To Grandmother's (and Aunt Christy's) houses we go!

Why is this baby smiling? Because we were hittin' the road!

This past week we were out of town visiting family. We went to Dallas to visit Jeremy's sister and her family, then to Wichita Falls, TX, to visit my grandparents, then back to Dallas to break up the trip a little more.

Overall, it was a great trip! Jonah is not as wonderful of a sleeper when he's not in his bed, though. : ( Poor baby (and poor mommy & daddy!!). He is a pretty good traveller anyway. The more mobile he is, though, the less time he wants to spend in the car seat, so we have to get creative about keeping him entertained.

This silly green snake is one I had to buy for a children's lesson at church. It cost $1 at WalMart but it provided hours of entertainment for this silly little boy!

Once he was over the snake, he moved on to Mommy's glasses. He also helped us discover that those baby snack containers are not really spill-proof. Cheerios. Everywhere.

Once we got to Grandma & Grandpa's house, it was playtime!! He loved cruising around and crawling up and down the step into the living room.

Grandma enjoyed playing, too!

Jonah had his first cheeseburger while we were there. From the looks of it, I think he enjoyed it. : )

He loves playing with Daddy!

Grandma gave him some yummy lemon pound cake!

For those of you who know what I (Sarah) looked like as a baby, this pic may look familiar. I always hear how much he looks like his handsome daddy, but this pic definitely shows Mommy's genes.

This isn't the best pic but it is excellent proof of how hard Jonah played at Grandma's. If you look above his right eye, you'll see that it's red and swollen. Poor baby got a little too excited about the piano!

Bathtime!!

Playing with Grandpa

On our way to Aunt Christy & Uncle Jarid's. I think he was ready for a snack...

Can you tell he likes to chew things? This was taken while swimming in Aunt Christy's kiddie pool on their deck.

His cousin gave him quite a few kisses!

Hangin' with Mommy

Our wonderful hosts!!

Jonah was exhausted from another day of swimming in a big pool. I told you he loves the snake!!

Guess where we stopped on the way home!

On the way back, Daddy came up with a great idea to give Jonah a snack and occupy him at the same time. He put Cheerios on the tail of the snake. Jonah had a great time figuring out the new "toy".

Sweet baby!

We had a wonderful trip, but we are so thrilled to be home!!

Double the fun

After his long day Saturday (and the crazy nap schedule Sunday always creates), Jonah was exhausted. Even though my dad asked me not to get him in the pic, I couldn't resist. It was too sweet!

After lunch and relaxing, we headed over to Jeremy's aunt and uncles to swim (again!) with his cousins. Jonah had an oh-so-manly ladybug float, but we pretended it was a lobster. : ) Hey, what he doesn't know won't hurt him, right?

He loves his daddy!!

Jonah giving "noggin" to our friend, Justin.

The king and his subjects!

So we've had a pretty busy weekend but Jonah finally had his first swim in a big pool! He's growing up so fast!!

Is it summer yet??

This past weekend definitely felt like it! We went with my family for our annual trip to Fruits 'n' Such orchard to pick blackberries.

Jonah tasted his first blackberry:

At first he wasn't really sure about it...

Then he loved it!

It was pretty overcast, but it ended up keeping us cool.

Uncle Micah shared some of his berries.

Aunt Kay made Jonah laugh : )

Nana also had some fun with the Jonah Bear

Afterwards, we all went home and relaxed. Later we met back up with Uncle Stephen and Aunt Ivette for some pool time and burgers.

Jonah loved playing in the pool with Daddy and his cousin!

His other cousin enjoyed watching. Maybe next year, little dude!

It was a great day and Jonah loved the time with family!

Ro-de-o!

Since Jeremy's brother-in-law is on a cook team, we had quite an incentive to check out the Galveston county rodeo in April. Me, Jeremy, and Jonah headed out with a couple of friends to check out the food and festivities. It was a lot of fun, especially the fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich!! Yum!

We checked out the petting zoo first. Jonah wasn't too impressed, especially since he just woke up.

He did enjoy talking to the rabbits while we visited the show animals!

I called, "Here piggy!" and the silly thing almost ran to the fence. I was a little surprised!

Finally we chilled and enjoyed some delicious bbq and fried desserts!

Water boy!

We decided that since our little boy has so much fun splashing in the bathtub, a kiddie pool would be an awesome idea. Though it was incredibly difficult to get it from WalMart to our SUV by myself with Jonah in the buggy, it was well worth it.

Jonah (and Daddy) greatly enjoy the new addition to the backyard.

Updates

SO much is going on with the little man these days!

Just a few of the fun things he's doing:

• Jonah now waves bye-bye, especially to the cute baby in the mirror and any small animals at PetSmart
• He is becoming quite the little foodie! At lunchtime, he eats many different finger foods, like tomatoes, cheese, and turkey. He loves the bread- he is my child! He will also chew on anything and everything. Paper is his favorite thing to store in his mouth.
• Our little guy is continually fascinated by Jack. He loves to crawl over to Jack's window and stand by him, guarding our house!
• My favorite thing he does now, though, is kisses! It's the sweetest thing when he gives those open-mouth baby kisses!! I think Jack is his favorite to kiss, but I'll take what I can get!
• He also makes this funny face we call the "stink face". He puckers his nose and breathes really loudly, like he's angry. It's so strange but adorable.
• Jonah really loves being outside. He's been that way since he was a newborn. I don't know if it's the sounds, sights, or the fact that Jack usually goes with us, but he can't get enough of it!

It's hard to believe he's 9 1/2 months now! Our little man is getting so big!

Houston, we have a crawler!

Jonah has been super busy lately. He now has 4 teeth, he gets the biggest kick out of knocking over Mommy's block towers, and he's quite skilled in making funny noises and faces.

BUT the biggest change is that he is now crawling!! Check out the proof (and please excuse my voice- I was on the phone with my sister):

We will be very busy from here on out!