This is how Jonathan "helps" us fold clothes! He loves to sit in the basket, pull out the clothes, tip the basket over and hide underneath. He even started carrying the basket around like a turtle's shell the last time we folded clothes. Don't you love how the truck had to be in the basket, too?
Our trip to Grandma's house usually takes between 5.5 and six hours, but we had some fun rides this winter due to snowy roads. At Thanksgiving, we had a 7.5 hour trip and an 8.5 hour trip. Coming home from Christmas was an 8 hour trip. So what do you do when you've already used all of the books, toys and treats that you brought along and there is still more than an hour left of the trip? Hand the boy the digital camera and hope for the best!
Jonathan had a fun Christmas. We stayed at my mom's house and so did my sister so Jonathan had cousins to play with all day long! Jonathan got a stick horse, a big Tonka dump truck, some interactive toddler toys, and a ton of Chuck the Truck cars and ramps.
One of Jonathan's favorite things to do at Grandma's house is to get ice from the ice dispenser in the fridge. He would say, "ice, ice" to anyone who happened to be in the kitchen, several times a day. He even got his cousins involved, so here is a picture of the little ice-eaters!
Sorry, everyone, for not keeping my weekly posts up to date! We went out of town for Christmas and then we suffered the loss of my dad a week after Christmas. This is one of the last pictures I took of my dad. He sat down on the couch to eat some Thanksgiving leftovers and Jonathan wanted to share so he climbed up on Dad's lap. My dad got sick at Christmas and it turned into pneumonia. He had seen the doctor and was on a strong antibiotic, but a few days later he told my mom that he couldn't breathe. She took him to the hospital and he was put into intensive care, but he died just a couple of days later on January 3. He was only 62 and we are going to miss him!