Conversations and Crawling

Jonah is now holding conversations with us! Where did my little baby boy go? Almost 2 weeks ago now, this was the 1st conversation of any real length that he had. I was sleeping in with Carly a little bit, and he and Jason were up getting breakfast in the kitchen before church.

Daddy: Hey Jonah, what do you want for breakfast?

Jonah: (spying the cake carrier full of muffins for our Sunday school class) Oooh! Muffins! Oh, I LOVE muffins Daddy. I can have a muffin, please?

Daddy: No, those are for us to take to church, for our friends.

Jonah: Oh I like go to church too!

Daddy: I know you do. We’re all going to go to church in a little while.

Jonah: (pauses for a second to think) But Mommy’s still sleeping!

I think I mentioned in my last post Jonah coming home from church one day, trying to sing us one of the songs he had learned. About all he could get out was “Stand Rock” and “Faaaaall” I finally got that video uploaded to You Tube, so here ya go!

I’ll try to get a video of him “singing” his 5 Little Pumpkins song sometime soon too. He enjoys the part at the end that says *clap* OUT went the light! hehe He’ll lay in be just repeating that part over and over.

Speaking of bed… we are giving up formal nap time. After several days of struggling with him for 2 hours to get him to go to sleep for nap time, with lots of tears (from both of us!) I decided it’d do us both good to just have a daily “quiet time”. I read him a story, give him a book and a toy and tell him he doesn’t have to go to sleep, but he has to stay in his bed and stay quiet, or I’ll come close his bedroom door (he REALLY wants his door to stay open these days, and last night was the first time I didn’t close it after he fell asleep). Wouldn’t you know it though? The last 3 days that I’ve taken that approach, he’s been fast asleep in 20 minutes or less! Whatever works I guess!

School and work junk has been keeping Jason super busy, but thanks to an extension his professor gave the class on a project they were doing, he was able to take his day off on Friday and spend it with us as a family. We went to Rocket Park, at inside Mc Donald’s for Jonah to play some more, and just generally had a great day! Here’s a little video of Rocket Park. It was a pretty awesome public park!

Carly Sitting in a Buggy for the 1st Time 10/20/09

In Carly news, she had her first taste of butternut squash last night and seems to really enjoy it! A few days ago, she also sat up in a shopping cart without a car seat for the first time! That is all totally overshadowed though, by the news that she is now a crawler! I have 2 videos; the first is kinda long and random with the kids and I hanging around in the playroom. The second one is a couple of days later when she’s really got the hang of it, and it’s much shorter.

Here is a link to the album with our Pumpkin Patch pictures from today, and a few other random fall pics. Enjoy!