chitter chatter and blah blah blah

So sometimes I hold Jonah and wonder how in the world I can love a little person this much. It really takes me by surprise.

Saturday we had a mommy and Jonah afternoon. We start with the usual family breakfast at the French Laundry. Jonah ordered a blueberry pancake and massacred it. Blueberry was everywhere. He ended up flipping it over and picking the blueberries out. When I pulled him out of the highchair people were laughing because his butt was covered in blueberry. Needless to say that outfit is not going to be passed down to his siblings, but he had fun. Next time we will ask not to sit at the table smack dab in the middle of the restaurant...



After breakfast we went home (changed our clothes) and played outside.


He likes to push it as much as he does drive it.


After our nap we headed out Great Lakes Crossing. Mommy left the camera in the car, silly mommy. We had to exchange things are Carters. We had lunch at the Rain Forest Cafe. We made a car at RideMakerz. It's like build-a-bear, but with cars. Way cooler and surprisingly relatively inexpensive. A very fun afternoon for mommy and her boy.

While mommy and Jonah were playing daddy was helping Great Grandpa move down to Indiana. Since Great grandpa is moving to a smaller place we have been blessed with a dining room hutch (will post pics later), kitchen table, and a drop leaf table. Our previous kitchen table was smaller and is now... Jonah's table! Yes, Daddy is handy with a miter saw...

We found the chairs half of at Target!

As for Mommy's latest scheme...The vacuum part for the floor is broken, but the hose works fine. I hate sweeping so now I simply vacuum up his food mess with the vacuum hose. OK, so maybe its a little trashy to keep my non-working vacuum out but it gets the job done AND keeps the kitchen area neater. I'm a busy girl. Tonight at bookclub my nextdoor neighbor told me her son said the other day that he didn't think anyone lived here because we are so rarely home. Out of the mouths of babes.

Plan - Next year finish yard and fence in backyard for Jonah. Be Home More.

Speaking of bookclub, next months book is Twilight and I'm very excited to read it. Ok its time for bed. g'night.

I'll never be a perfect mother...

but I am OK with that. No, I am more than OK with that I am happy with that. She cooks everything from scratch, sews, knits, quilts, scrapbooks, takes tons of pictures and videos, cans fruit, always looks like a perfect 10 , jogs at least 2 miles a day, has a spotless house and car 24/7, bakes homemade bread every week, insists on only organic, vacuums in pearls, wears real lingerie to bed every night, decorates for every season, never whines or complains, never looses her cool, never nags, never forgets, never judges, never runs late, helps her neighbors, volunteers for various functions, keeps up the yard work, gardens, and more. All this while holding down a part - full time job. She MUST have at least 36 hours in her day and not need sleep or perhaps I just have a messeded up idea of what the Perfect mother is.


I am happy that I am all that I can be. (Go army! hahaha, i digress) I do my best and at the end of the day isn't that all that's important? We tell our kids that it doesn't matter what grade you get as long as you try your best. Well sometimes I get an A and sometimes I get a D, but at least I am always trying. So I am turning over the leaf again:


Tonight I am trying to write. Somehow I got away from it and the blog turned into a glorified photo album. Not that anything is wrong with a Jonah photo album, but that's not the only purpose of the blog. Pictures will always be included, but thoughts will as well. Maybe not deep or profound, but my thoughts none the less. That said here are our activities from sunday.

First pic is outside of the French Laundry. The rest are from my parents yard.


I know I've said Jonah loves being outside, but I don't know that I stressed just how much he loves it. He cries nee' throws a fit when he has to come inside. Sunday night we worked on the yard and Jonah played in the dirt. He had a dirt ring around his mouth. Guess what color his tongue was... yup dirt colored. Perfect mom does not allow her eye to stray from her child long enough for the dirt to even reach the face let alone the interior of the mouth, glad I'm not her!


Daddy took these pics after mommy had to obsessively clean her shoe because she stepped in fresh dog poop. Side note, oxy clean spray works great on getting dog poo off the bottom of a shoe.


Jonah says bye-bye and his mommy says she must stop "blogging" now and work on 10 month SB opages.


Adieu and Good-Night.

A Jonahful Saturday

Spent the morning with Gramma Suz and Grampa Dave:


The rest of the day was downtown Fenton. Fall is so much fun!


Ginormous pumpkin outside of the local antique shop.


The kid can't get enough of being outside.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

To a most wonderful husband and daddy - Happy Birthday! We love you SO much! Thank you for being you.





you're old... hehehe...


Love,
mommy and the boy.

such the same and oh so different

It's amazing how much he looks the same, but very different now. I think he looks so much more little boyish in the pics I posted yesterday. He is such a momma's boy and I couldn't love it more.

Latest thing is says is "Moo'-ey" for movie. It's probably bad but the kid like's TV. He doesn't watch very long, he likes to watch in the morning and when we are in the car. Promising him his "moo-ey" is the only way to get him to not arch his back and flail when I strap him into his car seat. I recently found him some old school Psalty DVD's that were released when I was little. He loves them, when the movie starts he is completely enthralled. I love them because they have such a good message in them about loving and praising Jesus, not only God, but also Jesus. However, I may have to start rotating what he watches because I've heard the first half hour of that DVD 20 times in the past few days.

If you grew up in church in the 80's you will remember Psalty. Oh the cheesiness and fun from the 80's:



Yes, more 9 month sb pages. I think just 2 more pages to go and I will be done scrapping his 9th month of life. Here are 3 new ones and 2 updated ones.

thanks...i think

So Tash, thanks for watching Jonah this morning. I see that he was well taken care of...



I bet these 2 have so much fun together, I love that they are so close in age. I see lots of trouble in their future...

I wish every day were Columbus Day

Today was Jonah and Mommy's first day of Columbus Day Fun. This will be repeated every Columbus day from now on. Just Mommy and Jonah all day.


We let daddy join us later in the day at the orchard. This may or may not be allowed in the future.



We picked pumpkins to be painted later this week.


And more fun we had over weekend...


Can you spot the bear and lion in the woods?


Ps. So here I am its almost midnight and I can't sleep. Jonah went to bed at 7 and I've checked on him twice. Rocked him twice. Gave him his water ba-ba twice. The 2nd time was because I was wide awake and missed my kid. I missed my baby so much that I risked waking him so that I could rock him. I'd still be rocking him now except that he actually sleeps better in his crib alone when he's alseep. He's too fidgety and when he moves around while I'm holding him he wakes himself up.

I am one sad pathetic mommy. I think it's because today was such a great day. I think I should be a stay-at-home mommy. If only...

Thank You Christopher

Thank You Columbus for "discovering America"! I get a whole day of Jonah on Monday! Yay! I see pictures at an Orchard in his future...

Dear God, Please make the weather nice on Monday. Thank you.

It's a framer all right!

This picture was begging to be edited. I love how the tree is reflected in the glass of the garage door. I never thought I'd ever color saturate a pic this much but it works on this one. I love how Cole is holding Jonahs hand so tightly, how he looks so responsible, and how Jonah thinks he's so cool with his Cousin Cole.



Yes, definite blow up frame potential.

Digital Scrapstravaganza

I know this technically was posted more recently then the edited cole/jonah pic, but I couldn't bear to post these above it.

Yes friends, yet more DS pages! I thought 8 months was big with 6 pages, but so far 9 months has 6 and I'm not sure I'm even half done with 6 pages. I may need to go back and do more of the earlier pictures to balance the book out. My goal is to have the book printed and bound by Christmas. I think it's entirely doable.

Family pictures, awww...

So yesterday we took family pictures at a park in Fenton. It was my first time trying to take real pictures so well, just keep that in mind... I also took some of Josh for his senior pictures. Here are some of the ones I like best. The whole bunch of the shoot are on my flickr page.

I've only had time to edit and fix the 2 big family pictures.




Josh Senior Pics
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