Mr. 8 Months Old

Our little J turned 8 months this past week!! I CANNOT BELIEVE IT! I seriously feel like we have only been home from the hospital for a few weeks, not 8 months. He is our greatest joy, and we feel so very blessed to have him!

We haven't been to the doctor for a while, so we don't have any stats. At seven months he weighed 20 lbs and then some. He is the same height as our niece, who is a year old. So we figure he is still growing. Tonight for dinner he ate two and half jars of baby food. Hmm...wonder how he is growing huh! Here are some pictures from the past few weeks.

He loves Devin. LOVES him. When Devin walks in the door at night, if he doesn't pick Jonas right up, he cries until he does. It's pretty sweet to watch. (although some-what saddening...what does he think I do with him all day :)

He has been very busy growing his hair. It's so crazy! It's long in some places and shorter in others. We can spike it still, or lately we have been doing the Mo-Hawk look. He's pretty cute either way.

He LOVES Wheel of Fortune. My friend, Tiff, got me addicted when we lived in AZ, so Devin and I have always watched it. Jonas will be fussy, and stops crying when he hears the little chime sound for the next puzzle. It's pretty funny!

You all know he has been busy trying to grow (and hide) his first tooth. This is the best shot we have of it so far, but don't think we have given up. I swear we have that camera glued to us all the time just trying to get peek.

One day last week I was ironing Devin's clothes (yes...he is too lazy to find a dry-cleaners and I refuse to do it for him. So I have to iron his clothes for him. Don't worry...he is looking for a cleaners on the internet right now.), anyway, I apparently left the box of wipes too close to Heaman, because the next thing I knew he had like thirty wipes pulled out. He would pull one out, suck on it, throw it to the side and yank out another one. It was rather entertaining. Maybe it will be the biggest mess he will make. A girl can dream right??

.:::CrAZy FuN wiTh cOuSIns:::.

Jonas has had a busy few weeks and fun with cousins. First we were lucky enough to have Richard, Leisha, and Emma come to visit Boston. We played, had lunch, went to the Aquarium, and ate Pastry's from the infamous Mike's Pastry's. It was so good to see them! Emma is too cute and loved Jonas. He wasn't so sure about her and spent most of our time together "growling" like a bear at her.

Emma just wanted to take a peek at that tooth :)

This weekend we had Devin's brother Destry and his family stay with us. It is always tons of fun when we get together and this time was no different. We walked the freedom trail, went to the Boston Children's Museum (which is THE best museum ever), ate Mike's Pastry, hit the Farmer's Market for awesome (and cheap) fruit, and played the Wii. We walked, and walked, and walked, but all the kids were great! We wore them out and they were asleep in two minutes the second night. It was crazy fun with 8 people in our one bedroom, one bathroom apartment, but we made LOTS of fun memories. We are so lucky to have them so close!!!

Ms. Auryana is NOT shy about showing her teeth! She only one and has 12 teeth!!

Jonas got to wear his very own hard-hat at the Children's Museum. We were in the Construction room. They even had Bobcat's for the kids to climb on! (Bobcats-the tractors, not the animals)

This is a chess set that is as big as Jonas! He just woke up in this picture and was not at all entertained by me trying to be funny.

We played at Tad-Pole Playground in Boston Commons, but it was raining, so our visit was short.

Here are Brynn and Keagyn throwing golf balls down a shoot. This room was called the Racing Room. It too was super fun! You got to race golf balls down all kinds of shoots, there was a human slide and the bubble room was next door. Sadly, Jonas was asleep for all of this, so I didn't think to take very many pictures.

Ms. Brynn carrying all the treats from the pastry shop. She ate a whole Whoopie Pie by herself!

Loni and Aury on the USS Constitution.

A family photo (which you can barely see Aury :() at the Old North Church

This is a bad picture, but it was all the kids in our bed watching Handy Manny one morning.

We had lots of fun everyone! Thanks for coming to visit!

It turns out that Devin is A LOT more persistant at trying to get a glimpse of Mr. Toothy. It also turns out that Heaman is a little more willing to show his dad. Hello....doesn't he know that Devin has NO formal dental training? Maybe that's why he lets him look. Anyways. It's still nearly impossible to see but it's there on the right.

I'm sure that he will turn us in for Child Abuse at some point. Don't most kids try that? My parents used to tell me to do it. I always thought they were using reverse psychology. Now, I think maybe they were trying to get rid of me...hmmm...

Oh, and that's not my thumb you see...it's Devin's!

Breaking News...

Little J....

Survived

His

{First Tooth!!!}

**But He won't show it off, and it's VERY hard to see**

and I have Great Dental skills

In other news, he slept through the night last night. FIRST TIME EVER! He went down at 8:15 P.M. He got up at 7:45 A.M. He is only {almost} 8 months

Now if only his mom can learn to sleep. That's right. I was awake from 4 AM to 5 AM. Just staring at nothing and wishing I could sleep. Why oh Why?

This is our apartment building. I have had lots of requests for pictures, so I stole this one because I don't think I could get it all in one shot.

This is our tour of the USS Constitution, the USS Taylor, USS Cassin.

They were way cool!

This gatling gun only shoots 250 shells per SECOND!

Jonas, "riding" a torpedo

The boys with their hats aboard one of the ships.

The USS Constitution- in all it's glory. I don't know how the men did it in those days. Some of the levels on the ships were only five feet tall. I guess they came a lot shorter back then!

A Day of History

We have been out and about touring the History sights in Boston.

A city view. We live right under the clock tower to the far left.
A head stone from Copp's Hill Cemetery. And no, I didn't take the picture crooked, it is falling over to the left. They were all falling down. It was a creepy cemetery. It was old and neat, but kind of creepy. This one doesn't show it, but most of the headstones had Skulls on the top.
This is the Old North Church. Don't know much about it, but it was cool :)
This is Jonas, Devin and Mr. Paul Revere. This is a significant statue for Devin because he once read, "Paul Revere's Ride" all in one night. It was only fitting that we take their picture :)
We also saw Mr. Revere's home and this historic house (but they wouldn't let you go in).

Heaman had his first Oreo cookie today. To say he was in heaven, would be an understatement. He was very careful at first, but after that first yummy morsel, it was all down-hill from there! This is the after. IT WAS EVERYWHERE!

First little taste of goodness!

He really hates the hat, he really hates to be bundled in the stroller and he REALLY hates to be buckled in the stroller. Once you get going..he is good as gold, but initially it's pretty ugly. I keep waiting for someone to call DCFS on me. It sounds like I am beating him to death. Who knew it was a crime to bundle and buckle your attitude-filled 7 month old baby!

P.S. We have signs of a tooth on the bottom left. It's not all the way through, but it's there.

Okay, I know I have updated WAY more than I need to, but Jonas has really changed a lot the past few weeks. His little personality is starting to really shine through. It is so much fun! He makes all these crazy noises with his mouth. I can't even do them! He has changed so fast it's killing me. I love him to pieces!

I love naked pictures of babies (not in a bad way). Check out his little arm definition. I love that he looks like he weight lifts, and yet he can't even hold his own upper body weight. I think we are a LONG ways from crawling. He really hates tummy time!
This is a new position for him too. He likes socks A LOT so he tries to get them. Either that, or the carpet in this place smells really good.
This is how he falls asleep. Blanket in mouth, and sucking. I know he is asleep when I can't hear him sucking any more. This blanket gets washed.....A LOT!
He is doing GREAT at sitting up on his own. I am paranoid and I still keep a pillow behind him most of the time. I swear there is NO padding under the carpet here. It's like cement floor with thick velvet. It's not even comfortable to walk on it.

Singing Jonas

Jonas is learning all kinds of fun new tricks. He can "click" his tongue, and he laughs when you do it, but he doesn't realize that he knows how to do it. I was trying to get him to do it in this video, but he was only willing to "sing". I sing to him quite a bit during the day and I guess he likes it more than I knew! Sorry the video is sideways, we tried to fix it, but it was more of a pain than not, so just tilt your head to the side. It's cute not matter how it is on there! Oh yea and don't judge my singing in the background-I never said I sang well :)

City Life

We made it! Thankfully we had good roads. The weather has been cold and crazy since our arrival. We got enough snow Sunday night (about 5 inches) to cancel Devin's first day at his new office. They were canceling schools on Sunday night in anticipation of bad roads. They are a little paranoid here. Things are turning out nicely for the most part. Our apartment is really nice, we have a pretty good view and other than one noisy dog, its pretty quiet. We live right in the middle of the city, and so there is a very busy night-life. We don't take advantage of that given that Jonas goes to bed around 8:00 and then we are stuck in our room for the night. Our car parking situation has turned into a mess. We haven't been able to park at Devin's work building as we were hoping, so our car is at Gary's (Devin's Boss) house. It's about thirty minutes away, so I have been confined to the house and the neighboring streets for three days. Jonas is still trying to get over his cold (and is VERY CRANKY), and it is really cold, so its been okay. Hopefully we will get it back in the city this weekend. I used the grocery delivery company, PeaPod for my first time. It was pretty nice to have them hand delivered to my door! I'm still learning though, because when they brought them, I didn't know how to ring the delivery guy in. I guess I am still a country girl at heart!

This is the view from the living room.

Here is the view from our bedroom. We have a big window in our room. All I know is, people work late in the building across from us and Dunkin' Donuts opens pretty early!