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.