Treat

I told Jonathan if he finished his lunch he could have a treat (Nathan and I made brownies last night). He said, "A popsicle?" And I said, "No, it's better than a popsicle... what IS better than a popsicle?" And he put up two fingers and said, "Two popsicles!"

Glasses

First of all, wow. Last post was almost a year ago? Yikes. Well, skipping ahead to now! :)

For the past few years, I have been getting migraines. They just kept getting worse and worse, and I had NO idea what was causing them. I tracked my migraines, I tracked what I ate- everything was random! It made no sense. So finally I noticed that my eyesight just wasn't as good as it used to be (I used to be very proud that I had very good eyesight!). So I finally made an appointment a few weeks ago, and got an exam. Turns out, my eyesight was a lot WORSE than I thought! (Although still not as bad as it could have been.) And I have an astigmatism in one eye, which made my eyes work extra hard at getting me to see. The Dr. even asked me if I had been getting migraines or headaches, and wasn't surprised at all when I told her that I'd been getting some pretty bad ones. She said that once my eyes were adjusted to the glasses, I shouldn't have any more problems with migraines! Yay! :)  So Rachel helped me pick some glasses out, and I just got them 2 days ago. It's awfully weird having to wear glasses all the time- so not used to it yet! My depth perception is a little off (It was way off the first day, so I'm glad it's getting better!) but I can tell my eyes are already adjusting to my glasses because when I take them off, EVERYTHING is blurry, and I can really see just how hard my eyes had to work to try and get me to see normally! Everything is oh so clear now! I just have to get used to wearing them :)

Jonathan is growing up fast- he's 3 1/2 yrs old ALREADY! He looks nothing like a baby anymore, and that's a little bit sad for me, but I love this stage he's in! These days, he's all about superheroes! He LOVES them! He loves the old superman movies (w/ Christopher Reeves), the old batman movie and tv show (which are hilariously lame, but I love them too!). His grandma Kathy bought him a superman and a batman shirt, and he never wants to take them off, and can't wait until laundry day when he can wear them again! My mom and aunt made him a little superman cape that he wears a lot, and he'll talk like superman- it is SO STINKIN' CUTE!

Jonathan has always been a very social boy, but lately he's going through a phase where he HAS to be with his Mama. Very clingy. The only places where he isn't clingy is at home, or at church. He'll go all over the church and play with his friends, but other times he may still be social, but he'll freak out if I'm not with him (such as if my mom is watching him or if my dad takes him on a 4-wheeler ride; he loves 4-wheeler rides, but he just can't stand that I'm not with him.) Hopefully soon he'll leave that stage and be okay with being around other people (without me!), but only for short periods (Ha!), because when I have to be somewhere I sure miss my little guy!  :)

Update

Ohh for the past week, I have been sick. Really sick. (I wish that was a good excuse for me not keeping up with my blog! haha....) Jonathan and I both got sick with colds, but luckily he was better in a couple days. However, its taking me a little bit longer to recover! I actually don't know how he got by without being as sick as I am, but I am glad for it.

Nathan got a part-time job at Western Oregon University, so he is attending school there as well. He just started on Monday. He is in his junior year, and I cannot wait for him to be done!

Jonathan woke up a couple days ago, completely grown out of his 2T clothes. It was amazing. Just overnight it seemed like his clothes shrunk! He is growing fast, and in his 3T clothes, he looks like such a big boy. I'm a little sad about it, but I love seeing him grow and learn about everything around him. Right now he LOVES dinosaurs and Dr. Suess books. His two favorite tv shows go along the same lines too. Dinosaur Train and The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That are ones he wants to watch everyday. And I let him watch those- He has learned a lot about dinosaurs just from watching Dinosaur Train. He can identify the Brachiosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, knows what herbivores and carnivores are, and can tell me which ones are herbivores. What a smart kid I have! ;)

Anyways, I am done with my update, and need to go back to bed. Being sick has made me not able to sleep much, hopefully I stop all this coughing soon!

What a GREAT Shopping Trip!

I was so excited to go shopping today. Why? Because I got quite a few things for CHEAP/FREE!  Last week, Rachel and I got rainchecks for kraft shredded cheese, because all the Fred Meyers were out. Theres a catalina that goes with it so I ended up paying a total of $1.50 for 15 bags of shredded cheese! (I know, I know, that sounds like a lot. But with the amount of cheese our family uses, and the cheap price-and knowing I can freeze shredded cheese- its a great price. Here's the scenario:

Buy 5 Kraft shredded cheese, 1.50 each
use (2) $1/2 cheese coupons
Pay 5.50
get a $5 dollar catalina
Roll the catalina to the next transaction, and pay $0.50 for the next 5 cheeses
After transactions, end up with a $5 catalina to spend on your next shopping trip!

I saved 56.85 with this deal.
For those of you wanting to save money on kraft items thru the middle of August, here is the Catalina information:
Buy 5 participating Kraft Items, between 7/19 – 8/15 and receive $5 on your next order

• Kraft Singles
• Kraft Parmesan cheese
• Kraft Natural cheese
• Kraft String-Ums cheese
• Kraft Cracker Cuts cheese
• Kraft Deli-Deluxe cheese slices
• Philadelphia Cream cheese
• Velveeta cheese product
• Cracker Barrel Cheese
• Cheez Whiz processed cheese
• Breakstone’s sour cream
• Breakstone’s cottage cheese
• Knudsen Sour Cream
• Knudsen Cottage Cheese

Target is also having a 75% clearance on their toys, so I got 7 items (for Christmas gifts, various kids birthday presents...) for 16.94. I saved 77.98! And a couple of the toys I bought were ones I had already been looking for, for Jonathans birthday or Christmas present. So that part of my Christmas shopping is done, too bad he's the easiest one to shop for ;)

Update!

Once again, time gets away from me... at least its only 2 months this time! Anyways, thought I'd fill you in on whats been going on.

Jonathan has been in his big boy bed for a little over a month now! He hasn't had any problems with it, or been upset when switching; He was definitely ready. The only problem I have with it is that he likes to get up early, come in our room on my side of the bed and say, "Wake up!" and "Downstairs!" Luckily, he usually has no problem with me taking him back to his bed for a little bit more sleep. Because "Mama" needs more sleep lol.

Jonathan has been on a growing spurt these last couple of months. He is now 36 inches tall! :) He's getting so big; he's definitely not a baby anymore!

I am just about to start potty training him. Not sure how thats going to work, but he's interested. I wish I knew more about how to go about it so that it goes quickly (although I've heard with boys its a LONG process....). Anyways, he'll be starting in just a few days I think.

Nathan has been going to school this summer at OSU. He only has a couple weeks left, then he gets a month and a half long break! I'm excited about him not having to worry about homework or quizzes or midterms or finals for a little bit. I think we are going to try to go camping in LaPine during it. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be making it to Boise. I wish we could go, but the longest amount we could go for is 3 days, and thats not long enough when you count travel time. When Nathans done with school, we should be able to get to Boise AND Ohio for a bit. That will be nice.

As for todays events, I will cover them in a new post. But I had an awesome shopping trip today :)

On another note, I think there are a few mosquitoes that had quite a lunch today, at my expense. And apparently they prefer right arms to left arms... Just an observation... (Scratch scratch scratch...)

Clean room

Ok, so you would never know Jonathan liked a clean room if you looked in the living room, there are toys ALL over the floor. But, he HAS to have his bedroom clean (which is fine with me, I hope he keeps it up!). Before he can go to bed, all the small toys have to be put in his bucket, and the others put in the right spot. He did that today a little before naptime. But he missed one (a stuffed bunny). I had already put him in bed and was saying goodnight and shutting the door before I saw it. So I decided to leave it, and hoped he would go to sleep and not notice it. Nope... I went downstairs and soon heard over the baby monitor, "Put it away! Put it away!" So I went back upstairs, opened the door, and he points to the bunny and says, "Put away?" I said, "You wanted me to come all the way back here to put away your bunny??" And he smiled, and said, "Yes!"  So I put it away for him and he laid back down, and is sleeping as I write this. What a funny kid :)

Experiment

Today is day 8 of my silly little experiment- and so far it seems to be working! The past 6 nights when I put Jonathan to bed, I've been telling Jonathan he can sleep in if he wants to. (Obviously it's more for my benefit than his!) And he slept in each day till at least 8 am! (This is a boy who LOVES to wake up at 6-7 am.) Last night was day 7, and I forgot about my experiment. I had Nathan take him up to bed, so he wasn't told he could sleep in. And he didn't. So, I told him tonight he could sleep in tomorrow. I am hoping he does, because I love to sleep in, and those days (besides this last week) have been very few and far between! :)

(And I know this is a silly thing to track... but I am SOOO not a morning person, so anything helps!)

Couponing

So I have been very serious about couponing since the middle of February. I can't believe I haven't done it earlier! (Well besides the fact that I didn't know how, till I read a few blogs.) I have been able to save a LOAD of money in just the month and a half I've been doing it. From what I've learned, its all about "stockpiling" the stuff you know you will need and have to buy anyways, but doing it when there are sales, coupons and/or catalinas available to save the most amount of money.

A few weeks ago, I bought enough cereal for my family to last awhile (months!), and bought some for my sister, brother and parents too! I think the total I ended up buying was 70 boxes, and got them all for $4 (cost of buying coupons on ebay) -.05 cents. How did I do that you ask? I used A LOT of coupons, combined with doubles (at Albertsons), and a catalina to boot! I spent 3.95 for the first transaction (5 boxes of cereal per transaction), then got a $4 catalina back, which I just kept rolling till I got the amount of cereal I wanted, and ended up with a $4 catalina back to spend on something else I needed (hence the -.05 I wrote earlier. I ended up with .05 cents more than I spent!)

Another sale I just did was at walgreens. I would never ever buy dove products without coupons or a sale- the brand is just too expensive. But this last week the store had a GREAT sale. Buy shampoo or conditioner for $4, then get $4 back to spend on your next shopping trip! So basically the shampoo/conditioner is free! Plus, if you have coupons and use them, your spending less out of pocket! (I paid $2-2.75 for the shampoo and conditioner I got, and received $4 back on each. The only difficulty with the sale is that you have to have the ability/time/patience to do a bunch of transactions. After I realized how much I'm saving, I definitely have the patience to get back in line for more transactions! Oh and the body wash was 2/$12 and when you spend 12 dollars you get $4 back, so with coupons it makes for a great deal. I'll write down all that I bought at Walgreens, and you tell me if it was a great deal or not! (I don't think I bought one item without a coupon!)
2 dove shampoos
2 dove conditioners
4 dove body wash
1 deodorant
24 pack of bottled water
After all coupons and adding back the catalinas that I received I spent a total of: $2.83. For all of it!

So now I will stop bragging (haha) and just let you know, from time to time I will mention a few things I saved on, and I hope I can show you how easy it is to save money, especially where you might not think you can! (Geesh I sure sound like I'm selling something huh?) Anyways, now its getting late, and I need to sleep! Tomorrow Jonathan and I are going to a birthday party for a friend of ours (Isaac, he's turning 2!).  Today Jonathan and I bought him some hot wheel cars, Jonathan picked them out. But even though I explained (over and over!) that these were for another boy, he still bawled when I started wrapping them tonight. I am sure that Jonathan will be glad to "help" his little friend play with the cars at the party!  Ok, now I'm really stopping. And hoping to get to bed before midnight for once! :)

Stairs

Today I found out just how well Jonathan could walk up the stairs. Usually when we go upstairs, he holds the banister, and I walk behind him just in case he falls. Today he had his play phone, and he was holding it with both hands. I thought he'd let go with one hand to grab the banister, but he didn't. He just started walking up those stairs, not holding on to anything! And he climbed the stairs the whole way like that. Its just crazy how big he's getting, and see all the things he's able to do now!

Rachel came and got him this morning and hung out with him in Salem for a bit. I came in later to pick him up. I don't know why I haven't gotten Rachel to do this earlier! It was so nice actually having a bit of daytime to myself for once! He had fun too; she took him to get hot chocolate, then to the park/carousel, walked around for a bit and shopped. I think it was good for Rachel too, sometimes when I'm around he just wants me, but without me there she had a lot more quality time with him.

Whoa!

So.... I lied, apparently I didn't keep this updated... I can't believe the last post was dated last October! But, instead of boring you with 5 months worth of old news, I will just update you quickly.

Jonathan turned 2 years old in December, and he is talking A LOT! It is so fun to just watch him. He gets excited about the littlest things, and a lot of the time he is the happiest kid I have ever seen! He absolutely loves going to the beach, always wants to go see his "papas" and "Chull". He's nervous around Matt, but he's fine as long as he can keep an eye on him! I'm sure by the time harvest comes around, Jonathan will want to be on that combine riding with him. :) He also really loves church. He's bonded with quite a few people there and is always excited to go see them.

He is learning a lot about where he lives, and about different animals too. I got him some flash cards with wild animals on them; we go thru them and he can tell me what a bunch of them are. One of his favorite animals is the manatee, don't ask me why! But he also knows bobcat, snake, mouse (actually kangaroo rat, but I'm letting that slide lol), deer, skunk, wolf, otter, chipmunk, whale, alligator, beaver, bear, blue marlin, and cougar! (And those are just from the flashcards, there are many other animals that he knows that aren't included in the flashcards!) I go through a lot of things with Jonathan and I think its just amazing how much he learns, and just how much it sinks in so that he remembers it. He is such a smart kid! Not to brag or anything ;)

Jonathan got his hair cut about 2 weeks ago; it was getting so long and unmanageable lol. But I took him to the barber, and told him not to give him a buzz cut, and guess what he got? A buzz cut! I was not very happy, but his hair will grow out, which I'm waiting for haha... then we'll just go somewhere else... or I'll try my hand at cutting it!

Ok, I will TRY(!!!) to keep this updated more often! :) The picture below is not the most current one, it was taken in early January when we went to the beach with Kathy (Nathans mom). It is however the most current one on my computer!

The almost perfect fall day :)

Today was a great day (minus one thing). It was a perfect fall morning, a little foggy, a little chilly, but not too cold. Jonathan and I met up with our friends Elizabeth and her son Isaac and went to the pumpkin patch. They had so much fun! They were able to go on a hayride, pick out a pumpkin, go to the apple orchard and pick out an apple, go through the corn maze and play on a bunch of stacked hay bales. After that we went over to the little petting zoo, Jonathan petted a sheep, and Isaac got liked by a baby cow. Jonathan danced in front of the cage of chickens, saying chicken, chicken, chicken! And Isaac laughed at the pigs snorting around. :) Then, after washing hands, we all went over and received a cider doughnut and some apple cider. They were both SO yummy!!!! If you haven't been to EZ Orchards, go! I will need to go back I think, they have a market too where you can buy what they make. Its great. Jonathan and Isaac really loved their food too. After that we went home, all the way looking at all the colored leaves falling alongside the road. What a great fall day! Then in the afternoon, my mom asked if we wanted to go with her into Dallas. So we went and ran a few errands, and then went and got some ice cream. Jonathan ABSOLUTELY LOVES CHOCOLATE! And I'm saying that in all caps, because it was very VERY evident lol. After each bite, he'd close his eyes, smile, then dance around in his seat before he'd say, "More!" And you could tell exactly when the sugar hit his system. :) He ran around Dairy Queen for awhile laughing, and then we went to the park and let him run there, and play on his favorite piece of playground equipment, the slide. He had so much fun today!!!!-IF it hadn't been for one incident. I still feel sick about it. He dirtied his diaper, so I was changing it in the car, when I was done, I let him out (there was no one around at all) and he went over and looked in the drivers window where my mom was sitting. I was cleaning everything up, wasn't paying attention and closed the door, not realizing his fingers were where the hinges of the car door was. So I smashed his fingers! Luckily my mom was there, because I think I would have absolutely freaked out. But she said his fingers would be okay. So we went to Rite-Aid to get one of those cold packs that you break and can use immediately. Except they didn't have any of those. But the pharmacist was SO nice and gave me a cold pack from their freezer free of charge. (By the way, where can you get those ice packs I was looking for? Anyone know?) Now he's napping, and I'm hoping that when he wakes up he'll forget about what happened to his fingers and we can have a perfect evening to this almost perfect day :)

Still here!

Wow, its been a long time since I've blogged. :) Too long! And I'm not going to write much here, except to tell you that Jonathan has been growing and VERY active, laughing and learning lots! He is growing up so fast!

I will soon be able to write more, now that Nathan will be going back to school (starting tomorrow) and I will have the computer back ;)

Also. If anyone has tips on what things are fun to do with a two year old (more places to go than things to do at home) let me know! Now that he's getting older, I want to try to get more of a project/event schedule together for him. Hopefully you understand what I'm getting at. Anyways, thanks for reading my blog, I will definitely be continuing it!

Mud Puddles...

Today we were all outside, enjoying a little of the cooler (and wet) weather. I was helping my sister load up her car, so Nathan decided to walk out to the shop with my dad and Jonathan. After a few minutes of helping my sister, I look out towards the shop and see Jonathan by himself standing right in front of the shop, facing it. I assume that Nathan and my dad are inside, so I think nothing of Jonathan being by himself. And then I see him start to stomp. And I was wondering, why is he stomping like that? And its a little too far away to really see what he's doing. So I decided to walk over there. And then I saw... a little boy, playing in a mud puddle, stomping around and LOVING it. I was a little irritated, because I had put his "going to town" shoes on him... which are now his "outside play" shoes. :) But it was really funny to watch. His pants, at least halfway up him were covered with mud and water. His jacket was splattered and so was his face a little. And you really can't tell what color his shoes started out to be! Here is a pic of Jonathan my sister took after he played in the mud puddle. And holding one of his favorite toys in the world. A spray bottle lol.

To sleep or not to sleep...

The other day, we went out to eat at Wallerys Pizza in Salem with my parents. Jonathan LOVES going there because there are so many people to see. We were sitting there, and a waitress was cleaning up a nearby table. Jonathan noticed her and immediately tried getting her attention. He'll practically do anything to get the attention of a waitress. :) So he's sitting there staring at her, making loud noises and laughing to get her attention. And then when she'd look at him and smile he'd turn away suddenly and laugh hilariously. Then after a few seconds, he'd look back and get her attention all over again. He would do that again and again, it was REALLY cute!

The things that Jonathan says...

I thought I would write down the words that Jonathan can say now. The list is slowly getting longer and longer :)

Mama or Mom
Dada
hat
Orange (orag)
kitty
banana (nananana...etc lol)
Hi (his new pickup line for waitresses, cashiers... lol)
outside (side! side!)
home
woof
hot (when I tell him something is hot, he'll say it back to me, but he'll whisper it lol)
eye (as he pokes me in the eye lol)
ball
peas (peesh)
shoe
juice (jui, sounds like jew)

I probably forgot a few lol. Its interesting that he can say only these words so far, but he understands probably everything that we say to him. Its actually amazing to me! He will go to the refrigerator if he wants his milk, but if its in the living room already I'll say to him, "Your milk is in the living room," and he will run in there and find it. I'll tell him "lets go upstairs," and he knows exactly where to go. I dare not say the words, "out" or "outside" unless I'm actually taking him outside because he LOVES to go outside! If I say, "say hi to ______," he will wave (eventually lol). And when we are outside, and I tell him, "Grandma and Grandpas house," he will take off across the driveway to see them. :) We went to a sandwich place today and they had a train that travels around the room. I showed him the train and told him what it was once. After that, all I had to say was "train" and he would look for it right away.

I love seeing him learn so much and grow from being a helpless baby to a very (VERY) energetic little boy!

23 billion things that have happened in the past couple of months...

I think I need a accountability partner for blogging. Lately I have been so busy, that I just don't think about blogging. And SO many things are happening lately that I would have wanted to share!


For the past 3 weeks, my mother in law (Kathy) visited us. It was really great to see her, although it took a little bit of time for Jonathan to warm up to her. One whole week of her visit was taken up by Jonathan being sick. Ohhh, what a horrible week that was! The first Sunday she was here, we were gathered around the kitchen table playing a game. Sharlee will be jealous when I say we were playing Skipbo... :) Anyways, Jonathan was sitting on my lap and I was sitting a little away from the table; all of a sudden, Jonathan leaned forward really fast (he is always wriggling and "dancing" in my arms so I should have been prepared) and he hits his head HARD on the edge of the table. Immediately he gets a huge goose-egg on his forehead, starts crying A LOT, and I just feel horrible! We tried putting ice on the bump, well as much as we could with a 15 month old not wanting it on his forehead. It looked so awful that I called the pediatrician. He's had little bumps and falls before, but nothing as bad as this. According to the pediatrician Jonathan was fine, as long as he didn't throw up more than once, and was acting normal (which he was by that time). He did throw up in the middle of that next night, so we were watching to make sure he didn't throw up again. Monday he was cranky, and Tuesday he started acting pretty listless; he's a VERY active little boy and normally is running around, playing with his toys. But on Tuesday all he wanted to do was sit on our laps, or lay on the floor, and started taking longer naps. I was SO worried that he was acting like this because of the bump he had two days before, so I called the pediatrician again. The nurse thought he was coming down with something, but asked if I wanted him checked out anyways. I thought it was a good idea, so we took him in to see the dr. The dr. made me feel so much better about the bump on his forehead, and said he was most likely coming down with some sort of virus. Sure enough, that evening he seemed really hot, I took his temperature and it was 102.8! It was very high considering he's never had a temperature over 100, and has only been sick once with a cold. Luckily the fever went down with Tylenol, and over the next day or so it went up and down, and Jonathan slept a lot, he threw up again (luckily I wasn't at home for that, I was in town getting pedialyte for Jonathan- If I was there I probably would have been throwing up too!), and he had diarrhea. Poor baby! After a couple days he seemed a lot better, and then I noticed he was getting a rash that spread over his entire body! I was thinking, "Oh my goodness, what next?!?!?!" lol. I called the Pediatrician again, and they assured me it was just the last of the virus and it was nothing to be worried about. I didn't know that kids can get rashes when they are sick with a virus. Luckily he was over it by the end of the weekend, because there were some really nice days coming up and we wanted to take Kathy to the beach and to Mo's! :) By that time, Jonathan was back to his normal happy self- which was nice! We all had so much fun going to the outlet stores, eating at Mo's, and walking on the beach!


At Mo's!


Me and Jonathan


Kathy, Nathan's mom


Jonathan and his first time walking on the beach :)


Jonathan, me and Kathy


Jonathan and Nathan

My mom and I also took Kathy to the capitol in Salem, to see all the cherry trees blossoming. It was very pretty. But we also spent a lot of time playing games, just visiting, and, well, eating. lol :) Oh, and we went to the carousel at the park, and Jonathan rode on it!


Kathy and Jonathan having fun on the way into Salem.


Jonathan and Kathy under a cherry tree...


My mom and Jonathan


Cherry trees at the capitol...


Jonathan...


The capitol


Jonathan on a carousel horse!




What a CUTE boy!


Jonathan giving his grandma a kiss!

Easter was a lot of fun too. We went to our church Easter breakfast and service. After that my mom had made Easter dinner and we ate over at her place. I had dyed eggs for Jonathan to find, and he went on an easter egg hunt (indoor, since it was raining). He almost got the idea of what to do. He wanted to hold all of the eggs in his hands at first. He only used the basket when he came to the third egg and realized his hands were full! Thats when he finally used the basket, but then he had more fun throwing them in the basket and making them hit the others and hearing them crack!


At the Easter Breakfast at church.


Jonathan trying to lean in for a kiss lol... (with Chloe)


What a handsome little boy!


Hunting for Easter eggs!




Saying goodbye to Grandma at the airport...

Scary...

Jonathan loves to be scared... Nothing makes him happier than him going into a room and someone (sometimes me, most of the time Nathan) jumping out at him trying to scare him. It is almost impossible to scare him now! He just giggles and laughs hilariously, then is off trying to get us to chase him. :) Today, Nathan was playing with him and its fun JUST to watch my boys play and hear Jonathan laugh. That has GOT to be the best sound in the world! He will try to scare us too... sometimes we'll hide and he'll sneak up on us. Which also makes him laugh a lot when he finds us! At lunch Jonathan had his sippy cup in front of him on his highchair tray. Nathan bent down so the cup was blocking his face from Jonathan; Jonathan kept moving this way and that trying to see Nathan, and then he suddenly grabbed his sippy cup to move it out of the way and tried to scare Nathan. He is just so darn cute! :)

Pictures!

I tried to start these pictures from about the beginning of January. The ones at the bottom are the most current ones...
**** by the way, the captions are below the picture for them. The blog kinda messed up when I published it.****


Jonathan playing with his balloon from Trader Joes :)


He loved the balloon! Now he squeals everytime he sees one!


Nathan left his shirt on like that after it was a little stuck


He liked it for a little bit, but then tried to get it off his head...


What a cutie!!!!


Playing with a spoon in the kitchen while I made dinner...


Slightly pouting about something...


Very happy! He's like that most of the time... (Note all the pepsi cans on the counter... LOL)



Sometimes he just does this... lol :)


He looks like a football player in this picture...

He was having fun playing in his toy box. Look at his hair...

He was trying to roll around while in it.

He loves wearing Nathans hats... then taking them off... then trying to put them back on again... :)

Jonathan all ready for bed!

He was trying to be cute. He doesn't need to try very hard! :) This is a "before" shot as well. He got his hair cut the next day but I didn't get a before picture right before we cut it!

This will serve as the "after" picture. Cute haircut huh? Nathan cut it while I held Jonathan. We tried the highchair but that didn't work...

What a cute kid!

Playing in the kitchen

Playing outside... and apparently checking out his hand :)

He stayed on the sidewalk the whole time, he was too afraid to walk on the grass.

Playing with the dog and Grandma (my mom) making sure to hold her (Lucy the dog) back.

Jonathan and I reading together...

Jonathan looking at one of his favorite books.

The camo shirt I got him while I was pregnant with him. He can finally wear it! lol

Just playing and laying on the floor!

More playing...

Getting ready for bed again, in his newish cute pj's :)

I love his smile...

This picture is even better of him!

I'm not a fan of myself in this picture, but its worth putting the pic in this blog because of Jonathan! He was being really cute!

Trying to get a nice close-up of him, but he wouldn't smile this time lol.

But he DOES smile in the bath because he loves to splash!

He was watching Nathan who was trying to make him laugh.

Splash splash splash! I usually have to have a towel in front of me, otherwise I get splashed on too!

I cut myself out of this picture. lol.

Here's me and him :)

Eating chicken noodle soup without the soup...

A very sick baby in need of some cuddling... :(

Poor baby...

He was VERY fussy this night...

Feeling a bit better... you wouldn't know he was sick in this picture!

Yes the bathroom in our newish place is pink. That will be remedied soon... :)

Jonathan reading with his aunt.

He loves having his aunt come and play with him...

Cute!

Rachel stuffing him in his toybox. Jonathan LOVES sitting in boxes!

Playing with his MegaBloks...

Playing with other blocks...

His shirt soaking wet from drool... he has gotten more teeth!

He likes hiding partially behind walls and playing peek-a-boo...

Just relaxing with Daddy.

Superbowl! And Jonathan playing with an unopened can of pepsi...

Still playing with it... he also was pretending to drink out of it :)

I took this picture right after Jonathan tried to rip Rachel's eye out :)

Rachel holding a tired Jonathan who wouldn't go to bed...

Just playing with his toys and trying to get well.

Poor baby fell into a wall and got a little knot on his forehead :(

Another view... he was okay, but I was worried for a little bit...

He LOVES playing with spray bottles! So I had to get him one that DIDN'T have toxic chemicals in it...

Nathan with Jonathan

Jonathan mad at Nathan briefly lol

What a ham! :)

Checking to see if its okay that he plays on the organ....

Jonathan playing with his new rubber boots!

Playing.... I can't stop taking pictures of him!

Running around in just a diaper this evening :)

Loving his stuffed cat!

More playing...

We can tell he's tired when he goes over to his giant stuffed penguin and lays down on it...

Another picture of daddy and son

Venturing outside just the other day.

Nathan helping him on the gravel.

OHH such a cutie!!!

Nathans current favorite pic of Jonathan...

And my current favorite pic! I absolutely LOVE this picture!

Jonathan and I as we rode on the kubota... Nathan was driving it...

Our 6 or 7th attempt at a family picture on the kubota lol.

Checking out the inside of a tractor tire :)

Walking around near the trucks...

Hope you liked the picture blog... would love to see comments on what pic(s) were your favorite! :)