Jonathon has been home from school all week!  He is finally on the mend and its looking like he may be able to return to school next week. ((HOORAY)) for me and for Jonathon.  He is ready!  He really misses school along with his friends and teachers.

We took Kenny to his consult for surgery this afternoon.  Looks like mom will be staying overnight with Kenny after all.  Our good friend Nik and best friend Rylee will be coming over to help out with Jonathon while I am gone.  March 19th is coming up quick.

We went and seen Miss Barb today(Children's EyeWear) and picked up Jonathon's new lenses.  His prescription changed a little bit, but nothing to worry about.

Then we headed off to Walmart and picked up some snack foods and a few extra items to pack away while Kenny is home after his surgery.

Then off to Kroger to pick up some bread and brown sugar.  Juice for Jonathon and a few other items.

Jonathon specifically asked me for pizza afterwards.  I was so proud that he asked me that I turned around and went back to the pizza store and grabbed a pizza and some cheese bread.  Forgot to take pictures but he ate his pizza like a big boy!  I didn't have to cut it up tonight.  I have noticed a lot lately that he is finally taking off on eating by himself.  I pretty much don't have to do anything anymore!  He is really doing great.  Now the rest of the crew need to get on board....they still have their moments where they worry and tell him to slow down and I just remind them that he is almost 5 and he is doing just fine!  5.....I can't believe my baby is going to be 5 soon.

Then there is this attitude problem still going on!  Not listening.....ignoring me....telling me no....saying FINE!!!!  I have resorted to the whistle!!  If you do not listen to me after the second time I blow the whistle....and let me tell you I BLOW the whistle and Jonathon comes a running!!!!!  I hope we get over this quickly!!!

Jonathon.....could you please just listen to mommy!!!!!

Tonight he took one of his special little stuffed animals and gave it to his Tiny dog.  Now she has a baby to cuddle...and it's so cute!  She is actually sleeping with it.

Glasses are here

Jonathon and I went out yesterday and picked up his glasses again.  You see the first pair were made wrong;the lense had a flaw in it;he was supposed to wear them for our "Buddy Walk", but we couldn't.  We have been keeping this secret from most of our friends and family.  Not that it's a big deal;we just wanted Jonathon to have time to adjust before they all started coming out of the woodwork to see him(voice their opinion). Okay, maybe mommy needed time to adjust too, before I put up with everyone else and their comments.


Yesterday was rough.  Jonathon was very sad ~ He didn't want to wear the glasses.  He would stick out his bottom lip and it crushed my heart.  I didn't stop though.  I kept putting them back on.  Let's just say by dinnertime I was extremely frustrated AND very glad that it was almost bedtime.  EXHAUSTION is an understatement.


And lets remember if you missed the previous post:  Jonathon is wearing glasses for farsightedness and lazy eye.  Same symptoms his father has.  His father has worn glasses since he was 3.  Jonathon could out grow this one day~ not a promise and not going to worry about that.  Not making excuses ~ this could be the result of his extra chromosome, but it also could just be plain ole HEREDITARY!

Yesterday before glasses

Don't like these mommy!

Getting used to glasses

There's my happy boy!

Today has been a better day!  We have had a few moments, but I have to say overall he is doing pretty good keeping the glasses on.  I think they are a little crooked now;I tried to fix them at lunchtime but not sure if I did.  I will let the expert(daddy) take a look when he gets home later.  I decided yesterday before the big brothers got home that the best way to go about Jonathon wearing glasses was to ignore the fact that Jonathon is wearing glasses.  I even text Andrew to let him know this and to tell Kenny before they came in.  I know all they wanted to say was "oh your sooo cute"  "I like your glasses"  but they didn't.  They did just what I had asked of them and for that they are 2 great big brothers.  And my theory is working.  As long as we don't make a big deal about it he seems to be ok overall.  AND I have been wearing my glasses more to show him that we need to wear our glasses.  (mine are just for when I am on the computer or reading).

Jonathon is napping now and resting his little eyes.  Then we will continue our day;learning to like our new glasses!

This ""IS" my Jonathon!