Christmas

Always a ready smile for the camera! Jonah is such a ham!
Jonah got lots of great presents on Christmas. One thing he got was a music table that he can stand at and play with. He loves pretending to talk on the phone that is with it.

Jonah also got TONS of new clothes. Mommy and Daddy are really excited about that because Mr. Jonah is growing super fast!

Jonah loved his Elmo computer from Aunt Jenna. His face lit up when he saw it and he started pushing buttons immediately. He has played with one in the store so I know he recognized it.

One of Jonah's favorite new toys is a HUGE pop-up tent that can be either a school bus or a fire truck. Grandpa and Grandma Richards got this for him and we couldn't get him out of it on Christmas Day. He loved playing in it. It is about 6 ft. long and 4 ft. wide.

Everyone had a great time playing in his tent, even Tiffer.

On Christmas Eve, Jonah and Aunt Jenna were taking advantage of some free time to enjoy a good book. I love the look on Jonah's face...he is really concentrating on his book. He makes his Mom proud!

Pre-Christmas Fun

Jonah discovered that he LOVES sugar cookies. He has "helped" me the last few days in making them, mostly he has enjoyed eating them:)
He was being extremely generous this evening and decided to share his cookie with Aunt Jenna.

Aunt Jenna and Jonah helping me with the cookies

Jonah got a new outfit to wear to church the Sunday before Christmas. We took advantage of it and decided to snap some pictures in front of our Christmas tree.

Fall 2008

We took advantage of the great weather today and played outside a little. Jonah loves playing on the slide and swinging.
His cousins, Kaleb and Lucas came over and played with him a little and he loved that!

He has been sitting so well this weekend, close to 20 minutes at a time which is a HUGE improvement. We decided to try it outside and let him play in the leaves a little.

He really enjoyed picking the leaves up and throwing them.

Hmm. . .which ones should I pick up?

Halloween

Charlie Brown and Snoopy
Jonah and Aunt Amber playing before we went trick or treating.

Jonah kept leaning down to give Tiffer hugs and kisses and ended up with paint all over his face from Tiffer's "costume."

Charlie kissing his best friend Snoopy

I love reading!

Jonah is doing really well sitting on his stool. He will sit there for close to 15 minutes at times.
He enjoys sitting there with one of his books to read.
He also likes looking through Daddy's magazines, they have lots of cool cars in them!
He used to tear pages in the magazines but he does really well with them now. He tries to turn the pages and points to different things on the pages. Overall he really just enjoys books. He finds his books all over the house and will look through them for the longest time. Then he will roll over to one of us with his book so we will read it to him. He has a really good attention span while we are reading which is good since some of them are a little long.

Fall Fun

My parents came the last weekend in September to attend Ducktail Run with us. Jonah enjoyed looking at the cars and eating the food (yummy hot dogs!). He spent time playing with Pap on the foot stool, just kneeling there for quite awhile.

Jarrett was in a wedding October 11 for a good friend of his, Justin. Jarrett and Justin grew up together (they were born exactly a month apart) and Justin was in our wedding as well.
We went to the pumpkin patch in Wabash this weekend as well. Jonah enjoyed picking out his pumpkin and eating pumpkin pie. He was pretty worn out though because he fell asleep during the bumpy hay ride.

Laudry Room Update

Jarrett and his brother Kirk have been working hard on our laundry room the last few weeks.
We now have walls!
This is inside the laundry room, looking behind the house. The next step is the trusses which are sitting the front yard :)