Jonas started his first day of Pre-School on Tuesday. He put on his attendance sticker and went right into the classroom - no crying! Mrs. Makey said afterwards that he had a lot of fun. He brought home a picture he colored of himself, and talked a lot about his new friend Evan!
We moved all our stuff into our new apartment on Tuesday, and Jonas was a wonderful helper. He and Bethany pushed all the boxes onto the truck, and they were really dirty to prove it! He doesn't want to move away from Grandma and Papa, but he did like riding in the big truck!
Jonas absolutely loves his cousin Ben, and was very excited when he got home from vacation with Daddy and found out we were headed to Ben's house for a picnic! He played and ate Twizzlers all afternoon.
Jonas went to Fantasy Island with his cousins. He still loves all the rides, and wasn't afraid of anything. He loved the water park, and even convinced Mommy to go under the waterfall. The only problem was that by 5:00, he was so tired he fell asleep on my lap....and missed the whole shoot out! He didn't even wake up when they were shooting the guns. Good thing Papa was there to carry him around!
Jonas has been really into waterfalls ever since we camped at Letchworth this year, so I figured a trip to Niagara Falls was a good idea. We ate a picnic lunch, took a long walk around the falls and over the Rainbow Bridge to the Canadian side, and went on the Maid of the Mist. Jonas loved going on the big boat, and waved at the people passing by on the other boats.
We had another great year at Camp Pioneer's Summerfest! Jonas was old enough this year to do most of the activities. He especially enjoyed going down the big slide in the bounce house!
Last weekend was our cousin Chris' graduation party. Jonas played all day at the picnic. His favorite things were watching the fish in the pond and playing with his cousin Ben!
Jonas tried really hard to be brave in the Play Place, but he never made it all the way across that bridge! He kept turning around and going the other way. Poor Bethany never had a buddy to play with her on the other side.
On Thursday we went up to Sutton, Ontario to visit Jonas' Great Great Aunt Hope. I got to show him everything I always loved about her house, especially the bells and rolling down the hill!
Jonas went swimming in Uncle Larry's pool on Monday. He can swim all by himself with his arm swimmies on! He even jumps in and goes under water. He is quite the water bug!
We started out our annual sibling camping trip with Uncle Mike's car not starting! Once that was fixed, we headed out to Letchworth State Park.
Jonas' favorite things at the campsite were stealing ice from the cooler and playing ladderball.
On Saturday, we hiked for about 2 hours to see the Lower Falls. Jonas was a trooper, but he needed to be carried for a while. It was a long hike!
Jonas showing off his muscles with Bethany and Uncle Mike during the hike
On the way back to the campsite, Jonas and Bekah took a much needed nap.
Saturday afternoon, we went to a petting zoo. Jonas really liked petting all of the animals, and even tried to feed them! He also got a dinosaur balloon from Crystal the Clown, and broke it before we got to the car.
Saturday night we went to see fireworks. Jonas and Bethany both got really excited about it. Jonas would squeal and look at Bethany every time he saw one, so he missed half of them. That didn't matter to him though, he was psyched! We got back to the site at about 10:15, and Jonas went straight to bed. He was asleep within 2 minutes!
Sunday morning we took a short hike to see the middle and upper falls. Beth and Jonas ran almost the whole thing! Jonas especially like the train that crossed the bridge over the upper falls.
