A month of activity
It seems like so much has happened in the last month that it's overwhelming to write it all down and add the pictures, so it'll come in two stages!
Jonas still seems to amaze us with his vocabulary, reciting his abc's, singing many songs and "negotiating!" Yes, it's started. About 3 weeks ago we noticed his behavior change to negotiating and some terrible two stuff! Yikes....it really does happen so close to age 2, at least in Jonas' case!
The month of June was different due to the fact that I was on "sick" leave from work due to the pregnancy. At the moment things are pretty good but there were some issues where the Dr. wanted me to take things a bit easier and felt best that I should be off work. So that meant Jonas had his mommy for a whole month and I think he enjoyed it. It's hard to just be at home with him so we tried to plan as many play dates and library time as possible. I think Jonas loved it! As for me, I'm now back at work and just taking it one week at a time. Baby #2 appears healthy but as I'm now only at 29 weeks, we'd like to at least get to 36 weeks if possible before this baby makes it entrance!
We spent about 10 days in Kelowna at the end of June for some family time, which included an extended family reunion on my Mom's side of the family. Jonas loved all the attention and started to feel like this was "normal life"! We were able to celebrate 3 birthdays, including Jonas's, and my Aunt's retirement from teaching! Part of being in Kelowna this time of year is enjoying our grandparents cherry trees and garden. Jonas loved eating fresh cherries off the tree and then pretend to spit the seeds into the bush as he would watch others do! What was so funny was that we'd give him the cherries after taking the pits out! He also loved to go into the garden to help pick raspberries. He was welcome to eat the berries as he picked them but he thought he was suppose to be sneaky, I guess, and would pop the raspberries in his mouth as he picked and then dart his eyes around to see if anyone caught him. It was so funny watching him try to be sneaky!
Then it was back to real life...but that included celebrating Jonas's 2nd Birthday which brought Auntie Drea and Uncle Ryan our way to celebrate! We had a wonderful day filled with a waterpark, a ride on the skytrain and a wonderful walk dowtown with dinner by the water so we could watch the float planes land. All of Jonas' favorite things to do! Auntie Drea then spent the next week with us while she was doing a course and now that she's gone....Jonas will be thoroughly confused with who lives where and why he can't see all his favorite people all the time! We really miss not being able to live close to family and wish circumstances were different but this is our life...for now.
Jonas still seems to amaze us with his vocabulary, reciting his abc's, singing many songs and "negotiating!" Yes, it's started. About 3 weeks ago we noticed his behavior change to negotiating and some terrible two stuff! Yikes....it really does happen so close to age 2, at least in Jonas' case!
The month of June was different due to the fact that I was on "sick" leave from work due to the pregnancy. At the moment things are pretty good but there were some issues where the Dr. wanted me to take things a bit easier and felt best that I should be off work. So that meant Jonas had his mommy for a whole month and I think he enjoyed it. It's hard to just be at home with him so we tried to plan as many play dates and library time as possible. I think Jonas loved it! As for me, I'm now back at work and just taking it one week at a time. Baby #2 appears healthy but as I'm now only at 29 weeks, we'd like to at least get to 36 weeks if possible before this baby makes it entrance!
We spent about 10 days in Kelowna at the end of June for some family time, which included an extended family reunion on my Mom's side of the family. Jonas loved all the attention and started to feel like this was "normal life"! We were able to celebrate 3 birthdays, including Jonas's, and my Aunt's retirement from teaching! Part of being in Kelowna this time of year is enjoying our grandparents cherry trees and garden. Jonas loved eating fresh cherries off the tree and then pretend to spit the seeds into the bush as he would watch others do! What was so funny was that we'd give him the cherries after taking the pits out! He also loved to go into the garden to help pick raspberries. He was welcome to eat the berries as he picked them but he thought he was suppose to be sneaky, I guess, and would pop the raspberries in his mouth as he picked and then dart his eyes around to see if anyone caught him. It was so funny watching him try to be sneaky!
Then it was back to real life...but that included celebrating Jonas's 2nd Birthday which brought Auntie Drea and Uncle Ryan our way to celebrate! We had a wonderful day filled with a waterpark, a ride on the skytrain and a wonderful walk dowtown with dinner by the water so we could watch the float planes land. All of Jonas' favorite things to do! Auntie Drea then spent the next week with us while she was doing a course and now that she's gone....Jonas will be thoroughly confused with who lives where and why he can't see all his favorite people all the time! We really miss not being able to live close to family and wish circumstances were different but this is our life...for now.
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