Splish, Splash I was taking a bath......

Bath time = fun time for Jonah. He loves splashing in the water, reaching for the water falling from a cup (really, why do we need toys, when a Dickey's BBQ cup does the job?). Everything goes in the mouth and smiles all around! There is playtime in the tub, water going all over, mom / dad on their knees (yikes....where are some cushions for us old people?). Jonah loves to reach over his chair and bring his duck back to him by splashing the water--- what a great problem solver already! : )

A Day of Thanks & Giving

"Hope everyone had a relaxing time with friends and family!"

We started our Turkey Day EARLY..... we have the annual tradition of completing the Dallas Turkey Trot and kept to it! We dropped Jonah off at Grammy's house for some spoiling time and took our niece and nephew down to complete the 5K. It was a little chilly, but not as bad as previous years. Jonah will join in the fun maybe in a couple of years when we're not worried about keeping him outside in 40 degree temps for 3.5 hours. There was lots to do for the kids (petting farm, bounce houses, samples and music). We completed it with minimal complaining on all parts. A great way to start a day knowing that later on we'll all be stuffing our faces!

Later on that day we went over to my sister's house for some good eating and playin'. There was a Thanksgiving Trivia game (you'd be surprised how much WE don't know about this special day) and then a fun game of Taboo-- just for the record the Girls won..... but whose keeping score??

* look at Jonah's foot inside the toy- he was playing seriously, no messing around!

trivia time

Taboo- don't say that word!

May we all hope to leave this type of legacy.....

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The MOM Song

Let's hear it for all the Mom's..........


The Mom Song- LIVE from Northland Video on Vimeo.

FFF- Fall, Family & Football

What a great Fall day today! We had an early Thanksgiving celebration since some will be heading to Houston for the holiday. Not too worry, the rest of us will stay here and eat some more in 4 days....yummy! There was football played, food feast, kids making huge leaf piles to run into, laughter and of course, pics!

A fun Birthday!

We celebrated Justine's birthday (Aunt Justine to Jonah). And what a great party filled with lots of food, fun, dancing and laughs. Jonah got lots of practice with his "army crawl" and was totally interested in his cousins - not bad for free entertainment!

McGee Family

Jonah's "army crawl" with Cousin Jared

All the cousins ~ Logan, Kirsten, Jared, Jonah and Mason

Some crazy dance moves

Logan playing dress up with Jonah

Being silly!

No more rolly polie

Yep, Jonah is sitting on his own. Before we would have him sit up and he would fall to one side or the other. What a whole new view he gets when he's sitting up and new toys to play with! And now that he can sit up, he gets to sit in the big boy high chair when we go out to eat!

A few lessons to be learned for the rookie parents- when you have a baby and tell the hostess how many, we need to tell them 2.5 people. We just told them 2 since Jonah didn't need a real seat, but they didn't catch on that we'd need some kind of seat (highchair). So they call Thompson's to be seated and realize we had 2.5 and told us, "oh you have .5, we'll need to wait a little longer for a table to open where can sit your baby." What???? There are certain places you sit babies? Oh yes! who knew? There are only certain tables that allow high chairs (fire hazards and such). Add that to our long lists of things you learn on the go! Then next lesson learned while he is now sitting in the high chair- have lots of spare toys. When we'd go eat before and he was in the car seat, there wasn't too much action. Well now that he is sitting up, alert to his surroundings, and needs something to occupy his time so he's not chewing the table- we pulled out a toy at a time (so he wouldn't get overload and we'd make them last longer). It didn't go so well as all the toys hit the floor in due time. So we were left with Jonah to play with the drink coasters- they were cleaner than the floor, right? Not to worry Jonah, your parents will get it right someday.

His first seat in the high chair at Red Robin's.

Random pics

"I see you with that camera."

"Please don't bother me, I'm in deep thoughts with my book."

Dad says, everyone, including me should have an "oh sh*t" handle!

The OM Wienermobile

So 12 years after my job as an OM Hotdogger, they come out with a new Wienermobile - one that is easier to drive, better gas mileage (which means less gas stops), one that doesn't overheat when you use the AC and one that is super fast (meaning goes beyond 60 mph)! I just received notice this week that the Wienermobile has a blog too-- (check it out at our Links section to the left). These current Hotdoggers don't know how good they have it right now. Although touring CA for 3 months in "Yummmy" (that was my Wienermobile's name) with 2 other friends / co-workers was hands down the best job I ever had. Of course, not counting the job where I met my husband on the Kmart / Burger King tours. : >

Jonah's homework

And it's not from his parents either! It's from Caroline (his in home daycare). She gave us specific instructions to let Jonah roam on the floor, that he was moving around so much on Friday. Basically, he's doing the inchworm thing- where he's moving the legs, but the arms are dragging with the body. Too cute! So we gathered our closest fans and practiced all weekend. And here are the results - of course his biggest fan, Cousin Mason was cheering him on the entire time.

"All I want for C'mas are my 2 front teeth" and it looks like they are well on their way!

Cousin Logan & Jonah playing cars.

Jonah loves his singing puppy.

LOL!

Popo & Jonah reading.

Halfway to Jonah's 1st Birthday

~ Here's Jonah at 1 week old ~

~ And here's our baby boy at 6 months ~

Coming in at 20.3 oz and measuring 28" long! We're eating squash, green beans, carrots, sweet potatoes and peas although those peas are the hardest to get down. We're starting the ARMY crawl (see video below). Jonah loves his AM cereal and listening to his music. He is close to sitting up by himself without support or falling to one side.

**The pic of him crying.... there is a small tooth coming in on HIS right side. I could only get a pic of the tooth when he cries.

Bath in the Big Boy Tub

So we've graduated from the bathing in the kitchen sink to bathing in the tub. We figured it was time when Jonah has to bend his legs to fit in there and more time is spent keeping things out of his reach than bathing. So he's now in his tub where he'll have all his own toys instead of kitchen soap, bottles, etc. It will be nice to look back at these pics months from now when bath time will not be "stiff", but rather filled with laughter and lots of splashing. But until then we'll enjoy this mellow time while Jonah gets adjusted.

Being Thankful for Family

The Pena family reunion was this past weekend and what fun it was to see Aunts, Uncles, Great Aunts and Uncles and tons of cousins! There was about 140 of us all in one place-- WOW! Lots of planning went into organizing such a fun event. Thanks especially to Kim and Donna for doing sooooo much! The reunion combines all of my Grandpa's brothers and sisters families together. We've had these every since I was litte and it's nice after all these years they still continue. Each family is represented in a different color shirt (so we can know who belongs to who). Even though my grandparents were there physically, there spirit was alive and it was nice to catch up with everyone. Not everyone was there as some families live too far out of town or had prior committments, but many made the time to spend an entire day having fun and being thankful for each other. Until next time~

The entire gang....

Our family color is gray.



There was Bingo for the older generations.

And Pictionary for the younger generations.

And deep family discussions about medical histories- what older generations are experiencing and what we can do to take care of ourselves now.

Jonah having his lunch! : >

Jonah & his Great Great Aunt Beta.

Jonah & his Great Aunt Betty.