Grandma got run over by a reindeer...

this is jovi's new favorite song. she thinks it's so funny and has most of the words memorized. we keep telling her we can call grandma and make sure she's ok and tell her to be careful of the reindeer and she just gets this shy smile and says "noooooo...mom you're silly".
speaking of mom being silly...the other day dan was flipping channels and there was a cooking show on and she asked to watch it. "i want to see what she's making" she said. she loves cooking shows these days. it was a woman on julia child's show making this beautiful chocolate and raspberry cake. she said "mommy that cake looks yummy". i said "not all cakes are yummy", to which she replied "oh mom, you're so silly".
other recent jovi funnies: dan took jovi to toys r us for the first time a week and a half ago. she get's toy r us and babies r us mixed up a little but she called it "babies QRS" when telling me about going. one of dan's clients had given jovi a gift card to the store for christmas last year and we hadn't used it yet! anyways, she picked out the "hungry, hungry, hippo" game. dan said when he put her in the car after they bought it, she immediately started sing "i want a hippopotamus for christmas....only a hippopotamus will do". hilarious! she has that song memorized too.
christmas is so fun when you get to see it through the eyes of a child, especially your own child.
dane has so many funnies also, but his are harder to type b/c he's not talking. he loves to grab jovi's toys or whatever she's playing with and run. he usually drops it within a few feet but keeps running. tonight he was practicing his squats (really!!) and trying to pick up a kettlebell. he screams about everything- happy, sad, whatever! especially when he wants my attention. he'll say momma, do his please sign frantically and then scream. too funny.
parenting has taught me so much. it has drawn me closer to the Lord. it has given me much more patience with others even though i seem to get to the end of mine with my kiddos so fast. i'm learning that as convicted as i am about my beliefs, how i want to raise my kids, etc...(i.e. food, values, medicine, childbirth, child raising), there is always a flip side. i don't know everything. that's sound so "duh" but it's not. ok. i'm losing my train of thought b/c my hubby just came in and is trying to talk to me and distract me :) another time...

birthday parties and such...

so this afternoon we went to a birthday party for a friend of jovi's...sort of. they are actually clients of mine and dan's. ever heard of a director named robert rodriguez? well the party was for his little girl. the mom, elizabeth avellan, has been a client of mine since i first started at barton creek country club and robert has been a client of dan's since about 6 months after that. dan is currently training robert and his 4 sons. who'd would've thunk it. they are so sweet and we had a great time. they had a bounce house and a train for the kiddos. it was a care bear party. don't know if jovi even knows what a care bear is. it took her a few minutes to get warmed up, but after that she was all over the place. there were about 10 or so other kids there not including the birthday girl's brothers. fun stuff.
tomorrow we have church in the morning, home for lunch and naps, family pictures and then a light the night ceremony in the evening at our church. should be fun. busy but fun.
i'm currently in a bsf Bible study-which is pretty fantastic, by the way-and we are studying the life of Moses and in Exodus, God commands quite regularly that the sabbath be kept holy. not only have i not been keeping a sabbath holy, i haven't been keeping a sabbath. i've been very convicted about what our sabbath should look like. i know it isn't going to be the same as the israelite's sabbath some 3000+ years ago, but all my days just run together. i'm praying that the Lord will show me exactly what He wants our sabbath to look like and that my focus will be Him and worshipping Him as I rest in Him. i want to teach that to my kids as well.

jovi funnies

so a few weeks ago i was getting ready to go to a bsf leader's meeting. it was a saturday morning and i was trying to get jovi dressed and her bed made and ready for the day for her daddy. she was particularly fussy for some reason. she kept telling me she wanted to watch a movie and i told her that we needed to get a few things done and then she could talk to her dad about it. she kept getting fussier and whinier. getting frustrated, i said "jovi, why are you crying? tell mommy what's wrong". as serious as can be she wiped her tears and talking to herself said "okay, (deep breath and sigh) i can do this". it was all i could do to keep from laughing! she was so serious and it was so sad and cute all at the same time.
my sweet girl. today was pretty good, but i got upset with her this afternoon. we were working in her preschool book and i try not to expect too much from her but she's so smart and attentive and i'm used to that now that i find myself getting mad when she doesn't take it seriously...she's 3, autumn! lighten up. she got upset and told me she wanted her daddy. she said i wasn't very nice. sometimes i am. her words...it crushed me. i am praying about this. i just feel like the change is so slow...or that i'm just not paying attention enough. i don't know. parenting is hard! i believe God equips us for what He calls us to do. i just need to believe it enough to trust it and act accordingly.
i love my girl. i feel like things haven't been the same with her since baby dane got here. not that it's his fault by any means...it's just different. we probably were headed to that stage anyway, but it's hard to see that.

getting to know you...

so jovi is totally into singing these days. she has this cute little song she learned at church and these are the words...
"i won't turn left and i won't turn right. i get my strength from the path that's right. keep on seeing, keep on reaching. follow, follow, follow jesus christ. i'm fixin' my eyes on you, i'm fixin' my eyes on you." hilarious! she sings it at the top of her lungs and she has moves for it. i got it on video and i'm so glad i did.
other things to remember...
the family got a tummy bug a few weeks ago. jovi has never really been sick other than an occasional cold. this one hit her hard. she was throwing up constantly the first night and then a couple of times a day from a monday to saturday. the sad/funny thing was that i always knew when she was about to get sick she would say "i want God to heal me". within a few minutes of saying that she would totally vomit. yuck. she's heard me talk about it with friends and family so much that when we were at lunch with a friend, jovi said "mom, tell them about my throw up". not something most people want to hear :)
dane is another matter...he is so cute and so stubborn. he is all about trying to get to our Christmas tree right now. i removed him no less than 10 times today. i wanted to see how many times he'd try. i wore out before he did. so i took him to another room to play. his favorite game these days is to grab jovi's toys and run. he thinks it's funny. he likes to eat a lot of paper so i have to watch him like a hawk. but he is so cute. he loves to laugh and gets a kick out of dan scaring him...sort of. he's still a bit of a scaredy cat though.
i think this is all for tonight. more later.

My Intro...

So, I totally never thought I'd be a blogger. However, I got the idea from a friend who said she was doing blogs for her kiddos and I have such a hard time keeping up with the journals I started handwriting. I can type so much faster than I can write and Jovi and Dane do so many things on a daily basis worth writing about (okay, worth it for me) that I just couldn't pass it up. Plus my grandmother is always calling and asking for a Jovi-funny and she puts me on the spot. Now I can just reference my blog and see just how funny my babies are. And it's a place our families can check up on us as well.
We'll see how it goes.
This is my intro. My name is Autumn Kerr, I am 31 years old. I am married to Daniel Kerr (32) and we have been married for almost 5 years (2.20.2004). We have 2 kids. Jovi Grace born june 7, 2005 and Dane Lansing born 11.15.2007. I am a stay at home mom...this title is so deceiving. I am waaaayyyyyyyyy busier now than I ever was working full time and then some. I love it though.
Funnies for the day....ok, can't think of any right now. Will write more soon...