Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year lots of good gifts and tons of time spent with family. Joe is putting together Jonah's favorite gift in this picture.



We seriously could have just got him this and he would have been perfectly happy!



He did love his Cars chair and his Mickey Mouses Clubhouse board books.



Mostly everyone at my parents house!



Everyone else. I think the kids all had a very good Christmas!



Jonah got in trouble for plugging in a Christmas toy and he is trying to make his grandpa feel bad for telling him "No". I think it worked!



We gave this to Jonah as his last present which was a wise choice because he would not get off of his bike for a good 20 minutes.



He did Love his Cars toys he got. He also got the Cars movie and a DVD player for the car which made our round trip to California that day very nice.



He had to take his bike out for a spin before we headed to California for dinner and more presents! The only thing is he hasn't figured out is the peddles so he walks the bike around like it is a walker, lol.

Visit with Santa

We went and got Jonah's pictures done with Santa yesterday. Last year year I got them done on Nov 24th and I really wish I had done that this year also! We waited in line for 2 1/2 hours to get them done. But Jonah LOVED Santa so it was worth it. He got so many cute pictures it was hard to choose. I love this one though with Santa tickling him.

Spoiled Monkey

Some one is a little spoiled and got his very own Caramel Frappucino from Starbucks this morning. He always pitches a huge fit when Joe gets one but Joe gets a double shot of espresso in his so it isn't exactly Jonah friendly. Jonah will also suck down 1/4 of Joe's if he gets the chance to have a taste and then he is bouncing off the walls. So this morning on the way to church we got him his own decaf Caramel Frappucino. He was so excited that we didn't take it away from him after a few sips.

Christmas Carols

Tonight we went Christmas Caroling with the people I work with. Jonah had such a good time.



This is my bosses little Chihuahua Little Belle. Jonah LOVED her and wanted to hold her the whole time. It ALMOST makes me want to get one for him. But it's not going to happen, sorry Jonah!



If you click on this picture to make it bigger you can see how much fun Jonah had tonight. He was loving it. He would get up in front of everyone and dance and try to sing along with everyone.



Leading everyone to the next place.



More singing and clapping!



He kept going into every one's apartments when they would open the door. One lady he ran all the way into the back of her apartment. This kid is not shy at all.



Of course he had to sucker our maintenance guy into letting him "drive" his truck.

Pictures

Andrea and I took Jonah out to do his pictures for Christmas Cards yesterday. He wasn't very cooperative again, so here are a few of the cute ones she got:



He was more interested in the ducks and fish in the water.



Smiling but a little weird. Never give a kid a buzz cut right before getting their pictures done.






I was trying to get him to laugh by playing peek a boo, but then he started doing it back to me.



Trying to get away!



Almost off the rock.



Running around on the wall!



A Cute one, he looks so serious!



This is probably the winner, I had to crop it down because he was doing something funky with his hands. Sorry for the butt load of pictures but I thought the grandma's would enjoy it.

Mistake!

I have been SOOO good about staying away from Coach purses lately. I haven't been looking at them online, or in the stores (except that one time with Rachael). But tonight I caved and looked on their website and I LOVE this bag. Guess I am going to have to start saving my pennys!

Halloween

Of course I planned way to much stuff to do for Halloween this year. And since I didn't get off work until 4 we had to squeeze it all in a short amount of time. Next year we are just going to do one thing.



My adorable little pirate. I didn't think he would keep the hat one but he LOVED it. He still keeps putting it on. Yesterday he even wore it all around Target.



Our first stop was to see my parents. Jonah had to love on his Aunt Beka.



And then he had to boss his Aunt Beka and Uncle Jake around.



Then he went trick or treating for his first time at his "Old" Grandma's house (his great grandma, she calls herself that).



Then we headed over to my in laws house so he could go trick or treating with his cousins, Aunts, Uncle and grandma and Santa!



Trick or treating! He didn't want a sword so he is a pirate carrying a maraca (because that is what all the cool pirates do, didn't you know)! He was actually really well behaved while we went trick or treating. He always said trick or treat and then always said Thank you when they gave him the candy. I was totally expecting a melt down because he wanted to eat all the candy right then. I don't think he realized that is what was being put in his pumpkin and he was totally good the whole time.



After we went to about 8 houses we headed over to our old churches Harvest Party to meet up with my parents. He was starting to get a little tired by that point since it was about 8pm.



Once we got to the Harvest Party he was excited because they had a bounce house. He has just recently discovered the joy of bounce houses so he was pretty excited. He pretty much stayed in there the rest of the night.



After the bounce house he had lost most of his costume and was VERY thirsty.



Lastly we headed back to visit my in laws and Jonah finished out the night by playing the bongos with his daddy!

He was pretty worn out from the evening and didn't wake up till after 9am, which is about two hours later then normal for him. It was pretty awesome for us!

Pumpkin Patch

We took Jonah to the pumpkin patch tonight so he could pick one out to carve tomorrow night. He had so much fun running all over the place.



He insisted on sitting on all of the pumpkins.



Maybe someone told him this is how to choose the best one?


He finally choose one just his size.


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We also taught Jonah to say Trick or Treat to prepare him for Saturday. He is a little off the wall in this video probably from the watermelon Icee he just had.

Okay now for some reason blogger is uploading all of my pictures in HTML code. Is anyone else having this problem? It is kind of annoying.

Laughing

Don't you love when kids are so tired they get a little slap happy. We were at dinner and Jonah kept "pinching" his grandpa with the salad tongs and he thought it was the funniest thing in the world. I took this video at the end of it but he had been doing this for about 5 minutes and he couldn't stop laughing(I love his laugh it is so contagious). Sorry it is so dark but the restaurant was pretty dim.

More Conversations with Jonah

Here is what a typical conversation with Jonah sounds like these days. He throws in some words with some mumbo jumbo. He may actually be saying stuff and we just haven't figured it out yet, but it is pretty funny to listen to. Plus he has the sweetest voice.

Bedtime

Jonah doesn't ever really sit still so trying to read him a bedtime story doesn't usually work out so well. Tonight he was having a hard falling asleep so Joe decided to try it. He read him Love You Forever, and this book always gets me choked up at the end. I mean I usually have tears in my eyes when I get done. Jonah did so good and laid there between me and Joe while Joe read the whole book to him.


Of course Joe had to point out and cars that were in the pictures. It was really sweet.

Trains

Jonah's cousin Aiden has a train table and the second Jonah gets to his house he bypasses everyone and heads straight to it. So Jonahs grandparents got him one for his birthday. Luckily it didn't take Joe quite as long as the kitchen to put together and since he finished it we have barely got Jonah out of his room. Pardon the mess in the background but we still have to move stuff around and out of the room for the table to fit.

He is in love with this toy.

I have like no pictures of my mom with Jonah so the other night when we were headed to dinner I had to snap this one. Jonah is not a fan of having to hold an adults hand in parking lots and crossing streets, so I thought it was cute when he grabbed my moms hand and starting walking with her. This kid tries to be so independent all the time.

Last night Jonah hopped up on the couch and snuggled with his grandma and grandpa before we headed home. He loves them so much!

Jonah and Kayden

Today Jonah and I went over to hang out with Rachael and Kayden for a little while so Jonah could meet his cousin. I got this picture of Kayden sleeping in his bouncer and I remembered I had a picture of Jonah with his head in that same position when he was about two weeks old.

Except Jonah looks like he is a lot older then two weeks old in this picture!

I was a little worried that Jonah would be a rough with Kayden, but he was really sweet. He came right over to his bouncer and just sat there looking at him and then he would look back at us and laugh and giggle. It was really cute!


When Kayden woke up we let Jonah hold him for a minute and he was loving on Kayden the whole time. Sorry the pictures are off center a little but I was trying to watch and hold Kayden and snap the picture at the same time.


Giving him kisses. Kayden was hungry so that is why he is crying in the pictures.


It was so sweet watching Jonah with Kayden, I hope this is the start of a very long friendship for them.

Kayden and Jonah have one thing in common already! They both LOVE boobies and LOVE to flash them, lol!