Museums

This past weekend was a fun one for Jonah, first he went with his grandparents to their neighborhood Christmas party. He got his face painted, it was a lovely PINK and gold glitter ice cream cone. I am very surprised that I left it on him all day. By the evening it look like he was pink bruises all over his cheek. My brothers kept asking what happened to him. I am bummed I didn't think to get a picture of it.

He actually crawled around in the grass. Up until now he has hated the grass, but Saturday it didn't seem to bother him very much.

Riding on grandpa's shoulders. He got to see both sets of grandparents Saturday and quite a few of his Aunts and Uncles and one of his great grandmas. This kid is so lucky, he was 2 grandma's, 2 grandpa's, 4 great grandma's, 2 great grandpa's, 1 great great grandma, and 1 great great grandpa all still alive. Nice!!!

On Sunday after church my nephew Aiden wanted to see dinosaurs. Luck for us the Arizona Museum of Natural History, AZ Museum for Youth and Mesa Contemporary Arts Center are all free the first Sunday of every month and are all in walking distance of each other. Also it was a beautiful day outside. So my mother in law, Aiden, Jonah, Caleb and I all headed down to the Natural History Museum to see the dinosaurs. Jonah and Aiden LOVED it and Aiden was so excited to see the dinosaurs. The weird thing is they had this poop exhibit. it had all different kinds of animal poo on display and had all kinds of info on things like why poop is brown and why it smells. It was a pretty disturbing exhibit.

After that we walked over to the AZ Museum for Youth to let t he boys blow of some steam. The have an awesome play area there and it was nice not to have to pay just to play. Last time I took Jonah and he is to young to do any of the activities in the museum part but he loved the play area. Unfortunately I don't want to shell out $5.50 for each of us so that he can play for a little while. He loved the slide especially since it had a ramp up to it instead of a ladder so he could do it all on his own.

I though he would freak out a little when he went down with no one to catch him but he loved it and wanted to do it over and over. Unfortunately since it was free day there were tons of bigger kids running all over and I was afraid they would trample him. Last time we went it was pretty empty so he could have done whatever but this time I felt better with him in the baby/toddler area.

Last time we were there Jonah fell into this hole and me and Lisa were to busy talking to realize it until he started crying. Of course I had to take a picture if it before I pulled him out.

Well this time Jonah went over and sat in the same hole for a while and just played with this truck. I just thought it was funny that he gravitated to the same area to play. It probably has to do with all the mirrors right here and he LOVES to look at himself.

I got one picture of him walking and by the time I switched it over on my camera to take a video he stopped. He is actually walking more then he is crawling now. But if he knows we are trying to get him to walk he won't do it.

Last time we went to the museum Jonah got a nasty cold and was up half the night screaming because he was so congested. Well guess what happened again. We were up half the night again last night with him screaming inconsolably. Poor baby, maybe it is just a coincidence but I am not sure about that.

PS. That is his ornery face. He makes it when he is being bad and gets caught.

Mine and Joe's anniversary was on Monday and my wonderful mother in law babysat Jonah so we could go out. I can't remember the last time we went on an actual date. We went to Rigatoni's which is the restaurant that catered our wedding. The food was so yummy, if you have never been there you need to (its on Brown between Mesa Dr and Country Club). We also went and saw Four Christmas' which was pretty funny, you can't go wrong with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. It was nice to get out for a night but I was so tired the next morning.