Two Jonathans and an Ashley

These days in the Kewish house we’ve been doing a lot of this.

He gets such a kick out of hiding his face and waiting for me to say “peek-a-boo”. Sometimes, if I’m really lucky I get his belly laugh. You know the kind that can turn any bad day right around?

Plus, the crib bumper makes a great teether.

He just started the peek-a-boo with the bumper the other day. His room doubles as an office, and I thought I could get away with being on the internet while he was (supposed) to be napping. I snuck back in when I thought he was asleep. After a couple minutes I hear him laughing. Looks like he figured it out. Little stinker ruined my plan.

Please don’t turn me into CPS. I swear he liked this.

Ok, funny story. Scary at the time. Now funny. I was playing with Jon Jon on the floor in the living room. I left for probably about one minute to go get something. I come back into the room…and he was gone. Now our place isn’t very big, but I couldn’t find him anywhere. I of course start panicking thinking of all the horrible things that could be happening to him…when all of a sudden, I hear a tapping. I completely freeze trying to figure out where it’s coming from.

…….don’t worry I found him….here!

Seriously. This kid moves fast.

Back on December 29th, Jonathan turned 8 months old. This little guy sure is keeping us busy these days. He is into everything, and anything he can get his hands on which then goes straight into his mouth. He is still doing the “marine” crawl to get around, and is pretty fast. Lately he has been pushing himself up onto his knees and rocking a little, so I’m sure he’ll be crawling really soon. He is starting to stand up when he is holding onto something. He still needs some help getting into the standing position though. Last night he said “mama” for the first time and you would’ve thought he just completed the SATs. I was so proud. He is also enjoying finding his voice. He is pretty loud and loves to “talk/yell” especially at church when it is completely silent. He has four teeth now. Two on top and two on the bottom. I think even more are coming in though. Teething is not fun so lets hope we get a little break.

Here are some recent pictures of the little 8 monther.

Hanging out with Daddy.

Go Cougs!

Happy chubby baby.

Oh man. Those eyes get me everytime.

Do you see his bottom teeth?

We had a great Christmas this year. We went up to my parents house in Midway to celebrate. There was so much snow and it was freezing cold out, so we had lots of fun staying up late and playing games by the fire. After living in Seattle for 18 years it’s nice to have white Christmases. This year was special since we could celebrate it with our little baby (who is not so little anymore). Here are some pictures.

A tradition in the Sampson family (as I’m sure with many others) is opening up jammies on Christmas Eve.

They were so cute. Onesies with their names on the bum. (Don’t worry, Jon and I didn’t get any. Just the kids.)

Cousins. (Doesn’t Jonathan look HUGE?!)

Sisters.

Next it was time to read the Polar Express…then off to bed.

A beautiful white Christmas morning.

Some were more sleepy than others. (Notice the wardrobe change. We had a little accident during the night, and when I say “we” I mean Jonathan).

Time to open up presents.

Action shot.

The stockings

Jonathan spent the rest of his morning enjoying one of his favorite presents.

We hope everyone had a great Christmas!

So I couldn’t resist taking jon-jon to see Santa Claus on his first Christmas outside the womb. From the picture above, you can see he liked it. And if he could talk he would have asked for his two front teeth. One has already popped through and the other one is attempting to make an appearance by Christmas.

As you can see this was a “good santa” (real beard and all). Jonathan kept turning around trying to get a look at him. He even tried to pull the beard a couple of times.

It was fun for the cousins to come too. They are old pros at the santa stuff so they had to show jon-jon the ropes. Don’t you love the deer in the headlights look?

…playing around

Jonathan was in a bad mood.