Jonathan loves the primary songs. He especially loves the ones with actions. His favorites for a long time was "Popcorn Popping" and "Once There Was a Snowman," but now he likes "The Wise Man." He does the signs for the song, so we know which one to sing. He also requests "Beam!" ("Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam") every time I get out my violin. Lately, he has been asking for "Bay Bee Bee" (not in the primary book.) Since the song talks about squishing up a baby bumblebee, I just stick to the first verse.

It has been really nice to start to understand what he tells us. We have been trying to teach him please (It sounds like "wreeee."), but most of the time he just grunts angrily. I think his most clear word is "cookie." He says it backwards and forwards: "eekoo" or "cookIEE." He has also started asking for candy at the grocery store. He actually stands up in the cart and scares me to death trying to get out on his own to reach the "deeeee, dee!"

He has also discovered that he can go down the slide all by himself as long as Edmund or I are waiting at the bottom. Edmund found out recently that Jonathan can climb up the ladder at the back of the play thing in our back yard. He only has a little trouble because the Velcro on his shoes get stuck.

Jonathan continues to love to point to letters and find out what they are, and he also pretends to count. Although, Edmund tickles him on the count of three, and Jonathan will say something that sounds like one, two, three. Usually, he just skips to three. His favorite letters used to be "E" and "O", but lately he loves the letter "B."

It's a boy!

We are having another boy! I feel lucky to have two boys close together. I remember my older brothers being close, and Edmund is close to his brother. I think it will be great fun to have two little boys making mischief together.

We have discussed names again and again, but I think we have finally settled on one. We had about five names, but we just weren't sure what name would go best as first or middle. In the end, we decided to name the new little boy after my dad, David and to use Edmund's middle name: David William Leemhuis.

Happy Birthday, Edmund!

It was also the day of my ultra sound. I wanted to remember this time how big I was at 21 weeks.




Edmund turned 28 this year, but we decided that we both stopped aging when we got married, so it was really just 25 again. I decided that Edmund deserved a toy, so I got him a remote control helicopter. It is fantastic.

Reader

Jonathan loves books, and he loves letters. He really enjoys pointing to letters and having Edmund or I tell them which one they are. His two favorites are E and O, almost every letter is an E or an O for him. If he reads a book to you, he says, "E-O-E-O-E-O," and he is very proud of himself. The other day when I got out of the shower, he was sitting on the floor leaning against a pillow reading the Kindle. It was really lucky to have the camera in the room with me!

Today, while Jonathan and I were out for a walk, he discovered that water meters had words on them. We had to stop at every water meter at every house so he could show me the letters and have me read them to him.

Snow!

We have had the most amazing snowless winter. With Edmund driving to Idaho Falls everyday, I could not have been happier about it. The past couple weeks we have been getting a little bit of snow. Jonathan loves it! He loves the puddles after it melts even more.

Eyes

Most pictures we take of Jonathan look like this, even if we don't use a flash. Or, he is trying to get the camera.

Haircut

Edmund and I gave Jonathan a short haircut. My sister-in-law Jen showed us how to give a good cut, so we gave it a try.