Autumn, Happiness is Bliss

Photos: October 2006
Journaling: October 2007

I had so many photos from our visit to the "farm" last year that I had to do two two-page layouts to get even a fraction of the best ones in. 27...that's right, count 'em...27 photos on these two layouts. (I must have at least 40 more photos leftover that are just as cool/funny/sweet.) So for you die-hard Jonas fans, you can now compare 3 years of visits to the farm at the following posts:

Age 1: Investigating on the Farm
Age 2: Autumn, Happiness is Bliss (this post)
Age 3: Horses, Burros and Pumpkins, Oh My! and Autumn Outing

Color RED!

Photos: September 2006
Journaling: September 2007

Wow, Jonas was really in need of a haircut when these photos were taken. It looks like he stepped right out of the 70's.

The Toy Basket

Photos: September 27, 2007

It is so hard to take photos in our house at night. Not enough light and the camera flash makes everything look weird. But despite being less-than-perfect, these photos are keepers because of the reminder of one of Jonas' favorite games: Toy Basket. Ok, maybe that's not the actual name of the game but that's the most important item you need to play the game. I think the game started two winters ago and the basic format is as follows.

1. Jonas hauls the toy basket over to the area rug.
2. Jonas demands mom or dad "sit on pillow!" beside the basket.
3. All toys are dumped out of basket.
4. Jonas climbs in basket and sits down (which is getting more and more difficult to do as he gets bigger.)
5. Parent is expected to hand Jonas toys one at a time until all toys are piled on Jonas.
6. Jonas hands all toys back to parent one at a time until basket is empty.
7. Repeat 100 times.

A variation of the game would be after step 5, Jonas tries to stand up with all the toys on top of him. Try this at home and you too can experience the endless hours of fun.

What's a Puggle?

Photos: September 26, 2007

A Puggle is a baby platypus and Jonas has recently become one. Our church has Awana Club on Wednesday nights that Tony and I help with and now Jonas gets to go, too. He and 7 other preschoolers make up the Puggles group. They are all so incredibly cute in their matching t-shirts. Jonas was really excited to go on the first night...and that was the last time he was excited to go. He always protests and cries a little when I drop him off but he soon forgets about being unhappy. Ultimately he loves to sing songs, color and join in the Puggle fun with everyone else.

Horses and Burros and Pumpkins, Oh My!

Photos: October 12, 2007

Jonas always seems to like animals until he actually encounters them in real life. We were surprised that he was brave enough to gather up some hay and throw it (from a distance) in to the horses and burros (his word). He must have decided they were not too scary if they were behind bars.

The bottom photo is the best (and only) pumpkin we found to take home.

Autumn Outing

Photos: October 12, 2007

As usual, I took tons of photos in hopes of getting at least a few good ones. Here are a few of Farmer Jonas at work.

Autumn Outing...the videos

Videos: October 12, 2007


We went out to D&D Ranch in Terrebonne for our annual encounter with rural life. I put a camo John Deere tractor shirt on Jonas so he wouldn't be the obvious "city kid" at the farm. He could actually pull the wagon out to the pumpkin patch this year instead of just riding in it and it was hilarious (yes, that's me laughing on the video.) He really needed a 4-wheel-drive wagon for where he wanted to take the it. Jonas would have loved to go 4-bying out through the pumpkins and cornstalks for as long as we would let him. He couldn't BELIEVE it when we told him we had to leave...10 minutes of tears and sobbing. "But I need to get more pumpkins for my wagon!!" So fun.