Christmas 2015

Jonny LOVED this package that he got in the mail!  He got it out every day to hold it and look at the picture!

Jonny the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Jonny came home from kindergarten on the last day of school before Christmas vacation, wearing this cute reindeer hat.

He was very excited about the mini Cars coloring book that he was given by his school bus driver and the small package from his teacher.

New Foster Brother

This is Tristin, Jonny's newest foster brother.  He came to live with us at the beginning of December and will probably be with us until somewhere around the middle of March.  He'll be two years old in March.  He thinks Jonny is the greatest thing ever and follows him all around.  The funniest thing is that he calls Jonny "Jaw-joo."

Thanksgiving Feast

The Kindergarten classes at Jonny's school held a Thanksgiving feast on the last day before Thanksgiving vacation.  One class wore Pilgrim hats, another class wore Indian feathers, and Jonny's class members were the turkeys!  They sat all together at a long table in the hallway and could choose turkey lunch meat, cheese slices, apple slices, mini carrots, or rolls with cookies for dessert.  Jonny's plate held a roll and two cookies!!!  They also treated us with a few songs.

Cleaning Up the Garden

It seemed that whenever I worked in the yard, Jonny wanted to use the clippers and cut something down!  I ran out of stuff for him to trim..... until I remembered the corn!  I let Jonny cut down a few corn stalks every day and after a while, he had the whole corn patch cut down!  He was pretty proud of himself!

Allergies!

Jonny has had trouble with a stuffed up nose and when it didn't go away when summer was over, we suspected that his allergies were not just seasonal.  I took him into the allergy doctor in October and he had to have one of those awful "poke" tests.  They tested him for about 17 different allergies.  He showed that he is mildly allergic to box elder trees, dust, a couple of molds and CATS!  He was SOOO sad and CRIED when they said he was allergic to cats!  He has his favorite cat, Honeysuckle, that he holds and cuddles all of the time so he was devastated!  The doctor gave him a pill and a nasal spray that has been working well.  The doctor didn't tell us to get rid of our cats and didn't even say that Jonny couldn't hold the cats.  He just recommended that we keep them as outside cats, which we do (unless Jonny smuggles them in).   It took about a week of avoiding his cats until he broke down and started cuddling them again!

Halloween 2014

Jonny really wanted to be a firefighter for Halloween so luckily, I was able to find a helmet at a thrift store and we made the jacket and pants by using duct tape.

Jonny went trick-or treating at his grandma's workplace and got a bucket of candy and then that evening, we went trick-or-treating around our neighborhood with Jonny's cousins.

By the time we were done, we had plenty of candy!!!!