Joathon had has first pond experience this past weekend. As you can tell by the smile on his face and the other pictures on his picture site he loves to play. It doesn't matter whether it is in the water, on the bike or just in the shade eating. It is so nice experiencing all these different wonders with him.
We are getting ready (at last) to fly to Iowa on Thursday. We are quite the procrastinators! Heather is doing the packing and I am doing the blog...my, how I lucked out. We are going to be away for about a week/week and a half and I am only going to need the clothes I have on and maybe one extra shirt. I wish I could get away with that but that is why Heather is packing and not me.

We are really looking forward to seeing everyone. We haven't been out there in 3 or 4 years. I think everyone is looking forward to seeing Jonathon more than anything (which I don't blame them at all!) We are really excited that he will be able to meet all my family. We really love living in New England but it does come at a big sacrifice being away from all our family and friends.

We can't wait and love you all! See you soon!

In case there is ANYONE who doesn't believe Heather or I that Jonathon is a BIG eater, here is proof...of him shoving a whole piece of watermelon in his mouth. He actually snuck it in on us. We were watching him nibble on it and the next time we saw it, he had everything in!










Jonathon is becoming my biking buddy (along with Heather)! I took him for a stroll last night and he looks around in awe and starts giggling at anything he sees. I don't know if it his personality or what but last night when he saw me with my bike helmet on and my "cute" bike shorts, he started to laugh. I'm thinking it was because I was looking like a hot biker dude...or maybe not.







He is now sitting up all by himself. He isn't crawling at all but he rolls everywhere. He is so funny to watch...rolling from point A to point B. Heather and I are thinking that he probably will skip the crawling and go straight to the walking.

Hope you enjoy these pictures...check out the photo album site for new ones.

It's hard to believe that Jonathon is now 8 months old! He is growing like crazy - already wearing mostly 24 months in clothes, and he has become quite the little chatterbox (I'm VERY proud to say that his first "word" was Ma-Ma, and that was ON Mother's Day!). He isn't crawling yet, but who needs to crawl when you can roll? He rolls everywhere, at least when he's not in his car riding around. This has to be one of my favorite pictures - I call it "ROAD RAGE!"



Of course, Jonathon was having a ball - he still laughs constantly and has so much fun doing everything, especially with Dessie around. I can't wait for everyone to see him again!