Saturday, November 27, 2010

1 year old! (one of many new blogs)

11-25-2009

Instant love...

I am still amazed by the fact that my baby boy is now one year old. Last year on November 25th, the day before Thanksgiving, at 1:13pm, our beautiful Jonah Monroe was born. He was delivered by a planned c-section and all went smoothly. Jonah weighed in at 7lbs. 12oz and was 20 inches long. The first thing I heard the dr. and nurses say was "What a little man. Look at those eye brows" which then made me freak out a little but I giggled at his smushed up face and fell in love.

We continue to fall in love more and more each day as we watch him grow and become such a typical boy. He is into EVERYTHING he is not supposed to be and thinks it is funny to be mischevious. If he were at a daycare, I would probably be worried about him all day...luckily, I get to watch over his every move all day long. We have his 1 year Dr. appt on Monday so I will post his stats then....

***Updated Stats: At Jonah's one year appt. he weighed 22lbs. 13oz. (50%) and was 31 inches long (75-90%)....so my big boy is tall but not so fat...even his head was only 50% - all that hair makes it deceivingly huge :) He is right on track developmentally...she was even ok with his limited vocabulary of "mama", "dada", and "uh-oh". He is ahead physically, as he has been walking for almost two months now. I have got to get him on whole milk and OFF of the bottle. I also have to get him sleeeping better at night again...who is up for a couple days of crying it out???? Not me, but I guess I need to. I just don't mind cuddling with him in the middle of the night...but I think I would like a whole night worth of straight sleep even better.

Here are some moments from his big day. This year it was on Thanksgiving. We celebrated by having my family over for breakfast and opening presents and then heading over to the Mantle's (my whole family included) for a delicious turkey dinner and bday cake to boot. What a fun day for Jonah!



My baby boy..



Ok, Ok so everyone always asks who Jonah looks like....well, I think he is the spitting image of my brother...what do you think?




So we took this out of the closet (Ella got it for her 1st bday) and he thought it was a great present too....way to be frugal, right?


The "boy" toys are invading the Mantle household


He was getting tired opening all those presents



Since I didn't want him to have a turkey cake or pumpkin pie for his bday, I made this football cake and declared his bday party "football" themed.






Classic "cake" shot


He devoured it all


Even licking the plate...


He was in a sugar coma after all that cake...you know it is never good for your very first time eating anything with sugar to be a whole piece of cake...Probably explains why he slept horribly that night and was sick for the following two days....excitement/suger overload.

Women's Half Marathon!

Ok so I know this might sound crazy to some of you but on Sunday, November 7, 2010....I RAN A HALF MARATHON! I have taken up running and LOVE it. Thanks to an amazing trainer, my mom, I went from not being able to run a full mile in March to running 13.1 with ease! It is becoming addicting...I wish I could run everyday. We run 5-6 miles on Tuesday and Thursday mornings before both my mom and travis have to go to work and then do a long run (9-12 miles) on Sat. or Sun. There is no way I could have managed to do this while working and am so thankful to have the time and energy now. My goal is to beat my time every race and just improve my 13.1....not looking at 26.2 anytime soon. Anyways, I am pretty proud of myself for doing something I never imagined I would do and super thankful for my very own "Jillian Michaels", my mom :)

A cool, dark morning....and we were revved up!

I was soooo excited!


Waiting to start...luckily it had warmed up



We started at Scottsdale Rd. and Indian School Rd.




This was mile 5...Wayne waved at 5 and 8


We did it....just feet from the finish line!


My cheering squad...

Halloween 2010

I know, I know I am a little behind on posts...almost a month! But today is catch up day so enjoy..

Halloween this year was a blast as always. We headed over to the Zaur's (right behind us) for pizza before heading out in the neighborhood. Sidney and Shelby helped out as always with the girls - thanks girls.

Our Annual Pumpkin carving was once again, a success....Ella drew on the little one, Papa Mantle carved the skull, and Daddy carved the silly face...way to go!

Snow White!


They were very excited!


At the last minute, I decided to put Ella's clown costume on Jonah...don't worry, he won't be a KC Chief's cheerleader next year :)



The crazy Mantle family (who now all dresses up for Halloween) - travis was the hit of the neighborhood and was forced to be friendly to every kid on the street since he chose to be the beloved Bert :) It was hilarious!

Princess Lauren and SnowWhite Ella


Our beauty, ready to collect some treats - she did really well and was having a lot of fun until one man dressed as a zombie scared her to death and then she was done...plus, she had some pretty bad blisters from her sparkly red shoes, poor girl

Bert (I mean Daddy) and Ella

Mommy and Ella

Jonah and Bradley (11mos. and 3 mos)
Ella and Lauren have this same picture in these same costumes from 3 years ago - sorry too lazy right now to search for it.

Monday, November 15, 2010

New ideas...cute stuff

With new ideas being given to me and others bursting out of my head, Ella Jo Customs has all sorts of new items to choose from. I am going to start making more "inventory" type items but will still spend most of my time making "made-to-order" items.

Check out this cute one....$15.00

This one is $12.00


Loved this idea....$15.00 for short sleeves, $17.00 for long-sleeves and $5.00 for the bow

And one of my favorite tutu combos to date...this purple is just gorgeous and will look darling on a little baby girl. With tutu prices down, this whole outfit is only $31.00...cheap!!!!

Go to http://www.ellajocustoms.blogspot.com/ for more pics and order info.
or email me at ellajocustoms@cox.net

Jonah's 1st Haircut

On November 7, 2010 Jonah had his first haircut....just a couple weeks shy of his 1st birthday. Ella was almost 3 when she had her first haircut....but I guess boys are different (in so many ways...) My mom just trimmed up his bangs because they were totally covereing his eyes. he looked pretty nerdy for a few days but it looks better now.

There was definitely some restraining that needed to be done.


All done!