Finals

YEAH!!! Jed passed all of his classes, including chemistry! He has now finished and passed calculus, chemistry, AND physics! No more mind combusting classes. He must be pretty smart because he works at least 40 hours a week and has to take care of a family and a church calling. I revamped a song in his honor. The tune is a little off, but if you start the tune over at the second chorus you should get it. Sorry if it is a little immature, stupid, etc.

JOY TO THE WORLD
FINALS ARE OVER!
AND CHEMISTRY IS DEAD!
We'll flush your book down the potty
but it might be naughty.
And we won't be able to get it down.
And we won't be able to get it down.
lalalalalalalalala

But we shall prevail
because we can sale
it to the highest bidder!
And we shall overcome on Amazon.com
And we shall overcome on Amazon.com
lalalalalalalalalaaaaaaaa

Jack's First Month

His favorite thing to do. I love how he sleeps with his arms above his head, if they're not wrapped up.

Already out of newborn clothes and into 3 month size.

After his first bath.

Jack is a wonderful baby, so far. He likes to sleep, eat and be held. He hates baths, diaper changes, and his bassinet. Here are other observations I've made over the past month...

• He sleeps best on either Jed's or my chest curled up in a ball. He's very compact.
• His hair has a reddish tinge to it.
• He is very sensitive, one day I was upset and so was he. He also gets so upset when he is put alone in his bassinet that he pukes. I thought it was just because I was laying him down on his back to quickly after eating, but if I lay him down on his back, next to me, he has no problem. His bassinet has turned into an expensive pacifier holder.
• If he is taken out of his clothes he waves his arms like Frankenstein.
• He takes a pacifier. Hallelujah! And a bottle!
• He snorts, a lot.
• Jara loves him and gives him kisses and says "pet Jack." She also sometimes calls him dude. For example, when he sneezes she says "Acchhoo Dude!" I'm starting to get over the fear she will kill him. Thankfully she hasn't tried to pick him up or wanted to hold him, yet.
• He is starting to make happy coo noises and wave his arms and legs during his wake time.
• He is very strong and "crawls" scrunches to burrow in my neck when I'm laying down holding him.
• He loves touching his face with his hands and it's all I can do to get them away from his mouth to try to feed him. Even in ultra-sound pics he was always touching his face.
• He's developing male pattern balding
• Jara likes to play "This Little Piggy..." with his toes.
• He has very long fingers and toes. How could he not? Jed and I are both at fault for this genetic trait.

Bye Bye Birdie

It feels as if a member of our family has left us. Mockingbird squawked his last squawk. Now what will I have to wake me up in the morning. That thing was a very faithful alarm clock. Jed tried to resuscitate him, but to no avail. (See May's post Foul Fowl and other Noxious Creatures for more info.)

Wobble Gobble

This year was Wheeler's Wobble Gobble...
we came...
we saw...
we stuffed...
we strutted. That is because the wobbles won the turkey bowl. Sorry feastie-beastie's.


The kid table, before mayhem and destruction broke out. Notice the tablecloth is still on.


After the feast.

Uncle Jesse and Jack.

Jed and D.J. completing the livesaver pass.

Mason and Jara's celebration hug at the Wobble Games. It was so wonderful to spend time with family.

Jack J. Wheeler

Jack J. Wheeler

11/7/08

7lbs. 8oz.

HELP!!!

Okay here is the deal...
We are getting some weird traffic on our blog. They don't call it the WORLD WIDE WEB for nothing people. So, help me out, and if your blog isn't a link on ours, take our name/link off your blog. If that doesn't help to get rid of the issue, we're going to have to go private. We don't really want to do that because it has been so fun to connect with friends we haven't seen in a long time. Don't be offended if your name isn't on our blog. Once we got to a certain number of links we quit linking. We didn't want to leave anyone out but didn't want to look like a phone book either. (If you're wondering why we haven't included your blog on our list that's why. Sorry.) Thanks for your help.

Celebrations

Halloween

The Roman Wheeler's: Caesar, one of his wife's, and his first-born daughter.

Yes, what else can you be when you are having a baby in a week? (Well, besides a pumpkin, but that's everyday.) Jara refused to wear her beautiful, plush monkey suit complete with a banana, so we made her into a Roman too. The toga was worn under much protesting and m&m bribery. When I put leaves in our hair to complete the costume, Jara said "Mommy horns?" We tried to make "baby" (jara's ever-present donkey) a toga but...

Jara's 2nd Birthday

The pinata was this hideous yellow chicken, that only Lin's in Overton could produce. The whole way home in the car Jara kept looking at it and screaming "Bock BOCK Bock BOCK" she discovered this got me off of the phone really fast and now makes the obnoxious chicken screech whenever I am on the phone. Oh well, at least she stopped making it in church and towards unsuspecting mall patrons.

The Martha in me made two birthday cakes and cupcakes for the kids. The Grandma Leavitt in me made the cake look like a theme party for the leaning tower of Pisa, but very delicious. I made two cakes under the pretense that I didn't want anyone to go without, but the truth is I secretly was hoping to have one cake all to myself.

Jara is very lucky to have family close who were more than generous. Thank you family for all of your kindness. Jara has enjoyed each of her presents throughout the day. The telephone in bed this morning to call "Gorki," the tea set to have crackers on at church, the drum to wake up daddy from his nap, (which really wasn't Jara drumming but Jed just can't get the noise out of his head) and the baking set was used as a very entertaining organizational
tool.