Oh I could squeeze him!

Read, Read ~ Dadda & Me

Yummmy!

This boy loves his mac n cheese!

One habit we don't want to start

Jonah's best buddy Jhett. We had to write / color Jhett an "I'm sorry for biting you". Good thing Jhett loves Jonah so much and good thing Jonah has learned that biting is no good!

1st Parent - Teacher Conference

Courtney, Jonah and Julie

The good news: Jonah is doing well and isn't being kicked out! : ) Really though, he's thriving at JuJu's house. He loves to go- we're past the crying when I drop him off in the AM. He likes it so much, when Rick goes to pick him up, he sometimes doesn't want to leave. He's sleeping on his big boy mat in the big room with the other kids- he got promoted from the back room and the pack n plays. And he actually stays there on the mat - amazing! He gets to start the curriculum next month which means he'll start coming home with art work and weekly unit activities. Jonah loves the AM circle time and loves to play with his buddies Jhett and Eli. Of course, Avery and Emma are his best girl friends. When someone takes a toy from him, he just goes to get another one. He eats well at lunch including everyone else's veggies when they don't eat them. We are very fortunate we have Julie to watch, teach and love over Jonah while we work.

Gotta wear shades

Cousin Time

Kirsten, Jared and Victoria wanted to make a tent for the younger kids. Lots of time and effort was put into making it just perfect! Jonah, Elijah and Noah didn't know what to think, but they did go in it and have fun. Then Jared & Jonah had some fun time by themselves!

His first "chore"

Yep, this kid is gonna have chores. We had them growing up and that cycle will continue. His "chore" is to take out "Jonah's" spoon and forks from the dishwasher and put them in his drawer. He does it and then enjoys handing us one by one all of the other silverware pieces minus the knives.

Happy Bday to Rick

The BIG "36"! Was a regular school day for Rick. I sent him to school with cupcakes for him and his class. Yummy! Then per Rick's request he wanted tacos (a man after my own heart) and cheesecake for his birthday celebration. Happy Bday Rickister & Dadda - we love you!

Around town with Jonah

Me and my Grammy

We finally made it to the "big boy" slide- the one that corkscrews around!

What is the definition of obsession?

I rotate Jonah's books every couple of weeks and there is one that Jonah will ask for-Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann. Since the book has little words, we have improvised the words. Jonah knows those words and knows what physical expressions to do, etc. We read it daily, many times a day. Does it make us bad parents if we hide the book?

this is what he does with his hands when the lady finds the gorilla in her bed!

Who really likes that Mouse anyways?

So Jonah was asked out for a lunch date with Emma to go to HELL aka Chuck E Cheese on a Saturday afternoon when it is raining! All was good until THAT mouse came out!

This is what welcomed me on Friday AM

This is what I get for NOT being a Dallas Cowboys fan. I never have been amid many family and friends who are! Now I do like some players, especially the older ones Aikman, Smith, Moose and some current ones Romo and Witten. But my favorite NFL team will always be the ones playing against the Cowboys. But since I am surrounded by Cowboy fans at school, they decided to play a joke on me. Not to worry- I wore purple on Friday and hopefully will be the one laughing on Sunday!

Sign this kid up for Kindergarten

Like mother, like son!

Autographed copies are still available

Thanks to a friend letting us know- Jonah is in the quarterly Rowlett Lakeside Leisure Magazine promoting their annual Eggstaordinary Egg Hunt. Now all I have to say is - out of all the pics they took at that event and Jonah is the only one they picked- we need to get this little man an Agent! t'hee. All kidding aside- it's pretty cool and I'm sure that cute looking basket certainly did help get him in the magazine- good thing I didn't listen to Rick and take it back! And out of the pics we took (really we took a lot since it was his 1st Easter- why did they pick one where he's not totally smiling? Who was the Editor anyways?) Oh by the way, please specify what color crayon you would like for your copy- we're pretty flexible!

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Autumn leaves are falling down.....

Only in TX can we sing this song in January when finally all the leaves are off the trees! Guess, by looking at these pics, we really need to clean up the yard- no "Yard of Month" for us!

Finally we can go outside and play

"Play Road"

Jonah got a road and all the fixin's that go with it (stop sign, car, bus, traffic light, etc) for Cmas and asks to play with it all the time. It's a bath toy and it's made bath time even more fun and even longer- if that is possible! Is it bad to spend about 30-40 mins in bath time just to play with road???? Thanks Grammy for the road!

Me & My Dadda

Go TX ~ Fight TX ~ Win TX

Ready to cheer on the 'Horns in the National Championship game!

CONGRATS to our Friend ~ The new MAYOR!

Our dear friend Holly was elected Mayor of Curwensville, PA! YAHOO!!!! We are so excited for her- this has been her dream for some time. She talked about it when we headed out to see her in 2007 and now it's a reality. Congrats Holly- we know you will make Curwensville even better. See the video HERE.

Here and There

Just look at all those teeth!

This is what we did with all of our Cmas cards that came with pics- if you sent us a pic, it's up there ~ like a huge picture frame!

What to do with cabin fever? Let 'em play in the water!

Date Night

We headed out to see Better than Ezra last night- what a great show. Thanks mom for watching Jonah as we had a fun night out on the town.

Play Date ~ all day long

Jonah and Emma got to hang out all day Monday- really breakfast, lunch and snack! They kept each other busy, in and out of the playroom, reading and "talking" to each other. Lunch was served at Chick fil A and then onto the germ infested play gym. Thanks Emma for coming over to play all day. Until next time~

Cmas holidays continued through the weekend!

We are so lucky to have family come in from San Antonio to spend Cmas weekend with us. Of course there was good food, but it was just nice to sit around and chat, catch up and laugh. There wasn't much planned except to have our traditional "white elephant" exchange, which got really interesting to say the least. Outburst was played and we found out how many things we really can't name! We played outside for a little bit, just to release the cabin fever of inside. Wii fit was tried and tried again. 3 generations of family making the time for each other- priceless! Looking forward to next time.

Santa, Santa, Ho, Ho, Ho

Here's hoping your Cmas holidays are filled with friends and family while creating lasting memories!

The snow was still there after it fell Cmas Eve. A fun Cmas, especially to see it through Jonah's eyes - a tree, lights, ho, ho, ho, etc. Jonah slept in and then we headed towards the tree to see what Santa had brought us. Rookie parents put out the school bus from Santa and well that's all he wanted- he was done! We didn't know to hide the "favorite" thing for the moment til the end! We'll be on it for next year. We enjoyed our AM by ourselves opening gifts from each other and from Grandma and Grandpa in WI.

Then off to Justine's house for a late lunch / early dinner and more gifts! It was a relaxing time and Jonah was very fortunate with all the gifts. It was especially thoughtful for K & J (cousins) to spend their own money on gifts for Jonah- what a sweet gesture!

And finally time for bed ~ but first our stockings! This has been a tradition since Rick and I were dating. We wait to open our stockings right before bedtime- just to make the Cmas Day last a little bit longer. So Jonah was very excited to find a school bus in his stocking as well as some books, but really it was just about the school bus. His fascination is with school buses, especially since we see so many on our way to school each morning. So good night sweet Jonah.