Playing the Wii

So for Christmas, Jaimisen got a Wii game designed for "Early Childhood." We had tried playing it once before and Jaimisen quickly lost interest because he couldn't control the Wii remote. A couple days ago, he found his game again and said he wanted to play so we tried it out. He did AMAZING! Some of it is still too hard for him to understand what to do, but I got him to the mini games section and he LOVED it. There were matching games; matching shapes, numbers, letters, colors. There are memory games; find the matching letters or numbers under the rubber duckies. He controled the Wii remote REALLY well and was able to play completely by himself. Sometimes he has trouble keeping the Wii remote steady enough to click on what he's going for, but he keeps trying until he gets it. It's so cute seeing him play the Wii. He looks so big! Here are a couple videos of him playing his game :)

Tahoe

Jaimisen and I went to Tahoe this past weekend with my parents. Except when I say "the weekend," I actually only mean Saturday to Sunday. My parents are so afraid of getting stuck in holiday traffic they avoid it at all costs. *Rolls eyes* But Jaimisen did get some good snow play time which is the exact reason we went. He absolutely loved it. I think saying he loved it is almost an understatement. I'm pretty sure he was smiling the entire time he was outside. I think his favorite part was playing snowball fight. I think he loved the idea of being able to throw snow at people and not getting in trouble.

The first time we went out, his pants didn't stay tucked into his boots and his sock got soaked and he didn't care. The second time we went out, my dad [who did have two children of his own at one point] put Jaimisen's boots on the wrong feet! He also couldn't put Jaimisen's gloves on correctly. The poor kid, but he still didn't care! We didn't realize his boots were on the wrong feet until he was already playing! He played with his boots on the wrong feet the entire time. Haha. Oh, Dad. He made it up to Jaimisen, though, by making him a pretty cool fort perfect for a little boy.

My dad found this little "hill" and got one of our sleds out, put Jaimisen on it and pushed him down. Jaimisen had a HUGE smile on his face! It added to the humor that we didn't think to put anyone at the bottom of the small run so I had to chase and dive after him when he didn't stop like we thought he would. He thought that was just hilarious. He very quickly graduated to a bigger hill that me, my brother and cousins sled down. I, again, ended up literally diving after him when his sled took a sharp right and headed straight toward a tree [video is at the bottom]. Another time he ran straight into my mom. Haha. All in all, we had a fabulous time. He actually got really upset when I said we were going back to our house at home. He said he wanted to stay at Tahoe. He loves Tahoe just like his mommy :) Don't forget to watch the video at the bottom!

Chasing Wrestlers

So Jaimisen did the most hilarious thing today. I don't think he has ever done anything more funny in his entire life. We were at Northgate for my lessons. My cousin, Caitlynn, does dance through Northgate and her group was practicing in the foyer where we were. The wrestlers practice in the area just up and across the stairs from where we are. They always start and finish their running when we are there. They run straight across the foyer where we practice. Today, I think one of the girls dancing with Caitlynn waved at one of the wrestlers running by and that's when Jaimisen got his bright idea. Jenn and I were talking and a few wrestlers were running in, finishing their 3 mile run, and Jaimisen waved like a maniac and started chasing them! Needless to say, Jenn and I started cracking up. I was soon in tears. We yelled at Caitlynn and told her to watch what Jaimisen was doing and Caitlynn told all her dancer friends. Jaimisen did his crazy wave and chase to about ten wrestlers running through. There were about fifteen girls cracking up at Jaimisen. Here is the video I barely got of the last couple guys running through.

Workaholic

These pictures are actually from a few weeks ago. I meant to post them then. But oh well, I'm doing it now! My dad wanted Jaimisen and I to come visit him at work one day [he likes to show off Jaimisen because everyone just thinks he's sooooo cute] so these are pictures from our visit. Jaimisen had a BLAST pretending to work in my dad's office in his big chair on his big desk. It was adorable.

He really did call my mom [with my dad's help of course] and told her he was at Bompa's work helping. Haha. He thought it was so special to be talking on my dad's phone in the office.

Homemade Playdoh

Here is the picture documentation of Jaimisen making his own playdoh today :)