Here is Jonas at 11 months. 10 months in review: 1) He learned to wave. A lady on the airplane on the way back from FL helped him figure it out :) 2) He learned to give high fives. 3) He learned the signs for ball and bird. He also signs "more" a lot. 4) He has decided he does not really care for baby food, but would much rather eat whatever we are eating. 5) He has the army crawl down.
Sara was able to do 3 Easter Egg Hunts. Nine took us to one at the Ann Arbor Vineyard, there was one at our house, and one at Nine and Baba's house. Sara is quite the expert at finding eggs now :) I have to say she did a great job, especially with 4 aunts and uncles hiding them for her. This year Sara seemed to be getting a better understanding of what Easter is really about. She had lots of questions about Jesus dying and then being alive again and where he is now. It is a good growing experience to explain my faith to her. Jon and Sara also dyed Easter eggs. Jonas was just along for all the fun and seemed to enjoy watching everyone.
As a family, we went to Estero, FL (the Ft. Meyers area). We had such a great vacation. It was so relaxing, the weather was perfect, the place we stayed was amazing, and we had lots of time to just be together. There were tons of fun things to do there. We went to three different beaches - Barefoot Beach, Sanibel Island, and Carl Johnson State Park. They were all great. Sea shells were everywhere. Sara loved building sand castles, making holes, playing in the gulf and being in the sun. She did not appreciate the sand in her food :) Jonas did great. He was really afraid of the waves, though, so he didn't go into the gulf much. He mostly stayed under his sun tent and played. The condo we stayed in was right across from the pool. Sara is getting pretty good at swimming. Both Sara and Jonas loved the pool. Jonas really liked splashing himself :) We also went to the Naples Zoo. There is a great park in the area, Lakes Park where we rented a Surrey bike. We tried to find alligators, but no luck. However, the day after we were at Sanibel Island someone was bitten by a shark - glad we missed that :) Anyway, there are lots of great memories and we hope to go back :)
Sara loves making clothes for her little dolls. She takes Kleenex, paper, and stickers and makes dresses and other things for them. It's really cute. She also likes using her own unique style in dressing herself. Who knows, maybe she has a future in it :)
Yesterday, we decided to have a picnic in the park. Jon met us there for lunch. We all loved it. Sara played on the play set, Jonas went on a swing, we walked around a bit and ate lunch in the sun. Spring fever is definitely here.
Yesterday, was beautiful!! Jonas went in the swing for the first time and loved it. He was laughing and smiling and shaking his legs.
