Day 142 - A Late Bloomer

I was going to write a post/take a picture on the baby shower Clint's coworkers threw me today, but two things much better happened that I want to post about. Although, the shower was very nice and it wasn't needed or expected, it was really nice of them to throw it. He works with a bunch of women, his mother's age, that love doing that type of thing. So they had fun doing it. I kind of feel weird because I'm kind of anti-second baby showers. I don't think people should have to buy you presents twice. But I guess they never did the first time, and they really wanted to and enjoyed doing it.

Because of this baby shower, we had to change our whole day routine because we only have one car. Jonas and I came to work with Clint, and I took Jonas to a park, hung out at SLCC and watched George on the ipad, and walked around SLCC until the shower started at 11:30. Well, I think Jonas was well worn out by that time. He was kind of bratty and cranky during the shower. But he crashed on the drive home. Well, I put him in his bed and about 10 minutes later after laying him down, I hear Mr. Bear tinkling. There's a bell, or rattle in Mr. Bear. I was like "there's no way he can be awake, he is so tired!". So I waited, and then I hear Jonas start talking to himself, for a good while. Then I hear the light switch being turned on and off. Apparently this huge growth spurt he had this summer made it so he could finally reach his light switch again by standing on his bed. Oh dear! At this time, I was so tired, I wanted to take a nap so I just thought I would lay there until he goes back to sleep, or opens his door. Then it starts to get quiet. Yay, he's asleep - so I thought. A while later, it's been quiet this whole time, he opens his door. So I get up from my bed and say "Jonas you need to be sleeping, it's time to go to bed." He hurries and closes his door. I go inside his room, and this is what I see:

 

Oh ya, that's baby powder everywhere. It's on his clothes, his toys, his bed, the carpet, the chair. Oh my! Now I know why it got so quiet. I was a little bugged because I was so tired and I just wanted a nap and now I would have to clean up this mess. But at the same time it was really funny.  So I told him to sit on his chair (I had to hurry and grab the camera for a pic). I took a pic. They aren't the best. I didn't have my glasses on, so I couldn't really see well and I must have shaken or something because they aren't the most sharp images and I didn't realize because of the no glasses thing. oh well. It's a funny memory. But look at him below. He looks nervous. I didn't yell at him - I NEVER want to be a yelling mother. Although there have been a few times I yelled and I felt SO bad afterwords. Plus I've gotten more patient as I've gotten used to being home with him this past year. So I think he was nervous what I was going to do. I took my pics, and then I told him, calmly, how we don't do this, and then we cleaned it up together. He really enjoyed helping me vacuum it off the floor. He was so cute during the whole thing, I can't help but chuckle to myself writing about this. That's why my title is "Late Bloomer". Most kids have done crazy stuff like this before they reach 2 1/2, but Jonas just might be entering it. Who knows?

 He never took his nap, he must have been too wired after cleaning up the baby powder. So we hung out and played with toys. Then we had to pick Clint up from work, and that was when Jonas took the rest of his nap. He fell asleep in the car on the way home, and he stayed asleep. He was exhausted! I didn't want to lay him in his bed because then he would sleep forever and mess up the whole night, so I did this:

I held him and cuddled with him on the couch. He NEVER falls asleep on me, he will with Clint, but not with me so much. I loved this! I loved holding him and watching his cute face and his chest rise and fall. Wow, I really love being a mother!