Julie's Graduation

Jaeden and I had a great weekend visiting family for Julie's graduation. When we came in the door, Ivy shouted, "Jaeden's here! Jaeden's my favorite!" I think this is mostly due to the fact that she gets to be the big cousin and tell Jaeden what to do just like Boman tells her what to do. Although, she doesn't always like to be the big one. On more than one occasion, Ivy insisted on copying Jaeden by either sitting in the highchair or demanding a bottle and laying down like him to drink it. She was very proud of the fact, and would exclaim, "I'm Baby Jaeden!"

Jaeden loved playing with his cousins. Boman would put a blanket over his head and Jaeden would pull it off. Jaeden also loved watching Boman play computer games, and was so proud of himself for being able to get up on the kid's chair all by himself and sit next to Boman. He also got ahold of Boman's apple and proceeded to finish it off. It was so cute-- he held it like an adult and would take little bites. He did a good job of eating it without me peeling and slicing it.

Jaeden also loved playing with Grandma Clark. She played airplane with him while feeding him pumpkin. He loved it! When I tried to feed him some later, he took one bite, realized what it was, and looked over at Grandma Clark and didn't open his mouth again until she came and did the airplane.

Julie's graduation was fun to see, and the reception after was great, except it was during Jaeden's nap time, so I spent a good deal of it letting Jaeden wander in and out of the automatic sliding doors because in the reception room he would beeline it for the swinging doors the servers went through... not the best place for a crawling child.

Jaeden was great on the plane, both coming and going. We got our own row, so he had his own seat. He loved playing, and on the way home, the steward gave us headphones. Jaeden loved watching TV and listening. He thought it was quite amazing!