week of fun

Cristin and her two boys came to visit last Monday. Three boys under the age of three was quite the adventure!
Jonah worshiped his older cousin Luke (age 3) for the first two days here, until he realized that Luke did nothing but take all his stuff, and manipulate Jonah
into doing whatever he wanted. Cristin's other boy Charlie (age 1) loved playing with Jonah until Jonah started sitting on him, taking his toys, and pushing him down
all the time. After that Charlie was a little frightened to be alone with Jonah the rest of the trip. They are sure cute though.

The first day we took all the kids to the park and let them run wild.

I'll post the rest of the pictures later, I took a lot while they were here!

Emma hung out and enjoyed the nice weather.

Cristin showed me how to use the play ground equipment.

Luke and Jonah

Charlie took a pretty hard fall , but that didn't stop him! He got right up and chewed on sand the rest of the day.

random pictures: last week

sit still PLEASE

Trying to bribe him with candy to smile. No luck.

Jonah has an ear infection and croup. Every day for the past week, Jonah starts running around the house which turns into a coughing attack and throwing up his breakfast. Have you seen The Office episode where Pam has morning sickness? That's how I feel every time Jonah vomits. It's getting really old cleaning up his puke. (Luckily Zach has done most of the dirty work)

I have been trying to find activities to keep Jonah calm and his food down, but it has definitely been a challenge keeping my VERY active two year old calm.

Jonah playing with a quarter

For example: The other day I attempted to take some pictures of him. Let me just say, I have a lot of respect for photographers! At first I bribed Jonah with treats to hold still,which didn't work, so I then bribed him with a visit to Grandmas, which made him think we were leaving to Grandmas, and that led to letting him hold a quarter, thats right. For some reason he really likes change. Probably because I always take it from him. For one photo I told Jonah to fold his arms, then I couldn't get him to UNFOLD his arms. It was a very difficult ten minutes. This is why I haven't taken him to a professional yet!

Things are improving with him. Jonah doesn't throw nearly as many temper tantrums as he used to, he is much easier to take to the store, and he is talking more and more each day which helps a lot! But with all that comes new challenges. He seems to get smarter each day, and wants to be very independant. He has been taking off his poopy diaper every day and trying to play with his poop. Don't know HOW to stop that, except for catching it before it happens!

Jonah is going through an airplane phase. Ever since he saw Stuart Little 2 and we flew on the big airplane, he holds a plane every where we go. It's really cute to watch him pretend to fly his plane all around the house.

He loves his sister to death! Besides trying to suffocate her with her blankets, he has been pretty sweet. He is absolutely in heaven living by both sets of grandparents! We all are. One of my new years resolutions is to take more pictures of my kids and try to journal more. I have a lot of pictures and catching up to do.. but no time to do it! So we'll see.