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.

Baptism!!

Last Sunday, Jacob entered the Catholic Church with his baptism at St. Monica's. Just to make sure everyone knew that he was there and in charge of the day, about two minutes in to the baptism, at a perfect lull, a massive explosion emerged from his underworld blowing out of his diaper all over the inside of his new gown. Amazingly this didn't seem to bother him until about five minutes before the end. He was even willing to smile when he got the holy water poured over him (probably reminded him of bath time)...Thank God for white blankets