It's Warm!

The first dirty hands of the season...

Jonas wants to know why people don't just play horseshoes like this? It's a lot easier!

Shadow was over to visit, and Jonas loved playing with her!

Jonas was so happy to be outside playing today. Thank God for nice days!

Two Kisses!

Yesterday morning I was leaving for work and gave Jonas a hug and a kiss and stood up to leave. As I stood up, Jonas said, "Mommy, two kisses!" Made my day!

Quote of the Day

Jonas (crying): Ow, ow, ow!
Mommy: What happened?!?
Jonas (holding a cracker): My cracker hit me!

Hopping!

After getting dressed for bed, Jonas and Bethany spent some time playing in Jonas' room before bed. They are really goofy!

Just a side note: Jonas has decided it's fun to put an "y" sound at the end of random words all the time. He puts on his "sockies" and drinks his "drinkie" from his "cuppy"....you get the idea. Hopefully he's still not doing that a year from now...

Cars Jammies!

It was bath night for Jonas and Bethany tonight, and afterwards Bethany did not want to get dressed. Jonas offered her some of his Cars jammies, and that solved the problem!

Quotes of the Day

Jonas: I hurt.
Mommy: What hurts?
Jonas: My head.
Mommy: Anything else?
Jonas: My legs.




Mommy (noticing that Jonas had emptied out the cupboard): Look at this mess!
Jonas: Goofy, Donald, Mickey, and Pluto did it.

Sick :(

Jonas is sick today. Papa worked from home today so we let Jonas sleep in. Papa went to get him up and 10:30 am and he was sleeping in his own vomit. I felt so bad that I didn't know he was sick during the night. Poor baby! He hasn't gotten sick at all today but he won't eat either. He has a fever, and keeps telling me his tummy "hurts!". I forced some tylenol down him for the fever and put him to bed. Hopefully he'll feel better when he wakes up!

Happy Birthday Aunt Lisa!!

Happy Birthday Aunt Lisa! Ok, so it's a little late, but her party was just on Saturday. We made her a "desk" cake to celebrate her new job and her birthday, and all of Aunt Lisa's friends, including their children, came over for a big party. Jonas got to meet 3 new friends, Layla, Kai, and Isaac. We ended up with 3 toddlers and 3 babies under 1. Needless to say, Jonas had a great time running around and playing with all of them. He also enjoyed the treats and story time with Papa!

Beach Time!

Jonas went to the indoor beach at the Eastern Hills Mall on Saturday with Bethany and his new friends, Kai and Layla. Dora and Diego were there, but Jonas was afraid of them so I couldn't get his picture with them. Of course, as soon as they left, he asked where they went. Regardless, he had a great time playing with the sand. Summer can't come fast enough...

Movies!

Uncle Mike and Aunt Mary invited us to bring Jonas to the movies a couple of weeks ago. His first movie in a theater! We saw "Bedtime Stories", and Jonas spent most of the time going back and forth between me and Aunt Mary and not watching too much of the movie. But, when it was over, he told me all about his favorite parts! It's amazing that he knew anything about it...

Potty Training

Well, we are trying pull-ups. Jonas is still going potty but doesn't have to get frustrated by having accidents all the time. We'll keep trying!

Potty Training - Day Two

9:30 AM - By the end of the day yesterday, Jonas had gone through 10 pairs of underwear. He's only awake 9 hours out of the day! However, this morning has started very well! 2 times in the potty, no accidents!

12:30 PM - Jonas is napping. We were having a great morning; no accidents until 10:45. Then...7 accidents before nap time! How can a kid pee 7 times in one hour and 45 minutes?? I feel guilty, but I am happy for nap time. 2 hours without cleaning up pee...

8:30 PM - Jonas is in bed. We ran out of clean underwear around 7:00. We might be going to pull-ups...we'll give it one more day.

Quote of the Day

Jonas: I want to drink pop.
Me: No, you're a little boy.
Jonas: No, I'm Joe!

Potty Training - Day One

I started potty training Jonas today, since I have a week off of work. Here is how our morning began:

Me: Jonas, do you want to wear big boy underwear and go in the potty today?
Jonas: No.
Me: Don't you want to be a big boy?
Jonas: No.
Me: You will get a treat every time you go in the potty.
Jonas: Okay.

Following that, Jonas has gone through about 5 pairs of underwear, and has peed on the floor, rug, and chair. One time he went potty on the floor he told me, "Mommy, I'm drippin!". He has gone in the potty a couple of times now, but the last time he peed on the floor and then exclaimed, "Mommy, potty!" This could be a long week...

Quote of the Day

Me: Jonas, time to get your diaper changed
Jonas: I'm too busy!


Jonas also successfully put his coat on all by himself today for the first time!

Shapes!

Jonas is getting better at his shapes - although things tend to be circles if he's not sure!

Great Grandma's

Jonas had a lot of fun visiting Great Grandma last week. He even got to eat a "picnic" dinner on her kitchen floor!

Dancing Maniacs!

Check out the last time Bethany danced to this song!

Sing Like Ariel!

Bethany and Jonas like to try to sing like Ariel does in the movie. They were being really funny in the car on the way to Great Grandma's getting everyone to sing like her. The best is when Bethany declares, "You can't do it!" They crack up at themselves every time they watch this video!

Random Fun!

The kids were having a great time the other day trying on each other's hats and goofing around. They kept asking me to "Take a picture!", so here are some of the cute ones!

Playing in the Fort

Jonas had a lot of fun playing in his fort in the living room yesterday (still with his hat on). He even got to sleep in it!

Nice Outfits

Jonas looked absolutely silly wearing his pajama bottoms and t-shirt, and then to top it off, he wouldn't take off his hat or sneakers!

Play-Doh

Jonas and Bethany had a lot of fun experimenting with their new Play-Doh toys. They were especially amazed by the toy that made turtles!

Everybody was kung fu fighting!

This was at the Seneca Niagara Hotel - Jonas thought he was so cool balancing on this ledge!

Christmas on New Year's!

We had another Christmas celebration with the rest of the family on New Year's Day. Jonas got a lot more presents! He especially enjoyed his Mack truck, his kitchen set and Cars table and chairs, and his animal game! After all of the excitement he slept for a VERY long time...talk about a busy week!

Gingerbread House

New Year's Eve morning we took advantage of the day off and helped the kids make a gingerbread house! It fell apart almost as soon as they were finished, but it was fun while it lasted!

Rock Star!

On New Year's Eve Uncle Mike and Aunt Mary brought over their new Guitar Hero. Jonas had a great time playing the drums!

Photo Shoot!

Jonas really loves it when I take pictures of him showing me all of his toys. Here he's showing off his Mickey Mouse stuffed animals! Usually the photo shoots just result in me having 10 of practically the same picture, but I thought this little collage of them was cute!

New York City!

While we were on Long Island we spent a day in New York City. Jonas was really amazed by all the sounds and sights of the city...of course, that's not surprising since he's only used to little Buffalo! Every time he heard a car honk, he asked "What's that?" What does that tell you for NYC compared to Buffalo! Jonas didn't even know what a car horn sounded like!


This is Jonas riding the train into Penn Station, which was one of his favorite parts of the day. He couldn't believe he got to go on a real train!

Here we are in front of the Macy's Christmas window displays. They were pretty amazing, and Jonas liked watching it all.

Jonas got a pretzel from a NYC street vendor!




We went into Toys R Us in Times Square. There were tons of neat things in there that Jonas liked. He saw Geoffrey the Giraffe, Spiderman, the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building made out of Legos, and Candy Land. But his favorite thing was the giant dinosaur that really moved and roared!




This is in front of M & M world, which was Jonas' favorite stores in Times Square. I wonder why?




We headed over to Rockefeller Center to see the big Christmas tree. Jonas thought that was pretty cool, but he thought the birds coming up really close to him were even cooler!




This is Jonas on the walk back to Penn Station...pooped!

Visiting Catherine and Erik

Jonas and I headed out after Christmas to Long Island to visit Catherine and Erik. Jonas loved them and had a lot of fun...even if their poor cat was too afraid to come out all weekend!

During our trip we went to Erik's grandparent's house for his grandma's birthday. Jonas immediately loved Chris' (Erik's brother) girlfriend Jess. He played with her all night and then even got to see her again when we went into New York City for the day!

Opening Presents

Jonas took all morning to open his presents, but he got pretty good at it! It was so cute to see him get excited by each one.

Every time he opened a present, he said "Open it!" to whoever was closest to him. He played with almost every present before opening the next one...which made it last a long time! He took the time to line up his alphabet blocks...



read his books...

try on his Cars slippers...

and check out all the sounds and gadgets of his Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (his favorite toy)...

but at the end of the morning, all he wanted to do was sing into his McDonald's microphone that we got with a Happy Meal months ago. That's a kid for you!

Here's my favorite videos of Jonas opening presents.

I like this one because Jonas thought he still had to press something on the box to make it sing the "Hot Dog" song, so he was trying to find the box instead of playing with his toy!

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning I woke up at about 6 AM...Jonas woke up at 7:45. Who do you think was more excited? He did perk up pretty fast!