Jeff, Jo, Sage and Mocha's Awesome Adventures: Team Bolen

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Team Bolen

I am happy to learn that my sister finally got around to making a blog and posting pics and thoughts to the world.

Hurray for Team Bolen!

Now I can watch my niece grow up (and sister, too, come to think of it...)!

I love this pic so much!

(Now, to my OTHER sister, hey, let's get going with yours!! You heard me, Jen!)

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Sage's Currents

Currently loves drawing dinosaurs pooping
Currently is a master ipad user
Currently can repeat many words verbatim - so we have to be extra cautious now
Currently loves his train track that Santa brought and plays with it nearly every day
Currently talks up a storm (especially when he is pooping) about myriad topics
Currently loves his bunk bed and can uses the upper bunk for battlements to throw things down from
Currently loves drawing (on anything - so we have to be careful)
Currently is being taught to say 'thank you' while bowing his head
Currently shakes his head when he does not want something
Currently loves to go to his reading 'nook' to read and play
Currently loves his milk and soy milk in the mornings
Currently loves multiple things he can carry in his hands: unblown balloons, small candles, magnets....
Currently takes a nap from noonish to 3ish
Currently Loves to stand and move his feet quickly when he is really happy

Sage's Firsts

First time to stand up for more than 5 seconds: July 18th, 2010
First Word: Daahng (for balloon)
First Pee on Someone: Mom was the lucky recipient
First Blood Curdling Cry: When Daddy Accidentally Nipped His Finger Instead of His Fingernail (that was a fun moment!)
First Sickness: Common Flu, but you won't think it with Worry-wart Dad.....
First Time to Sleep Through the Night: Aug. 27th, 2009 - A date we will long remember....
First Heart Wrenching Smile: Aug. 14th, 2009 - another date we will remember....
First Words: AhhhhhGhahahhhh
First Super Poop: Don't even want to remember that one...
First time to sit up for over 5 minutes: Feb 12th, 2010

Some Quotes I Think Are Cool....

By three methods we may learn wisdom: • First, by reflection, which is noblest; • Second, by imitation, which is easiest; • and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. (Mark Twain)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. (JRR Tolkien)
Riches are mental, not material. (B.C. Forbes)
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. (Albert Einstein)
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. (Charles Luckman)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. (Galileo Galilei)
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas H. Huxley)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. (Edward R. Murrow)
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. (Immanuel Kant)
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracian)
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Dr. Seuss)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play (Warren Beatty)