Pregnant!

Edmund and I are pregnant again! Hooray! This is the main reason why it has taken me so long to post pictures. I was really really sick. I thought I was sick with Jonathan, but I'd have taken that any day over how I felt with this baby. I was sure I was expecting twins, but when the doctor did an ultrasound, there was just one little jelly bean in there. I'm due on June 25th. It is the same date I was due with Jonathan, so we'll see if they end up sharing a birthday. Jonathan was a week late. I'm hoping this one is on time. It is so hard to wait an extra week. I'm almost 17 weeks, so in a month we'll get to find out if it is a boy or a girl. I can't wait!

More Christmas

We opened Santa presents on Christmas night after little Jonathan had gone to bed. Everyone unwrapped something pertinent to what was going on in their life or something that was relevant to where they lived, except Uncle Jon. Uncle Jon unwrapped a very soft, round, reindeer stuffed animal. I wish I could have captured the look on his face. It does get confusing with two Jonathans sometimes.



Jonathan got a few nano bugs for Christmas. They are just little things that look like insects and they vibrate quite a lot and run around until they run into something, then they change directions. Jonathan loved putting them up to his ear. I tried it, and it really jiggles your brain.

More Christmas

Jonathan understood opening presents this year. Once he got started, he wanted to help everyone else unwrap their gifts too.

More Christmas

As always, Jonathan loved chasing the cats. They were smart enough to stay just out of reach. It was nice when Daddy, Grandma, Uncle Jon, or Auntie Elisabeth helped Jonathan catch one and pet it.

Christmas

We spent Christmas in Vancouver this year. For the first time, I really didn't mind the rain. It was so beautiful and green there. Judi had big Jonathan cut down a tree from their back yard. It was a little sparse on branches, and Judi drilled some holes in the trunk and added some in. I actually really liked it. There were fake birds on it too, which Jonathan really got a kick out of. The Leemhuis's always take family pictures in front of the tree on Christmas.

S'Mores

Estella and Juliette

Ethan, Brynne, Newell, and Nicholas

Jonathan was really ready to go.


Jackson and Jen had everyone over for s'mores the last night Edmund and I were there. I think Jackson and Dad made the fire pit out of an old dryer drum. It worked amazing.

Thanksgiving

Estella, Jonathan, and Alexander at Jackson and Jen's house

All the Berry girls.



We went to Colorado for Thanksgiving and enjoyed some of the best end of November weather we've ever had. It was warm and sunny the whole time. We took a hike the day before Thanksgiving up to Devil's Kitchen. Nothing says home to me like the Colorado National Monument.

Snow

In the middle of November, we got our first big snow storm. We thought it was going to be the first of many this winter, but it was really the biggest one yet. Edmund and I loved taking Jonathan out in it to explore. It was a magical world.

Balloons

Jonathan loves balloons. I actually think that was his very first distinct word after Mama and Dad'm. Just recently we were in Idaho Falls looking at new stoves, and Jonathan saw another little boy with a balloon. Jonathan wanted that balloon. He threw a real temper tantrum about it: red face, tears, kicking. Luckily, Edmund spotted a group of Home Depot balloons. (I know Jonathan will have to learn that we cannot always indulge him, but once it a while. . .) Edmund took Jonathan over to them, took out his pocket knife, and cut one down. Jonathan couldn't have been more smiley as he carried his balloon (with the help of Edmund) out to the car. He happily pointed to it and said "baalooon." After running another errand, Edmund and I opened both doors to the back seat at the same time, and the balloon escaped. Jonathan watched happily and waved to his balloon as it soared high into the sky. Then, he realized it was gone forever. He wailed about it for a few minutes, then he just sadly said "baaloon."