Anya, My Little Personality

Now Anya has developed quite the personality. In fact, I think I've caught a glimpse of what I'm going to be dealing with when she is a teenager and frankly I'm a little nervous. But she is so darn cute and she has so much personality I can't help but just laugh at her most of the time now. The one good thing is she seems to have a desire to help mom, so hopefully she keeps that up through the years. You can see that here as she is helping me to unload the dishwasher...yeah, she needs a little practice. She loves to do ANYTHING her brother does, so she is learning all sorts of tricks like somersaults and wrestling. She already climbs fairly large slides and goes down on her own (she is actually quite coordinated and careful). She also likes to read books and walk the dog (we found the perfect dog her size at a party we were at one day). She wants to try everything...she even hung from a pull up bar by herself at my father-in-laws house for about 15 seconds when she saw the bigger cousins trying to do pull ups...it was hilarious and I wish I had the picture to post. Anyway, enjoy some of these little ditties.

Jonah is a Pre-schooler

So, this September Jonah started pre-school and he was so excited to be going to school. It's funny becasue I was going to send him to one that was run out of a person's home, but he didn't want to go there becasue it wasn't at a "real" school. He definitely wants to be a big boy. So we stocked him with the necessary Spiderman lunchbox and sent him on his way and he has never looked back. When I came to pick him up the first day of school he actually glared at me. I guess there will be no tears necessary when I send him off to Kindergarten as I have so often heard of other moms and their kids. It made me kind of sad, but I'm glad he is enjoying himself so much. He is learning to write his letters and to write him name. He has actually known how to write his name since he was two, but now he is learning to write it in a straight line and not all over the page in 5 different sizes so that's good. He says he likes the Arts and Crafts part of school the most. I personally think he just likes to use scissors becasue he is always cutting things up. He also started soccer about the same time and loved that too. Although, when I tried to get him to practice at home he said, "why, I;m already really good." So now we have to work on humility. Anyway, he is actually quite good at ball handling and he is a good listener. So, that is the update on my little man.

Grandpa's Visit to CA

OK, so this new is a little old. My dad came out here to CA to visit when he came home on leave back in August. We did some really fun things and Jonah especially loved the bonding time. It was so sweet to see him cry when he had to tell Grandpa goodbye. We definitely look forward to seeing him more often when he FINALLY gets home and STAYS home. We took him to the Jelly Belly Factory where they make all of those crazy flavors of jelly beans. I guess Ronald Reagan was a big fan and so they made a picture of him out of jelly beans. I thought it only appropriate to get a picture of my dad with it since he is one of his heroes. We also got to take him to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Turtle Bay, and he got to take Jonah fishing. We didn't catch anything (not like the big catch we got in NY...an assortment of crappies and sunnies), but it was still a beautiful day. Thanks for the memories Grandpa!