Jonah's BIRTH DAYS

Age 3

Age 2

Age 1 years old

Age 1 month

• is fully potty trained daytime and nighttime!
• Currently goes to Mrs. Julie's daycare
• knows colors, shapes, numbers to 20
• understands prepositions
• loves to listen to his music CD in the car
• can get us home from Firewheel Mall
• wants to be outside playing, riding, etc all the time
• has tons of fun with his cousin Mason
• can make Harper laugh and smile with simple funny things he does
• likes to play with our phones and ipad
• enjoys his racetrack / cars, playing kitchen, buzzlight year
• helps in the kitchen making pancakes, waffles or cupcakes
• can sing many nursery rhymes and even some of "our" songs from the radio
• loves to pretend play with space ships, animals
• bath time can never be long enough- loves to put coloring and bubbles in his bath
• likes to kick the soccer ball and throw the football
• favorite foods: peanut butter sandwich, donuts, pudding
• will eat yougurt and cereal for breakfast
• eats tons of veggies and loves fruit - especially watermelon
• vanilla ice is the best
• likes to play with Eli, Peyton and Emma at daycare

Jonah's birthday

Since Jonah's bday was on a Saturday we took advantage of it and spent it just the 4 of us all day long and saved his friends / family party for the following weekend. Jonah woke up to presents, went to the Dallas Zoo (rode the merry go round, the monorail), went to Chuck E Cheese pizza just for games (and not to see that Mouse) and then ate at Old McDonald's with some good ice cream. The day was all about him and this was the first year he "got" that it was his birthday! When the phone rang- he would ask- "is it for me?" because he would know people were calling to wish him a happy birthday-- and the best part is that he did!

Mary Poopins

We are very lucky to have our own Mary Poppins who lives down the street and just adores / loves our kids. Really- she will call down to see if they can come over for a playdate. We are very thankful to a wonderful friend who enjoys to spend her free time with thing 1 and thing 2!

We don't do snakes at this house

This was the 2nd snake we have found in our backyard. Last year we found one in our pool- Rick killed it as it was a smaller one. This year- we had to call in back up- there was a long and mean and fightsy snake in our yard so Rick, our neighbor Roland and his brother in law all took it down. The snake hissed and snapped. But many yard tools later, that sucker was a goner with his head cut off and his tail chopped off too. We think it was a rat snake- not sure why our yard- but as long as his friends got the message- come over here and your dead!

Here's our pretty girl

All of 6.5 months and we are just in love with her -- she is such a happy baby, sleeps well at night, laughs at Jonah all the time, loves being passed around to everyone, and makes us smile!

Easter Day!

We headed to Justine's for Easter- ate good food, looked at our new ipad, ate good desserts, had the golden egg hunt! The hints from Kirsten were good- we struggled to find that golden egg! Jared got it and the Target gift card inside. Harper was the party animal and fell asleep, Jonah & Mason played the entire time, and we laughed- lots of laughs!

The Easter Bunny came!

Sunday morning came early indeed! Jonah woke up Harper and came to get us so he could see his basket and show Harpers hers. He was all over the house, picking up eggs and had fun opening them and eating a little candy first thing in the AM.

Easter Eve

We had some friends over for dinner, decorating hard boiled eggs and our first annual flashlight egg hunt! IT was so much fun. Dye got all over our hands and we smashed some of the smelly eggs in the ugly brown yard! Emma & Jonah were all over using their flashlights in the dark searching for eggs. Too fun!

Easter Eve - later that night

So we had Jonah set out his basket and Harper's. He chose the fireplace. It was such a "hallmark" moment when Jonah noticed Harper's basket didn't have any of those hard boiled dye eggs, he took some out of his basket and put them in hers. Too cute and so special - what a BIG heart! We laid eggs around the house (not the bedrooms) filled with glow in the dark bugs and jelly beans. His basket had new Diego underwear, water toys, paint apron, chapstick (so he won't use mine), a castle, bubble bath, colors for his bath and a few lollipops! Harper's basket had some bath colors (but not really since she's too young), milk (formula) and new bath towels- poor thing!

Family Time

We are making our rounds at parks even when it is so windy! Jonah is getting more daring on the equipment which is good so he's not so scared all the time.

Bucket seat

Well Harper is getting closer to sitting up by herself without falling forward or to the sides. But while in the playroom I needed for her to sit up, so we had to improvise! Who knew a bucket could be a form fitting seat? It was a little snug for our chunky pumpkin and once she did it, Jonah to as well. That's how we roll around here!

Harper ~ 6 months old ~ halfway to 1 years old!

• Eating all kinds of stage 1 veggies and fruit
• 19 lbs 3 oz (95th percentile)
• 28.5 inches long (95th percentile)
• we showing her the signs for "milk, water, eat and night-night"
• loves to roll from tummy and back all over
• smiles when we sing "wheels on the bus", "patty cake" and "itsy, bitsy spider"
• can turn pages in a book with a little help
• goes to bed at 7:30 and Daddy wakes you up at 6:45 M-F and then you sleep til 7:30 on the weekends
• love to look around while on her swing outside
• really is jumping all around in your jumper
• started her sippee cup with water
• is lucky to spend her days with Grammy getting all kinds of attention, swing outside, and stroller rides around block
• watches Jonah all the time- she adores her brother- watching, laughing, smiling all at him
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Campfire means Smores!

Now that Jonah is almost 3- he got to do his first smore at the campfire! He loved eating it and tried to sneak a few more from the bag.

It's 8:00 somewhere

Night - night time is a busy time. Harper goes down around 7:30 and Jonah at 8:00. The sad / good parts is that Harper is sound asleep by 7:32, but Jonah will still be "talking, singing, flopping from one side to another, etc" until 9:00 or at times even a little later. He truly does take him time to "settle down." With that all said, we know at least by 8:00, Rick and I are able to sit down, take a breath, catch some shows or even go to bed early! That's how we we are rolling these days......

She has a new beverage

We started Harper on the sippee cup with water today! She drank it up.....of course we have to do the holding of the cup, but she is sucking down that water. Not surprised since she is sucking down her solids and bottle. This is one growing girl!

Park again

We are spending lots of free time at the park and loving it.

Harper's 1st tooth

Right on time~ 1st tooth plus lots of teething, slobber and fist in her mouth!

Grammy & Popo time

They make each other smile...at least for now!

Daddy & his biggest fans!

Jonah learning how to put his football on his tee- he had to learn from mommy cause Daddy wasn't home yet- oh dear!

Really? How many toy cars does one little & lucky boy need? Good thing we have enough room for all his stuff and our cars.

Jonah entertaining Jonah or Harper being entertained by Jonah- either way!

Harper can now sit in her umbrella stroller so Jonah has to be the one to push her around.

Springtime in TX= Bluebonnets

I have so many pics of Justine & I where my mom dragged us out to the bluebonnets AND now I'm doing the same! Ughghg! So we bribed Jonah with gummy bears to hold his sister and have a nice smile and we tried really hard to get a pic of Harper byherself, but she kept falling over (we forgot the boppy or bumbo or anything....you know 2nd child).