3 months

well first of all...i lost the card reader, so there are no new pictures...yet.

UPDATE!!!!!!!! HERE ARE THE PICTURES!!!!!!

 glasses on or glassses off, still the cutest nerd i've ever seen~

the night we realized we are no longer in charge, bedtime is 730 and this was taken at 10.

if you look really closely you can see we did spell out months.

oh, you were using those mom?!

i made this and then....

this happened...jonahsaurous! rawr!

Jonah has been growing like crazy lately, he is getting so much bigger and is really alert and taking in everything around him, it's so sweet. This week he has started sitting up on his own for just a couple minutes at a time; and every time we put him on his belly he rolls to his back, and a tries to get back over, but hasn't figured that part out yet.

We are all looking forward to Thanksgiving this year, my family is coming to Joplin to spend the day with us and we just can't wait to see everyone!

And our social life is slowly coming back, Jonah (and Molly) and I have at least one playdate a week, usually with Hilary and Ali and Blake, and usually at Chickfila...we love that place. And Jonah and I go to MOPS every other week, I'm so grateful for Hilary and her invitation to join MOPS, I have already made some new friends and lovelovelove having other moms to connect with and know I'm not the only one not sleeping through the night (other than Jonah:)) We also have a bajillion other things we get to do each week as a family and I feel like we are always on the go, but I'm loving every single minute of it!

Jacob is getting me a new card reader so, hopefully I can add some pictures later tonight, or maybe tomorrow between loads of laundry, since I have the day off! (yay!...thanks Amy!)

pioneer day!

This weekend Jonah and I made a short trip to Cleveland (Oklahoma) to visit my family! We had so much fun, Jonah got to love on his Grammy and Pops and aunt and uncles and his great grandparents, he is such a loved little boy.

While we were in town it was Pioneer Day, a fall festival of sorts with booths and stuff for the kiddos, fair like food, and a parade. When I was little my parents would dress all us kids up in our western wear load us up in the covered wagon and let us strut our stuff in the kiddie parade...our favorite part of the day!

snuggled up waiting for some Grammy love

hanging out with uncle mav

part of the ball team

In fact, here is an old photo for your viewing pleasure...

circa 1993 (ish?)

We didn't stay for the parade this year, we left early with my mom and brother to head to tulsa and cheer my sister on in her regional cross country meet. She ran two miles in a little over 15 min...that;s way faster than I could do it, and Jonah was pretty proud of her!

lovin on auntie

he would have been happy like this most of the day, but no one's arms can handle it!

We came back Saturday night and spent Sunday hanging out with Jacob, and we all had fun! Here are some pictures from today.

daddy and jonah

mommy's view

mommy and jonah

Then we caught a little giggle from our sweet boy and wanted to share it! (press the play button to watch it! :))

punkin patch {2 months}

First of all, we survived 3 1/2 days without daddy, it wasn't easy, but we made it...we really like having him around!

jonah turns 2 months!

Oh, and we got Jonah a johnny jump up this weekend )we're calling it a Jonah jump up) and he really liked it for a while. He doesn't jump so much as he turns in circles to get away from the puppies.

so sweet!

 After he got home we visited Arkansas to see Mel & Mac & MJ & Josh and the pumpkin patch! We had so much fun hanging out with them for the day, we packed a picnic lunch, went on a hayride and took lots of pictures! Jonah had fun too, he hung out in the carrier for a while and the stroller and cuddled with mommy and daddy. He was pretty good all day, until we pulled out the camera, every time we tried to take a picture he would pitch a fit, so disregard his attitude in the pictures and believe what I say, not what you see!

all the boys had so much fun...can't you tell?!

perhaps my favorite of the day!

he's getting so big...and handsome

i think that's at least a $40 pumpkin...yipes.

jonah's first baby pumpkin!

 This is really the first tradition that my family had growing up that we have shared with Jonah, it's been so fun, and I can't wait to do more things with him. I'm so grateful to my mom and dad for doing all sorts of things with us and the examples they are as parents, I'm so excited to pass all of those traditions on to baby Jonah,  I just love being his mommy!

8 weeks

I should probably stop labeling my posts by week since I'm not very good at doing this weekly.


Anywho...baby Jonah is growing like crazy! I can't believe he is almost 2 months old.

Not a whole lot has been going on around here, but we did take Jonah to a chiropractor this week and she adjusted his back and neck and hips and we have a totally new baby! He is so much less fussy and is very alert and so happy most of the time, it's wonderful! He also hasn't been spitting up as much since visiting Dr. Burpo...we like her a very lot.

Coming up this week Jacob is going to Dallas for a work training, he'll be gone Mon-Thurs. I think he's excited to go, but I know he's going to miss us a lot, we're going to miss him a lot too. But when he comes back we are going to go to the pumpkin patch with Mel and Mac and MJ and Josh and it's going to be marvelous...I love having things to look forward to.

Ok, I think that's enough rambling for now, in the meantime here are some recent pictures of our favorite little guy!

we love tummy time! thanks to the ball team for my play mat!

such a big boy!

happy happy baby

so big and so handsome.

jonah and his proud papa

flash and mojo love them some baby jonah!

ohlanta {5 weeks}

So much has happened in the last week and a half...for one it's getting harder to blog on a weekly basis, but I WILL do it...or at least try really really hard to!

We got to spend 3 days visiting family in Oklahoma and we are so blessed by all of the lovin that went on. I think everyone had fun!

ahhhh

We got another smile on camera...he smiled more for his Pops than anyone else

Jonah also got to meet his Great Grandpa and Great Great Uncle Tommy, but mommy and daddy forgot the camera...darn.

jonah and autnie mimi and his converse "shoes"

Jonah also sported his "my aunt is the best" shirt and got some pictures with his Auntie Mimi.

the camera's not so bad, i promise!

keagen

wyatt with his favorite present (bbs and a target)

While we were there Jonah got to see his (second) cousins Cohen, Keagen and Wyatt (we got to stay for his birthday party!)

I think that my favorite pictures for ever and always are going to be the ones of Jonah with his Grammy and Pops, they are so sweet! He is such a lucky little guy, love you both!







We didn't take nearly as many pictures as we should have, but I guess the only way to fix that is to visit again soon!

 i think jonah agrees!

week 4...already?

**ok, so i have been working on this post for like a week now...and i'm so glad it's done!**

time has really just flown, it's unbelievable! my calendar still says august, because frankly i'm scared if i change it, it will be hard to admit my tiny baby is growing.

he is starting to fill out his carseat more and more.

mylanta the baby rolls from his belly to his back during tummy time...and he scares himself every time too.

here's an action shot and then the video we sent daddy!

we went back to work this week, and jonah is not a big hit with the kids, "he's a little hit"
my baby is "really cute, really" (oh, i know:)) along with countless questions i don't want to answer with anything other than "you can ask your mommy later" (you're welcome amy!)
 (and i have a super cute pic of the kids together, but my phone is with jacob at work at the moment and i will not put this off any longer, so maybe next time. )

he has started to sleep better at night only waking up once or twice to eat and going back down in his own bed/bassinet. hooray!



he also found his thumb this week, which was exciting!

i started pumping this week so that jacob could have a chance to feed him some (read: i get to sleep) but the little guy will have NOTHING to do with a bottle, and we have tried 3 different kinds, he will not be tricked.

otherwise things are going really well around here, i am almost back to 100%, probably closer to 95% right now, just because of a little crampiness still, but i'm hoping that i will be back to myself really really soon.

we are so excited about the cooler weather and looking forward to lots of fun things about fall...neighborhood walks, the pumpkin patch, uncle mav's football,


and let's not forget that today is grandparent's day!! jonah is so blessed to have such fantastic grandparents and great grandparents, we are counting down the days until our visit!

oh and tomorrow jonah will be 1 month! (for once we're a little early)