Bite sized

Jared is finally starting to understand that he can take bites out of food, instead of shoving the whole thing into his mouth. Because of this, we felt comfortable plopping down half of a hamburger on his eating tray. I started by picked up the hamburger, and he would take a bite. But, he thought that the two buns were too much, so he would take bites just out of the hamburger and lower bun. Then he didn't want the lower bun either, so he would take bites out of the hamburger and the bun separately. I got tired of holding the burger, so I placed it on his tray for him to pick up and eat himself. Jared started bending over like he was going to pick up the burger with his mouth! I showed him to pick up the burger and eat it, and he was pretty good after that. And he liked to move the buns from one side of his tray to the other. He did this about 100 times. :)

I managed to scratch my new car before we even made a single payment on it - d'oh! I was backing out of a neighbor's driveway onto a dark narrow street. I knocked the mailbox off of its post for the people across the street from them. I guess this had happened so many times that they tried to move the mailbox, but people keep hitting it. I took Jared with me when I told the lady that I knocked her mailbox over - I figured she wouldn't yell at me if I was holding a cute little kid, and she didn't. I don't think she would have anyway. There were only 2 scratches on my car, most of the damage was mailbox paint that got transferred to the car, which Steve was able to remove.

Jared also went to a birthday party for a neighbor boy. The boy and his friends were all about 3, so Jared was the youngest there. He was intimidated by the older kids (there were about eight kids there), but was really good about playing with the blocks by himself. He danced a little bit when the music was playing. He also had a few bites of his first hot dog. He liked it, but didn't love it. He also had some cupcake with blue icing, so his lips turned really blue - it was cute. The party was a Spiderman theme, and they had a game that you got blindfolded and spun around, then had to put the velcro spider onto the web. Jared skipped the blindfold and spinning, but loved sticking the spider to the web. I think he really loved that everyone clapped for him when he did it.
Pictures from the party are posted.