Merry Christmas

We took a quick trip down to Jordan's parent's house for Christmas.  Jordan's sister was there with her family, so that meant lots of kids and lots of excitement.

Here's another try at the two boys wearing matching clothing picture:

 

And here's a picture of all the cousins who were there:

 

Loving Grandma

Jonah loved everyone else's gifts from Santa

But wasn't too thrilled by his own.

Santa also left some animal crackers for Jonah, so all was good in his world in the end.

 

Skyler had all the perfect reactions.  Lots of "that's just what I wanted!" and "It's what I asked for!" And even an "I can get it wet and don't have to wind it!"

  

Don't you just love Super Jesse, the Amazing High Jumping Baby in that last picture? 

We proclaim Christmas 2008 a success and hope you all had a wonderful and special day as well!

Christmas Ties

I bought these shirts for the boys last month.  They were on clearance, the sizes were right, and they had red in them, which means they would make great Christmas shirts.  Jonah already had a navy blazer, so I found one for Skyler.  All that was left was the ties.  I wanted solid red, how hard should that be, being it Christmastime and all?  I found plaid ones and dotted ones, but no solid red, so I decided to settle for the plaid ones I had seen at Target.  Except that when I went back to get them, they were no longer there.  Kohl's had one solid red tie (one being the key word there, not so useful when I have two children), but since time was running out, I settled on these festive ties (which I let Skyler choose).  But when Sunday morning rolled around, I wondered why I put so much effort into finding ties - Skyler woke up sick and didn't go to church.  Oh, the irony.  I was ready to pack them up for next year (when I'm fairly certain that solid red ties will be all the rage) but Skyler wanted to wear his to church on the Sunday after Christmas.  So, better late than never, right?

And, um, the best part of having two boys in matching clothes is taking a cute picture of them together.  Neither boy cooperated for that one. 

Thumbs Up!

I was looking through pictures on the computer and when I came across these ones, I realized that I haven't ever written about the boys' mealtime activity.

A few months ago, when Skyler started being a little less picky about what he ate, he started simply giving things a thumbs up or a thumbs down to indicate if he like them or not.  So Jonah picked up on this.  But, as you can see from the pictures, we're still working on the whole thumbs up part of the thumbs up. 

 Skyler still always does this too, but it's much cuter when Jonah does it.

Jonah is not Skyler: Exhibit A

I love how different the kids are.  Here are some pictures of Jonah watching his favorite DVD.  Jonah will sit and watch something, Skyler never has and currently won't sit longer than maybe 20 minutes for any type of show.  He claims that anything else is too long.  But the look on their faces is so different.  Jonah is always just so intent on catching all the action and will sit in one spot until he's done watching (which at this point, is maybe 15 minutes).  Skyler will barely keep his eyes on the TV and get up several times to do other things.

Christmas Parade

Earlier this month, we went to see the city's light parade.  We parked at the park n ride and took the "bendy" bus (for free!) to our spots on the parade route.  This was initially Skyler's favorite part.  This is the bus that Jordan rides whenever he rides to or from work and when we told Skyler that we'd be able to take the bus, he decided that going to the parade would be a good thing.  We took sandwiches and ate while we waited for the parade to start.  I'm sure Jonah was very confused about the whole thing.  But once the parade did start, he loved looking at the lights and cars.

Conversations with Jonah

Jonah: Mom, Mom
Me: What?
Jonah: Ummmm.... Woof.

Baby Who?

Yesterday, Skyler was helping me get the Nativity set out. He pulled out the Baby Jesus and said, "oh here's the baby!" I asked him who that baby was. He said, "I don't know, I don't remember". Apparently we have some work to do.

My goal with this picture was to have Jesus in focus and Skyler not.  I realized after this one that he should hold the figure up a bit higher.  However, there appeared to be a link between how high he held it and whether or not his eyes stayed open.

My Best Little Helper

Last night after dinner, I asked Skyler to take his plate to the sink. Then I started to get Jonah down from his seat. He would not let go of his plate. I knew it wasn't because he wanted more since he was trying very hard to get out of his seat. I asked him if he wanted to put his plate in the sink. He started nodding, so I got him down and he walked to the kitchen and as best he could (meaning he's not tall enough and the plate actually landed on the floor) put his plate in the sink. Why is it that the most willing helpers really aren't the most helpful?

Some other fun Jonah stuff:

Jonah has started saying "look!" an awful lot. He's always been into pointing, so I'm sure he's glad to have a word to go along with it.

Jonah walks around saying "what" an lot. Just totally randomly. It's fun to see when they understand a word, but also funny when they clearly don't quite get it yet.

Jonah thinks it is his duty to follow me into the bathroom and give me toilet paper. What ever would I do without him? He also really likes to sit on the toilet and get his own toilet paper, which I do like to encourage despite the fact that some days it is quite annoying.