Feeding the Cat

Jonathan has become quite a helper lately. He will pick up a few toys and put them back in the toy box and has started putting his diaper in the garbage can. He first started showing interest in feeding the cat a couple of weeks ago. He will go outside and pick up the dish, carry it to the utility room to get the food and then will carry it back outside. He can usually carry the dish without spilling it. The problem comes when he puts the dish down because that's when he'll try to steal a piece and eat it!

Two Horse Rides

When we visited Grandma's house this weekend, Jonathan got his first horse rides...rocking and real! Uncle Philip brought his horse over for Uncle Brent to shoe and ended up giving all of the nieces and nephews horse rides. Jonathan thought it was great...as long as he was riding with Uncle Philip. He wouldn't ride with his cousins or by himself! Now, the rocking horse was another story! Jonathan couldn't reach the ground but it didn't take him long to figure out how to get it rocking by leaning forwards and backwards!

Outside Again

As I've said before, Jonathan LOVES to be outside. When he gets restless or needs to burn off some extra energy, we head outside. On this day, we checked out the cucumber patch, the strawberries and the apple tree. Jonathan decided that Chris's apple tasted pretty good and took it over. I hadn't planned to take any pictures, but when Jonathan sat down in the grass to eat his apple and Uncle Jack's cat joined him, I ran for the camera! The rest of the photos followed quickly since Jonathan already knows how to ham it up for the camera!

New Words

A few days ago, Jonathan started pointing at the counter and saying, "Bubba, bubba." We were confused until we held up the yellow container of bubbles and Jonathan got excited. He had never said "bubbles" before and it had been a couple of weeks since we had even used the bubbles so we were surprised! It's so fun to hear all of the new things he says. Here's a little list to give you an idea of some of the things he says:

Mo = more
Lie = light
up, up, up = up
quack = quack (think duck)
quacka = cracker
ow-sigh = outside
ray-ray = raisin
eye-th = ice
ha, ha, ha = hot

P.S. I will be SO happy when all of the mosquitoes die! We spray Jonathan with bug spray but he ALWAYS ends up with a bite on his face, without fail! I keep meaning to look for some bug spray wipe things so I can get his face, but as you can tell by that bite between his eyes, it hasn't happened yet!