Madness and Mayhem

Jonas the Ornithologist

2008-08-28T09:18:00.002-04:00

Jonas is becoming quite the avid bird watcher. His favorite bird is a Blue Jay, which is fortunate because there is a tree visible from our yard the is teeming with them most days. He likes to draw birds, especially interesting new sightings.
Today he spotted what may or may not be a Yellow Warbler. He saw it perched on a Black Eyed Susan in our neighbor's yard. He described it to me with such enthusiasm; as if it were a new ship in the Lego Mars Mission series. We set off at once to Google his findings. It seems that is was indeed a female Yellow Warbler, though it's somewhat late in the season for spotting them, I'm not sure what else it could be. He was pretty insistent that it was not anything like the other yellow birds that came up. We referenced our Birds Of Ohio library book, and the description matched well enough to satisfy him.

In the end it was decided that I got carried away and embarrassed him with my excitement, but that he would like to have a book to record his findings. Good thing I'm headed to Boarder's tonight anyway.

The impregnable cuteness of a girl in pigtails

2008-08-14T08:29:00.005-04:00

There's something troublesome about how I feel when my kids look cute. It doesn't seem fair that if they sneak ice cream with sticky fingers, dirty faces, and a frumpy too small/too big combination of clothes that they picked out themselves and have since rolled in dead fish and mud puddles (or so it would seem) I am much less likely to let it slide as when they look cute to me. I am much less prone to loosing my temper and being snippy with them when they look more appealing. Is this my biology at work, the reason babies come out adorable with big eyes and helpless expressions and such, or is it something sinister? Should I feel guilty to acknowledge this phenomenon and use it to my (truly their) advantage? Perhaps I could purpose my perception to be always the same, or just better master my impulses so as to appear unbiased.

In truth I think this is fine and reasonable and unchangeable. But it does still worry me that I can feel so very different about this same little creature depending on the presentation. It's human nature to be sure, but that's doesn't mean I like it.

Jonas funny

2008-05-29T10:42:00.003-04:00

"...Person, person, zombie" .... "no no, it's 'perons, person, zombie' then you get up and zombie-chase me around...."

omg I'm dying of laughter! This is what I hear from the other room. Jonas is appearntly instructing three sweet little girls in his new made up game. I think it's "duck, duck, goose!" revised. he's been talking about "duck, duck, goose!" a lot, so I'm not surprised, but this is indeed a new take on it.

Boxes and Babies

2008-05-29T10:10:00.003-04:00

So we're moving in 2 days, just a few streets away. A bigger, nicer, much higher rent house than we live in now. It should be wonderful over all. Nice big fenced in back yard, dishwasher, 4 bedrooms, yada yada yada. You can read about it on my blog about me, along with the stolen car debacle.
At any rate, the house over there is not yet ready for us, and my house over here is not yet ready to be moved. After all, I still have to live here and take care of children here. I broke down Jonas' room (since he doesn't use it for anything but lego building) and started packing and piling boxes in there. It's hard to decipher what things we need to live here for a few days and what we don't. I'm still not sure. I'm confidant that there are many things I should be packing, but I'm not sure what they are.

Lavinia seem overly excited about the move and has woken in the night and done strange things the past few nights, many of which include peeing in my bed. Lovely.
Jonas talks about it a lot, but I think I've discussed it all enough with him that he's handling it all very well, aside from being high strung and more aggressive than usual. We haven't actually changed very much yet, so I still expect transition anxiety and post move insanity - in all parties.

Come to think of it, I should get up off my ass and start packing again.....

Egghead

2008-05-23T10:22:00.002-04:00

Lavi's been carrying around this uncooked real egg for about an hour. I can't get her to put it down. She's professed her love for it (what's going on around here with that?) and how much she wishes her mother would cook it for her. I can't stop giggling. She's been known to do this before, but this is just over the top.

Baby Love

2008-05-23T09:25:00.004-04:00

Jonas: "Don't you know we love taking care of babies?"

Sniff sniff.... Have you ever heard anything sweeter? He said this moments ago and I came cyber-running here to document it. He really does, too. He said this gem to his rollie pollie baby girl friend who we watch twice a week. He looks forward to her. It's adorable to see this rough tough and seemingly insensitive and empathy-less big grown up guy simply melt over this little squish. You wouldn't even believe it.

p.s. yes yes I know I've been MIA for far too long. Shame on me.

Loose Tooth!

2008-04-21T09:31:00.003-04:00

Jonas has had a loose tooth for a while now, maybe two weeks? Maybe less. He has talked of little else since it's discovery, and he's been vigilant about wiggling it and keeping me posted about it's progress.

On Saturday he was with my sister and he called me and said "I wanted to tell you that my Tooth came out. The wiggly one. I was wiggling it and suddenly I noticed that it was actually not connected anymore. It just came out. How much money do you think the toothfairy will bring me?!" *sniff* My baby is growing up! Using his big words and everything.

Zoo

2008-03-12T16:42:00.007-04:00

So, we went to the zoo a week or so ago when I had a friday off. Of course, we didn't make it there until after 3pm even though we theoretically had all day to get there. I don't know what that's about, but mornings and even early afternoons suck all our time up. Don't try to hang out with us before 2pm, you'll be sorely dissapointed.

We went with our friends Anna, Aleks and Sebastian, of course. Here we are checking out the seemingly uninteresting ground below. If we are up we must look down; it's always good to get a different perspective, I guess.

This is a capybara, which is the world's largest rodent. This giant guine pig and you've about got the idea. There was a small farm a within walking distance of my house, growing up, that had capybaras. They seem like such sweet, strange animals.

Behind him is an Giant Anteater.

There were two Anteaters, and though they mostly just paced back and forth, they had quite a bit of personality, I thought.

I think, here, the kids are looking at some big, leopard looking fishing cat. They were really climbing and wild this day. The kids, that is, not the cat. It just sat there looking bored.

Ah, yes, the Francios Monkeys. I have mentioned these before. I have only ever seen them doing this strange behaviour. These are a french monkey, and I think Anna said it best, "They would not have looked odd drinking espresso and smoking cigarettes." The females just laid there with their butts in the male's face while he groomed her, at least, we think that's all they were doing. It was kind of sketchy, to be honest.

Who's child is that? Certainly that is not my little boy! Look how grown up he is. This is killing me, I swear he was just my tiny baby a minute ago. They're checking out the otter. They all kept running way over here to see the otter, which would have been fine if they'd all done so together.

While Aleks and Lavinia ran off to visit the otter (and Anna ran after them) me and Bastian and Jonas got cozy with the male Orangutan.

Actually, he got cozy with us! He came right over to Jonas and Bastian and started showing them his orange peel he was chewing on. It was really cool!

He is 22 years old and the only male with a whole bunch of females. There was also a baby, of which I think he is the father. It was really interesting to watch them interacting with eachother. There was one point where a younger looking female came over to him and started dropping sticks and leaves on him. Once she got his attention she started walking around and bending over. The bending over part was pretty graphic and made me feel really bade for her and this whole zoo situation. Poor thing had to have giddy teenage girls laughing at her being a normal Orangutan.

This is a snake necked turtle. They're real cool because he'll just be swiming around looking like a normal turtle and then all of the sudden out pops this long neck! Like a jack in the box.

A corcodile!

We loved the Corcodile. It was neat to walk along side it.

A little freaky, actually.

The snapping turtle was swiming with the croc. He looked like he could hold his own, too.

Anna nursing Bastian infront of those silly Francois Monkeys.

Super Heroes

2008-03-05T17:38:00.008-05:00

Jonas drew batmanesque belts paired with backless bras on himself and his sister. They were some form of super heroes, I never really got the whole story, but when I asked about the bra looking things Jonas replied
"They're for our booooooobs! So they don't flap around while we fly and chase bad guys!"
I said "Oh, of course they are. But you don't have boobs, so you don't have to worry about flapping, do you?" He looks at me as if I'm dumb as dirt and says "Yeah, but it's pretend. We don't really fly, either." Well excuse me. Then he pointed at his nipples and said "boobieeeees!!!" ...but, ya know, I'm the silly one.

Meeka vs. Bear

2008-03-04T17:00:00.002-05:00

I was sitting at the computer, wasting time, when Lavinia's playing caught my ear. Her toys were having a tiff, and wrestling. Then the little chipmunk ("Meeka") told the bear how the fighting made her feel, which happened to be "Yucky and sadly", and the bear said he didn't want her to feel that way. Then they hugged and made up, and ran off to play that they were fairy princesses again.

Robots

2008-03-03T17:48:00.001-05:00

Here's some action figures that Jonas is designing.

They are robots, and have life points assigned to them in a video game manner, and can move in specific ways when you give commands.

They are meant for battling.

We had to leave these set up over night because they are so very important. In the morning he let me put them away after he took pictures of them. He's very proud of them.

Pacman

2008-03-02T17:38:00.000-05:00

Jonas played Pacman at Oma's house with Joy, and ever since he's been a little obsessed with it. Right now our dinning room looks like a pacman art gallery. Before he hung them all over the walls I snapped a few shots of his favorites.

Rice Cooker and Casio Piano

2008-02-28T15:28:00.004-05:00

For lunch today we had beans and rice. Jonas is usually fascinated by the rice cooker. I can't blame him, it is pretty cool. So we read the instructions and learned how it works and explored it a little. We found out that this springy mechinism senses when the water has apsorbed or evaporated and the turns off the heat.

Also, note the cute shirt on Jonas and plate on the table. I've found a new obsession with thrifting. I kind of figured that was inevitable, however, not what this post is about.

After lunch Jonas got out his Casio electric piano and rocked out...

....Old school.

Making art

2008-02-27T16:11:00.000-05:00

Making messy art. Both of their drawings are getting much clearer and more detailed. It's amazing how they suddenly gain a skill or become perficient were they were "struggling" before in what seems like overnight.

Lavi Visits An African Savannah

2008-02-26T15:17:00.000-05:00

We read about what kinds of animals are typically found in the African Savannahs, and what a Savannah is. Then Lavinia decided to go to one.

I like that on Lavi's Savannah all the animals are friends and introduce each other with the politeness of a tea party.

Fight. Pose. Dance.

2008-02-25T15:57:00.006-05:00

Jonas is getting really into music and dancing. He's particular about the music he listens to, and when he hears a song he likes he's quick to let us know. "Oh man, I love this song!" is a commonly heard phrase lately. Most of the Beatles' Abby Road album is what does it for him, with some Regina Spektor and Kings of Leon mixed in. A specific favorite is Modest Mouse's Black Cadillacs. He's clearly heavily influenced by me, but I think that's reasonable at this point. Frankly, I don't know where else kids his age hear music, if not from their parents. Oh right, the Disney channel, and possibly MTV. But I digress.

He likes to dance to the music he likes, as do we all. His dancing, unlike his taste in music, resembles nothing he's seen from me. It's a cross between karate, modeling, and that crazy leg kicking dance done by Elaine from Seinfeld.

I will return with evidence of this act.

Well, this is the best I could come up with:

Spaceship

2008-02-24T15:05:00.001-05:00

Here you see a spaceship.

Lavinia is demonstrating how to operate the spaceship.
She tells me it takes three people to operate the spaceship. She is embarrassed that she's the only one flying it anymore. It was pretty impressive with all of them working it, but, of course, they dissipated by the time I got the camera and came back. Imagination happens too fast to capture sometimes.

Drawings

2008-02-23T15:49:00.000-05:00

Lately our walls are literally covered in the exceptional art that has been made and hung by Jonas and Lavinia.

Well, mostly Jonas, and they mostly depict video games (this is lego's dino attack!),

or are instructions on how to build his imagined lego sets,

or his design for action figures.

Though, some of them just tell a story, al beit a violent one.

Lavinia's Puppy

2008-02-22T13:02:00.000-05:00

Lavinia does not have a puppy. I swear! She thinks otherwise, unfortunately. She tells people in the grocery store about her puppy "a-name-a-Isis." "what?" they ask, because what she just said was unintelligable. She repetes this giberish again, more slowly this time, and they just look at me. "The puppy's name is Isis, and it's not her's."
Why does she insist that this dog belongs to her when there is no evidence to support this idea, you might ask. That's simple: because Rachel said so. That's right, this is Rachel's giant, incontinent Great Dane puppy. When Lavi met her she asked Rachel if she could have it and Rachel told her that she could but it would live at Rachel's house. Most children would forget about this little fib, but not Lavinia!

Here's Isis as a new pup. She's about four times this size now, no joke.

This was just before xmas, I think.

Oh and that's Oliver. He's huge now, too.

Cheese and Crackers

2008-02-21T16:00:00.000-05:00

Not everyday, but fairly often this is all that is all that is to be seen or heard from Jonas for hours on end. But when something gets his attention he's more than willing to put the games down. Today, for instance, when I announced that I would be serving cheese and crackers shortly (a favorite snack around here) Jonas popped up from super mario and insisted on helping me "make" the cheese. He (helped) cut the cheese and arranged the plate. It was genuinely helpful and I was very appriciative.

Skeleton In A Coffin

2008-02-10T13:42:00.000-05:00

This is a Skeleton In a clear coffin.

It's being guarded by these guys and this machine. Jonas thinks this is an incredibly awesome "set" he made.
I think there is something more to this that hasn't been explained to me. Something about the skeleton's evil powers, I suspect.

National Mystery Musem! (er, uhh, I mean Natural History)

2008-02-04T11:40:00.000-05:00

Even in my infinite wisdom and skill at preparedness, I somehow failed to have the foresight to charge the camera's battery before our somewhat impromtu trip to the Natural history museum (or as Jonas called it, the "National Mystery Museum" which never ceases to crack me up!) Thus I have no pictures to show for it. However, my ever-ready supermama friend, Anna kiss, (whom we went with) had her camera, so I will direct you to her blog to see how it went.

Lavinia's Birthday Bash!

2008-02-02T14:17:00.001-05:00

Highlights from Lavinia's Birthday party!

It was a Fancy Dress party!

Lots of people came.

Jonas found a way to be in the middle of the party and still be in his own world at the same time.

Birthday (cup)cake(s)! Yay! Lavinia is four!

Riding Horses

2008-02-01T09:55:00.002-05:00

This was a while ago, but I've just now gotten to blogging it.
We are so fortunate as to have a professional equestrian in the family. My sister Rachel trains horses in dressage and teaches lessons, as well as competing with her own horses and other peoples'. It's a whole thing.
Though Jonas has grown up with her horses around and available, he's still not very comfortable with them. Lavinia, on the other hand, doesn't have any fear or common sense (such as, you don't walk under the horse!)

This is HotRod Lincoln. Isn't his headband pretty? We're having our lessons on HotRod. He's sweet as pie. We love him to death! He loves us back, too.

Here Lavi eagerly awaits her turn. "It's not fair!" She insists, which is just silly because it will be perfectly fair when her brother has finished and he has to wait around in boredom. Plus, we're unschoolers, and "fair" isn't what life is about. She'll catch on eventually.

This is Jonas look really unenthused about his lesson / pony ride. What's his deal?

Ringo on the other hand, is thrilled to have a ride. Well, no, not really, he probably felt the same way as Jonas, but he knew better than to hop off. Believe it or not, Ringo actually spends most of his days running with the big dogs at the barn. He's quite horse savvy.

Jonas is much happier to be on the ground. He flat out refused to touch the horse at all, but he got really excited about the ride, after a while. He seemed to feel better once he figured out how to "control" the horse a little. I think with time he could really like this. I'm sure that the actual riding is very therapeutic for him. He was all mellow afterward.

Finally she gets the much anticipated turn! She was a nervous at first, but she lost all fear pretty quickly.

Look at this big girl! She's so grown up and proud of herself!

She gave HotRod a much appreciated hug and kiss after her ride.

Here's Rachel getting HotRod ready to go back in his stall. This part was dreadfully dull, until they got to give HotRod (and friends!) peppermint candies, carrots, apples, and hay! Though Lavi got carried away with this, it was pretty interesting for them to communicate with the horses. They could tell right away which horses wanted hay, and which ones were disappointed that it wasn't another apple.

About Jonas and SPD/SID

2008-01-28T16:02:00.000-05:00

Jonas has always been a very high needs child. His babyhood was
rough because he was so easily "overstimulated" and once he was,
there was no going back. The world seemed to be packed full of crazy
people who thought it was ok to come up to a baby and touch his
face. Friends, family, and strangers would frequently ignore my
ardent warnings not to touch his plump little cheeks. Amazingly,
even after witnessing his hellatious reaction they would still
dismiss my instructions.
We had lots of trouble with breastfeeding in the first few weeks.
Nipple confusion was our main problem, and even up until he weaned
(at 2 years old) he still preferred my thumb over nursing.

I knew right away that I had to be very careful with this baby. He
had to be dressed a certain way, wearing certain clothes. I had to
drastically change what I ate because he reacted so terribly to some
foods he got through my milk. He had to be handled very specifically
(and very rough!) and swaddled and carried tightly in a sling. He
had to be patted so hard, and bounced so rough and so fast. He had
to sleep on my chest, and when he woke in the night I would nurse and
sing and pat him roughly and rock back and fourth. He almost always
had to be walked and jiggled around while I nursed him. How did I know
things had to be done this way? Why, he would scream his little
lungs out when I didn't. He'd freak out when new people entered the
room, when he heard and unexpected sound, and often for no
discernible reason at all. As much as he loved his daddy, and was
soothed by his voice, I was usually the only person to be able to
comfort him and calm him down. In fact, he screamed bloody murder
when he was handed to someone else.

I was labeled an overprotective mom when he was a newborn, and
through his toddelerhood, and even later in childhood I'd still be
seen as such. In truth, I was overly protective. I was terrified
that when things didn't go just right I'd have an uncontrollable and
inconsolable child on my hands. This is still an issue, but now I
know the whys and hows, and to a certain extent, so does he.

He became a very impulsive and aggressive toddler. He crawled
late, walked late, and spoke late. I waited patiently for him to do
things in his own time. Once he started working on things he always
caught on quickly. Such a smart little guy. Something just always
seemed a little off, though. He preferred to go off and play by
himself rather than play with his friends. When he did play with
them it ALWAYS ended with a physical fight. He often shoved other
kids for what seemed like no reason at all. I really began to wonder
if he'd ever learn to be empathetic. He didn't seem to care AT ALL
they he'd hurt other kids/people/animals. He really had an awful
temper and it didn't take much to set it off.

Eventually I started to think more objectively about this, and
started researching and talking to people. It turns out, Jonas has
Sensory Processing Disorder, which is a neurological disorder
where he doesn't receive and process sensory input in the same
way the most of us do. This often leads to a child "acting out"
because he needs/must avoid certain feelings, noises, smells, etc.
Jonas isn't a mean child, he's just a child who is dealing with a lot
more than most kids, so he needs more help.
It was surprisingly hard for me to except that my child wasn't
neuro-typical. It felt like failure. As much as he does have issues
that he needs help with, there is nothing "wrong" with him. I work
hard to not use language that reflects that mentality, but it's hard
because so much of the language used to refer to neuro-diversity
is very negative.

Here's Jonas hiding in a turtle to keep away from the other kids and noises.

Here's a very commen scene. Jonas holding his ears to block out noise.

And again.

Sometimes Lavinia gets in on the act.

Jonas being nervous in a crowd.

Jonas being angry in a crowd.

Haircuts are never fun.

So, there ya have it.

America's Next Top Model

2008-01-23T14:00:00.000-05:00

Obviously I hope not, but she does have a flare for drama and knows how to strike a pose. She's fierce.

I can't imagine where she's learned this.

The Zoo for Rachel's Birthday!

2008-01-15T12:21:00.002-05:00

On Rachel's Birthday we went to the Zoo, just as the title explains. Clearly, I'm a little late in getting this posted (Her Birthday was December 18th). You may notice this is a running theme here.

We're very cute, but you won't believe how long it took us to take this Picture of (from left to right) Rachel, Jonas, Danielle, me, Joy, and Lavinia.

Me, Rachel and Jonas did ok in the snow.

Some of the others weren't as excited about it. Particularly Lavinia, seen here being sheltered from the wind by Danielle. Steve doesn't look too unhappy in this picture, but be assured he made it clear that he thought this trip was ridiculous.

This cute picture of Jonas and his Aunt Rachel is pretty accurate. The nose and smell of the Elephants was too much for him. He was an unhappy boy till we moved on.

Well, truth be told we were there in a blizzard. Steve may have had a point after all.

Inside the Rainforst it was much, much warmer and love was in the air. These are Francois Monkeys, and it seems like they're pretty much always looking intensely at eachother's butts.

So Brilliant.

2008-01-01T23:22:00.000-05:00

You've likely noticed, or at least been informed that I've moved my blog.

This is the second time I have moved it. Both times due to spelling errors/typos in the address. I honestly don't know how this keeps happening. I can spell, I swear it! I spelled the title just fine, and it's exactly the same. There's some voodoo going on here. must be.

Thanks goodness for friends who point these things out.

Lavinia's photography

2007-11-20T23:12:00.000-05:00

It's only fair that I also post Lavinia's fantastic photography, too. I'm not sure whether she intends to shoot half the stuff she does, but it's all very interesting, and certainly very good for a 3 year old.

Art By Lavinia

Feet

Shiny Floor

Close Up

Pirate Heart Dancing Dress

Laundry

More Laundry

Open Door

Open Door Again

Hallway

Red Cup Under Chair

Flashlight

Faraway Flash

Jonas' Door

Jonas' Feet

Daddy Face

Jonas Brushing Teeth

My Face

Jonas' Art

2007-11-19T23:10:00.000-05:00

We've known forever that Jonas has an eye for photography, and he absolutely loves taking pictures. Sometimes I just give him the camera and tell him to take pictures so that he'll leave me alone. Here are some of his recent ones. It's convenient that he has such a willing model.

Hiking the Rocky River Trails

2007-11-16T23:14:00.000-05:00

A few weeks ago we went hiking, and I'm just now getting around to posting the pictures. We went with our friends Anna, Aleks, and Sebastian.

Oh yeah, and Meeka!

Running is the best part or hiking. Gets the energy out.

So does climbing.

See? Worn out already!

But not for long.

Ok, my camera's flash was acting all kinds of strange this day.

Really beautiful.

We collected leafs, and talked about the different kinds of trees.

She's very fast.

But she wears out easy.

The big boys were fastest, and had taken off by the time we got to the top!

But they came back. Apparently there are dragons in these trees.

These are berries, or possibly dragon eggs. Hard to tell.

More dragons!

"Let's get 'em!"

We climb on everything!

Man these dragons are everywhere!

There's quite a view from the top.

Spiderweb!

"No, no, lavinia. We don't pick the flowers."

"Let's just take a picture so we can remember them. That way they don't have to die."

Ooh! Mushrooms.

Mushroom close up

Down we go, finally.

Serious view. I swear I had her by the pants the whole time. Don't worry!

Now, what's this?

Where is it?

There is is!

An injured bumble bee. Poor thing.

I swear we must looked look like paparazzi following these four around.

Jonas' Art: Lego Collection

2007-11-08T23:12:00.000-05:00

Here we have a small collection of some of Jonas' lego photography.

Hiking The French Creek Trails

2007-11-07T23:09:00.000-05:00

Back when it was still warm, we were doing a fair amount of hiking. It's amazing how just being in nature can sometimes inspire the imagination in such a profound way.

We went with Oma, Heidi and Rachel. Indie, Shrapnel, Ringo and Star came along, too. They sniffed out a lot of interested things for us. Very helpful.

During this particular hike, J & L were both describing their imaginary worlds to us. It was fantastic. Lavi and Heidi were fairies -in a wood nymph kind of way- and had to hide behind trees.

We had to be very quite because the giants might hear us and they'd be angry that we were in their woods without permission. This led to frequent shushing from Lavinia.

Jonas told us about the mermaids in the creek, and how to look in just the right way to see them. He and Lavinia seemed to be the only ones who could do this properly.

There were some bridges and wooden paths, and it turns out that trolls and noddalins (look like gnomes, act like bridge-trolls) lived under them. A good round of stomping let them know
we were there, so not to worry. We saw what I thought was a caterpillar, but turned out to be a
spy for the giants. This was very bad, but we were able to run to the car fast enough, and got
away safely.

First Post!

2007-10-12T23:04:00.000-04:00

So this is the first post of our blog! YAY! It seems to be the hip thing for home/unshoolers to blog about their home/unschooling. Wanting not to be one-uped by all you fantastic overachieving super mamas, I'll have to start blogging.
I have nothing exceptional to blog today, so Ill just post some pictures of the kids doing want unschoolers do best - playing! (that is, of course, learning through play.)

Jonas dressed up as Puss-In-Boots, probably after watching shrek 2. It's amazing that a disney movie sparked such imaginetive play for him. Prior to this he'd rarely dressed up on his own, and only role played with lego guys.

Lavinia in a powdered wig. Not holding court or anything, just hanging out in it.

Building lego ships. This is pretty much what he does all day, or at least, it's all he wants to do.

Lavinia being cute and loving having her picture taken.

Jonas actually holding still long enough to take a picture.