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!
We just had a HUGE snowstorm roll through! We had twenty inches of snow fall overnight. We couldn't get my car out of the driveway this morning because the snow was too deep and it got highcentered. This pile of snow that Jonathan is standing by came from our sidewalk and patio area.
Jonathan's favorite thing to do in the snow: eat it!
We bought a new video camera a week ago so that we might be better able to capture some of the funny things Jonathan does. Chris didn't really want me to post this video because he didn't know I was recording, but it shows one of the things that I had been hoping to catch. Jonathan has started saying yes or no to questions that we ask him. It's so cute because when the answer is yes, he says, "yah!"
On Saturday, we bought a little shelving unit with drawers to hold Jonathan's toys and books. We had to put it together and Jonathan was right in the middle of things, helping to hammer pegs and put in screws. He even had to try out the drawers himself before we could put the toys in! He was quite a helper!
Jonathan had a great Thanksgiving this year. He loved playing with his cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. He ate bites of lots of different things at dinner: turkey, cheesy potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, fruit salad, and a roll. For dessert, he was given a piece of pie with Cool Whip. He dipped his spoon into the Cool Whip and thought it was great so he gave up his spoon and dug in with his hand! These pictures above show Jonny "helping" make the rolls. He thought dipping his measuring spoon into flour was great fun and that eating dough wasn't bad either!