Jonas Stories

Well, the past 2 months have been a whirlwind. I feel like I've hardly had time to breathe, but it's been good nonetheless. Among the highligts were Christmas, aquiring new friends that live only 2 doors down (yay De La Cruz!), resolving to start bike riding (thanks to some bikes), finding out Evan's gonna be a big brother, and about 100 hilarous stories scattered throughout. As I have no hope of remembering these stories in the coming years, I will have to record them now. Let's begin.

Between Brandon and Jonas just minutes ago:
Brandon asked me about Wednesday...
Jonas: Wah-Day!
B: wednesday?
j: saaas (how ye says yes when he draws it out.)
b: what comes before wednesday? do you know?
j: {blank stare}
b: tueadsy!
j: {holds up 2 fingers} two wees!
b: what?
j: 2 wees!
b: oh! 2 weeks?
j; {vigorous nods} saas. ("yes")
b: what about two weeks?
j: ni-night!
is that how long the caterpillar sleeps?
j: SAAS! SAAS! {nods vigorously}.
--Apparently he was referencing the very hungry caterpillar... who sleeps for 2 weeks.

he spent the night at "mimi's" house after christmas, during which we put away the christmas tree, rearranged some furniture, assembled some toys, and cleaned up the house. The second he walked in, he started pointing at everything that was different and yelling "NEW!". He was very thorough... NEW TAYS! (toys), NEW TA-AA! (guitar), etc, etc. very clever boy! He even noticed stuff that wasn't his, where we'd just rearranged. Sigh, he's too smart. Smart boy.

Jonas got a roller coaster from grandma. He LOVES it, and when he rides it he says "Wheeeeee! WHEEEE!" just like he's supposed to =)

He now tells dogs what to do. He will say "NO Ru-Ru!" when he gets food he doesn't want Rudy to have. Or he'll say "No yick te-te!" (no lick, cookie!), or "NO DIR RUDY-- geh back! (no sir rudy, get back!); or "Dow!" (down!). It's awesome.

he's so much better at communicating what he wants or thinks, it's just mindblowing that all of the sudden you realize you have a person that can recall things from ages ago, think about them and have an opinion.

Another story. before christmas on my way to cell, jonas started asking if we were going to "mamas house" (grandmas houise, which he asks to go to incessantly). I said no, we're going to cell. "Noooo!" this continues. For some reason I put up with it. he starts naming anywhere but church to go.. papa's house, feetball, dada, mimi, ju-wee, meowww (nicole, who is meow). I finally said, "NO we are going to play with Evan and Chase and Daniel." Now, jonas loves these three people, so I didn't expect this reaction: "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! NONONONONONONO!!! NO! NO DASE! NO EVAAA! NOO DEDA! NONONO!!!" this continues until about a minute after daniel played with him. i don't know how daniel got him calm, but i'm super clad he did/can! it was pretty hilarious in retrospect.

He knows about batteries. He walked up to brandon with his dead train and said "Newww ba-ah-eees! new ba-ah-ees! Die!" he got his new batteries. poor dead train!

more to come, I hope!