Sunday, July 25, 2010

Firsts

-This week, Jonah learned how to climb both up AND down the stairs by himself. He says, "hold on to railing" and he does-- by himself.
- He now can count to 10. The first time he did it was in the car about a week ago when we were on the Cape visiting Jacob and Jenna. He just looked at his shoe, moved his finger along the sole, and started counting-- he made it 1-10 by himself.
- Related to counting, today, I alternated numbers with him (I say "1", he says "2", etc.).
- Somersaults!!! Just started doing them on his own, without any rhyme or reason. He loves it though and laughs hysterically when he does it.
- Using possessives and pronouns ("Jonah's", "Mommy's", "her", "him", etc.)
- SINGING!!! He may be tone deaf, but he can sing the words to "Twikle Twinkle" (some of them) and "ABCD" (ok maybe just ABC). "Baby Mine Don't You Cry" (but it "makes sad")

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Mommy in the Way!

"Mommy in the way... excuse me."

Saturday, July 10, 2010

The Daddy Report

At the house in Rehoboth Beach Jonah was jumping on a little kid-sized easy chair and yelling out "A-boombah!". I starting laughing so hard. Jonah saw me laughing, stopped and with a big grin on his face said "Jonah is funny".

The other day Jonah and I made lasagna. I wanted him to stand on our stepstool to help me. When he helped Nanna make lasagna he was in charge of sprinkling parmesan cheese on each layer (which he calls "sprinkle sprinkle"). I looked all over for the stepstool, but couldn't find it. Jonah watched me look around and then said "Stepstool in basement". He was right!

Jonah and I were building various things with Legos -- trucks, airplanes, towers, castles, etc. One thing we like to do is make them very tall. Jonah will say "almost as tall as Jonah is" and "might fall down". As we were playing my tower got too tall and fell over. With a sad tone in my voice I said "Daddy's tower fell down". Jonah stopped what he was doing, came over and patted me on the back.

Jonah and I were in the kitchen, and I was unloading the dishwasher. As I bent over to get some dishes, Jonah came up behind me and said "Pat daddy's butt" while he did just that.

Jonah wanted to go play in the back yard, but I told him I didn't think that was a good idea (because it was lunchtime and naptime). He said "Go ask mommy play back yard". Already trying to play us off each other!

Lately Jonah has had some eczema on his butt and legs (probably from the heat). When we change him he'll say "Want tushy cream. Put some on it!"