Jonah (9 Months)

Times flies when you're having fun... or when you're not sleeping since you really have no idea what day it is anyway. Jonah's changing fast now. Seems like only a couple weeks ago we could set him down and come back to find him in the same spot. Not anymore! Check out some crawling from our little "Toad".





We call him "Toad" becasue 1) he needed a nickname, 2) A lot of people say he looks like me and "Toad" was my nickname, 3) because he has long skinny froggy legs and 4) he loves to jump (with some help).




His first words are Mama, Dada (might mean Dad, Brother or Dog depending on what he's looking at), Night Night and No No. And he doesn't say it but he finally signs "more" and "all done".

So there you go! You're all caught up. You know him so well it's like you've been living with us for the past 9 months! Can't beleive he's almost 1 already.

We Need Names

Maybe it's that Jonah is the 3rd kid and we've run out of creative names for stuffed animals (by the time we got to Mandy, "White Bear" was the best we could do). Or maybe it's because "Champ" turned out to be about the best name we could have given Micah's still-favorite animal. But for whatever reason we don't have a lot of good names for Jonah's potential favorite stuffed animals.

So I'm using you're desire to look at cute pictures of Jonah to enlist your help naming these potential friends! Add your name suggestions via a comment to this post or send me an e-mail.

His new name: Bruce the Moose
Name he came with: Bloose
What we've been calling him: Blue Moose

His new name: Ribbit
Name he came with: Ponds
What we've been calling him: the Frog

His new name: Stretch
Name he came with: Tiptop
What we've been calling him: the Giraffe

Jonah: 5 weeks

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Jonah is 5 weeks old now. His newborn baby puffiness is gone and he looks a lot more like himself now then when he was born (That sounds like something Dad would say!). He's a good sleeper and often lets us put him in bed while he's wide awake without any complaining. Tamara got him to sleep in his own room today for naps instead of in the cradle in our room which is a great step.

It hasn't been all perfect though, he's been slow to regain his weight, which had us worried at first. But he's very happy and smiles a lot. He's got a head full of hair which I want to cut, but Tamara says I can't. =)

All I have today are pictures, but I'll try to capture some of his personality in video form next time.

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Jonah Robert Keller

Jonah Robert Keller
11/13/2010
born @ 2:55pm

Welcome to your family Jonah! We're excited to welcome a 3rd boy into our family, though Tamara is seriously outnumbered and her chances of "the girls" ever catching up are now slim to none. But we love our boys and it's great to add yet another brother into the mix.

Jonah was born here at home as we had planned and hoped. And while not everything (or much) went according to our plans, Tamara's Mom was here to help deliver the baby and I had the honor of catching and announcing my own son. It was an amazing experience. One of the big pluses was how quickly Noah and Micah could be involved.

Here's Noah holding Jonah on our bed a couple hours after he was born.


Micah got his chance too, but this one from a couple days later was the cutest. It's classic Micah goofiness, but I especially love the pause in the middle where he studies Jonah for a minute.

As I'm writing this it has been two weeks since Jonah was born. It's been a challenge to get him on our schedule, but I think we're just about there. Next week I'll go back to work and we'll see what its like trying to return to our normal life with this new addition. Here's a few more pictures of Jonah so far (You can click on any picture to see it larger).