AJ's first Playdate

AJ was lucky enough to spend sometime with sweetie pie Camryn on Wednesday! It's always fun hanging out at the Mages house! When we left, Jason said "I'm sad, we didn't spend very much time there today." -- we were there for probably 2.5 hours. It's not enough for Jason, he wants to spend the night. Not sure how McKenzie's Mom and Dad will feel about that!

AJ's first "playdate"

From AJ 9 weeks

AJ Bath

Because the little baby bath photos are always fun, here are a couple of AJ!

From AJ Bath Photos

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Jason's Kitchen

We spent a little quality time in the kitchen today making Lasagna! Always a good time, Jason was a big help!

From Cooking with Jason

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AJ rolls over!

AJ rolled over for the first time today. He's a little anxious to be on the move...

The start of the attempt to roll over

Woah! I'm falling here!

That was fun!

From AJ Week 5

AJ's first Triathlon

From AJ Week 5

AJ went to his first triathlon over the weekend. Alex had to work at the Tri for Tourettes, a kids triathlon held at the Concourse Athletic Club. It was a ton of fun cheering for the kids and pretty inspirational!

Jason is a tri veteran at this point. We walked up to the race, I put the chair up and he climbed right in. His new cheer is "Way to go!".

From AJ Week 5

Stone Mountain

We went to Stone Mountain over the weekend and Jason loved it! We rode the Swiss Tram to the top of the mountain, took the train around the mountain and threw "fruit" in the Great Barn. AJ luckily slept and ate through the entire day :-D

From Stone Mountain

Smooth Operator

Now this isn't supposed to happen anymore, since I have my new small camera, but alas I have no pictures of my smooth operator in action. I will attempt to paint a picture with words.

Jason and I were at the playground in the neighborhood today, he was playing on the playset, trying to talk me into letting him do the monkey bars himself, when a little girl from down the street drove by in her "jeep" (one of those little battery powered cars, for kids). He said to me, "mommy, do you think she would give me a ride in her jeep?"
Me: You will have to ask her.
(Jason walks over to the little girl who is now swinging on the swings)
Jason (to little girl): Hi! Will you give me a ride in your jeep?
Little Girl: Ok
(little girl attempts to slow herself down to jump off swing. Jason gets impatient)
Jason: Now?
Little Girl: Ok
Jason and little girl walk over to jeep, he gets in the driver's seat and they drive away.

Not kidding you, he talked the girl out of her cool wheels by saying "hi!". Of course, I was talking to her mom while this transpired and checked if she was okay with it, but I don't think it would have mattered to the kids.

A little bit later, the girl walks back to her house and drives back on a battery powered Harley Davidson. She then shows Jason how to ride the bike, and hops back in to her Jeep and they follow each other around for about 10 min.

Aww, if only all relationships were so easy!

Jason Sings Seven Days

I've written before about Jason's love of singing in the car. Here is a little gem that I was able to record because Alex was driving. Jason is singing the song "Seven Days" from the Sting album "Ten Summoners Tales". Enjoy!

Baby Brother Is Here!!

Jason's baby brother, A.J. was born on August 10th at 3:32 pm. The entire story can be found at mom's tri-blog.

Cowboy Jason

A few weeks ago, they had some photographers come to the school for photos. I think Jason was incredibly uncomfortable with the scenario (note sarcasm):

Cowboy Jason


and the horse you rode in on!

Last Day of School!

Thursday was Jason's last day at the Goddard School. We will miss it there! Jason has grown up quite a bit since the first day so many YEARS ago. I can't believe we were there for years! He seems to be handling the switch fairly well. Yesterday we visited his new school (High Meadows) to drop off his final enrollment forms, he said he was excited to attend. It is a school on a farm, so really, what is not to like?!?

The real trick at this point is going to be his first week back at school... just one week before his little brother's due date... will I be in the hospital for our little guys first day??!?!? I know it will all work out, it's just going to be a possibly hectic late August for the Poon's! :-D

Summer Haircut

As some may have noticed is the latest pics of Jason, the hair was getting unruly again! Yesterday was the big hair cut day and here are the results:

Now that is a haircut that will make Papa proud!
As you can see from the pre-hairproduct shot below, a little product goes a long way for our little man:


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Braves day at school - Anti-Braves day at home!

As part of the summer program, Jason's school is having fun Theme Days. Last Friday was "wear your Braves shirt to school" Now, we've been in this fair city for going on 8 years now, but I will never, NEVER be a Braves fan. I can trace this hatred back all the way to the initial days of the "tomahawk chop", arguably the worst fan invention. So when the day came, we sent Jason to school in his SOX shirt!!! Thanks for the shirt Uncle Tom, and thanks to Alex for being from New England, so it is socially acceptable to adopt the Red Sox as my baseball team. (And Mom, don't be sad it isn't a Pirates shirt, we sport the black and gold for every other sport!)

Jason Swims!

Alas, no pictures, but today was a big day in swim class! Jason put his head in the water, kicked and pulled with his arms! He was so proud of himself, he grabbed onto the side of the pool with a big smile on his face, and embarrassingly, I started clapping. The mom next to me started laughing at me, but I couldn't help it! I was just so excited! I kept thinking about 4 months ago when he would cry all the way to class, and then during class, after class... yuck! This is way more fun! He crawled out of the pool after he did this and came over to give me a hug and then went back to his class. Too cute! I'll try to get pictures up soon everyone!

Olivia's Birthday Party

Jason wanted to make Olivia a birthday cake, so we fired up the griddle and made her a puppy pancake. Jason decorated the pancake with beef treat... he went for the smiley face design!



One gulp Olivia ate it in, no joke, one gulp!


Happy Birthday Olivia

Full slideshow of photos here!

White Water - Water Park

Today was Jason's first trip to the water park! He loved it and has been wanting to return since we left! They had a great toddler sized area where Jason could go down slides all by himself. He had a huge grin the entire time we were there!

He was pretty tuckered out, he fell asleep on the way home in his bathing suit:



and then actually went upstairs and took a nap!

Petting Zoo At School!

Jason was very excited yesterday when I picked him up at school, he couldn't wait to tell me about the animals that came to school that day on a little trailer!

The Little Red Barn Mobile Petting Zoo came to the school and the kids took turns petting and brushing the animals! Here are some photos of Jason:

Jason's Lastest iMix

Jason and I have been a little bummed these last few weeks... my SIRIUS radio isn't working :-( There is something wrong with the tape player in my car, which is what connects the SIRIUS in the car stereo... I just need to find the FM thingy... but that is proving difficult!

So long story short, in search of new music for Jason, I went to the depths of my iTunes library to pull out some things from the college years. We also have some new music from before the SIRIUS went kaflowey...

What Jason is listening to these days:
"Ain't No Sunshine" - David Sanborne with Sting (when he first heard this one, he said, "mommy, this is Sting, the 'Roxanne' guy" - Jason likes the sax solo)
"Something Good This Way Comes" - Jakob Dylan
"The Galway Girl" - originally written by Steve Earle, but we listen to a more Irish version
"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman (Jason likes the "be someone, be someone, be someone" part)
"Ready My Mind" - theKillers
"Grace is Gone" - Dave Matthews Band

That's all for now! In other news, Jason floated on his back in swim class this week! Here is hoping for a safe summer of swimming!

Memorial Day Weekend

We all headed down to Brays Island, S.C. for the long weekend. Jason found plenty to do! We were able to pick fresh strawberries, and veggies from the co-op garden on the island, try our hands at some fishing and crabbing and we got some good swim time in!

Photos from the trip here

Trader Joes Tornado Time

We had another big storm hit down here yesterday. I was on my way home from picking Jason up at school. We made a last minute decision to stop at Trader Joes to pick up some things. The decision saved us from from some scary moments. While shopping in Trader's the lights went off, came back on, and then the staff ushered everyone in the store back into the "tornado shelter" which is actually the cooler! Apparently, a tornado had touched down about a mile from the store... right on the road on which Jason and I would have been driving home! It was chilly in the cooler/giant refrigerator so they handed out Trader Joe's sweatshirts to all the children. Everyone was very cool, no one complained... it is always amazing how people tend to band together in these types of situations! Eventually, the storm passed and we all went our separate ways. It was still raining rather heavily when we were checking out, so they let Jason keep his sweatshirt on for the run out to the car!

We will be brining the sweatshirt back today with a big Thank You to all the folks at Trader Joe's for keeping us safe and warm last night!

Here is a photo of Jason in his TJ shirt!