Luau Party

Our apartment complex had a Luau party at the pool on Saturday. I found Jonah the perfect Hawaiian outfit in our box of hand-me-downs (thanks again, Susie!) and he won second place for best dressed! We also won a gift certificate to a local pizza place in the raffle, so we'll have to plan a date night soon.

Friends

I got to watch Jonah's little friend, Heidi, one afternoon last week. She is only one month older than Jonah, but she's much more advanced in her mobility. He was very jelous watching her crawl all over the place, pull herself up and cruise around the furniture... In fact since the day I watched her she has become a full-fledged walker. She also has a full mouth of teeth compared to Jonah's bare gums. It just goes to show that all babies are different, right? I make excuses for Jonah because he has a lot more weight to haul around - 10 pounds to be exact. Anyways, I tried to get a lot of cute pictures of them together because Heidi's parents also went to Wheaton College and we like to dream that Jonah and Heidi will be classmates at Wheaton someday and they'll fall in love and get married and we'll have the perfect pictures for their rehearsal dinner slide show!

Distracting

Sometimes it can be very fun to watch a movie with Jonah and he is content and interested in what is happening on the screen. Here Jon and Jonah are having some male bonding time watching the documentary of the White Sox World Series Championship in 2005.

Other times he can be really distracting during a movie.

Memorial Day Pig Roast

Jonah, Heidi and Una play "Spin the Bottle".
Jonah: "One step closer, Una, and I'll shoot!"

Heidi: "I wish I could get that squirt gun and soak my dad."

Una: "I just hope I get to lick someone's face."

Visit from Grandpa

My dad came to visit for Memorial Day Weekend. We had a wonderful time together and we packed the weekend with activity in true Meyer fashion. Saturday morning we borrowed a bike for Dad and went on a bike ride using our goal destination (McDonald's) as motivation to get up the long hill by our apartment. In the afternoon we took a drive in a nearby national forest, went out to an early dinner with some family friends, left Jonah with a babysitter and enjoyed an outdoor concert at the zoo.

Sunday we went to church and had a nice lunch at home while Jonah napped. In the evening we rode the world's longest tramway up to the Sandia Peak and enjoyed a nice dinner at a restaurant at the top of the mountain. Then we trooped over to Dad's hotel, put Jonah to bed in the hotel bathtub and the men got to watch sports while I watched a movie on our laptop. As Dad would say, "It doesn't get better than that!"

Oops. I put the same picture twice and I can't figure out how to remove one picture without deleting the whole post.

Here's our view from the restaurant at the top of the mountain.

Waiting for the tram going back down the mountain.

Almost Mobile

So the buffin is not quite crawling yet, but he's very close. He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth. Today he even pushed forward with his legs and ended up doing some nice face-plants into the carpet. While he hasn't mastered forward movement, he is really getting the hang of rolling all over the place and scooching backward. He definitely does not stay put when you set him down. Last week I left him sitting up with his toys and came back from the bathroom to find him on his tummy wedged under a chair. He has also discovered that he can scooch over to the bookshelf and empty it of its contents. Looks like we need to start baby-proofing...

Bouncing Buffin