Winter + Christmas Time

Life in general just seems busy all the time nowadays :) Jonah is growing up SO incredibly fast and no matter how much I try to take it all in, its just going too fast. We've done a lot since Halloween. Here are a few things and some cute photos we've taken along the way.

We attended our 3rd session of our Kindermusik music class. It is a ton of fun and Jonah loves it! I think he has learned a lot of skills from the playing we do and really enjoys music now because of this class.

I was on the ball this year and got our tree up Thanksgiving day weekend. I hadn't put the tree skirt on, but was trying to get a picture of Jonah in front of it. This was the best one I got, as he ran the other direction. It was so much easier when he wasn't running everywhere!

Jonah and I went to a Festival of Trees. He LOVED the train and all the trees. There were a ton of things to see and the place was packed! We had to stand in line for 20min just to get in.

Jonah and Dad went together to the Baltimore Symphony and Orchestra to see a kids version of the Nutcrackers. Jon said Jonah was totally enthralled and watched the entire production without taking his eyes off of it.

Jonah sees Santa again and was still cool with it. Our friends Chris and Melanie always throw a holiday party and their neighbor is nice enough to dress up as Santa and come over. I think the line at the party was longer than had we gone to the mall ;)

Hiking out to say hi to Dad who was out doing some trail work for MORE.

Answer to 'Whose the cutest baby?' haha

We always find the funniest things in Jonah's crib that he manages to reach in the middle of the night. As you can see on the left, the bear almost made it, but was just a little too fat to fit.

We went to Austin for Christmas and all the boys had a good time together. It was a crazy Christmas with a log of toys. Just one pic out of a ton we took.

While we were in Texas we went to a Children's museum, Jonah had a blast! It was a pretty cool museum, although a bit smaller than the one we've been to in Baltimore. It had some really cool stuff to check out and things to build.

Halloween

This year Jonah was old enough to get dressed up and walk around, but we figured he wouldn't really get the whole 'Trick or Treating' thing. So I looked around and found that from 4-6pm in Historic Ellicott City all the shops gave out candy. I figured that would be a nice laid back thing to do. We got there and it was PACKED! We had a blast! Jonah was a chicken, a hand-me down costume we got from my friend Melanie, and it was a HIT! He got more comments and people would stop us to take his photo. What a fun Halloween we had!

My cute chicken!

Taking mom for a walk.

Meeting friends along the way.

He figured out the candy thing pretty quickly, not that he got any ;)

Trip to the beach

Jon, Jonah and I finally got down to the beach for an overnight. His parents have a condo in Ocean City and we like to go in the off season so we can take the dogs on the beach (they aren't allowed on the beach during the season.) We had a great time. Jonah had never been to the beach, so the sand and the ocean were new things. It was chilly, but pretty mild for November, so we spent most of our time down on the beach. It was a short trip, but a ton of fun and something we are going to do much more often.

Checking out the sand.

What are those bubbles?

A big one!

Flying kites with dad.

They were doing some construction on the beach, so we spent

a lot of time checking out the BIG trucks. Jonah still loves trucks.

Holiday Fun!

We've been having a busy holiday season. Feels like we have things going on every weekend!

Thanksgiving was fun. My parents came up and we all went up to the Schiavi's (Jon's parent's neighbors) They have a great house, big enough for all of us!

Jonah's place, so cute!

Eating a big Thanksgiving meal, he was a huge fan of the cranberries.

Jonah and Gran Dada

Jonah and daddy

Jonah and I took a trip to the Festival of Trees. We had a great time, there were all types of Christmas trees, a great model train, Merry go round, moon bounce even a pony ride. I think all of Baltimore decided to go the same weekend we did!

Jon and Jonah met some friends to go to the Baltimore Symphony and Orchestra's Nutcracker (for kids). Jonah LOVED it! Jon said Jonah was absolutely fixated the entire time. The show lasted about 40min and the dancers did a shortened version of all the Nutcracker songs. They said it was fabulous and would recommend it to everyone!

Busy Fall!

I am starting to understand why people who have toddlers don't email or call you back sometimes for quite awhile, they are too busy chasing around their crazy kid and when they do have some down time, they're probably unconscious. Jonah has really become such a little person and so much fun! I know I said he was fun before, but it just keeps getting better and better and busier!

We've had quite a busy fall. Below are some of the things we've been up to.

Visiting Museums! : We went to Port Discovery Museum with some friends and their son Connor who is 3 weeks older than Jonah. It is a childrens museum with a TON of stuff to do, a good part of it is better for kids older than Jonah, but there was plenty to see and do, especially in the water room.


Watching Auburn Games!! : Since I am a northern girl, I've had to ask friends to get me some Auburn gear for Jonah. My co-worker grabbed me an outfit while she was down visiting friends and we have a hat from Ms. Colleen (aka Swales!) in the mail as we speak...so we have been in our team colors rooting for our team!



Becoming obsessed with trackers! (as we call them). It started with Jon taking Jonah and the dogs over to the college we live next to, to see the construction of a new building. The love of machinery had begun, then he took him for a ride on the riding lawn mower. After that it was all over. Now every single time we go outside, he points at the shed and screms 'Tak ta! Tak ta!', since we call it a tractor. I've gotten around it somewhat by telling him mom doesn't know how to drive the 'tak ta'. Hopefully he'll buy that for awhile longer.



Visiting farms : We met some friends at a pick-your-own farm to pick some apples and enjoy the day. We had a great time, we got lots of apples to make apple pie and homemade applesauce and got to see some huge pumpkins. He, of course, saw a tracker and insisted we go check it out (big surprise).

Playing outside : Playing in the leaves and eating sticks, yum!

Loves the water!

Games! : Starting his own games, such as hiding under his learning tower. Another one that I can't ever get a photo of, is him hiding himself around the corner of the cupboards and then walking around the corner and saying 'boo!'. He loves for me to jump around and scare him. It just totally blows me away that hes started to initiate these games on his own. Its so cute!

Fall time

Jonah is really getting around now and starting to talk a little more. He definitely knows the word 'up', which is what he says when he wants me to pick him up which is all the time! He also says 'hat', 'hot', 'nana' for 'banana' and then his own versions of lion and blueberries among a few others that you have to kind of figure out.

His personality is definitely coming out, including some mini-tantrums, which I was hoping wouldn't start till closer to 2yrs old, but I guess not :) Hes still a really happy and easy going baby for the most part, he'll just definitely let you know when he doesn't get something he wants.

Here are a few pics we've taken lately. We just recently got his 4th haircut! and its SO short, but I actually like it a lot. The kid has so much hair!



The next few pictures are when we went to a 'pick your own' farm and picked apples and pumpkins. We had a GREAT time and will be going back again in a week or so to get some big pumpkins. We got a bunch of apples this time around for apple pie and homemade apple sauce.