Our Dapper Dude!


On Sunday night, we all decided to go out for dinner. Jon was dressed in his pj's at the time. Daddy told him to put his shoes on. Jon said "No, I need a new shirt." We tried to tell him that it was okay to go in pj's, but he wanted a new shirt. I found one he usually likes to wear. "No. I need a new shirt." So, I sent Jon to his room to find a shirt. He picked out a nice dress shirt. Then, I showed him a couple pairs of pants that matched. He said "no", and proceeded to pick out his own pants. Once the socks where put on, he knew exactly which shoes MUST be worn with this outfit. After that, he pulled out his tie.
Needless to say, Daddy & I felt very under dressed for this dinner! Jon looked so good, and was so proud of the outfit he picked out, I had to take a picture! (I'm sure that comes as a total and complete shock to no one!)
The dinner wasn't so great, but our beautiful son sure looked great! Isn't that what counts?!?

Jon loves his new sprinkler! Last weekend, he didn't want to come inside!
The next pictures are from this weekend.

Jon shows off a worm he found.

Jon figured out how cool his transporter truck is that he got for Christmas. It holds a bunch of cars!

Jon is taking his "Mommy's van" into the sprinkler.

Jon picks his first home grown tomatoes.

They are super yummy!

Jon figured out how to make his bubble machine create bigger bubbles by turning it off & on at the right times.

Jon had turned around at one point, and I laughed at him having a bubble on his butt. He then tried to get more bubbles on it! I guess you could call this picture "bubble butt!"

Jon's big day with Julianna!

We met up with Julianna and her mom at a place called Old MacDonald's Farm. It was a bit of a drive, but it was well worth it. They had a bunch of different activities that kept the kids busy all morning.

It was up to the parents to lead the ponies. The nice thing about this is that you can go around as many times as you want!

Apparently, the ponies were pretty thirsty. Neither of them wanted to walk away from the watering hole!


Mommy got a turn at leading Jon.

The deer were still hanging out under the trees when we got there. About 10 minutes later, they realised that there were people with food to steal!

Julianna insisted on being the one to push Jon on the horse swing!

They had a "fort" play ground. The kids were a bit intimidated by this bridge at first, but quickly got over it!

This was the first time either of these two had ever been allowed to ride a train without an adult! Julianna was so intent on taking care of Jon, we knew they'd be just fine!

The next time around, we all went together!

Yet another play ground to play on. They had about 4 or 5 spread throughout.

Walking through a tunnel.









Mommy walking back to the group.

Giving the camera a smooch! Is this what Jon sees when I go to give him a kiss?!?

Julianna gets a volleyball lesson from her mom.

A sweet moment between friends!

Tree roots make for marvelous bumps to drive trucks over! This, by the way, was not Jon's Tonka Truck. This place had several of them for kids to play with in the sand pile. Jon just had it traveling around their property!














It doesn't get much cuter than this!

Knowing that we will be going to 2 different family reunions this August, and not wanting to lug the car seat around, we decided that it was finally time to get a travel car seat. I had seen one in a catalog a few years ago, and had been looking at it periodically ever since. Well, it arrived Friday night, and it was love at first sight! Jon didn't want to wait to try it out! So, that was our excuse to go get Jon some Chick-fil-A chicken. In Daddy's car, of course! And, by the way, this is the coolest car seat ever! Why did we wait so long?!?

Jon had been asking me for peaches lately. Since the stores have no yummy peaches, we started looking for fruit stands. What we found was a peach farm, where you go out and pick the fruit! When we told Jon that he was going to pick his own peaches, he so excited! The moment he saw the orchard, there were peals of laughter from the back seat.
A lot of the peaches were with in Jon's reach.

At first, we tried to get Jon to wait until after we had paid for them and washed them, but he wanted one so bad! By the time we had gotten home with our 30 pounds of peaches, Jon had eaten 3 of them! A week later, we are down to the last of the bunch, and hardly lost any!

Jon found this old sand container that used to be part of the sand & water toy we got him a couple of years ago. He wanted to put water in it to splash around. Should have known that he would just climb right in! I know it's probably not the safest thing in the world, but so far it seems to be very stable.
There was "no time" to go get his swim trunks. Underwear works just fine!

Jon thought that maybe the plants needed a good watering!

Monday night, Jon decided that he wanted to sit on the floor, strapped into his new car seat. He sat there, playing with cars for a long time. Then, Jon figured out that he can walk around the house with the car seat on. The next thing I know, he's on the computer, playing a game! That night, Jon fell asleep wearing his new seat! (I know, that's just a wee bit strange, but kids have been known to do weirder things than that!)

As promised in yesterday's blog, here's the picture of Jon holding Precious. The picture was taken with a polaroid that probably could use a cleaning, based on the flecks! Regardless, it's a beautiful picture!