A little update

Just a little update on our little man.....after a wonderful evening at Children's Hospital emerg....over three hours of waiting....and a chest x-ray.....Jonas has pneumonia! It really sounds worse than what I'd like to believe it is. I took him in only because of his irregular breathing and weird cough and tadaaa! So now we're on a 10 day course of AB. His cough is already gone and is breathing is pretty much normal and although he is more irritable, you'd never know that he is "sick". This too shall pass. I like to think that we have a pretty healthy boy but I truly believe that him being born with Group B Strep and a wet lung have definitely influenced his health in some negative ways. There were times over the summer where I would take him to the Dr. for "lung" type issues and was told it was nothing but finally at the hospital on Monday night I was affirmed of my concerns! Not saying he's had pneumonia his whole life but they did tall me that he is more susceptible to "lung" type illness due to his issues at birth.

Anyways....looking forward to Christmas with our family! A good friend and I often talk about our "unconditional love" for eachother. No matter what decisions the other makes good or bad, we're there for eachother...that's unconditional love. Living in the city it's hard to have those types of friendships....I miss that and so I'm soo grateful for those deep rooted friendships that I actually do have. Thank you girls.....you know who you are!

Christmas

Happy Birthday Mommy! What an exciting time - fun parties, a train ride through Stanley Park, a big shiny tree with presents underneath and wow! Snow! Now it's Christmas! Hooray!!!

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I think everyone can say that December 25th is coming waaayyyy to quickly! The weeks fly by and all of a sudden we're on a countdown til Christmas.

The end of November we celebrated Keith's Birthday and held a big Kitimat Christmas bash. We have many friends that live down here who are previous Kitimatians and we try to get together as a whole group a few times a year. December has also held many activities. We had a great friend of ours, Debbie, come for a visit from Kitimat and we only wished she could have stayed longer! Yes Deb...you've made our blog! Since Jonas has come into our lives, we've also tried to create many traditions...yes I like to be a traditionalist....surprise! Well one of our Christmas traditions has included going to the Stanley Park Christmas light show with the Pereira's. I'm not sure if the adults love it more than the kids? We've also celebrated my 30th Birthday this past week...yikes.....I'm admitting it! We've had many special nights over the last week with many friends and I'm a very lucky gal!
Jonas is quite a character lately...he's counting to 9 and singing the alphabet... with our help of course. His vocabulary is shocking, we're actually having conversations. He's quite a funny guy who finds odd things hilarious ( like flushing a toilet)! He also LOVES to read....and will sit and listen to you read several "kid" books in one sitting. We're discovering everyday what a little "being" he's becoming...pretty amazing!

Lazy Days

We've spent alot of November indoors as the rain has not stopped since Halloween! At least it feels like that. Some of our highlights this month have included Jonas and Daddy riding the train at our local mall. Jonas thought it was pretty great...his eyes lighting up when the train was tooting it's horn!
Over the last 3-4 weeks Jonas has also changed his temperment, becoming shy around those who he doesn't see very often. It's cute but a bit odd as he hasn't shown this until now. He is also repeating many words and can actually count to 9, with some help of course! He is LOVING books and would be happy to read his favorites over and over and over, loves wrestling and has taken the word "thank you" to the next level...thanking us whether we're giving him something or if he's giving us something!
I had this past week off and enjoyed alot of time, just the two of us. One of our activites included baking muffins. Jonas seemed to love the whole process..including eating them at the end!

Happy Halloween

Another month is gone before we know it!

In the last 2 weeks Jonas has decided to become shy with many of our friends. It's a bit weird as he's usually quite easy going but we've been getting some extra cuddle time from Jonas, because of it! He's also becoming quite the walker, almost preferring it now to crawling. It's still quite odd to turn around and there's this little body bobbing around! Keith was shocked the other night when he went into his room and brought a book into our room that he wanted us to read to him! Our baby is growing up! We're realizing more and more how important it is to have real conversations with him as he really does understand what we are saying. I'm trying to remind myself not to take these moments for granted as he really is growing up right before our eyes.

He went out on his first trick or treat Halloween. We joined our great friends, the Pereira's, trick or treating in their neighborhood. It was great because their little girl really gets the concept of being given candy at the door and Jonas quickly picked up on this. He lasted a good hour and a bit, holding his bag out to receive candy! At the end of the night, you'll see from one of the photos, we're sitting on their front steps, ALL, enjoying candy while getting our own personal fireworks show. It was a pretty great night...thanks for the great memories Pereiras! :)

It sounds cliche but time sure flies! We've been keeping busy as usual with work, play dates and a trip to Kelowna for Thanksgiving. These photos are from our Kelowna trip and include a photo where Auntie Andrea whipped a tattoo on Jonas before Mommy new what was going on! Hence the red leaf ( Canadian flag) tattoo in these pictures. We've tried to start some traditions which include going to the local pumpkin patch in Kelowna on Thanksgiving weekend. Jonas really loved the tractor.

The week prior to Thanksgiving, Jonas decided to start walking and he's just getting faster and faster! Although if he really wants to go fast, he'll crawl still. He's also becoming quite a parrot, copying many words that he hears.

We're walking!