Splish Splash, I was Taking a Bath!

Jonah has always enjoyed his baths and doesn't seem to mind the water at all.  He even recognizes the pre-bath routine and gets excited when we put him on the floor in the bathroom in preparation for his bath.  At home, we have a Primo Eurobath which we've used for all of his baths since his initial sponge baths, with the exception of a few in a dishpan when we were in Ohio earlier this summer. 

We debated about what to do about his baths while we were in Ohio last week for Thanksgiving. He seems too big for a dishpan at this point, and we didn't really want to take along the bath (and use precious cargo space) for the three times he'd use it over the course of the week. In the end, we decided we would simply bathe him in the grown-up tub.  And what a good decision!  After helping him sit up for a bit, we let him lie on his back in the water (it didn't reach his ears) and he just LOVED it.  He might be a swimmer some day because he was splashing and moving himself all over the tub.  Here he is early on during that first experience:





Earlier tonight, we had a hard time deciding whether to lay Jonah on the bottom of the regular tub or put him in the Eurobath.  In the end, we settled on the Eurobath, but he was extremely restless in it and constantly lifted his butt off the bottom as if he was trying to tell us that he missed the other experience.  Which way will we bathe him on Thursday?  Time will tell, but I'm leaning toward ditching the Eurobath.

Visit from Grandma Sweetser

Grandma Sweetser recently visited us. She claims it was to attend a professional conference that happened to be held in Milwaukee this year, but we know the real reason was to visit with her grandson.



Time really flew by while she was in town. She arrived on a Tuesday night, but her conference didn't begin until Thursday, so she spent the day baby-sitting on Wednesday. I was teaching early morning classes online to colleagues in Europe and Africa, so I was able to spend the afternoon with Jonah and grandma.

Some little highlights from her visit:
Jonah rolled more in one sitting than he ever had previously.
We picked out a highchair for Jonah, and he got to try it out.



Red Robin opened in a much more convenient location, and we had a good dinner there with a HUGE piece of carrot cake at Mitchell's Fish Market to finish off the evening.
Jonah just got some good quality time with Grandma!

Monkeying around for Halloween

We weren't originally going to dress Jonah up for Halloween, but at the last minute (Ok, it was just over a week before Halloween, but that is last when it comes to Michelle and the way she plans :) we decided to get Jonah a costume. We struck out at Target, where they had more options for people to dress their dogs than their babies, so we did some hunting around online. We ended up finding a monkey costume we really liked, and based on the reviews, we thought it might be ok on our little guy, even though the smallest available size was 6-12 months.

Though the costume was big on Jonah, he looked extremely cute in it. He got to wear it twice on the Friday before Halloween: once for his daycare's parade of kids in their costumes and that night for the neighborhood trick or treat. Before you say anything, no, we didn't take him trick or treating. We put him in his costume to hand out some candy and say hi to a couple neighbors quickly before he needed to eat.

Here are a couple pictures of our little monkey.

Jonah getting dressed in his costume for the first time. He is so excited!

Jonah magically transformed into a little monkey!

Mommy and Daddy's little monkey.

Jonah in the super stroller just before heading out for the costume parade. He was plenty warm in this costume! 

Jonah slept for most of the costume parade, but here is a picture from before he took his little nap. 

Mommy prepares to take Jonah out to visit a couple neighbors.

The Saturday before Halloween, Michelle and I found a new resale shop for children's stuff called Tuesday's Child in Wauwatosa. They had a great little selection of costumes. Though we were too late for this year, we will certainly keep it in mind for next year!

4 months old!

Our little guy hit 4 months old last Thursday! Yes, I know it sounds cliché, but he is growing so quickly! He is now 13 lbs. 8.5 oz (more than double his birth weight and up from 10 lbs. 7 oz. at 2 months) and height is 23 3/4 inches (up from 22 inches at 2 months).

We are a bit behind in posting more pictures, even though we have gotten some because I want to do a little filtering and reorganizing in the online albums. Hopefully we will have some of the new ones up soon. In the meantime, here are some of his 4 month pictures with Tigger and a bonus one with some of his other friends from the 100 Acre Wood.

Jonah at 4 months with Tigger

Jonah at 4 months with Tigger

Jonah hanging out with his 100 Acre Wood crew

Vocal Minor(ity)

Jonah's been cooing and vocalizing for some time now.  On some days, he has a lot of say and "speaks" his mind, going on and on!  If only we knew what he was saying.  It'd probably save a lot of stress and tears (fortunately, there have been less of those on my end of late!).

Here's some video of him from Saturday, one of those days where he was particularly vocal.  I'd just changed him and we were getting ready for a visit to the farmer's market.




What a little sweetheart! I'm sure we'll be having real conversations before I can believe it.