Just Like My Brother

I love my brother, I like to follow him all over the condo and try to do what he is doing.  Some times by brother just tryes to get away.....

Karoly Playing at the Fielder's

While Mama works hard!

Oh the games we play......

Jacob did this today for ten minutes after dinner. The best part is under the first pillow is his trains (his favorate toy) After every jump he checked on them to make sure they were ok.

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Jacob's New Hair!

new addition to the family

Karoly Marie Hanzeli was born on Sunday the 12th at 10:26am. Robin & Karoly were very thoughtful of others as I asked her to wait till the end of the week and our friend Mike wanted her to wait till Sunday so I could help with a yard project of his. She was born at Group Health in Seattle, coming out perfectly at 6 lb 5oz and 19 inches long. Both she and mom are doing very well.

Catchin' up...again

I know I said awhile ago that I was going to try to be better with keeping things up to date on the blog. Obviously, I've failed miserably. However, I finally got a bunch of pictures off the camera so here we go with one more try.

In March, we took a little family vacation to Ocean Shores. Now, I know you're probably thinking that we had completely lost our minds visiting the coast in March, and trust me, the weather that weekend was terrible and we weren't able to get out to the beach to let Jacob run around. However, the beach has never been the reason we make a yearly trip to Ocean Shores.

Nope, that honor falls to the food, or more specifically to the dessert, at a little Irish pub called Galloway Bay. They have the most amazing caramel whiskey sauce ever which they happen to serve over a yummy bread pudding. According to Ian, dessert alone is worth a drive to Ocean Shores and back. While the food is amazing, I tend to like a weekend away too.

Anyway, with the weather being awful, Jacob got to spend a good amount of time with Daddy in the hotel pool. He absolutely loves the water, though he still won't let us turn him over onto his back. By the time the weekend was over, he was getting pretty good at dog-paddling and kicking. Of course, his favorite game was to get out of the pool, walk around with me to the deep end, and "jump" to Daddy. We tried hard to teach him to actually jump, but he stubbornly refused. Apparently, he prefers to sit down at the ladder and wait for Ian to throw him up in the air before splashing him down into the water. Maybe, we'll have better luck this summer.

Jacobs New Trick

So last night Jacob showed us his new trick. He proved to us that yes, he can climb out of his crib! Doing a pull up on the side rail, he swings his leg over and slides over the rail. The amazing part is that he can do it very very fast, and perfectly silent. So today his bed was upgraded from crib, to toddler bed!

Here i am giving it a test nap!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Jacob would like to say "Happy Valentine's Day!" to all his friends and family.

He had a great time decorating cookies. Surprisingly, though he only had a small bowl of M&Ms to begin with, most of the candy actually made it onto the cookies instead of into his mouth.

Kitchen Play Time

Here is some kitchen Play time!

The Christmas Kitchen

This year, Grandma and Grandpa Dugal got Jacob a play kitchen for Christmas. here he is opening it!

The Quick, Quick Version

Soo...as I believe we promised way back when when we started, we haven't been very good about keeping up with this blog. Of course we tell ourselves that we are going to start aiming for at least weekly updates, but who knows how long that will last. Anyway, before we get started on that, we figured some catch-up is in order. Here's the quick version of what we've been up to the last few months.

Eating pasta on our own

Destroying birthday cakes

A quick nap with Teddy (and yes, those are the pasta stains from the first picture)

Helping Mom plan our Costco trip

Working on my gamer skills

Helping with laundry

Napping in the exer-saucer while Dad gets in the shower

Hangin' with my buddy, Jack

Meeting my new cousin, Matthew

Hangin' with the Hanzeli men after Matthew came home

Discovering bubbles with Auntie Tricia

Generally being too rediculously cute!

Climbing

It has become painfully obvious how well Jacob can climb now. Stepping from mommies violin, to the tool table, to the boxes, all to look at the view. Whats that? you wana climb Rainier next????

Like Father...Like Son

Jacob, just like his dad, doesn't like to do anything "normal"...not even bath time...

More Summer Fun

A Visit From Hungary

In August, we had some of Ian's relatives visit from Hungary. We stayed with them when we were in Hungary and it was nice to see them again and introduce them to Jacob. Amid many sightseeing trips, we managed to get together with them (and the rest of the Hanzeli clan) at a BBQ at Nana and Papa's. Jacob was a big hit and he didn't seem to mind the extra cuddles either : )


Jacob hangin' with Ian's cousin Gyozo and his girlfriend Anna. Anna was pretty fond of Jacob. Gyozo might have some competition.


Jacob and Daniel fighting over strawberries as Agi tries desperately to keep the bowl out of Jacob's reach. Sorry kiddo...no strawberries yet : (

Finally the whole Hanzeli clan...well almost. Ian and his cousin Trevor were in Spokane visiting Gonzaga (Go Bulldogs!) and another cousin, Alex, was busy too. Only three missing...not bad.

A Visit from Belgium...Rome...San Diego...Tucson?

In early September, we had some very good friends, the Andersons, come into town from...well, just about everywhere. They used to live in Issaquah, but over the years they've all moved away : (. Justin got married last May to a wonderful Belgian woman named Delphine and the family were all in town to celebrate the wedding with their Seattle friends. It was also a lot of fun to introduce Jacob to the Andersons. We had such a great time meeting Delphine and her brothers and we are so truly happy for Justin.

The day after the party, we took everybody out on Lake Washington for some cruising and tubing. We were a little worried about how Jacob would do on the boat, especially because there were a lot of really big waves that day. Jacob decided to put all our fears to rest though by laughing as we bounced over the big waves and, shortly after we started, passing out on Mom's lap, life jacket and all. In fact, his biggest complaint that day was the bright sun (see the pictures) so we kept his hat completely over his eyes. Thanks Kate for the pictures. We miss you!

"Hey, who turned on the lights?"

"Still too bright out here!"

Eventually he burrowed himself into his life jacket. I think he looks like a little turtle trying to hide from the sun.

Playing Catch-up

Well, we warned you from the beginning that there were no promises as to how often we would update the blog, but we do really need to do better. Here's what's been happening the last month and a half...

Yum...

Jacob had his first official meltdown about a month ago. We were sitting down to eat dinner and he dicided that sitting on Mom's lap and trying to keep her from getting any food in her mouth just wasn't good enough. He wanted the food in his mouth. Long story short, we weren't able to finish dinner until after he had gone to bed. The next day he got his wish and quickly finished off a bit of rice cereal and then he let us eat dinner in relative peace. Since then, he's had a bit of baby food at dinner most nights. His favorites so far: squash, pears, green beans, and prunes. Thankfully, he hasn't really disliked anything except carrot and avacado. At least he'll eat some vegetables. That's more than we can say for Dad : )

Mmm...prunes

He had about a tablespoon of carrots before deciding to spit the rest out and clamp his mouth shut. To be perfectly honest, we don't mind not having the bright orange stains to get out of his clothes.

Just Playing

Apart from other things, Jacob loves to play in his exersaucer and on his playmat. Mom loves the exersaucer because she can finally do some dishes or ...dare we say it...cook dinner while Jacob stays entertained. It's great!

"Hi Mom!"

"I was busy chewing on my toy. Did you want something?"

For some reason we can't get this picture to stay rotated, but we had to post this picture. Jacob is a pretty smiley baby (yay!) and this is definitely one of our favorite pictures of his smile so far.

By the by...were having issues with the font size...guess you wont need glasses to read this one. :)

Sitting like a big boy...well, kind of

Jacob loves to try and sit up striaght whenever he's in his car seat or the bouncer. In fact, he's getting pretty good at it, so we decided it's time to finally get some pictures of him sitting on the couch like a big boy. Here are the results...

So far so good...

Uh oh...found the toes

We're thinking it's a lost cause when he begins to list to the side

We'll you can't say we didn't try. There's always next week : )

It's Just Hot....

So this week we have been doing whatever we can to stay cool.....going for long drives (gas is still expensive!) walking throught malls, exloring any, and every, place that has AC. Even still...It's just hot....

Just Some More Pics

Well, it's been a while since we've posted anything so we're playing catch up. Here's what's been going on the last few weeks...

Jacob likes hanging out with Dad on the couch. Incidentally, he's recently discovered that it's great fun to hold on to his toes.

Finally, Jacob gets some much needed sleep, cuddling with his giraffe, Spots. He's been so miserable in the heat and this was his first good nap in about 2 days. Mom didn't know what to do with 1 1/2 hours of free time.

Jacob loves bath time, especially now that he has learned he can play tug-0-war with Mom using the washcloth. He's also figured out how to splash Mom so she's as wet as he is by the time he's clean.

We joined a bunch of our friends at their house on Lake Joy for the 4th. Jacob's too young to enjoy the lake this year, but that didn't stop him from enjoying haning out on the dock with Mom and Dad.