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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!

Laughter IS the Best Medicine

For our families to enjoy....

This is what we did for Family Home Evening!

Life Changes

Devin and I hit some milestones this past few weeks. We did our taxes and we were able to get the child credit for the first year of our life. Not the best reason to love Jonas, but it helps. Our car officially hit 155,000 miles. Quite depressing actually, but she still runs like a charm. (Knock on wood.) We put in our application to move into a town home this summer. Our friends, the Swenson's are living their right now. It is in our ward and the best part is, Scott, Aleese, and Barrick are next door. I hope the neighbors are ready for some "wild" parties. I am very excited to have more room and for the first time in a while, STORAGE. My best friend. :) Jonas is sitting up on his own now (sniff, sniff). He is in LOVE with Handy Manny-like we are talking he becomes mesmerized by it! He also falls asleep in his bed at night (no more bouncer) and we are currently working on the naps in the bed during the day. I know, I know he is six months, but better late than never. It's just SOOOO hard to stay mad at that cute little face. And finally, Devin decided (with my help) that we would take our regional rotation this go round and we were assigned to Boston, MA. So for the next three months, we will be Boston residents. While I am excited for change of scenery, a larger part of me is a little nervous. It means a new ward (and we don't want to leave ours even if it is for three months) new faces and getting our of our comfort zones again. Oh well, it will only make us stronger. So if you don't here from me from March 1st to June 1st, it's because the good old government didn't get us internet at corporate housing.  But, I will be okay with that, because they will pay for Devin to have his work clothes dry-cleaned. Happy Day.