So Much Fun!!!

Jonah is just sooooooooo much fun at the stage he is in right now. He is just so cute and he makes me laugh so much every day!! He just scoots around everywhere (still no crawling), but he manages to get all over the living room. I turn my back for one minute and he's across the room! Something new that I just realized today he is doing is when he's sitting, he scoots around to face a different direction. I had him in the kitchen with me earlier tonight when I was getting dinner ready. He was playing with a big plastic spoon that he loves, and I turned around and he was facing the fridge (and his back had previously been to the fridge). I didn't even know he could do that! Another time today when he did that was when his back was to the drawers in the kitchen and I went to get something from the pantry. I came back to where he was sitting playing with his spoon and he was facing the drawers and opening one of them! I guess this means it is now time to really childproof our house. We are moving in a month so I'm sure we will really do it once we move (hopefully nothing bad happens before then!) All day today when we were playing he was talking to himself. He will hold toys right up to his face and chew on them and when he's not chewing it's like he's talking to the toys...TOO FUNNY!!:)

The other fun thing is how much he loves the water!! Over the past weekend we took him in my parents pool for the first time. At first glance of the water (he hadn't even been in it yet), he started crying (I don't know what that was all about). Then once he got in and I was holding him in the water, he started liking it. My parents have a blow up boat you can lay in while in the water and we put him in that and he loved it! After being in for awhile we got him out and tried him in the baby pool. He LOVED that!! He was in there for 45 minutes straight and we had to take him out because we were getting ready to go out to lunch. We didn't have too much water in it so I thought I would try him on his tummy and see what he would do (I didn't expect him to like it). He got a smile on his face immediately and stayed that way for awhile. He kind of pushed himself around to move about while on his stomach. He even put the side of his face in the water and liked it! The funniest thing was when my mom was splashing water in his face and he would make a really funny face and then smile and she would do it over and over again. He also went in a little bigger kiddie pool yesterday at my friend Sally's house. She has a little tykes slide going into the pool for her 2 1/2 year old son to play on. Jonah and I were just sitting at the end of the pool and Cameron would slide in and splash us and Jonah smiled every time! I hope he will always like the water!

8 Months!!!

This past month FLEW by!! Jonah is just too much fun! The biggest change in the past month is with his eating habits. He is eating so much more solid food. We have found a few things he just loves and some things he wants nothing to do with. We decided to skip most "regular" baby food (the jarred stuff) and move right to real table food. I really love this method and I would highly recommend it to others! It seems Jonah's favorite big people food is applesauce. He loved it right away and continues to love it. Other things he has really liked are carrots, sweet potatoes, and bananas and most recently cantaloupe, cooked apples, and he LOVED mango! He also loves baby treats such as Gerber puffs, yogurt melts, and yogurt nibblers, and also veggie sticks (crunchy, kind of like chips). A few things he has tried multiple times but wanted nothing to do with were green beans, avocado, white potatoes, and broccoli. It is so much fun being able to feed him different things and see what he likes and dislikes. I am hoping he will come to like more veggies than he has started out liking:)

Still no crawling...I keep waiting for it to happen but he's just not quite ready yet and that's completely fine! It will happen when he's ready:) He still pushes himself backwards (almost always) when on his tummy and he gets around a lot by that and rolling every which way. He sits up even better now that another month has passed which is so nice! It's nice to be able to have him sitting up when he's outside so he can look around and see the world. Also, we have started putting him in his stroller now without being in the infant seat so that is fun as well. He gets so excited when in the stroller because he just likes to look around. I love talking him on walks because he just smiles and "talks" most of the way because he loves it so much!

Some other funny things he does now is when we go upstairs to put him to bed, Micah always carries him up and I follow behind that. He realizes now that is what is going to happen so he looks over Micah's shoulder at me and smiles. We make a game out of it pretty much every night. Anytime Micah carries him up the stairs now he looks over his shoulder for me, whether I'm there or not. It's SO cute!!:) We have also discovered that he has a few tickle spots on him and we get him laughing pretty good. He loves music and always has, but whenever Micah plays the song "Mess Around" by Ray Charles on his phone Jonah gets a huge smile on his face...I guess it's his favorite:) Well, I could go on and on about how fun and cute Jonah is but I guess this will be all for now:)

7 Months!!!

So Jonah is now closer to being 1 year old than being just born...how crazy is that?! The time with him is just flying by! Another month has now gone by and Jonah has changed so much more yet again. When I posted on the blog at 6 months, he was only rolling over from back to belly and only one way. Now just in the past week he has started rolling any way, belly to back, back to belly, over right, over left, it doesn't matter,he just likes to move. He isn't crawling yet, but he has gotten up on his knees a few times, but never figured out how to actually do anything once he got there. He is able to move though, he just pushes up pretty high on his hands and pushes himself backwards...it's too funny! It is so fun finally seeing him do even more moving!

He still loves grabbing at things and putting most things in his mouth. I was in JcPenney with him a few days ago and it's a little crowded in the juniors department and he was in his stroller reaching out and grabbing clothes. Luckily I noticed this right away before he was able to reach something to his mouth! His sitting up has gotten so much better as well. He can sit up on his own most of the time. Of course he still has moments where he might tip over and sometimes he bonks his head, but it's nice not having to hold him up when he's wanting to sit. Jonah is just so great and so much fun and we really couldn't ask for a happier baby. When he is in a good mood, there is no stopping his smiles!

BEAUTIFUL!!!

Wow! This weekend was just amazing. The weather was so wonderful...sunny and close to 70 degrees both days! It is so nice being able to take Jonah out of the house without having to bundle him up in hats and his bundle me in the carseat and blankets. It sure does make it less of a hassle to go somewhere with him. Today was so great. It was a wonderful day spent with my two favorite boys in the whole entire world! We lounged around this morning, Micah and I had eggs for breakfast while Jonah was taking his first nap of the day, and then we got ready and when Jonah was up and fed we went out for a couple hrs and ran errands. After our errands we came home and had some lunch and did things around the house, and then we spent some wonderful time outside going for a walk and playing on the swingset in our front yard. It was so great! Jonah has been in a swing before at Micah's parents house, but this was his first time in the swing that's in our yard and he loved it! He was so relaxed, almost falling asleep while swinging. I also took him down the slide...he was a little uncertain of that (as was I...it was fast!) Then he took another nap and we did more things around the house and watched the Cubs game (finally...we rarely get them on tv here in Wisconsin). Then tonight Micah grilled out and Jonah and I went outside while he was cooking. I took a blanket out and let Jonah sit on it in the grass (this was the first time sitting outside on a blanket)! He was looking all around, not knowing what to think. He had a great time though! It was really funny when I put him directly on the grass. He was kind of grabbing at it, not knowing how he really felt about it. I am not a fan of grass so hopefully he will not be like me in that respect! So yes, as you can tell, I had a great day and a great weekend and I wish it didn't have to end. But tomorrow is Monday and that means back to work for Micah and the weekend is over.

What a stinker!

Jonah has been a stinker lately! He use to sleep straight through the night, no peeps even most nights. Then he started making some peeps in the night, but nothing major where we had to go in his room or anything. Then there were a few nights when we had to go comfort him in the night but it wasn't too terrible. Now, he has been crying in the night, too many nights now, and we have to go in and when we lay him back down in his crib when he's practically back asleep, he starts crying immediately. We don't know what is going on...he never seems like anything is wrong, he just doesn't want to be away from us. I have done a lot of reading and read that around 6 months this can happen for many reasons. One thing we have noticed is that when we get him in the morning, many times he has his head at the opposite end of the crib from where he started and he's on his tummy instead of on his back. This could be waking him up, so hopefully if he continues to flip and turn, he will get use to it so he doesn't get so angry! We have been so tired lately, but I just have to be thankful that he hasn't been like this for the entire first 6 months of his life! Thank the Lord for that!:)

6 Months!!!

Jonah has been a part of our little family for half a year...so crazy!!! He is such a joy and becomes more and more so each day. I cannot believe how much he has changed in the past month. He became so much more alert and aware of things between 4 and 5 months, but it has been even more so between 5 and 6 months. He looks around at everything and wants to touch and grab everything within reach. I think he likes to feel the different textures of things because he always rubs his hands along blankets, the couch, the walls, etc. He now laughs even more and his personality is shining through more every day (which I didn't think was possible because of how much personality he was already showing). He is overall such a happy baby!

He has his two bottom teeth fully in now and I'm sure it won't be long before the top middle two start coming in. Also, he is rolling over much more, he is starting to do it at least once a day. He has still only gone from back to belly and only over his left arm, but he is getting better and better at doing it! It's so exciting and fun to watch! I feel like he knows we like to see him do it because he tends to look up at whoever is in the room after he does it. Another one of his favorite things to do this past month has been grabbing his feet, mostly when his feet are bare. Today for the first time he actually got his foot all the way up to his mouth while laying on his changing table. It was hilarious!!!:) He is also "talking" so much...he is such a babbler. The best is when I'm feeding him on my right side in our living room...he stops and looks over my shoulder and talks to his imaginary friend Oliver (yes, we believe he has an imaginary friend and my mom and I named him Oliver). He just makes us laugh ALL THE TIME!!:)

So he went for his 6 month doctor's appointment tonight and he is a growing boy and doing very well. He is now 18 lbs 5 ounces (only 60th percentile now so he's slimming...even though he's still a big boy!). He is still long/tall...he is 27 3/4 inches putting him n the 90th percentile for length. He sure is beginning his life taking after his daddy in that respect! The doctor was very happy with how he's growing and developing. Thank the Lord for a happy and healthy 6 month old baby boy!!!

Jonah's first Easter

Easter...what a WONDERFUL day!!! "Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness."

Today was Jonah's first Easter. We just hung out this morning as we would any normal day and then we got ready and drove an hour and a half to Barrington to Micah's sister and brother-in-law's house. It was me, Micah, Jonah, Micah's sister Katey, her husband Tony, their daughter Mia, Micah's parents, and Micah's other sister Abby and her husband Phil (we were missing Micah's brother Gabe and Micah's other brother Seth, his wife Amber and their two sons Nick and John). We got to Katey and Tony's house a little after one and had some appetizers and chatted and then we sat down close to 2 for lunch. Katey made salad, ham, asparagus, potatoes, carrots, and rolls. It was all so fancy and delicious!! We had a wonderful time eating and catching up on life with everyone. Jonah was awake the whole time while we were sitting at the table and he was so well behaved so that was nice! Mia, our niece, was napping for awhile after we got there, but she finally got up and her and Jonah got to "play". She is 4 months older than Jonah so she is mobile and can do a lot more than he can, so she just wanted to grab him...it was so cute! I can't wait until they can really play!! Then after awhile we had some delicious strawberry cream cake and chocolate tart for dessert (Katey made both of them) and I made peanut crisp cookies and brown butter toffee blondies. Everyone enjoyed the dessert very much:) I feel very blessed to have such a wonderful family on Micah's side. What a wonderful Lord we have for blessing us with such great people!!