Jonah turned 9

I'm a little bit behind in my blogging, as usual.  Last week, on January 21st to be exact, Jonah had his 9th birthday!  He requested lasagna for dinner and for the family to go to the movie theaters to celebrate.  Since Nate was working all day on the 21st, we did the lasagna, cake, and presents that day and then went to a movie on Nate's day off, which was two days later.  We saw Wreck-It Ralph.  Well, everyone but me saw the movie.  I spent it walking the hall with Abram.  From what I hear though, it was fabulous!

So, what can I tell you about Jonah?  He's started reading the Harry Potter books, which is a huge deal because he normally only likes non-fiction.  He started on The Chamber of Secrets, which is the 2nd book in the series.  He bought it himself with $10 he got for Christmas.  He skipped reading the first one because he'd seen the movie.  Now that he's read the second book and seen how the books can be so much different from the movies, he's anxious to get The Sorcerer's Stone and read it too.  Grandma Laurie got him the 3rd and 4th books for his birthday. 

Jonah's latest artistic venture has been working with clay.  He was given a toy pottery wheel for Christmas and we gave him some more air-dry clay for his birthday.  He checked out some books from the library to get project ideas and has been creating ever since. 

Jonah wants to start taking karate lessons.  He's never been a fan of team sports, so this might be a good fit for him.  We're going to start with the karate club at the local recreation center because it's about half the cost of lessons anywhere else.  Stay tuned for updates on that. 

Poor Jonah has been such a good sport about sleeping in the same room as his sisters since Abram was born.  Once Abram is sleeping through the night, we'll put them back in the same room.  For now, he's on the top bunk and I'm sure he's not getting as much sleep as he's used to with all the giggling and climbing around that the girls do. 

Oh how we love our Jonah!  He's such a great helper around the house and with his siblings.  We're truly blessed to have him as our eldest. 

He was a bit distracted =)

Birthday picnic at the park.  This was the first time ever that we've been able to go to the park or do anything outside on Jonah's birthday.  We spent over an hour just playing in the southern Utah sunshine!

All the birthday swag.

Happy Birthday Jonah!