The Finals!!!

My baby made it to the finals in the Baby Contest!! Please go to the link here and vote for Jonah to be baby of the year!!!!!! Also if you can pass the word on and get everyone you can to vote that would be great!!:)

HP TouchSmart Giveaway!!

Hey there! You really should check out MckMama's blog! She is giving away an awesome computer! Go here to check it out and enter to win!

Baby of the Week!!!

I just had to let everyone know that my precious son Jonah can be on a magazine cover, but we need your help to make it happen! He has been in the baby of the week contest on newparent.com for many months now. This contest was something that Kortnie sent his picture in for online, not thinking he would be chosen, but he was and has been getting votes ever since that happened. He was one of 47 babies that were picked and is now in the semifinals and is one of 10 babies!! This round goes from today until December 13th. The 3 babies with the most votes from this round move on to the finals, and the ultimate winner gets a $500 amazon gift card and gets to be on the cover of the spring issue of new parent magazine! So I would really appreciate if you would go to the link below and vote for him! We need all the help we get!!:) All you have to do is roll over the five stars to give him a top vote.

http://www.newparent.com/amazon-baby-of-the-week-semi-finals/meet-jonah/

My precious boy!

I really wanted Jonah to walk, as many first time parents do, and many many people told me to cherish the time before he could walk. I did cherish that time, but I still wanted him to walk and now he is officially a walker. In just two days he went from talking 6, 7, or 8 steps in a row between Micah and I or my mom and I to walking across rooms, turning corners, and walking outside downtown Morris! It is soooooooooooo cute!!!! He walks with his arms straight out in front of him:) It is going to be a little bit of a tougher task for me though starting on Monday when he's walking this much and I'm at home with him by myself. I will be getting a lot more exercise following him around the house I'm sure! In just a few days he has also gone to saying Mama here and there to saying it all the time!!! He walks to me saying Mama the whole way...it melts my heart!

We have been in Morris all week and it has been wonderful. Last weekend Micah was here too and we spent time staying at his parents house. Saturday night we went to Princeton, IL for one of my best friend's weddings and it was a blast!! I got to see my girlfriends from college Bible study and I hadn't seen them in forever (a few of them had not even met Jonah!) Then Micah went back home to WI on Sunday evening to work for a few days and Jonah and I stayed with my parents on Sunday night, Monday night and Tuesday night and had a great time as usual. Then Micah came back Wednesday evening and we went back to stay at his parents house for two nights and have Thanksgiving with his family. Then Friday morning we came back to my parents and were here last night and had our Thanksgiving today. It was very nice as well. Back home and to our normal routine tomorrow!:)

Halloween

Happy halloween! So this was Jonah's second halloween but last year he was only a couple weeks old and pretty much just slept in his little pumpkin outfit. This year we decided not to take him trick or treating since he cannot even walk and doesn't eat candy. We just thought he would dress up and we'd stay at home and hand out candy. Well that plan was only half of what we did...Jonah did dress up (in two different costumes might I add), but we did not hand out candy because we did not have one single trick or treater! I was so sad about this fact because I love handing out candy and last year at our old place we had TONS of trick or treaters! We did have a nice relaxing day at home though and Jonah got two decent naps which was nice and he looked ADORABLE in his two costumes!! I hope everyone else had a wonderful halloween:)

12 Month Checkup

So Jonah had his 12 month checkup at the doctor on Tuesday. It went pretty well overall. He has been fighting a stuffy/runny nose for over a week and a cough for many days, but the doctor wasn't concerned at all about that...his lungs and everything sounded great. He did have a little clear fluid in his ear, but not enough to make the doctor worried and he didn't even want to put him on any meds for it so that was good. He is growing well the doctor says. He is definitely slowing down in weight...he is 21 and a half lbs and that is only the 30th percentile but the doctor says that is just fine. He is staying up there in length though...he is 30 inches long and that puts him in the 75th percentile. He had to get four shots and that was not fun. He cried really hard...it makes me feel so bad for him! The shots did not have any affect on him afterwards though...no fever or fussiness or night waking or anything so thank goodness for that! He also had to get a finger pricked to check his iron levels and they were a little low. The nurse gave us a sheet with suggestions of foods to be giving him as often as we can to help his iron levels and they will just test them at his next appointment which will be at 15 months. I am so thankful for a healthy one year old boy!!:)

Not Me Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did not wipe my son's snotty nose on his sleeper because I was too lazy to get up and get a kleenex. And I did not give my son a couple bites of a cookie just to keep him happy and quiet so I could finish eating.

I did not starting setting my dvr to record The Girls Next Door because I wanted to see if the new girls are as entertaining as the old girls. I did not leave clothes sitting in the washing machine because I was too lazy to go transfer them to the dryer, even though I knew the washing machine had quit.

I did not turn cartoons on so my son would be happy and I could do some things on the computer.

Not me Mondays...what a fun thing:)