11 months

Weight: 21 pounds 10 ounces

Height: 29 inches

What happened this month:

• tried turkey, broccoli, chicken, pineapple (he didn't like the meat)
• got his 3rd tooth
• said "bye bye" out loud and with a wave
• played with grandpa lots
• meet his Newest cousin a few hours after he was born
• played with 2 of his cousins (and sister)
• played with grandma
• said "up"
• got to stay at his cousins house for 3 weeks
• took another 16 hour drive back home

 meeting baby Owen

 Uncle Jon

 Playing Peek-a-Boo with Grandpa

loves swinging

Jon, Ash, and Owen

Grandpa with the grandkids

matching PJs!!!

Grandma with the grandkids!

10 months

Weight: 21 pounds .04 ounces

Height: 29 inches

This month Jonas....:

• tried: wheat cereal, spinach, corn, kiwi, blue berries, avocado and zucchini and liked most of them :)
• Learned to sign "PLEASE"
• FaceTimed with Aunt Lia on her birthday
• learned to play "Peek-a-Boo" (he does the actions now, even by himself :) )
• finally learned to suck the food out of the pouches of baby food (thank goodness, those things are life savers!)
• went to the Iowa State Capitol
• rode a city bus for the first time
• went to the sculpture garden in Downtown Des Moines 
• "enjoyed" a 16 hour drive to Utah with mom, Abigail, and Grandpa

 yummy

 still getting the hang of standing on his own

 what a cute face

crooked but still pretty :)

Des Moines Sculpture Garden

I saw in my mailbox that city buses were letting people ride free on a certain loop during the month of April. I wanted to take Abigail on the bus and I also had a big list of things to do before we leave Iowa. The buses went right around downtown Des Moines, right by the sculpture garden, and since we haven't seen it yet, I thought we'd "kill two birds with one stone". The sculpture garden is free too, and I like free things :)

Waiting for the bus

smelling the flowers

A is for Abigail!

It was pretty windy and cold so Jonas is all bundled up

I think this is my favorite, posing like the statue 

It was just a nice night to have family time and all for free (minus the cookies we got a Subway while we waited for the bus to pick us back up!)

Science Center of Iowa

We went to the Science Center of Iowa last week thanks to a Groupon!
Abigail really enjoyed it and I was excited to see the T-Rex named Sue (the most complete T-Rex)

So we started out checking Sue out first. They had these cool binocular type things to look through and you got to see how they think a T-Rex saw and how a Triceratops saw (from the placement of their eyes), unfortunately no pictures of that. But here the fun begins!:

 Abigail completed her timed puzzle!

 The Family (technically I'm pictured because it's Sue, right?)

 Digging for bones even though there were already unearthed

 Abigail's find

 Me and the girly

After seeing Sue, we headed upstairs and checked out a section that talked about Iowa's ecosystems. There were snakes, and frogs and turtles in containers that are native to Iowa, and a bunch of stuffed animals that are also native there.

 Leaf rubbing

Then we headed to the action!!!

There were like 5 stations that you were able to play and learn with. One dealt with water power and directing the water to make electricity with water wheels, another where you could build a car with Lego's and race them, the favorite though, was the rocket building!

 Abigail doing a great job "building"

 Handing the tape to dad

 Jonas was supposed to be sleeping, but he didn't want to miss out on the action

 The Rocket!

 Blast off!

After we convinced Abigail there was more to do, we went to the Star Lab and had story time. Then they told us about the Noon weather broadcast and that all the kids could be on TV with the meteorologist. During the last 5 seconds Abigail made the silliest face (on TV still) and I am so bummed I didn't get it on camera. Both Reid and I looked at each other and cracked up! I don't know where she learned to make that face that she did.

Then we headed back downstairs to the toddler area and had a lot of fun!

 I wasn't going to stick Jonas on there

 My sweet girl

 FINALLY!!

 Bubble time

I love her face just staring at the bubble.

I wish we could have stayed longer (we only could go for 2 hours) but it was very fun!

9 months

Weight:  20 pounds 2 ounces    40%

Height:  29 inches                      71%

What happened this month:

• He is super fast at crawling
• Plays catch (has been for a while, I guess I forgot to mention that earlier)
• Tried mangoes, bread and pasta. Likes the first two, not so much the pasta
• Lived without daddy for a week (dad went to Honduras on a service trip with school)
• Started to sleep through the night more :) (Thank you "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child")
• Learned the sign for "more" and uses it ALL THE TIME!
• Celebrated his first Easter by watching He Is Risen and finding Easter Eggs with Abigail
• Tries to stand without holding onto anything (first time April 7th)
• Loves snuggling with mama :)
• Reaches for dad or anyone else for that matter while I hold him, and then reaches right back for me
• Enjoyed the few fluke days of spring by going on walks and watching Abigail play with Chalk.
• Went to the Science Center of Iowa (separate blog post)
• Went to a kids health fair at school

 Finding his Easter egg

Abigail stealing his egg

Seeing the spoils from the hunt

 Trying to see what was going on at the health fair (it was SUPER windy outside)

sorry this one is blurry (inside at the health fair)