Bah Dees!

Jonas has discovered a new game to play with daddy-- "Spot Thief" or, as he pronounces it, "Bah Dees!"The general idea is that Jonas sits where Brandon was sitting and yells "BAH DEES!" at which point, Brandon turns around and says "**Gasp** did you steal my spot, you spot thief??" and Jonas screams and giggles and waits for Brandon to come over and tickle him out of the spot. Boy, does that kid love to be tickled. =)

Last week, Jonas had what I will call another "first". He put his shoes on by himself. Sure, they were his rain boots, but still, one minute I'm eating breakfast and wondering if I can really endure another round of the early-90's-church-produced-excitement that is the "My Little Heart" music video, and the next, jonas is bringing me 2 (mismatched) shoes from the closet for me to wear and is pointing to go "oo-sssss!" (outside)... he's already got his boots on, no clothes or anything fancy like that, but hey! he did get the shoes! I immediately asked if I could take his picture whit his boots and he obliged.

In more recent news, it got super duper cold for a few days, like in the 40's and 50's. Laaame! It was, of course, during this time that Jonas decided that he DID want to pee like a big boy, but his opinion of big boy and ours were very different, so that he really wanted to pee like "Ru" (Rudy). Thinking he would surely change his mind the second his naked little butt hit the balmy air, I said, "ok" to this plan, and let him and Rudy out in our enclosed back patio to pee. I was, as usual, wrong. That kid was out there 10 minutes in a thin t-shirt only, following rudy around and "ssssss"-ing. he did not actually pee, he just pretended to... even lifted his leg once! He splashed in the water fountain, which was, in fact, clod enough for him to say "Co! Co! Bbbbbbb!". He also pointed out rudy's poop and asked me to clean it up, so I did. Anyway... after about 10 minutes Brandon thought he had been outside plenty long enough, so we brought him back in and he was very upset.

The past couple days Jonas has been a lot more to handle, as he is cutting his 2 year molars on the bottom. He has really been fussy and upset, and is now in the "MINE!" stage, so that is just awewsome on top of awesome. The worst has been when he wakes up. I don't know why, but he is so upset that he cries for about 45 min. before he is happy again. Well, he did take a momentary break to comment that "Ru? Bah Dees!" (Rudy!? Spot Thief!!), as rudy was sitting in brandon's spot. This afternoon we actually took him to the doctor to make sure he didn't have an ear infection. He was amazingly good while there, and didn't freak out as he had done in the past. sweet! He didn't have an ear infection, so that's good, at least.

Yesterday, Joe and I went to the childrens museum, then over to the Reich's where the plan was for jonas to sleep while I cleaned their house. This did not work out. Jonas didn't sleep, and had a fit because he wanted "Sus!" (Jesus). yes, evan has a Jesus stuffed animal whose awesomeness I cannot stress enough. Luckkkyyyy! Anyway, Joe didn't sleep, and then wayne came back (which I wasn't expecting, but was good anyway) and then wayne's mom came to visit, and the exterminator, and well... it was just a 2 hour cleaning job in the quiet that was reall a 4 hour cleaning job with hustle and bustle abounding... which was cool, i guess... it all got done. I just don't know what I'm gonna do next time if joe doesn't sleep! Hmm....

In other news, Brandon or I need a job pretty badly. Hmm... I wonder how many grammar rules I broke in that last sentance... Yeah, there aren't a lot of jobs, and we just found out our insurance premium is going up another sweet $120/month in january, so that's gonna be fun to pay. yaaay