D&D

We created a monster! Apparently our multiple weekly trips to Dunkin Donuts have rubbed off on the boy and he thinks the cups are for him!


LOOK OUT! Guard your coffee carefully!

Jonathan's 9th Month Check-up

"He's perfect!" - That's what the doctor said...
This despite the fact that he was eating paper before we left for his appointment... :)
Lungs, heart, ears, nose, mouth...everything is great!
In just about every category (weight, height, head circumference), Jonathan is in the 25th-30th percentile.
This is surprising because compared to several babies older than him, he looks huge!
While we were there she looked at his two bottom teeth, his two top teeth, the two top teeth that should be in any day now AND the two bottom teeth that are going to break through very soon!

He weighs 18 lbs and 9 oz.
He is 27.5 inches tall.
His head circumference is 17.5 in.

:) WAY TO GROW JONATHAN!!! :)

I wanna...

Jonathan is Mr. Indecisive lately.... He seems to stay busy with one thing for a fairly long time, given his attention span is supposed to be 30 seconds or less.
Here he is looking outside, wanted to go find some leaves to eat.... BUT wait, there is the camera, the camera looks yummy... oh wait some mail the mail looks yummy... Wait what was I doing, Oh yea, I wanna go outside....Oh wait there is that camera again, so I can be a little HAM!!!

Goodbye Gramps

Matt's grandfather past away yesterday after nearly 90 years of life. Thankfully Matt made it to the nursing home to be with him as he past.
He will surely be loved and missed forever. I am VERY happy that Jonathan was able to meet him and make him smile a few times... The three of us visited him last Sunday and he seemed delighted as always to see us, especially Jonathan. And Jonathan was able to make him smile and laugh. We also brought him a chocolate milkshake, and he seemed to really enjoy it. I am glad we were there with him.

In a word....

The picture above is : Jonathan and Matt outside of Rain Forest Cafe, after our dinner there.
The picture below is : Jonathan and I outside of the resturant after dinner, he was apparently distracted by the HUGE snake dangling from the ceiling (not frightened though, just intrigued by it and moving around to see it).We went to Rain-forest Cafe for dinner tonight, for Matt's 28th birthday. I thought all week about where to take him it would be a good place to go. I asked around and everyone had suggestions, but none were really baby (or even child) friendly and since Matt does not get to see Jonathan much, I thought it would be best if I found a place where we could all go together. So after someone mentioned a resturant in Hartford, I thought to myself, RAIN FOREST CAFE! I figured it would be perfect and we all would be entertained.
While we were there, we were a little concerned about how Jonathan would react to the thunder storms and such but he was soo good. Matt shot this video of him. You cannot see Jonathan the whole time becuase the thunder storm was making the resturant dark, but you can see flashes of him smiling and looking around. He loved it!

Another huge thing, a first, happened when we were there...
Right before we ordered, Jonathan looked at Matt from across the table and said "da-da". Very distinctly.We asked him to say it again, but he literally just laughed at us.
I am always so worried that Matt is going to miss this stuff since he works so much, so I am soooo happy that so far he has seen his first smile, his first crawl and now heard his first word. AND on his birthday!The picture above is : Jonathan looking over at some creature making a sound inside the resturant (I thought it was the ape, but Matt didn't think so).
The picture below is : Jonathan carefully looking over the menu (he decided he didn't want his own meal, instead he just wanted some of daddy's chicken, a cucumber from mommy's and daddy's salad and mommy's bread --- he made a really funny face when he ate the bread, becuase it wasn't the plain bread like he normally gets, but rather a cheesy-garlicy bread {we obviously didn't give him any with cheese or garlic - but the fact that it touched the cheesy-garlicy piece, made it smell like it})

The picture above is : Jonathan staring at the gigantic butterfly that was positioned on the tree we sat next too. He was in awe looking at it, just about the whole time we were there.

Matt and Jonathan

Here is a cute video of Matt demonstrating how much Jonathan loves to be up-side-down!

Catch

Jonathan loves to play catch, and today he played catch with Granpa (my dad). I caught it on tape.