Jonathan - 1 year old!

Jonathan Lewis Ogan, you are ONE YEAR OLD!

At the beginning of this month, you turned one year old!  It is hard to believe an entire year has passed since God blessed our family with you!  We love you so much and have enjoyed watching you learn and grow. 

• You now weigh somewhere between 22 - 23lbs (closer to 23 I think).  And I really need to measure you and see how tall you are.
• You are wearing a few 12 month clothes, but mostly 18 months.  You are in a 4 diaper - we are still doing cloth diapers during the day, but you wear a disposable at night.  You wear a 5 shoe.
• You still have only 4 teeth (two top middle and two bottom middle), which makes for one really cute grin.
• You LOVE your daddy and will walk all over the house saying, "Da da, da da da!"
• You like balls - A beach ball we received from a friend's swim party is one of your favorites.  You also have a soft softball, a small soccer ball, and some various small plastic balls that you play with a lot!
• You love to read books, and will sometimes sit for 10-15 minutes by yourself looking at the pages.  Just this week you started bringing me books, handing them to me, then reaching your arms up to sit in my lap so I can read to you.
• You like to brush your teeth, and will even get your tooth brush out of your drawer when you see Daddy or Mommy brushing our teeth.
• You clap your hands a lot, and are pretty proud of yourself when you do.  You like to sing, "If You're Happy and Know it Clap Your Hands" and you like to do Pat-A-Cake (we have a book of nursery rhymes with this in it, and you will turn to that page and start clapping)
• You love to laugh, and if Daddy and I are laughing at something, you will join in and start dancing around the kitchen, even though you don't have a clue as to what is going on (you most likely think we are laughing at you!)
• You still love to eat :-)
• You continue to be a very pleasant traveler and seem to really love your new carseat.
• You are still taking 2 naps a day, and are not a very happy camper if you miss one - this makes Sunday's a little difficult.  You have recently started fighting your afternoon nap sometimes, but after trying to go without a day or two we have decided it is in everyone's best interest if we still make you take one.
• You are the funniest thing when you are falling asleep.  We place you in your crib with your "Puppers" (puppy lovie) and "Blue" (blanket), and you grab them both and chew on them, hug them, and begin to wallow all over the place.  You will stand up, sit down, roll over, put your legs through the crib slats, put your head on the mattress and stick your hiney high in the air, kick the sides of the crib, flop over, stand up, sit down, etc.  This will continue for 30-45 minutes sometimes.  Most of the time you are happy as can be wallowing yourself to sleep.  Daddy and I love to watch you on the monitor as you're doing your fall asleep routine - we laugh a lot!  Daddy so wants you to cuddle up and take an afternoon nap with him, but you wallow way to much and would end up on the floor!  We put you in bed with us one night recently when you were having a little bit of a hard time falling asleep to see what you would do.  After a few minutes of wallowing around between the two of us, you stood up and pointed to your room, as if you were saying "please go put me back in my bed!"
• You have learned to point at things and you have learned to shake your head no.  You have recently put the two together and will point to something you aren't supposed to do/touch while shaking your head.  You have also picked up on a "ahh ahhh ahhh" sound mommy will make when you start to touch something you aren't supposed to, and you will mimick it back to me :-)
• You love music and dancing, and recently started doing a really cute dance move - you will keep one foot planted, while stomping the other and turning in a circle - so cute!
• You have the fuzziest blonde hair, which Mommy thinks is pretty cute.  It looks like it has static all the time.  It is starting to get a little thicker lately though, and some days even lays down by itself.  You look like such a big boy when Mommy parts it and slicks it down.
• You don't have a very big vocabulary yet, but do say: Dada, Mom or Momma, ball, vroom, woof, and ahh ahhh ahhh
• You love bath time!  You get a bath almost every night, and love to splash and spray.  You like to pull the plug out of the bottom, and then will try to grab the little water tornado that appears as the tub is draining.  You don't seem to care too much if there is water in the tub or not, and will continue to play with your toys in the empty tub as long as I will let you once the water disappears!