Jonathan Day 107

We woke-up early and got ready for our short drive to Chicago.  By time we hit Lake Shore Drive Aunt Jo Jo texted and said she was 10 minutes away.  She beat us by about 3 minutes and came down to the lobby to help unload the car for our 4 night stay.  This will be the longest we'll be away from MI since JH joined our family.  Jo missed seeing him yesterday when she wasn't feeling well so made it a point to come visit for a few hours this morning.  I want JH to read these years from now and know how much love he has in his life.  I have no doubt that he'll already know it but then :-)

Jo took JH to Target and Da Da and I went to the market to stock-up on Weight Watchers friendly foods.  We started on Tuesday and Da Da has lost 10 and I have lost 6 pounds.  We really want to get close to the weight when we met more than two years ago.  WW is a great program so it should be pretty easy.   Jo said that JH was the most charming friendly little guy at Target.  He was in the elevator next to a stroller with a 12 month old baby and he reached over from his stroller and said "tickle tickle tickle" while he tickled the kids neck.  Luckily the mother thought it was pretty funny too.

Jo left around noon and we headed out for a 5 mile walk to buy Da Da some vitamins.  JH was very quiet and a few times we had to check if he was sleeping.  This time change has us all off.  He was just looking around having a good time.  He said "hi outside" a few times.

After the walk Aunt Staci came by to see us...RIGHT, she was here to see JH.  Again, the love this boy has in his life.  She played with him while Da Da and I recovered from our walk.  I tried to nap but the laughing and screeching got in the way.  We returned to Target to get a few more groceries and so Aunt Staci could get some shopping done too.  We went our way and Staci went her way.  Every time we saw or passed her, he yelled "it's Auntie Staci, oh HI Auntie Staci".  We were walking in front of her and someone passing her said "that's a happy boy".

It's 6:00 PM here and we just finished dinner and will be putting JH to bed soon.  It's as dark as it can be so we might try to slip him into bed a few minutes early :-)

The video above is on Halloween when I asked JH to say Happy Birthday Uncle Mike so I could send him the clip.  It's cute so I thought I would share it.