the game.

He colored a card for Mommy for Mothers' Day and bought a pretty Isabel Bloom figurine for me. We took a walk and he played at the park for a bit before partaking of a nice dinner. Who knew a two-year-old would like pork chop sandwiches so much?

Jeremiah and Daddy make pancakes together on mothers' day.

Monday was another big day! His sitter took him and the other kids to the Brookfield Zoo. It sounded like he had a great time and was well behaved. Of particular highlight to him, apparently, was the fact that the tigers were sleeping so he didn't see them. However, he did see elephants, monkeys, dinosaurs (new exhibit), and gorillas.

Jeremiah has a message

Jeremiah has a little message he would like to share. (excuse the camera lady who forgets she can't rotate video later.)

We know some of you already knew but wanted to be sure we let everyone know.

Bits & pieces

Here are a few quick updates on Jeremiah.

He has had a much better week this week. We're not sure if last week was just an adjustment week, the weather or being over tired, but this week he is much more agreeable, less argumentative, calmer, and generally a fun kid to be around!

We've noticed that he must be getting taller. People have been telling us this but the fact that he is now turning light switches on and off througout our house confirms it!

I need to start making notes of some of his little verbal quirks. The funniest that we can't seem to correct is "hangaburg" for hamburger.

He has a new head wound, well two actually. We can't really say he was doing anything wrong, but just kind of fell over while he was playing at Baby Bubba's shower last weekend. I was even standing right there when he did it the first time. He has a bit of road rash on his head, but is looking better by the day.