Posin' and such!

This is Jonah's newest preferred method of sitting / laying is the following-- Not sure how or why, but we are impressed he can balance for such a long time! Some might consider this is future "GQ" pose!

A nice Summer day in the Fall

So we had Fall weather for a week and now it's warm again....oh well- gotta go with it. So Jonah was invited to the park by his cousins and since he can't miss a social event, we had to go. Jonah looked all around the noise of the people and let his toes feel the nice cool air. He had his first ride on a swing (not sure he liked it all that much- he just sat there watching his cousins and looking around).

Mason has to be everywhere Baby Jonah is-- at all times- he REALLY wanted to push Jonah around regardless if he could see or not!

Next on the Menu?

That would be Green Beans- we started veggies this past weekend! And Jonah ate it up! Literally-- don't think we need to worry about allergies or him not liking the taste of a new food- the food was gone before we knew it! At daycare he tried sweet potatoes and well that was a hit too. He sees that spoon coming to him and his mouth is WIDE open!

***UPDATE 11.05.2008***

We found a veggie that Jonah doesn't like-- PEAS! How did we know? Well if it wasn't enough that he was keeping his mouth closed, making funny faces at us, and pushing the food out with his tounge (which he certainly knows by now to swallow). The final decision to discontinue PEAS was when he spit it all out which then covered us completely with PEAS...... what a nice smell. : > Guess no more of that veggie for awhile.

Another sign he is growing up -- Jonah is lifting his bootie in the air and moving back and forth. We're pretty impressed he can lift his "little junk in the trunk"- I guess he's showing us crawling will be coming soon.

Who is that? That's ME!

What we hear that babies love to look at themselves in the mirror is soooo true. We put Jonah down to play by himself and he really isn't by himself when he has his mirror image to keep him company.

Just hangin' out

This is a lazy Sunday morning having fun in Mommy & Daddy's bed!

This is how I greet Mom & Dad when they come to get me- then I know it's time for breakfast!

This is what I look like when I am eating and I sneeze!

Happy Halloweenie!

We're all about traditions in this household- and a new one was started last year. Instead of being inside getting up and down and waiting for trick or treaters, we decided to put our lawn chairs in our driveway with our fire pit, grab some munchies and watch all the trick or treaters. We had fun last year and decided why not invite some neighborhood people over to join in? So we did- it was cool - everyone brought their own candy and chairs, had some muchies, drinks, made s'mores and had a nice fire to boot! The trick or treaters hit the jackpot with all the candy and neighbors met and got to know each other better. Too cool!

China News - more papers to complete

So we found out this week from our Adoption Agency- CCAI- that much of our legal documents are about to expire in January. Since the wait is now much longer than before (was 18 months now looking at 32 months), CCAI is recommending we file for an extension and will most likely file for another one later. These extensions last 18 months. Now for the kicker-- with these legal documents come notaries, getting signatures and seals from TX and the US, get another child abuse background check, have our fingerprints taken again, have our homestudy updated, new letters of support and so on. It's a lot of time consuming papertrails, but such a small price to pay to bring our baby girl home. We're meeting with our Social Worker in San Antonio next week to finalize everything.

Also good news- we asked our agency about Jonah- how would China look upon us now that we have a beautiful baby boy. In our homestudy, obviously he will be added as an update, but China never sees the homestudy- so China will not know. All righty then!

It's A Great Big Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Not really Charlie Brown, but JONAH. We made it out for our 1st pumpkin patch. We packed up and headed to the best one we knew of and hoped for the best. Jonah was fed, changed and ready to go. He looked all around at all the sights and sounds of kids running around picking out their favorite pumpkin. Camera in hand, 3 people getting his attention and many pumpkins to choose from resulted in the following:

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Pictures I've been waiting for

I've been waiting a long to "capture" these pics of Jonah...... and finally here they go! Of course, years from now, I'm sure Jonah will not appreciate me showing them. Oh well, the perks of being a parent. Don't we all have pics of ourselves sleeping with our butt in the air (when we were little......not any pics recently, thank you!) : >

3rd Annual Thompson's Fright Night

Our favorite time of year lends itself to our Annual Fright Night with family & a few close friends. Rick & I put a lot of energy into "topping" last year's party while making sure it's fun for all people involved. So we had a few games: pin the nose on the pumpkin, bat behind the back, hershey relay race (wearing gloves, taking off wrapper of hershey kiss and eating it), costume contest, tombstone scavenger hunt, eyeball relay race and the pumpkin decorating contest (only 20 minutes allowed). Lots of fun had by - laughing, teasing, competitive games, playing and just chatting! And in the end we had a campfire with roasting marshmellows and playing more game. Until next year!