25 Weeks and Counting

I thought it time to post another picture of my blossoming belly. So here you go. We're getting closer and closer to the time when our baby girl will join our little family. I've been trying to get Jonah to recognize what's coming and the most progress we've made is him pointing to and rubbing my belly when I say, "Where's Baby?" I'm sure we're in for an adventurous transition. If any of you have any tips on how you handled it all, I'm always open to advice!

On another note, here are some sweet new shoes I got for Jonah last week. He's outgrown all his sandals and I decided I might as well get something that will last through the fall/winter. If you can't tell, they're New Balance with Oscar the Grouch and flies all over them.

Hikes, Cows, and Rockets

We decided to take advantage of this beautiful scenery right out our back door and started hiking on Saturdays. The first week, we took our Baby Bjorn, hoping Jonah would still fit in it. Jonah is in the 95th percentile for height, but is dang skinny and hasn't hit the weight limit for it yet. So we tried it out. Jon carried him since my belly protrudes enough that it doesn't fit me. It was pretty rough. Jon couldn't even lift his legs since every time he did, Jonah's legs hit his knees and created resistance. It was pretty funny looking, but Jonah didn't seem to mind it too much. We decided to get a hiking backpack for our babies and I was able to find one on eBay for a great price! It worked much better.

Liz called and invited Jonah and me down to a dairy farm in Mona that her husband Clay built for someone. The idea was to watch the cows being milked but we really just ended up looking at a few cows and driving home with about 100 flies in the car. I'm not kidding, I've never seen more flies in one place...I couldn't stand it!
As you can see, Jonah was more interested in his pretzels than the cows.
Another one of our latest hobbies (one that didn't last too long) was building Estes Rockets and launching them in a nearby field. It's pretty nerdy, I know, but it was a random nostalgic thought I had when thinking about elementary school and I had no problem whatsoever convincing Jon to do it. Here are a couple of videos (mostly of blank blue sky searching for the rockets).

P.S. Mine went higher!


I'm not including my launch, just the recovery of it because that's really the amazing part!


Here are a couple of random pictures for your enjoyment. Jonah has a habit of crossing his legs when he's lying down. He does it when I'm changing his diaper, or whenever...it's pretty cute.


Mamou (Jon's mom) bought Jonah a stroller since he loves to push them around. She couldn't find a blue one.