Jonah LOVES the "We Are Family" song! Not that he knows or has even heard the original. I once started singing, "We are family. I have all my boys with me!". He took a liking, and not knowing any more of the lyrics, I started making up additional lines to the chorus. Now Jonah helps invent lines, so our song goes something like this:
"We are family! I have both my boys with me!
We are family! Jonah is wearing his PJs!
We are family! Elliott is getting his diaper changed!
We are family! Daddy is home from work!
We are family! Mommy loves all her boys!"
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
The One with the Fire Truck
Jonah has been getting better at describing things, so rather than "that one" we get complex, if vague descriptions... seemingly always beginning with "the one with...":
"the one with the fire engine" = children's museum we visited over summer vacation
"the one with red and green and blue balls" = ball pit
"the one with the train that goes [hand motions here]" = mindscope race cars
"the one with the red man and the blue man and the green man" = avengers
"the one with the fire engine" = children's museum we visited over summer vacation
"the one with red and green and blue balls" = ball pit
"the one with the train that goes [hand motions here]" = mindscope race cars
"the one with the red man and the blue man and the green man" = avengers
Friday, December 25, 2015
Christmas Mass
Mema and PopPop arrived early to celebrate Christmas with us! While I was helping unload hundred of presents from the van, Elliott crawled towards the door. Blocked by Jonah and a pile of gifts, he started crying inconsolably. I worried he was hurt (run over by Jonah, most likely), but when that wasn't the case, I couldn't figure out if he had become hungry, tired, frustrated, needed a diaper, etc. As I was at my wits' end, Elliott spotted PopPop again and was completely happy to be swept away in his arms! He knew exactly what who he wanted.
I pointed out baby Jesus lying in the manger in the church's creche. Jonah pointed and exclaimed, "He came out of her belly button!" At least I'm spared the question about how babies get out of their Mommy's tummy...
Favorite gifts from Santa were:
Elliott - a wooden hammer (which he holds and looks like Thor while pushing down the pegs on his pounding bench with his thumb)
Jonah - monster trucks
Grandpa, Aunt Ashley, Uncle Leon and Uncle Kevin also joined us after Mass for gifts, dinner and a little chaos. We missed you, Aunt Lindsay! Feel better soon!
We also Skyped with Cailin and Declan, which was fun for the kids to show off all their new toys. Jonah was a bit too worked up and spent the entire call jumping and doing flips in the living room. It's amazing to watch him going wild, and then later when asked a question, learn that he had been listening and watching everything.
Merry Christmas!
I pointed out baby Jesus lying in the manger in the church's creche. Jonah pointed and exclaimed, "He came out of her belly button!" At least I'm spared the question about how babies get out of their Mommy's tummy...
Favorite gifts from Santa were:
Elliott - a wooden hammer (which he holds and looks like Thor while pushing down the pegs on his pounding bench with his thumb)
Jonah - monster trucks
Grandpa, Aunt Ashley, Uncle Leon and Uncle Kevin also joined us after Mass for gifts, dinner and a little chaos. We missed you, Aunt Lindsay! Feel better soon!
We also Skyped with Cailin and Declan, which was fun for the kids to show off all their new toys. Jonah was a bit too worked up and spent the entire call jumping and doing flips in the living room. It's amazing to watch him going wild, and then later when asked a question, learn that he had been listening and watching everything.
Merry Christmas!
Monday, November 30, 2015
And he's off!
Elliott did it! He got up on all fours and crawled forward! So far he had only nudged slowly backwards by repeatedly pushing up into cobra. He never quite mastered an intentional scoot or army crawl. I guess he wanted to master the proper form. It is so amazing to watch the concentration as he thinks about moving each arm and leg. And you can tell he's reached his destination by the plop down to his tummy, as if to say, "I have arrived!" He's so proud, and so am I!
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Jonah on where we live
Dad: Jonah, do you know what state we live in?
Jonah: The blue one!
(He was referring to the map painted on the pavement at the playground, but oh, so true!)
Jonah: The blue one!
(He was referring to the map painted on the pavement at the playground, but oh, so true!)
Friday, September 11, 2015
Puffs
Elliott enjoyed some sweet potato puffs for dinner tonight! First non-liquefied food! He appeared to like the puffs, and had a good time smacking the tray until they all stuck to his hands. Yet, he never associated picking up the puffs with moving them to his mouth for consumption. Maybe next time.
Monday, September 7, 2015
Sleepover
By the end of the long weekend with his cousins, we gave Jonah the chance to "sleepover" in the kids' room instead of in the basement with us. Cailin and Declan had been looking forward to it for so long! They all were amazingly well behaved. They were quiet before the end of giggle-time was enforced and slept through the night with only a short water-break for Jonah. Wow, if only we had kicked him upstairs earlier in the trip we would have had better sleep!
Saturday, September 5, 2015
At least!
Finally, at seven months old, Elliott has decided that he will sit on his own! And roll tummy-to-back and back-to-tummy. AND scoot backwards. All that progress was made in the course of one day visiting his big cousins. They attribute it to the "magic crawling rug". I need to get one of those!
1. Elliott has been choosing not to sit. He'd much rather push back to a reclined position and chill out supine. Couldn't care less about trying for more than a few seconds, or less if he isn't restricted from lying down. Yet, when we put a ball down in front of him today, he was more than happy to sit and play with it with both hands and both feet! As if he could have done this all along, there just wasn't enough incentive in the books, teethers, take-alongs, electronics, blocks, stuffed animals, towers, cars, etc. I had been giving him.
2. Really, I think Elliott has been rolling for a couple weeks now, but not very prolifically. He would rather fuss when he's done with tummy time, and if I don't help him roll over, he just falls asleep in place on his tummy. He doesn't seem to realize that he can fix it himself! I have noticed that he will roll over at night, but in the morning he always seems in the same spot I put him when he went to bed, (he rolls onto his side to sleep). But from the vantage of a bed right beside his, I would awake to find him in a new position all night long - and back where he started by morning! Stealthy. And here I thought he would be fine without a confined crib, since he doesn't move around much at night anyway!
3. The scooting thing is also new in that it is intentional. Elliott has made some progress before in translational movement, but always as an accident of repeatedly lifting up to cobra. This time, he seemed to understand that he was making himself move and got very upset when a couch or ottoman snuck up from behind to halt his progress. Such freedom!
1. Elliott has been choosing not to sit. He'd much rather push back to a reclined position and chill out supine. Couldn't care less about trying for more than a few seconds, or less if he isn't restricted from lying down. Yet, when we put a ball down in front of him today, he was more than happy to sit and play with it with both hands and both feet! As if he could have done this all along, there just wasn't enough incentive in the books, teethers, take-alongs, electronics, blocks, stuffed animals, towers, cars, etc. I had been giving him.
2. Really, I think Elliott has been rolling for a couple weeks now, but not very prolifically. He would rather fuss when he's done with tummy time, and if I don't help him roll over, he just falls asleep in place on his tummy. He doesn't seem to realize that he can fix it himself! I have noticed that he will roll over at night, but in the morning he always seems in the same spot I put him when he went to bed, (he rolls onto his side to sleep). But from the vantage of a bed right beside his, I would awake to find him in a new position all night long - and back where he started by morning! Stealthy. And here I thought he would be fine without a confined crib, since he doesn't move around much at night anyway!
3. The scooting thing is also new in that it is intentional. Elliott has made some progress before in translational movement, but always as an accident of repeatedly lifting up to cobra. This time, he seemed to understand that he was making himself move and got very upset when a couch or ottoman snuck up from behind to halt his progress. Such freedom!
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Jonah-isms
"my parking lot" = driveway
"turning wheel" = steering wheel
"we have ____ together" = we both ___
"I am red team" = wearing red
"make yellow" = pee
"my roof" = sweatshirt hood or stroller canopy
"turning wheel" = steering wheel
"we have ____ together" = we both ___
"I am red team" = wearing red
"make yellow" = pee
"my roof" = sweatshirt hood or stroller canopy
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