Walking the distance

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche




If you look for the truth outside yourself,
it gets farther and farther away.
Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.
It is the same as me, yet I am not it.
Only if you understand it in this way will you merge
with the way things are.
- Tung-Shan




Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~Edward Abbey




Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown

A cure for your winter blahs

Hi ya folks,

Djangy Spangy here with a reminder to everyone that although it is February and the blah, blah, blahs can get you down, remember that life is all about finding creative ways to stay one step ahead of things. Take for instance my desire to be tall and reach new heights. When faced with an obstacle ( in this case, my inflatable fun-tube) instead of crying and having a fit, I simply stepped up and 'rose' to the challenge.

So when your feeling low just check this pic of me, smiling like the happy, golden pisces fish that I am...



So the moral of this fish tale is to keep smiling and remember that the vernal equinox is just 4 weeks away!

Snow Prince

Hello again,

Here are a few 'cool' shots of me playing in the snow after the big set of winter storms we have had in Toronto.





Baby, it's cold outside!

Jonah :)

New Updates

Hey everyone,

Greetings from Frankelsell central. As you can well imagine, life is good and I'm growing like a weed, getting surprisingly slimmer and learning new moves everyday. My latest developments include joyful expressions of clapping, waving and high-fives. I also can feed my mom and my appetite for food rivals Dad's. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree where hollow legs are concerned. I also tend to go down for naps and bedtime with less fuss and I pay really good attention during story time.

The excitement is also building for my upcoming birthday on Feb 28th. The plan on the actual day is to honour an old Cowall (Nana's side) family ritual. Mom will bake me my own little cake (with not too much sugar) and I'll strip down to my diaper and eat the entire thing while making a complete mess and flapping my arms around. It should be pretty awesome.

We are also planning a party the following weekend and all my little friends and their Moms/Dads as well as various family members will be in attendance. What fun!




For those of you that can't be with us to celebrate, we'll photograph and possibly take some video of all the various birthday events and post it here on the blog in March. Speaking of posts, I have failed to live up to my promise from nearly a month ago to put up some pics from my trip to England/Isreal. Truth is, the files got misplaced. So bare with me. Once this birthday stuff is over, Dad and I are planning a series of postings to highlight my fave moments and memories from the first year of my life. Stay tuned.

I hope your having a great day where you are.

Love Jonah :)

Dinner with Grandpa Ken and Diane

Hey everybody,

Well this Saturday past, we had a surprise visit from my Grandpa Ken and his partner Diane. We had a lovely time, hanging out, eating dinner and catching up. The first few times I met Ken, I wasn't sure where I recognized him from. But on this vist, it suddenly made sense to me, he's my Dad's Dad. So now that I've figured it out, I'm really happy to be getting to know him and look forward to more visits with them both.

At one point, Diane was nice enough to read some books with me.



She had such a nice, soothing voice and I sat like a good boy and followed along.



I also really bonded with Grandpa and he was great to play with.



As always, it's great to visit with family. We had a ball!

:) Jonah Django

The fight for Sophie

As some of you kids out there know by now, there is this wonderful, soothing toy from France called Sophie Giraffe. The other day, my buddy Zain dropped by for a play date and we ended up having a little tug of war with MY Sophie. Here are the pictures to prove it.

Zain: "Can I have a look, please?"
Jonah: "Not now Zain, can't you see I'm busy?"



Zain: "Jonah, come on. You've had Sophie for a long time now."
Jonah: "Can't you look with your eyes and not your hands?"



Zain: "It looks just like mine and I'm not letting go!"
Jonah: "It's my toy, my house, my Sophie and I'm not letting go!"



In the end we both left Sophie behind. Toys made of natural rubber are so overrated!

:) Jonah

Curly Top

This picture is going out to Auntie Shona, Uncle Mike and cousin James in sunny California!



We love you and miss you all very much. You are an inspiration to us all. You folks rock!

Love Jonah, Darcy and Lucy