G&G Curzon visit, Disneyland and Halloween

Book worm: Jeremiah sees me all the time sitting on the couch under the lamp reading a book, so he goes over to the book shelf, grabs a "grown-up" book (the kind that has pages that tear), climbs up on the couch next to be and opens it up pretending to read, albeit upside down.
Percusion section: Jerem's favorite toys come from my kitchen cupboards. He loves not only the sounds they make, but he also goes into his drawer, pulls out his baby spoons and starts pretend-stirring, then he puts the lid on, carries it to a different spot on the floor, and stirs it again. It entertains him for an hour!
Arg Matey!, this is practice for Halloween when he was supposed to keep him pirate bandanna on his head the whole night. It didn't really work.

The Family Pack Horse: Jeremiah can now carry things for us! This is Greg's boomerang case - yes, that's right folks, he has a case especially for his boomerangs. His buddies call it his underwear bag, because of it's shape.

This is Greg showing us how to throw.Ooh... Aww....
Jeremiah didn't have much interest in boomerangs, but the play structure, now that looked interesting.

Karon and Betsy Denny two of our Disneymates.
Nate and Janete Childs, our other two Disneymates.
The teacups - this is what they made me feel like: Day 1. We're waiting in line for Autopia, I don't look very excited in this picture, but I was.
Day 3, Lunch at the Blue Bayou. Greg is soaking wet from the Grizzly River Rapids. Everyone made fun of me for wearing my lovely yellow pancho, but they weren't laughing later in the day when they were all wet and freezing cold!
This is me in Toontown. I'm standing next to a telephone, if you can't tell what it is. Halloween: Greg=Peter Pan, Heather=Wendy, Jeremiah=The dreaded Captain Hook!
Say it with me now "Arg, Matey!"
Paygroup Halloween Party: Presley on the left and Kate on the right.
Heather's Pumpkin:
Greg's Pumpkin, I know, I know, it's a lot better than mine.
Hirschi Family Halloween.

Update

This post probably won't have any pictures in it, but I promise, Grandma & Grandpa Curzon visit pictures, Disneyland pictures, and Halloween pictures are coming.... you'll like them a lot.

So the past month and a half has been a whirlwind for us. Greg has traveled a lot during that time, which has paid off because he has one big deal that is closing soon and another that looks promising. I'm glad he's the salesman, because I couldn't do it. My mom and dad came to visit at the end of September and we had a great time. Greg tried to teach us all how to throw boomerangs at the park, and he showed off his stunt kite skills. We were going to go camping, but the weather didn't cooperate. On the 11th of October we dropped Jeremiah off in Salt Lake with Greg's parents and we headed on down to L.A. to spend three glorious days at Disneyland. Because of Greg's bum knee we were a little worried about how he would do, so we got a Guest Assistance Pass, which allowed him to go through the handicapped entrance, it helped him avoid stairs and sometimes they let him sit down while we waiting to get on the ride. But I must admit, the best part about the GAP for me was the short... SHORT lines! In California Adventure all the rides are new and were built to be wheelchair accessible, so we waited in the normal lines with everyone else, but in the Magic Kingdom the older rides had handicapped lines, usually through the exit for the ride, and most of the time our wait was only 15 minutes. It was AWESOME! We just flashed the pass and it was like magic! :) And of course I loved all the architecture inside Disneyland. The entire first day in the park that's all I looked at. Their attention to detail is what makes it so enchanting. We bought two "souveniers," a CD with classic disney music and then Mr. Potato Head accessories for all the favorite Disney characters. We can make Mr. Potato Head into Tinker Bell, Buzz Light Year, Mickey Mouse, Minney Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, etc. It's so cute. Right now Jeremiah doesn't really get it, he just like the different shapes and colors, but in a few months he'll think they are great.

Jeremiah has reached a couple milestones this past month. He's starting to talk now, He says Dog, Ma (Mom), Da (Dad), Bye, Hi, Uh oh, No (unfortunately), and he has proto words for outside and upstairs. He's understanding so much of what we tell him now too, we can tell him to go get his hat, and he knows exactly what we're talking about. When we suggest that he get in his highchair for lunch he runs right over to it and tries to pull himself up on the tray. We're also teaching him the idea of soft touches, which work sometimes and other times he doesn't really care. Also, he's just now starting to get more of his fine motor skills down. He plays with his blocks and can actually stack them correctly, he also takes the rings on and off the ring stacker, and has successfully learned how to use a shape sorter, which is amazing to me. But he can only do it with the one toy that only has three shapes, we have the old tupperware shape sorter ball that has different shapes all over it, and he hasn't quite figured that one out yet, but he still tries to fit the square into the round hole.

Halloween was a blast. I was so busy making our costumes. They turned out really well. I'm most proud of Jermiah's costume because it was the most difficult, but I'm learning and I'm getting better with practice, of course. I think, however, I would be more successful if I bought patterns. On the Saturday before Halloween we went to Linder Farms pumpkin patch. We took a hayride, picked out two carving pumpkins and one baking pumpkin, had hot chocolate and homemade mini-doughnuts and took Jeremiah through the haystack maze. He didn't even make any wrong turns, but that was because he just followed all the big kids around, I think he thought it was a game of chase and he was it. On Monday for FHE we carved our pumpkins. Greg was in charge of making us a Tinkerbell to complete our costume theme, he did a great job, of course, I couldn't out-shine him, so I decided to do something less fancy (Actually, I like my Trick or Treat pumpkin). Tuesday I threw the halloween party for the playgroup in our ward. It was fun to see all the little toddlers in their costumes. We colored halloween pictures and had pumpkin pie. On Wednesday we went to our wards Trunk-Or-Treat and handed out all our candy and showed off our cute captain hook. Afterwards a few friends of ours came back to our house and we had a great "party" watching the Nightmare Before Christmas and eating pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, apples and caramel, Apple Cider and pizza of course. It was a lot of fun. I actually made pie and bread out of fresh pumpkin for the first time. People say it tastes SO much better than canned pumpkin. After tasting both, and knowing the work that it takes, I think I'll stick with the can, but it was fun to learn how to turn a pumpkin into a yummy treat.

Wow! It has been a long month! Now the Holidays begin and I'm so excited for them. I've been so ambitious lately, and I hope it will keep going. We are working on a family home evening chart for our family, so that is a fun project, and I'm just so excited for holiday baking and decorating. Yay!

Greg's fishing trip

Another picture from Greg's fishing trip with his work buddies and clients. He stayed on the boat most of the time because he didn't want to mess up his knee, but it was so much fun.

Where did September go?

We adopted two more kids!

Just kidding. This last month I have been taking care of three kids under the age of two and a half. It was very challenging at times and there were moments that I seriously thought about making Jeremiah an only child for the remainder of his long life. BUT, Isabella, the brunette, is now in daycare and Kate, the blonde, still comes three times a week, but only for two hours which is great, and she and Jeremiah get along well. Greg was able to go bass fishing with some clients and buddies from work. He caught one!!! The last time he went fishing was at the PCC in Hawaii in a man made river that they stocked with fish. I caught my fish so fast and the fish kept eating the bait off his hook without getting caught, after twenty minutes he finally caught a tiny fish. Needless to say this fishing trip was more fruitfull, though he didn't bring any of the fish home for me to cook. He caught small mouth bass. So, that was our September.

Now we're gearing up for October and getting REALLY excited about Halloween. We have our halloween costumes all figured out and this next week I'll be making them. You'll just have to wait and see what they are. Our ward is having a trunk-or-treat so we're going to decorate our car and go hand out candy to REAL children (last year our candy bowl didn't see any action from trick-or-treaters, we just ended up eating all of it.) Any way. Hopefully this month I will post some good pictures. :)

August Photos

It has been a busy month. I will post girls camp photos later, they're really funny. But now it's just family photos. Enjoy!

Pajama Time! Lately it seems I've been dressing Jeremiah on the go, I kind of have to chase him around the room while he plays and steal one apendage at a time in order to get him in clothes.

Greg's old little league uniform: I wear it sometimes but last week it was Jeremiah's pajamas. It's still a little long for him, but the nostalgia is nice. he looks cute in it.
Story Time: We frequent the library for story time once a week but they are taking a short break before the fall starts, so we have our own story time at home. Jeremiah LOVES books, when he is really cranky it calms him right down. Sometimes he even pretends to read to me.
Not quite there yet: Jeremiah LOVES my water bottles. He always wants to drink from what I'm drinking from, so one day we let him: and needless to say he got very wet, and so did our carpet. He's not quite at the stage where he can drink from regular cups all by himself, but until then, I'll just help him a little.

Let Freedom Ring!

On the Fourth of July our little family took a trip downtown for the parade. I know that Jeremiah doesn't look very patriotic, but he was having fun. Next we went to one of the many parks in Boise for a huge fireworks show, which was awesome. Jeremiah didn't care much for the fireworks, but at 10:30pm he didn't care much for anything other than laying down my shoulder and trying to go to sleep. It was fun hanging out at the park. We brought a picnic lunch and enjoyed the atmosphere. Much more eventful than last fourth of july when I was recovering from childbirth. :)

Happy Birthday!

Welcome to Jeremiah's First Birthday Party!

Since Jeremiah didn't even notice, we invited OUR friends over for a picnic, but it was so hot that we moved our picnic inside.
MOM fed Jeremiah watermelon. DAD fed Jeremiah Root Beer - He didn't like it.

Then came the cake......... Okay, so its not fancy, but it tastes good!
This is when the sugar coma kicked in.... I took the rest of the cake away, even though it would have been fun to see how much he could eat.
After a nap he was happy as could be.

Jeremiah weighs 21 pounds now, and is 29 1/2 inches long. He's still just below average for his age. He can take a few steps on his own now, though he still prefers crawling, or holding on to something. His new favorite thing is taking out all my pots and pans and making a lot of noise in the kitchen.

Before and After

I gave Jeremiah his first buzz cut today. he's had several hair cuts in the past but this was the first one with the buzzer. He was a little sceptical about the sound the buzzer made. So what do you think? Which is cuter, Buzzed or a little long on top? Leave a comment and let us know.

Jeremiah Update

Just by way of update, Jeremiah has been officially crawling for about a month and is walking along furniture and walls, as well as with help from mom. He is going up the stairs, but hasn't quite learned now to crawl, not fall, down the stairs. He has started using sign language. I have been teaching him the sign for "more" (closing your finger tips and tapping them together) and he has started doing a crude version of that, and he claps. He also sometimes says "Ba Ba" when we say "Bye Bye." We just thought we'd share his new tricks with everyone. We love you!

Surgery and Family recovery

Greg had ACL reconstruction on the 25th of May. It was an outpatient procedure which means that Jeremiah and I got to take care of him as he was recovering. What fun! He was a good little patient. We moved everything upstairs and I was constantly running up and down the stairs from the kitchen to the bedroom making breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as taking care of Jeremiah. Mom and Dad Hirschi sent Greg a get well soon cookie bouquet. It was way too much sugar for Greg alone to consume, so I helped.
Jeremiah helped daddy recover from sugery by playing nintendo with him. He is hooked already to the thing that I so despise... oh well, you pick your battles right?
When Jeremiah wasn't playing Nintendo with dad, he was on his own exploring the living room. He only got into mischief a few times.Greg is doing much better now. He is off crutches, off pain medication and back to work. He has physical therapy twice a week and improves each time he goes. The doctor says that it will take him about 8-9 months to get back to full activity, but he's on his way to playing basketball again.