Family
Info about my family.
11/15/2005
- Family
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about my family. In the beginning, when I started this blog, the point was to keep a journal. I’ve done that…somewhat.
I don’t necessarily want to write about MY family right now, although Austin is growing like crazy, as is Addie, who started to crawl last week. That’s super fun. Kim is also wonderful as ever.
I want to talk about the importance of family, with respect to someone I met this past week. He’s 42 years old, and just got married a year ago. He’s a good guy, who has already made a lot of money and had a lot of “success” in life.
We were talking the other day and he told me that he and his wife are now trying to make babies, because that’s what’s important in life. Money is nice. Friends are cool. Family is important.
Why is it important? I’m not sure I know. I just know that my family means the world to me. I can’t imagine going through life without a family. I’m sure part of the importance of the family is the joy you get from seeing your posterity grow and succeed at things. It’s awesome.
I respect this guy a tremendous amount. Right now he’s still growing his business, but he’s focusing more on his family right now, because he knows that’s what really matters in life.
Sometimes I need to focus less on my computer and my blackberry, and more on the people around me who actually care about me.
My computer doesn’t care.
5/26/2005
- Best Wife in the World
Kimberly Jonas
Period.
I’ve been married now for almost 4 years and they have been the best 4 years of my life. It’s not that she did any one thing that makes her the best wife in the world, it’s all the little things she does for me. It’s the cooking and the cleaning and the understanding and the forgiving and the way she takes care of my kids and the way she believes in God and how she treats me, loves me, forgives me, puts up with me, does stuff with me, goes places with me, and just in general lives with me.
For my birthday this year she spent weeks making a scrapbook of pictures of me as a dad. It was awesome.
For her birthday this year I didn’t really do ANYTHING and she was ok with that.
Last weekend she agreed to go camping with me to a place where there wasn’t running water, bathrooms, or showers.
Sometimes she comes at 9:30 at night to watch me play ice hockey.
My everyday breakfasts include toast, french toast, pancakes (when I can handle eating them), cereal, biscuits and gravy, sausage and egg mcmuffins, crepes, eggs on toast, eggs with cream cheese and normal cheese and other spices mixed in, hash browns, waffles, omlettes, and just about anything else you could want to eat for breakfast (wait…no…not cracked wheat).
She handles our family finances including putting all the transactions into quicken and categorizing them.
She goes on walks with me so I can get exercise.
She does a DANG good job of raising my kids.
She lets me golf whenever I want.
She lets me work from home. She lets me work almost whenever I want.
She decorates my house beautifully.Boy, I could go on forever with this.
Let’s just say that it suffices to say she wins the Best Wife in the World award.
Thanks Kim.
5/19/2005
- Addie Growing
Addie’s been sick for the past week which is tough. She’s been coughing a lot and has a lot of mucous and it causes her to stop breathing. She turns purple because she hasn’t breathed for so long probably once a day. It’s pretty scary.
However, on a positive note, she’s really changing. She now responds to noises. If you call her name (not that she knows her name) she’ll turn her head and look at you. She fixates on stuff and just stares. The other day on a walk she was laying down in the stroller and the entire time she was straining her head back and looking upwards to try to see me pushing the stroller behind her. It was pretty cool.
She stopped pooping as much and doesn’t poop nearly as often as she used to when you take her diaper off. In fact, I don’t think she’s pooped when we took her diaper off in about 2 weeks.
5/1/2005
- Austin gets his booger
Tonight Austin was sitting with us and he was digging away trying to pick a
booger. We tries to get him to stop but he didn’t want to so Kim looked
down and saw that he had a big booger in his nose. She reached down and
picked it quickly and he got all mad at her. He said that he wanted to
pick the booger and was all upset about it.Kim gave him the booger and he immediatly wiped it on the floor.
This experience made me realize that I’m missing out on lots of
opportunities to record things my kids do so I’m creating a Baby Journal
category for my blog.I think that a lot of people don’t write a lot about when their kids were
young and they regret it when they get older. I have the perfect
opportunity to be able to record these things because of my palm and my
blog so I’m going to take advantage of it.———-
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4/24/2005
- Little Angel
I was sitting in church today with Adeline on my lap and was just thinking
about what a little angel she is.So I took a picture.
4/22/2005
- Joy and rejoicing in your posterity
A few weeks back I wrote about how Austin has created so much joy in my
life. Well, now Adeline adds to that joy. While these pictures are of
Austin, these two kids have just brought so much happiness to my life over
the past few weeks. I’ve been so blessed with them.What makes it even better is that I don’t hve to leave in the mornings to go
to work. Addie lays on my chest half the day while I work. It’s so great.It’ a beautiful life.
4/3/2005
- It’s been a big week
With everything happening with the baby this week I didn’t do a very good job of posting stuff to my blog. The next few posts I’m going to review this week, starting with how labor went.
Kim always said she wanted to have an epidural with all her babies. She didn’t see a need to go through all the pain and suffering that having a baby entails when modern medicine allows you to go through the whole process in some sort of comfort. I gotta say, I’m with her on that one. I wouldn’t want to go through all the pain if I didn’t have to. With Ausin she had an epidural and she says the she can honestly say that labor with Austin was a good, positive experience. With Adeline it was different.
We got to the hospital at about 2:30 in the afternoon. They started her on a potosin drip soon thereafter. I guess with potosin they start you off with a little and then gradually increase it until it peaks at a maximum dosage and then they decrease it over time again. It’s supposed to start the uterous contracting and induce hard labor. Well…it hardly did that. At 7:00 Kim still hadn’t progressed towards labor any more than she was at 2:30 when we got to the hospital.
At 7pm they decided to call the doctor and have her come and break Kim’s water which she did. She got there at 7:15 and promptly broke her water. She also told Kim that if she wanted an epidural, she should probably not wait too long. Right then, she said she wanted one so the nurse called the anesthesiologist.
By 7:30, Kim had progressed from a 4 to a 6. (If you understand…great. If not, you will some day.) The anesthesiologist wasn’t there yet. By 7:35, she was completely effaced (a 10) and it was too late for the epidural. The anesthesiologist had missed the boat and got there too late. I guess that was also partly the doctors and nurses fault for not telling Kim to get the epidural earlier, but who was to know that she would progress so quickly.
Well, between 7:35 and 8:00, Kim endured the pains of natural labor. It was tough. Very tough. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m super proud of her for enduring that like she did. She had some rough spots, but overall she did very well.
At 8:03 the baby was out and all was better. The doctor pulled her out and threw her onto Kims stomach (where there was already a towel waiting). She cried immediatly which was a relief. The doctor then clipped off the umbilical cord and handed me a pair of scissors to cut it. I didn’t really expect that but did it anyway. It wasn’t as big of a deal as I thought it would be.
She came out, all purple and perfect. We’re so happy with her.
Like the doctor warned us, she has had some breathing problems. She has stopped breathing a few times which were very scary for us. She wasn’t gasping for air or anything, she just stopped breathing and her face turned blue. We have gotten her to start breathing again each time she’s done it and I’d guess she’s come out of it a few times on her own when we didn’t catch her when she stopped breathing.
What a joy she is.
3/27/2005
- New Baby Jonas
New baby Jonas.
5 lbs 11 oz
18.5 inches
Born at 8:03 March 27, 2005 (Easter)Another love of our lives.
3/20/2005
- Little Angel
We know that when Adam was in the garden of Eden he was commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. The Lord now tells us to multiply and replenish the earth that “ye may have joy and rejoicing in your posterity.”
I now know what the Lord is talking about (at least partly), when he talks about joy and rejoicing in your posterity.
Austin is a joy. He’s a little Angel. I don’t really know how to express in words the things I feel about him. The past few weeks he has become even more well behaved. He’s become even more obedient, even more happy and joyous than he has been his whole life. He loves me, he respects me, and he knows I’m his Dad. I love spending as much time with him as I possibly can because he just brings joy into my life. It’s sooooo wonderful….and he’s only 2! I would imagine that as he continues to grow he’ll become even more fun for me.
Last night I was thinking about what a joy he is and some of the things he does. When he gets in trouble now all I have to do to him is tell him that he’s in trouble and he immediatly stops what he’s doing and says “sorry dad.” He knows that he needs to behave himself and he’s happy to do it. He wants my approval and he’s not happy when I’m not happy with him. I think our heavenly father wants us to feel the same way about him (that’s why he gave us a conscience).
A few months ago Kim taught him to say “Lovey Dovey” because she said that he was her lovey dovey. He associated it with being HER lovey dovey, and not my lovey dovey. When I’d ask him if he was my lovey dovey, he’d say “No. Mommy’s dubby dubby.” It was very funny. I tried to teach him that he was moms lovey dovey and my lover dover, but he didn’t want very much to do with it.
Now, I’m trying to teach him that he’s my “Little Angel”, because that’s how I feel about him. He was sent to us from God to bring joy to our lives and he’s doing a dang good job of it.
I can’t wait to have another kid.
3/10/2005
- Stay at home Dad
The past two weeks the weather in Utah has been beautiful. It’s been over 50 degrees every day. Yesterday it was over 60 degrees.
Kim and I take walks three times a week. We started doing it as a new years resolution this year so we could get exercise and since I work from home and am free to do basically what I want when I want, we’ve been really good at keeping it. The weather has helped too.
Anyway, my point with this is that I love staying at home. The other day on one of our walks it was absolutely beautiful outside so we took a longer walk and just enjoyed ourselves. I just got to spend good time with my wife and my son. I love being a ’stay at home dad’.
2/25/2005
- My Birthday and My Family
Sooooooo, basically I couldn’t be happier in life right now.
I’m 27 (as of yesterday), I work from home and have for the past year. I get to spend tons of time with my wife and son. We’re going to have another baby in about a month and a half. I don’t make a lot of money, but make enough for us to life. We own a couple of houses and I have lots of opportunities to buy others, or to invest in different businesses. The work I do from home is starting to do really well and will take off over the next few months. Austin is super fun and such a good kid. He’s very obedient, very well behaved.
Kim is also a dream for me. I couldn’t imagine a better wife right now. For my birthday she made me a book she called “Dad Defined”. In it she put one word per page and put a picture that shows me demonstrating that attribute. Like, she put ‘Super Fan’ and put a picture of my and Austin both wearing BYU stuff. She put ‘comforter’ and put a picture of Austin laying on my chest sleeping. It was just soooo cool. I’ll scan some of it and put it up.
Basically, Kim does everything she can to make me happy and I love her to death for it.Life is good.
2/20/2005
- Still Alive
Yep, we’re still alive. It’s been 3 1/2 days that Kim’s been gone and Austin and I are still going strong.
We’ve actually had a really good time together over the past 4 days. We’ve played a lot of basketball (obviously), and we’ve spent a lot of time just playing with each other. He has been very obedient for me and he’s also been eating very well which is a big surprise. He’s not a very good eater normally but the past few days he’s been eating super well. Just now in fact, he asked for something to eat instead of for a bottle which just isn’t normal for him. Let’s hope he continues with this after Kim gets home.
2/18/2005
- All Alone
Kim left yesterday morning for California. She’s gone for 4 days, Thursday morning (she left at 4am) until Sunday night (she gets back at 10pm). Since we’ve been married she has only done this to me one other time. This time however is different. This time she left Austin with me.
Say good-bye to working.
Actually, not that I’m totally dependant on Kim or anything :), but Austin and I are having a good time and we’re still living. (I know, it’s only been 1 day).
It’s sooooooo good to be able to spend this time with Austin. Yesterday we just played all day long. We played basketball (surprise surprise, considering that’s all he EVER wants to do), read books, played legos, cars, blocks, went for a walk, closed on a house, ran around, played outside…It was great.
He’s such a fun boy, and so well behaved too.
2/13/2005
- My Family
I know my wife would like me to post more about my family life here. The problem is that not that much changes so I don’t have much to write about. Kim for example, is still pregnant. She hasn’t had the baby yet, but she’s in the third trimester of pregnancy. She’s starting to get uncomfortable because of the baby. She also pees about 20 times a day (although I’m not sure she’ll be thrilled I’m writing about that).
Austin is super good. He’s talking. Last night he had a bad dream and woke up screaming. Apparently he had a dream about a red bug on his bed and on his blankets. He was scared (so he says). I didn’t know anything about it until I realized he was in our bed at 5:00am and I took him back to his bed. When I got back to bed Kim was awake and told me about it. For some strange reason I didn’t wake up when he was screaming…imagine that.
Austin loves basketball. No, really…that’s all he ever wants to do. He has a one track mind. When we talk about going to church, he talks about the high basket at church. When we talk about going to the Claybaugh’s house, he talks about the orange low basket they have there. When we’re at home (or anywhere for that matter), all he wants to do is play basketball. Sure, I can him to play other stuff like hockey, golf, or baseball…but it only lasts for 2-5 minutes. Then he wants to go back to basketball. It’s pretty funny.
12/17/2004
- Austin is funny
When I was little, my mom says I said some words funny. She doesn’t talk about many of them, but she always talks about how I called an airplane a “wee-wee”. She doesn’t know why, but that’s just what I decided it was called.
Well…Austin does the same thing now. He calls glasses ‘babees’, popsicles ‘gu-gu’, and close ‘buush’. He also seems to think that words with more than 2 syllables have to repeat the first syllable 2 times. Lawnmower = ‘mawmow’, donkey = ‘dondoing’.
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