Thursday, June 26, 2008

It runs in the family


Jake is completely obsessed with Indiana Jones. John and I took him to see the new Indy movie with Loy and her family. Since then, he can't get enough. He has several Indiana Jones lego sets, the lego video game, and has put together his own Indiana Jones outfit. He found his khaki church pants, a khaki dress up shirt layered over a t-shirt, and a too-small brown felt cowboy hat with red and white string. Oh, I can't forget the rubber snake "whip." It's pretty cute until he whips me one too many times with that snake!


We also had a fight over who was the bigger fan! I guess it's in his blood.

Sensitivity training needed


Jake, like the whole family, loves TV, even when he's not watching it. While he was playing legos, a Christian Children's Fund commercial came on, saying "34 children die by the time this message is finished." Jake said, "No way, that's not real. 34 children won't die." John said, "Yes, it is, because of poverty." Jake then said, "I hope that doesn't happen to one of me." John assured him that he was fortunate and wasn't poverty stricken. Jake promplty said, "Yes!"


Sshhhh. Don't tell anyone he said that.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Did someone call a doctor?


OK, below is a very cute story I got from my friend Jennifer, who watched Jake for us one night.


Douglas and Jake took turns playing doctor to the Cabbage Patch Doll and other toys. Whenever Jake put on the doctor jacket he would immediately start speaking in a thick southern accent. It was hilarious. He wouldn't break the accent no matter what we did or said (well, until the jacket came off and he could be himself again). The picture doesn't do it justice. Like I said, he had us in stitches. This was my favorite conversation with Dr. Jake:


Dr. Jake: Ware in the heck is ma sword?

Jennifer: Doctors don't have swords.

Dr. Jake: Well, ma'm. Thees one duhs.


I don't think I'd call this doctor if I were you!

Sunday, September 24, 2006

He is so funny


During dinner last week, the family sat at the dining room table, but being who we are, we left the TV on in the other room. The news came on and began a story on the new Elmo extreme toy. I then said to John, "that is one rich black man" (referring to the middle-aged black man who is the voice of Elmo - yes, it's true, I saw him on Oprah).

Jake then said, "who me?" I responded, "I wish." To which Jake replied, "you wish I were a black man?"

ha ha ha ha ha - we laughed so hard.

Oh, to be three again.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Car . . .

We just got back from a camping trip at Fort Stevens. We had fun, despite the rain. However, because it did rain, we found ourselves taking a day trip on Saturday morning. We drove to Ilwaco (or whatever) to the Lewis and Clark interpretive center, which was really fascinating and worth a trip, I thought. We had to take a shuttle from the Cape Disappointment parking lot to the center. After we were through, we waited for the shuttle to arrive. When it did, we got in line and waited to board - all of us, except Jake. Jake pushed himself through the line and crowded onto the little bus, pushing a woman in front of him repeatedly - in the bottom. I'm pretty sure he put his hand in her crack. I was so mortified that I was paralyzed to stop him. I just watched in horror as his hands sank between the poor woman's buns.

Well, we finally got on the very full bus - which held about 20 people. After a minute or so, Jake said "I have a problem here." It was apparently loud enough to be heard by the driver, who replied, "Yes ma'am?" Jake then piped up very loudly, "Actually, that's yes SIR." The driver apologized and said, "yes sir" a little meekly. Jake then told her, "when you come to a stop sign and you have to stop, you need to say 'stop sign'". The driver took it in stride and at the next stop sign, the whole bus errupted with "Stop Sign!" Did I mention that we were sitting in the back of the bus? I was mortified, but also laughing so hard that I could hardly breathe.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Sydney Elise Leslie is Here!




Sydney was born to her parents, Candace and Patrick Leslie, on June 16, 2006 at 8:42 am. She weighed in at 7 lbs 15.5 oz, and is 19 inches long. She is beautiful, as you can see for yourself! She's got some brown hair hidden under that hat and the girl has some lungs! We are all so excited to meet her.


I'd like to add more photos, but I can't figure it out yet. Stay tuned . . . hopefully more pictures will magically appear.


OK, try clicking on this link to see another picture: http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h243/hlloyd117/8f473714.jpg

and this:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h243/hlloyd117/f21b03c1.jpg

Monday, June 05, 2006

Everyone Loves a Pirate


When we asked Jake wanted he wanted to be when he grew up, he said, "A pirate." Jake has been fascinated by pirates for a while now, so when his third birthday rolled around, we had to throw a pirate party. Here's our little Captain Hook.

Never a Dull Moment

Our three year old son has said some pretty funny things throughout his life. He's a funny guy. His most recent comment that had us giggling happened during my niece's graduation. It was during the commencment adress when Jake piped up, "I hate this show" (sorry Jeremy). Then during the slide show that had some trouble getting started (don't they all), Jake said quite loudly, "start the movie!" I guess you had to be there to really appreciate this.


Welcome to the new blog of John and Holly Lloyd. We have no idea how to blog, but since we used to have a website, we thought we could handle this new technology. Mostly we thought this would be a good place to post news and photos of our son, Jake.

This was the only photo I could find that showed all three of us - though not terribly flattering to any one of us. Oh well.