Christmas comes early

Santa and Mrs. Clause, aka Pop Pop and Ju Ju, made the long journey over to the other side of the world. But for no other reason then to see the Zak in the box and deliver a bag of chocolate chips the size of an 8 month old baby.

Jonas

Our second son has had far fewer blog posts then his brother. So as make up. Little man is almost 8 months old. He is very close to crawling, still no teeth. He is a good napper. And as of this week healthy (finished up antibiotics for the 4th time in 5 months). He loves to laugh and play with his brother. His favorite thing to suck on is my wallet. He gags on almost any mashed food besides baby cereal. But if anyone has any bread product or cookie little man must have some. Zaky has stopped calling him Yo and now only calls him Yonas. He is a very special little man.

our "yard"

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Our grass survived the winter. We were worried it had died after it was completely submerged from rain more then 3 times. But after many hours of weed picking green grass has emerged. The boys now have plans for a new sand pit and many vegetables. The sand we bought last year was awful, full of rocks and mostly dirt then sand. So this year we have started to bring back sand from the beach each time we go south. (these are the yellow bags on the wall).

P.S. Yaa for smaller pixels and a.m. internet!

Walker

"walker" / rider/ climber/ pusher/ sitter.... All in one...

Aweful Internet

Well I have tried to post pictures for the last two weeks. But our pictures were high resolution and our internet was WAY TO SLOW. I will try my hardest this weekend to upload some pics. The boys the boys...
Jonas just got over a cold/allergies/ teething. Poor little guy was snoring louder then my dad (it woke me up!). He is close to crawling and his latest love is the bouncy chair and walker. Zaky loves to push him in this.
Zaky is a little chatter box. Little man refuses to sleep in a bed and has been sleeping on the floor the last 2 weeks. He can finish the last lines of most of his books, sing parts of the ABC's, count to 2, and most impressive is keeping his eye patch on in the morning for over 2 hours.
-- we visited the eye doctor again, he recommended the eye patch for his lazy eye, and or drops. The drops I am pretty sure were giving him head aches. He has a small optic nerve with a large disk, this could be nothing, or this could be contributing to the lazy eye. We will continue to patch and pray for improvement.
Time to go, the power is out and Bill is watching Vermonators (ugh!!!!!!!!!!!)

Fix

The boys have been taking an unusually long nap, and after doing my reading, I have successfully putzed on the internet for 40min. Feels like forever. But as is typical I have run out of time and now must post pics and get off the computer. So for all of you out there who need their Zaky and Jonas fix, here you go.

New Skills

Jonas showing off his new skills. He is a sitting expert, and is now mastering the art of diving from sitting position (without crying). And pulling his entire chest and legs off the ground; crawling is just around the corner (Lord help me). Our struggle now is similar to Zaky at this age, discontentment. He wants to move and go, also like other second children (his mother included) wants to be where the people are and cries when left alone. Biggest struggle now is he has gotten into the habit of waking in the night and falling back to sleep only after being brought into our bed, no bueno!.