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!!

Sick :(

Jonah is getting over his very first cold (sad, I know). Luckily it wasn't too horrible, no fever or anything, just a cough and a very stuffy/runny nose. I think that it has been affecting his sleeping habits a little and making him a little more fussy during the day, but nothing too horrible I guess. I just felt so bad for him when he was coughing and when his nose was all stuffed up because he can't express how he's feeling and he can't blow his nose or anything like that (like we do when we're sick). He still smiles a lot and is most of the time his normal self so thank goodness for that! I am not looking forward to the time when he's REALLY sick and isn't his happy, smiley self.

So Jonah gave me his cold and I've been sick the past few days and it's no fun. I think I am worse than he was because it's definitely been affecting me more than it did him. I am so stuffed up and am constantly blowing my nose and can barely breath at times. The first two nights sleeping was horrible, but the past two nights have been a little better. Now today I have developed a cough so that is no fun, but hopefully I'm on the upswing! I am very lucky because this happened over the weekend so Micah was here to play with Jonah and do everything since I didn't feel up to it. Yesterday he was even able to take a sick day from work because he didn't have any meetings going on or anything he had to do at work. Today he went to work though and I feel even worse than I did yesterday:( It's so hard playing with Jonah and taking care of his needs when I feel so blah and just want to lay around the house doing nothing. I am really hoping this goes away very soon!!

5 Months!!!

Jonah was 5 months old yesterday and what a day...HE ROLLED OVER FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! We have been practicing doing it and he lots of times seems like he wants to do it, but just can't quite make it. Yesterday we were at Micah's parents house playing on the floor with him and Jane was rolling him back and forth, back to belly and belly to back. After a few times of doing this, he did it on his own, back to belly! I almost missed it, but I didn't. We all got so excited and made lots of noise and it scared him and he cried a little, but it was still so cute!! I was so excited! He probably won't do it again for awhile, that's what I hear happens often, but I was so glad he finally did it today:)

The past month has brought lots of changes for Jonah. He has developed even more of a personality in the past month; he laughs A LOT and smiles even more than before (if that's even possible). He has more fussy times than before too (which isn't always fun), but the happy and smiling times far outweigh those crabby times:) He has discovered new sounds he can make with his mouth and he has also discovered his toes and loves to pull his legs up and grab his toes. He is also starting to be able to sit a little bit on his own (he tips over a lot), but he's on his way! And then just today we discovered he has a tooth starting to poke through! We thought he has been teething but were unable to see a tooth or feel one, but now we can feel it and see it a little as well. He is growing up so fast!! He is just such an adorable and happy guy and I can't wait to see what the next month brings!!