Happy Birthday Jasper

Jasper turned two on Wednesday! I can't believe he's two. It seems like these past two years have flown by. I woke up on Tuesday thinking about my long, long labor with him. I had already labored that whole night and checked into the hospital on Tuesday morning to find out I was dilated to only a 2! I still had another 24 hours of labor ahead of me, and I was already so exhausted and tired. Wow, I'm so glad that is two years behind me with the memory of Gideon's labor fresh in my mind. It was all so worth it, though. I'd birth Jasper 100 more times if I had to in order to get to have him as my dear little boy. What a blessing it is to be a mother and have the sweetest little two year old on the planet look at me and say "luv you, mama."

We had such a fun little birthday party here with Tutu and Gumpa. We had the Sherry clan over for dinner and cake- Annie and Tom, and Caroline, Seth and Thomas. Jasper and Thomas are very cute little friends together. We all hope they grow up to be as close as brothers would be. Jasper got a few too many gifts... I think Rob and I kind of went over board. It's so hard not to pick something up here and there with his birthday approaching. Tutu and Gumpa gave him this playmobile tractor. Jasper is addicted to it.

We've been having such a fun time down in Oregon- staying up WAY too late to play scrabble and talk, taking runs and walks, going to Wildcat park, eating American Dream pizza. All the good old Corvallis favorite.

Jasper is such a big kid now! It seems like in the past couple of weeks his talking has really started to take off. It's so much fun to be able to communicate with him and know that he understands so much of what we are telling him. Two really, really big milestones- Jasper no longer uses pacifiers and no more bottles of warmed up milk!! Last week, we told him that when he turned two in a few days there would be no more pacifiers. That very night he didn't ask for one. He has since asked for a pacifier a few times, but as soon as we say that they are gone, he's fine with it! What a relief to know that he's not going to be going to his first day of preschool crying for a pacifier. That's all for now- pictures to follow later.