Going for a ride

Max loves to be pushed in his gåvogn(walking wagon) but it's a killer for our backs...thank God we have Jonas now! He loves to push his big brother around!

The second child

This post is all about Jonas! It is so unfortunately true that the second child gets less attention. I was so good about updating the blog with Max's milestones and I have been so bad about posting Jonas' milestones! So here goes... Jonas is a wonderful, happy and extremely curious little guy. He has been crawling for 2 months now(started pulling himself on his belly a little before 8 months) and has been pulling himself up for a tad longer than 2 months. He is a champ at cruising around our round coffee table-especially when Max is playing with some interesting toys! Jonas is a big eater which is the reason he weighs 11kg(2 kilos heavier than Max was at this time) or 24lbs. He's roughly 80cm long or 31 1/2in. He sleeps through the night most of the time and is pretty good about taking naps. 2 of his bottom teeth are in and I think one of his top teeth is peeking through as we speak. He is a great baby and we are so lucky he's ours!!! Always smiling for the camera!

He loves to grab things on the top of this dresser. He also loves to take everything out of the drawers!

Everything goes in his mouth, of course! In this picture I think he's either tasting the mirror or trying to kiss himself.

You can see a scratch on his nose which he did to himself and you can also kind of see a little line under his right eye which is a scratch fom big brother Max!

That's my baby!

These videos were taken about a month ago so he's even faster now. If he sees something he wants(Basso's food, toilet paper, Max's toys, food on the floor), he'll put his head down and crawl like a mad man to get to it as fast as he can!

It's POTTY time...we hope!

Last night Max pottied and pooed on the toilet! I was so proud of him. He didn't want to get on it at first because he thought he would fall in. With Jonas' help, I showed Max that he wouldn't fall in. Sure enough after seeing Jonas sit on the toilet, Max was ready to try it out. He sat there for about 15 minutes. I asked him every once in awhile if he was done and he kept saying, "just a little more, Mommy." He also wanted me to shut the door. Needless to say he loves to flush the toilet. He had to do that twice :) He also went potty this morning and tonight. Of course this could be a long process with 2 steps forward and one step back but it's a start!