Crawling!

So Jonah finally started crawling on Saturday morning!! He isn't crawling up on his knees quite yet...I guess he prefers to army crawl:) So Saturday was moving day and Micah's parents and brother Gabe were coming to Waukesha to help us move to Wauwatosa. In the morning, Micah ran 8 miles and I played with Jonah and got a few little things ready. When Micah was back I ran out to get him some morning coffee and when I got back Micah said Jonah had crawled. I was SO mad that I missed it for the first time!:( Then later on when Micah's parents were there he did it again (again...the army crawl, not up on his knees). It was SO cute!! I was SO excited!!!:) He gets up on his knees and is SO close to moving forward so I am guessing that will be coming soon:)

9 Months!!!

3 more months and Jonah will be a year old....CRAZY!!! I just cannot believe Jonah is 9 months old. I say every month that I can't believe he is how many months old he is at that time, but it really is crazy! On the 14th of every month, I just can't believe another entire month has passed by. I was just saying the other day to my mom that it seems like Jonah should be only a few months old, but in a way it's hard to imagine how our life was without him (I think that's because he IS our life now!) He had his 9 month checkup today and everything is looking great! His doctor said he is growing at a wonderful rate and everything looked and sounded just how it's supposed to. He is now 20 lbs and 1 ounce which puts him dead in the middle in the 50th percentile, and he is 28 1/4 inches long which makes him in the 60th percentile.

The past month has been yet another great and fun month. Jonah is still as fun as ever! Again...no crawling yet, but Jonah is so mobile! I don't get how he can get around so well without actually crawling or walking but he manages just fine:) Another way he moves around that is new this past month is when he's sitting up, he scoots around in circles on his butt! It is SO funny and SO cute!! He does this quite often now actually...pretty much anytime he's sitting up.

We are even more aggressively giving Jonah real food now. One of his favorite foods lately is a banana. I have to hold it and he takes huge bites right off the whole banana...it's so cute!!:) Another thing he's really taking a liking to is plain old bread (I guess he has to like it since that's what I live on!) I can't wait for more fun stuff to start happening so I can blog about it next month:)

PAJAMA TIME!!

We have a set routine when it comes time to put Jonah down for bed. I always nurse him downstairs, then we go upstairs to get him into his pj's. It has become a fun thing when we go upstairs because Micah always carries him up and I follow up the stairs behind them. Jonah knows that is what I do and he always peeks over Micah's shoulder, or his newest thing, is to peek around the side of Micah. It's SOOOOOOOOOOO cute!! He leans down to the side as Micah is holding him, to look at me:) If I'm not behind them, he is looking and gets a sad/confused look on his face, wondering why I'm not there. Then once upstairs, Micah gets Jonah's diaper changed and gets him into his pj's. Then I pick out a book and we go into our room to read him a bedtime story. I always read the story and Micah use to hold him, but Jonah likes to lay down on the bed instead of being held when the story is going on (most of the time). Tonight we read Pajama Time by Sandra Boynton (I highly recommend this book). Sandra is one of my faves and I LOVE this book! We have read it before, but tonight while I was reading it Jonah was cracking up! It was hilarious!! He sometimes gets fussy when I read because he's really sleepy, but not tonight at all, he loved every second of the book! He was still laughing when Micah was taking him to his room to put him down in his crib. I follow them to the room and give Jonah a kiss on each cheek and tell him I love him and say goodnight and then Micah puts him down. What a great bedtime routine and tonight was especially great because of how much Jonah enjoyed the story!:)

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.