Studying for a visit

Jonas got a chance to peak at some potential formatting issues for his presentation before his grandparents arrived this last weekend. He looked up a couple of items in the APA manual to make sure he was referencing his third party sources correctly. After he cleared up the formatting issues he was able to concentrate on snuggling and throwing stuff around with Grandpa. The grandparents are still making funny faces at Jonas, even after more than a year to get used to him.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Jonas tried on his new winter coat this week. He may be looking for snowflakes, but I doubt the rest of us Wisconsinites are!

Madison Children's Museum

Anytime is a good time to read

Jonas has become really attached to reading books. He can't put a good book down, even when he is getting things squared away below the belt. So far the books have been good enough to make sure that none of the pages make it to the restricted access zone.

Words, words, words...

In the video, Jonas has just woken up from his afternoon nap and has decided to read a book. Jonas is getting quite a vocabulary, at least of the animal noise variety. "Fish" and "bunny" are both actions the animals do, "kitty" is the noise he makes when HE sees a kitty (a scream--which he doesn't do in the video), and "doggie" is just the word "doggie", I suppose because our dogs don't make noises. One of his other favorite words and objects is "truck", which sounds like "kkkkkkk"; sort of like he's about to hack something up. Every time he turns the page in his truck book or sees a car go by he says, "kkkkkk".

Happy Birthday, big guy!

Jonas's first birthday par-tay!

Grandma T won the first annual JBOC (Jonas Birthday Obstacle Course) and won a birthday bottle filled with M&Ms and a certificate of achievement.

Jonas

Your Choice Top Vids of year 1

Jonas is only one week away from being 1 year old. We have collected 11 video clips (Jonas's birthday is 9/2.......therefore 9+2=11) for you to vote on. Thanks for riding along with Jonas during this amazing first year.

This is what I was laughing at (Rocky Laugh)
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Sloppy Laughter
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Snuggle Roar Dada (Roar...Dada)
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1st Flower Presentation (1st Flower)
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What a difference 6 months makes (6 months)
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Grocery Getter (Groceries)
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Walking around at the museum (Museum)
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Little Player
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Monster????
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Waiting to Burp (Burp)
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Rollover III The Recorded (Rollover III)
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Bus Makeover and More Pancakes

The newly renovated exterior was ready to go for Jonas to ride shotgun in. The first voyage was off to the dog park so that the dogs could sprint around a bit. It turned out that Greta and Rocky meet three greyhound friends and Greta seemed to have a crush on one of the other hounds and wanted to follow her home. After the dog park Jonas got a chance to eat his first official breakfast at a restaurant. He has munched on food bits plenty of times previous at restaurants, but he has never ordered an entire meal for himself. Jonas ordered the silver dollar pancakes for $2.70 and gave his chocolate milk to his dad. As you may have seen Jonas was also wearing his official Ohio State uniform today. It is good to see that they have uniforms that look good and finally make some sense. Oh yeah, there is another picture of his rear-end sticking out of the pantry.

Off to the farm...

After waking up from a little nap, Jonas snuggled his rat before leaving for a trip to the Vermont Valley Farm in Blue Mounds. Jonas hadn't shown too much interest in any specific stuffed toy, but recently has been snuggling the rat and diving at it in his crib WWF-style.



We bought a share in the Vermont Valley Farm co-op this spring and have been receiving a box of veggies every week, which Jonas has quite enjoyed. Upon arriving at the farm we took a wagon ride to get out to the corn field so we could pick some corn to boil. This was, afterall, a corn boil extravaganza.

Jonas took a hand at husking a corn. We ate a few ears right in the field. It was sweeter and juicier than when it is cooked, much to our surprise!

After trekking back towards the farm house, we got our grub. We had a HUGE potluck with the other members. The owner of the farm, Barb, said it was about double the normal turnout of people. Jonas loved crawling on the grass, watching little kids play, and going over to visit the baby goats. He tried to give the goats a corncob, but since they had eaten their fill already they left it lying on the ground for leftovers. Much like Jonas does with his O's cereal on the carpet.