Fun with Cars and Trucks

If he doesn’t already think so, pretty soon Jonah will assume that everyone has construction vehicles at their houses all the time. Grandma and Grandpa (along with several other neighbors) were getting a trench dug in the front yard for a new water line. This means that Jonah had some very personal backhoe-viewing time.

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“I want to sit in window and hold little yellow backhoe and watch big yellow backhoe outside in yard.”

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Then there were the construction vehicles at the new development that’s being built across the street. Jonah wanted to make frequent visits to the dump truck. (I’m pretty sure dump trucks are his favorite.)

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He practiced riding his tricycle around the driveway a little bit, but is not a fan of the pedals yet. Mostly, he just wants to be pushed.

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Jonah also wanted me to draw lots of cars and trucks on the driveway. I’m getting pretty good with my truck-drawing skills. He gets so excited walking around, pointing at each one and saying what it is!

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After I finish drawing one, Jonah takes some chalk and draws on it where the dirt should go.

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And just for fun, here’s Jonah checking himself out in the mirror with animals piled around his head on the ride home.

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Fun with the Relatives

Grandpa taught Jonah how to plant flowers. Jonah did his best to shovel the dirt in the right places and seemed to enjoy helping out.

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Jonah looked at a big book about vegetables with Grandma. He liked to find things that he knew the names of.

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Uncle David came to the park with us. “Jonah see Uncle David through that bubble!”

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And Uncle David met him at the bottom of many slides.

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“Jonah went down big blue slide all by self!”

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We visited a different park with Grandma and Grandpa to see the creek. As always, Jonah enjoyed throwing rocks, sticks, and other things into the water.  And we got to see a couple of ducks swimming by.

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That night, when Jonah was making up songs about his day, he said, “Jonah went to the E-town park and we found the E-town creek…” :)

Fun in the Backyard

Jonah spent the past five days in Elizabethtown with his grandparents and Uncle David. It was a lot of fun to play around in the backyard the first couple of days.

He checked out the garden and got to pick some peas and tomatoes.

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He rolled around in the grass.

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He played in his little pool.

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He kept filling this cup up with water and throwing it out of the pool. Then I would pick it up and toss the leftover water on him. He loved it and said, “Jonah is playing a funny game!!”

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“That water is a little bit cold!”

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Tipping over…

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Then we had a tasty snack of frozen yogurt and strawberries.

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Fun in the Creek

We met up with our friends, Jessie and Luke, this morning to play in the creek and have a picnic lunch outside. The boys had a great time splashing around and throwing rocks in the water. Jessie caught some salamanders, and Jonah got to touch and try to hold them, and he learned a new word. I don’t think he’s ever seen salamanders before.

“That water is pretty cold!”

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“That rock made a biiiig splaaaaaash!!”

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This part of the creek had a flatter bottom, so Jonah got a little braver wandering around on his own to find rocks to throw.

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When it was time to head to the blanket for lunch, Luke really wanted to hold Jonah’s hand for the walk. It was very sweet. :)

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Then the boys sat together and threw rocks into the water. Good times.

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Shortly after this last picture was taken (in Jonah’s words): “Jonah was sitting next to Luke on rock. Then bend over and fell in creek. Got creek on face and hair and mouth. Mom picked Jonah out of water.  Yup.” He talked about this episode for most of the ride home. Happily, he doesn’t seem too upset about the whole thing, and I think he’ll still be very willing to go back in any creek. Fun morning!

Solstice 5K

Sean ran a race at sundown this evening, and Jonah and I went along to cheer him on.

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While Sean ran the first two miles, Jonah and I caught some lightning bugs and found an enormous moth - the biggest I’ve ever seen just hanging around outside. The wingspan was easily 5-6 inches. Jonah said, “Big big moth has eyes open!” which, I believe, is exactly what the moth would like him to think.

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Here’s Jonah clapping for the runners!

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