Jonny Jumbo

Jeff calls the baby "Little Jonny Jumbo"... apparently he's correct. We had Jonny's 1 month check up yesterday. On September 17th, he had a check up and was 9 lbs 9 oz (not quite back up to birth weight). Yesterday, October 8th, he was 10 lbs and 12 oz. And that was all Jonny. He had done a great job of filling a dipe right as we were leaving for the Dr. Every time I do the figures they come up slightly different (math, me, and new mommy brain, not a good mix), but it is something like 20 oz in 21 days. That's a lot.

This is of Jonny and Great-Papa. We took Jonny up to meet him the other weekend.

here is Jonny in an outfit our good friends brought to him. Check out the feet. If kids are like puppies and grow into their feet...we are in trouble.

fall fest at the pumpkin patch

Finally, pictures of the other kids, ie, a child not named Jonny ( but only because he was asleep in his sling the whole time). Traipsing through the sunflower fields.

"Driving" the tractor
Letting Daddy lead the way.

See if you can distinguish us from the scarecrow pirates... arghhh Jonny and I
the kids. I have given up on getting a picture with everyone actually looking.
you know I had to take a shot of this... I seriously think it's easier to get the bugs to stay still than it is the kids...
Joyana.. her first day in the Bob and Larry overalls. We got these when Joey was little and they've all worn them.

Ok, story behind the face painting.. we got there right after the "real" face painter went on break. only we didn't know this. I thought it was unusual that the face painter was a 11 year old kid.. but ok. Jessi's is alright... Joey, well he was *supposed to look like a carved pumpkin... thus the black "holes"... but then the kid surrounded it with orange. wow. a multi-colored ghoul. Then... he added green blobs that were leaves. at least that is what he said. Anyway, we let the paint stay on long enough to take a picture and then off it came. seriously... I'm not sure if that is funny or scary.
Daddy and Joyana
Story here... we thought it would be cute to get a picture of Joy smelling the bank of flowers, so we told her to smell them. It took a few tries so we had to have her smell them a couple times... this made Joey very curious and he decided to see what all the fuss was about.
Joey ended up rather confused because the flowers "didn't smell so great anyway."

Mary Ellen... I thought of you when I was trying to get a shot of Jessi... she has somehow learned about posing... you should have seen the poses I nixed before letting her go with this one. sigh.

excuse the happy faces.. we were pointed right into the sun. this is us loading up on the wagon to go out to the field. the misshapen lump is Jonny. believe it or not, he is quite comfy like this.

with their carefully chosen pumpkins

Joey with his prize

coming in the gate ok, this kid showing the goat... he is the one who was "filling in" at the face painting booth. he did do a great job with the livestock though.


another cute picture ruined by the sun

Jonny...

Here are a bunch of shots from yesterday. Some showcasing the beauty, and some showcasing the nut. He's already showing a personality. I think I'm in trouble.
**excuse Joy's saucey face**

grrrr

So I've been rather open about my disgruntled-ness over the choices this year for the presidential race. I don't like either of them. There I said it again. I'm the last conservative hold-out to jump on the Palin-wagon and I don't plan on jumping any time soon.

But you know what makes me REALLY crazy? And to be honest, it's from both sides. No one party has the corner on the market for seeing things one-sided, but good grief Charlie Brown, my eyes are getting dizzy from rolling too much.

This latest trick of McCain's... The American public is on tenterhooks waiting for the debates so we can actually get something besides a soundbite about where these guys supposedly stand on the issues. Now, in an attempt to get free publicity, McCain is pulling a "take my ball and go home" that is thinly veiled as a heroic action of saving the economy. Dude, I haven't seen my glasses for months and I can see right through that.

Now I keep seeing criticism that Obama doesn't care because he wasn't willing to follow McCain's lead. Personally, I think his answer that the future president has to be able to multi-task was a pretty good reply.
I've seen criticism that he is overstepping by not coming until President Bush asked him to. Personally, I think that following an opponent's directions would have been politically very stupid. There was nothing wrong with him attending the meeting as requested by the President (you know, the actual, current, president) and everything wrong with him doing so just because McCain said to.

I keep seeing all this glory, laud, and honor for McCain for "pushing for action". Hmph. From what I read, his statement said nothing about actual action being accomplished, merely that he, Obama, and the White house had to agree on something. No clause about him sitting out and "doing real work" until something is actually passed and put into place. He's just posturing to gain attention as the great bi-partisan mediator, but in reality, it's talk. He can't breeze into Washington and actually FIX anything.

Now before you think I have gone too far in decrying our noble candidate, let me say, it WAS a very clever move... it got him lots of publicity, it backed Obama into a corner, it got people talking. However, that is all it was, a political move. Depending on how it affects the debates, it very well may backfire. Don't get me wrong, I'd be just as perturbed if Obama had done it... and I'm willing to bet my morning coffee that so would all the folks calling McCain "visionary" for his "bold move."

And don't get me started on this whole "bailout."

Erythema Toxicum and footprints; soccer

Baby's get baby rash also called baby acne, it just happens. They also (especially postdate babies) get dry peely skin. Poor Jonny has a rousing case of baby rash (erythema toxicum), AND thrush, AND the peely skin, AND goopy eyes (he had bruising around his eyes and nose from his "precipitous" delivery). We went for his two week check up and I commented that I hoped his waranty wasn't up yet cause he looks a little worse for wear.

He is fine though, and doing super. As of Wednesday he was back up to 9 lbs 8oz, not bad considering the previous week he was down to 9.1 and also he's battling thrush.

Thursday was my two week post partum check and he got his footprints on the wall of the birthing center. He was actually born up the hall in L&D but we were birthing center patients for the whole pregnancy so we still are considered a birthing center family.

Soccer is going well also, Jonny has now gone to two practices and his first game. Joy has learned to cheer and say "GO Cheetahs!!" with great vigor. Jessi scored the first goal of the season for her team last week at the game, and Joey is doing excellent with his sportsmanship and attitudes. I have no doubts that he will be ready for the 1-3 league in the spring.

knee shot

Joyana... look at the grin, look at the curls, what a kid
Jessi and baby-bubby

Joyana in front of her footprints. They are to the top right of her head, circled in pink. The walls, floor to ceiling, of the waiting room in the center are covered with the footprints of all 1000+ babies born there.
Nel, my wonderful Midwife, holding Jonny
Hey, why is there another soccer picture stuck here? I don't know. Blogger puts my pictures in whatever order it feels like. anyway, Jessi at practice.

Jonny's rash. most babies get this in individual spots, he got great patches of it. just lucky i guess

Jonny's name on the birth board for september.

Nel and my hands holding Jonny's leg for his footprints
There wasn't room by Joy's prints to put Jonny, so they wrote it underneath. She is just across the doorway from him so they aren't too far apart.