March 25, 2008

Belated Easter Photos

A stomach bug will make many things belated, but I digress........

Here's Jonah looking for the eggs that the "Easter Bunny" left all over the house for him to find. The funky pants to the left belong to Josh - rather appropirate Easter colors, don't you think?!

A full body picture of Jonah in his Easter finery. Doesn't he look like a little gentleman?

A rare Mommy and Jonah picture. I need to have some photographic evidence that I'm his mother, after all! I shouldn't always be the one behind the camera!

And finally, here's a picture of the little egg-hunter during one of the two egg hunts we did outslide for him. He really got into finding eggs and insisted on another hunt, so we indulged him.

It Must Be a Growth Spurt

Otherwise, I have no other explanation for the fact that Jonah has been eating us out of house and home the past three days. Seriously, most days it's a struggle to get him to eat food, but these last few days it's like we can't get enough food to fill him up. For example, on Easter Sunday, he ate two whole Eggo waffles (he normally eats less than one), a bag of Teddy Grahams at church, then he wanted some grapes when we got home, he then ate a decent lunch, then after his nap he ate a whole banana (he usually will only eat half of one), then he ate a whole slice of ham with some green beans and bread for dinner before having his dessert of Easter cake. For the first time ever, Jonah has actually eaten more than me during the course of a day (of course, this was exacerbated by the fact that I have a stomach bug, which prevents me from having any appetite). I wonder how long this feeding frenzy will last?

March 16, 2008

A Difficult Choice

Tonight I was reading a book to Jonah called "Taking Care of the Class Pet," a book in a series called The Best Me I Can Be. It's a cute little book about a boy who gets to take home the class hamster for the weekend, gets invited to go camping with a friend, and then has to decide whether to step up to the responsibility of taking care of the hamster or go with his friend. Of course, he ultimately decides to stay home with the hamster. The last page in each book of the series concludes with a question related to the moral of the story, and in this particular one the question is "What difficult choices have you had to make?" So Josh and I ask Jonah if he's ever had to make any tough decisions, not really expecting him to come up with anything, just thinking that we could get him to just think about the tough decision in the story, but he almost immediately replies, "Not to eat stuff on the floor." Josh and I just started laughing. I guess we just assumed this was a no-brainer - we don't eat stuff off of the floor, but I guess it's not so clear to a toddler!

March 14, 2008

Wouldn't You Wonder What Was Going On......

.....if your child came home in underwear that was not his own?

We now have Jonah pretty much fully potty trained, just little accidents here and there. So he's been going to school this whole past week in underwear, not a Pull-Up. And yesterday, after he came home and had his lunch, I was taking to the potty before his nap when I noticed upon helping him pull his pants down that he was not wearing his own underwear! How in the world could this happen, I wondered? Surely the teachers at the school know to take the underwear from HIS bag and not someone else's? What is going on?

Turns out, as Josh found out this morning when he asked Jonah's teacher about this (and returned the mysterious underwear (properly laundered first, of course)), Jonah had had just a small accident while playing on the playground, causing onl y his underwear and not his pants to get wet. So instead of taking him all the way upstairs to change him, they took him to a classroom/bathroom on the ground floor where the teacher just happens to keep some "spares" handy. Okay, perfectly reasonable explanation.

It's still a little disconcerting to unexpectedly find your child in someone else's drawers! I mean, what would you think?