What has happened this past week? Hmm... well, Jonas has officially got 3 (almost 4) more shiny new molars. yaaaaaay. Actually, he has been surprisingly pleasant. I didn't even know 2 of them were there, I just thought I would check one day, and there they were! Crazy... he's a chewing boy now!
In a related story, I think we would all be less happy people if I didn't touch upon Jonas giving his daddy a hug around the legs, and ever so kindly biting daddy's balls through his pants as he did so. Funniest. Moment. To Date. So yeah, Brandon is much more wary of those innocent baby hugs now, to say the least!
Jonas has also recently learned how to nod his head in response to questions. He can shake it as well, but he generally prefers to just nod 'yes' and do nothing for 'no' so far. This has been a handy trick, as Jonas understands most of what we say, so now he can tell us much better what he wants.
He has also learned a few more signs. He now uses 'more' (tapping his fingertips together), and is better at signing "i'm hungry" than he was. He seems to be putting together what he wants very well just in one week. For example, he will say "Muh muh!", while signing 'milk' followed by signing 'more' followed by a head nod... and occasionally he will point as well. Very clever boy!
It's been pretty hot for April the last few days, up in the high 80's, even up to 90 one day. As a result, we have not been outside as long. Jonas is not a fan of not being outside. He is using his new found communication to tell us repeatedly that he wants outside, and getting very angry when we won't let him every time. Not good!
This past weekend, we went yard saleing and got Jonas some pajamas, as well as several cardboard books (we were getting tired of 'Peek-a-Boo Kitty'). Jonas has been about halfway interested in books for the past few months. He tends to not be patient enough to sit through even the fastest and simplest books, preferring instead to just flip all the pages and move on. However, he started about a month and a half ago to really sit and listen to a couple of books. He seemed to only like the pages that dealt with "moon"... for some reason... weird, but he got so excited and would point at the moons and exclaim "Muh! Muh!" like he just couldn't quite say 'moon'. Anyway, this has progressed to him being able to almost sit through a book now, and when he does, he is very intent on it. He usually will sit through goodnight moon, and will often bring us books for us to read to him, indicating that he would like to sit in our laps and read the book.
This is where Brandon really shines, he is such a more animated reader than me I guess. he can keep jonas entertained with a book for twice the time I can. Not that i'm complaining.
That leads me to another thing Jonas and daddy do... the "chill". Brandon has managed to teach Jonas that "chilling" means you lean back on the couch with daddy and put your feet up. It's so funny to watch because if you can get his to do it at the right time, its like flipping a switch... he'll be running around, and you say "chill out buddy!" and he'll just flop back and lay for a few seconds.... then he realizes he could be doing other things and continues, but still!
Well, I can't think of anything else... but I'm sure there is more.... goodnight all!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
a week gone by...
Oops! I got slacker-y in posting... luckily, I am back now! What's been going on...
Well, Easter was last sunday, and as always it was a fairly exciting time. Jonas got his easter basket, and was immediately captivated by the balls in it and didn't care about anything else. He got his first tastes of several new treats, like malt balls (yummy, but made him choke a lot), sweet tea (mmmmmMMM!), watered down mountain dew (grandmaaaa! =) ) and rabbit foot (chocolate, of course). The rabbit foot was an accident, he was playing with the chocolate rabbit, unaware of its true purpose, and put it in his mouth. He then stopped, looked at me like "what was that?!" and then licked it a few more times to make sure it really was better than the rocks he usually eats. I guess it was! Anyway, he only got a little of that before I took it away.
Otherwise, Jonas is still developing mentally at (what I think is) a blinding speed. He has leared a few more signs. He can now ask for "more" and nod or shake his head... although I don't think he's put together what nodding and shaking indicate... but still. He also 'sings' "Grand ole' flag" whenever he sees a flag and moves his hand like a flag.... and 'sings' twinkle twinkle little star making star signs. Ah, so big!
Today Brandon, Jonas, Alex Dellapinta, a couple of his friends and I went geocaching at the Environmental center or something. We had about 10 on the GPS, but due to having to carry the baby, and a horrible sense of direction, we only got ONE before we decided to call it a day. Oh well, we got a park & grab on the way out just to make ourselves feel better. At least Alex & company got to geocache =)
So my neighbor Darlene, her granddaughter was pregnant and due last Wednesday. Darlene said her husband was out of town, and so her granddaughter called her mom and asked her to come over Thursday morning because her back hurt, she thought she was in labor, and she needed her. So, the girls mom drives over, but the door is locked and nobody is answering. Mom, now panicked somehow gets in through like a trap door or something and starts looking for her daughter. She found her daughter in the upstairs bathroom, holding her newborn child. What?! That's so crazy! It was her first too! Dang... now that's tough. And for those of you who don't know, back labor means the baby isn't coming out the right way so its extra-painful and difficult. yaaaay. Ok, so I just thought that was so crazy I had to share.
PS the baby and mom are both fine, amazingly.
Well, Easter was last sunday, and as always it was a fairly exciting time. Jonas got his easter basket, and was immediately captivated by the balls in it and didn't care about anything else. He got his first tastes of several new treats, like malt balls (yummy, but made him choke a lot), sweet tea (mmmmmMMM!), watered down mountain dew (grandmaaaa! =) ) and rabbit foot (chocolate, of course). The rabbit foot was an accident, he was playing with the chocolate rabbit, unaware of its true purpose, and put it in his mouth. He then stopped, looked at me like "what was that?!" and then licked it a few more times to make sure it really was better than the rocks he usually eats. I guess it was! Anyway, he only got a little of that before I took it away.
Otherwise, Jonas is still developing mentally at (what I think is) a blinding speed. He has leared a few more signs. He can now ask for "more" and nod or shake his head... although I don't think he's put together what nodding and shaking indicate... but still. He also 'sings' "Grand ole' flag" whenever he sees a flag and moves his hand like a flag.... and 'sings' twinkle twinkle little star making star signs. Ah, so big!
Today Brandon, Jonas, Alex Dellapinta, a couple of his friends and I went geocaching at the Environmental center or something. We had about 10 on the GPS, but due to having to carry the baby, and a horrible sense of direction, we only got ONE before we decided to call it a day. Oh well, we got a park & grab on the way out just to make ourselves feel better. At least Alex & company got to geocache =)
So my neighbor Darlene, her granddaughter was pregnant and due last Wednesday. Darlene said her husband was out of town, and so her granddaughter called her mom and asked her to come over Thursday morning because her back hurt, she thought she was in labor, and she needed her. So, the girls mom drives over, but the door is locked and nobody is answering. Mom, now panicked somehow gets in through like a trap door or something and starts looking for her daughter. She found her daughter in the upstairs bathroom, holding her newborn child. What?! That's so crazy! It was her first too! Dang... now that's tough. And for those of you who don't know, back labor means the baby isn't coming out the right way so its extra-painful and difficult. yaaaay. Ok, so I just thought that was so crazy I had to share.
PS the baby and mom are both fine, amazingly.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
the fish vs the tiger
I took Jonas to the Natural Science Center yesterday for the first time. I hadn't been in about a year and a half, so I was excited to see their new zoo exhibit. We struck out as soon as we could, so about 9, and even though it was raining hard when we left, I had a good feeling about the day. Sure enough, on the way over it cleared up and the faintest hint of a rainbow appeared.
We started out milling around the kids playground area, but after 30 min. or so when I realized that Jonas was not in any way getting tired of pushing around a child sized shopping cart, I decided we should go ahead and do the zoo since I thought he was most likely to get bored there, so I would get it out of the way.
Let me tell you, if you ever want to go to the zoo, go in the morning-- all the animals were active and CLOSE! Of course, Jonas had no idea how lucky he was to see a tiger playing with a toy in the water like a huge house cat, leaping and roaring and batting with delight right in front of us. He was about as interested in the rocks at his feet. He was vaguely interested in the tiger when it walked right up to the glass in front of us and started pacing... so cool! Jonas did enjoy looking at the monkeys and the peacocks that were roaming around, though. The zoo had this exhibit of meerkats with a "walk in" tunnel that was about 4 ft high. You could walk in the tunnel out into the middle of the meerkat habitat, and at the end of the tunnel was a big fisheye glass to look at the meerkats. Jonas loved this. not so much the meerkats, but definitely the tunnel and fisheye glass. I would like to point out that "meerkat" is not in the dictionary according to the spellchecker here. Weird. Anyway...
We made short work of the rest of the museum. Jonas really, really liked the big fish tank where the fish would swim right up to him. He liked that way better than the lame tigers, silly boy! So after we finished the museum and ate, it was about 1:00, and I am not one to waste any money, so of course I took Jonas back to the play areas to let him play until he fell over (his nap time was at 12, and he missed it). Jonas was ok with this plan. He had a marvelous time sitting and playing with the cash register, playing in the toy house, playing with the puppets and the puppet theatre, playing with the blocks and the dinosaurs, and of course playing on the water table with the boats! He even enjoyed the teeter-totter, which I wasn't sure he would understand... looks like he did, though!
I realized it was time to go when I got a phone call and Jonas had a meltdown because I didn't give him the phone immediately. He calmed down after we walked through the maze (which I am proud to say I got through while being 100% distracted and just walking without paying attention), but I still packed it up and we left around 3:30. I handed Jonas a cup of cheerios to eat since it had been a while since he ate last, and I don't know if he got into them good or not, because before I even pulled out of the parking space, that boy was asleep! We had a good day at the Science Center. Tiring, but very fun indeed!
We started out milling around the kids playground area, but after 30 min. or so when I realized that Jonas was not in any way getting tired of pushing around a child sized shopping cart, I decided we should go ahead and do the zoo since I thought he was most likely to get bored there, so I would get it out of the way.
Let me tell you, if you ever want to go to the zoo, go in the morning-- all the animals were active and CLOSE! Of course, Jonas had no idea how lucky he was to see a tiger playing with a toy in the water like a huge house cat, leaping and roaring and batting with delight right in front of us. He was about as interested in the rocks at his feet. He was vaguely interested in the tiger when it walked right up to the glass in front of us and started pacing... so cool! Jonas did enjoy looking at the monkeys and the peacocks that were roaming around, though. The zoo had this exhibit of meerkats with a "walk in" tunnel that was about 4 ft high. You could walk in the tunnel out into the middle of the meerkat habitat, and at the end of the tunnel was a big fisheye glass to look at the meerkats. Jonas loved this. not so much the meerkats, but definitely the tunnel and fisheye glass. I would like to point out that "meerkat" is not in the dictionary according to the spellchecker here. Weird. Anyway...
We made short work of the rest of the museum. Jonas really, really liked the big fish tank where the fish would swim right up to him. He liked that way better than the lame tigers, silly boy! So after we finished the museum and ate, it was about 1:00, and I am not one to waste any money, so of course I took Jonas back to the play areas to let him play until he fell over (his nap time was at 12, and he missed it). Jonas was ok with this plan. He had a marvelous time sitting and playing with the cash register, playing in the toy house, playing with the puppets and the puppet theatre, playing with the blocks and the dinosaurs, and of course playing on the water table with the boats! He even enjoyed the teeter-totter, which I wasn't sure he would understand... looks like he did, though!
I realized it was time to go when I got a phone call and Jonas had a meltdown because I didn't give him the phone immediately. He calmed down after we walked through the maze (which I am proud to say I got through while being 100% distracted and just walking without paying attention), but I still packed it up and we left around 3:30. I handed Jonas a cup of cheerios to eat since it had been a while since he ate last, and I don't know if he got into them good or not, because before I even pulled out of the parking space, that boy was asleep! We had a good day at the Science Center. Tiring, but very fun indeed!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
A dirty day for Jonas
Today Jonas did a lot of dirty (but cute) things, which I laughed and attempted to capture on film. We recently got brandon's old cell phone out of hibernation and started plugging it in so that Jonas has a "real working phone" to play with. He much prefers the light-up version to the red plastic version. Anyway, he was walking around the house with his phone making happy baby sounds and he went into the bathroom, so I followed. I turned my head for one second, and BAM! phone in the toilet! The toilet lid is so rarely open that I didn't even think about it. Of course, he leaned all the way in to grab it out, making the whole thing that much more awesome. In conclusion, Jonas had his first experience with a thorough-soap-and-warm-water hand watching shortly thereafter.
So I made some no-bake cookies for cell that went amiss and never hardened, they are just these sticky masses sitting on our table. Still yummy though... anyway, needed to preface that... After Jonas's nap, I was doing something in the kitchen, and Jonas noticed me grab a crumb of no-bake cookie off the table and eat it. Unbeknownst to me he decided to investigate. I forget how much taller he is... by the time I figured out what he was about, he already had sticky cookie goodness in his mouth and was going "MmmMMMMMM!!!" Very enthusiastically. Well, it was too late at that point, so I grabbed the video camera and still camera and took some pictures while he attempted to eat another couple of bites of cookie. Sigh... poor boy, he was so upset when I cleaned him off, but at that point his clothes were totally messed up, sooo....
Since it has been rainy and crappy weather the past week or so, Jonas has been mostly stuck inside, but since it at least wasn't raining for about 3 hours today, and was not terribly cold, I took Jonas out for a minute or 10 since I had given up on him being clean. He went immediately to the muddiest puddle he could find and proceeded to see all the ways he could splash in it. Oh well, he had a big time splashing in the muddy puddle. Brandon came out and watched him so I could do some work, and he said he took Jonas to the biggest puddle in our complex to play in, but since it wasn't muddy he didn't care so much. He stood in it with water up to his ankles (and just fyi he was wearing lo-top knockoff chucks, not water shoes!) and then sat down and looked sad... so they went and found a muddy puddle and he was happy.
Jonas got 2 baths today, and he got to run around in just a diaper the last part of the day... I would say this day went well, to very well for him, and we enjoyed it too, even though it was very messy!
So I made some no-bake cookies for cell that went amiss and never hardened, they are just these sticky masses sitting on our table. Still yummy though... anyway, needed to preface that... After Jonas's nap, I was doing something in the kitchen, and Jonas noticed me grab a crumb of no-bake cookie off the table and eat it. Unbeknownst to me he decided to investigate. I forget how much taller he is... by the time I figured out what he was about, he already had sticky cookie goodness in his mouth and was going "MmmMMMMMM!!!" Very enthusiastically. Well, it was too late at that point, so I grabbed the video camera and still camera and took some pictures while he attempted to eat another couple of bites of cookie. Sigh... poor boy, he was so upset when I cleaned him off, but at that point his clothes were totally messed up, sooo....
Since it has been rainy and crappy weather the past week or so, Jonas has been mostly stuck inside, but since it at least wasn't raining for about 3 hours today, and was not terribly cold, I took Jonas out for a minute or 10 since I had given up on him being clean. He went immediately to the muddiest puddle he could find and proceeded to see all the ways he could splash in it. Oh well, he had a big time splashing in the muddy puddle. Brandon came out and watched him so I could do some work, and he said he took Jonas to the biggest puddle in our complex to play in, but since it wasn't muddy he didn't care so much. He stood in it with water up to his ankles (and just fyi he was wearing lo-top knockoff chucks, not water shoes!) and then sat down and looked sad... so they went and found a muddy puddle and he was happy.
Jonas got 2 baths today, and he got to run around in just a diaper the last part of the day... I would say this day went well, to very well for him, and we enjoyed it too, even though it was very messy!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Helpful boy
Now that it is clear Jonas understands much more than we realized, we have started asking him things to see what he does, or how he will react. So far I would have to say Jonas is paying a LOT more attention than we thought he was... a LOT. Here are some examples from the past 2 days:
-I gave Jonas a sheet of paper and asked him to take it to daddy in the other room. He took it carefully, held it in front of him, and marched straight to Brandon and handed it over. When Brandon finished with the paper, he gave it to Jonas and asked him to bring it to mommy, and he did!
-I licked my finger and rubbed some crap off of his nose... not that I wanted him to copy, but he immediately licked his finger and rubbed my nose.
-I asked him where his belly was and he patted his belly. I then asked him where his belly button was and he pulled his shirt up and pointed in his belly button.
-He can correctly wear sunglasses, and enjoys trying on different pairs.
-He "shushed" Brandon in the car this afternoon. Jonas was putting on some sunglasses, and Brandon said something to Jonas. As Brandon was talking, Jonas held a finger up to his mouth in the "shh" position, and said "mmmm--AA!" We're pretty sure he was trying to get brandon to hold on so he could finish what he was doing.
Also along the lines of understanding, Jonas got 2 spankings back to back today. We don't let Jonas play in Rudy's food ever, but he keeps trying to see if we will stop him... and we do. He went back to Rudy's food 3 times in a row, all 3 times I pulled him away to another room, told him "No, we don't play in Rudy's food!" and he would just run back in and do it again... so he got a slap on the back of his leg that he did not like. After a few seconds of outraged tears, he decided it would be a good idea to grab his toothbrush (Jonas loves his toothbrush, it is rarely in the holder as he loves to carry it with him everywhere) and swirl it in Rudy's food, even with "No, no's!" flying. He got smacked again. He didn't try it again. Poor baby.
-I gave Jonas a sheet of paper and asked him to take it to daddy in the other room. He took it carefully, held it in front of him, and marched straight to Brandon and handed it over. When Brandon finished with the paper, he gave it to Jonas and asked him to bring it to mommy, and he did!
-I licked my finger and rubbed some crap off of his nose... not that I wanted him to copy, but he immediately licked his finger and rubbed my nose.
-I asked him where his belly was and he patted his belly. I then asked him where his belly button was and he pulled his shirt up and pointed in his belly button.
-He can correctly wear sunglasses, and enjoys trying on different pairs.
-He "shushed" Brandon in the car this afternoon. Jonas was putting on some sunglasses, and Brandon said something to Jonas. As Brandon was talking, Jonas held a finger up to his mouth in the "shh" position, and said "mmmm--AA!" We're pretty sure he was trying to get brandon to hold on so he could finish what he was doing.
Also along the lines of understanding, Jonas got 2 spankings back to back today. We don't let Jonas play in Rudy's food ever, but he keeps trying to see if we will stop him... and we do. He went back to Rudy's food 3 times in a row, all 3 times I pulled him away to another room, told him "No, we don't play in Rudy's food!" and he would just run back in and do it again... so he got a slap on the back of his leg that he did not like. After a few seconds of outraged tears, he decided it would be a good idea to grab his toothbrush (Jonas loves his toothbrush, it is rarely in the holder as he loves to carry it with him everywhere) and swirl it in Rudy's food, even with "No, no's!" flying. He got smacked again. He didn't try it again. Poor baby.
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