Playing with Cousins

Every once in a while, Raelyn, Grady, and Clarkie will drop by after school and liven up our afternoon!  They are soooo fun and Jacob loves hanging out with them.  Jacob always drops to the floor when they come in and tries to get them to chase after him.  Clark thought that was an awesome game, so he got down on the floor to get Jacob to come after him.  Sweet cousin!

Grady decided to get in on the action too!

They thought Jacob's car table was pretty cool.  Clark might be at the perfect age to play with it for a long time!

Grady Bear trying to get Jacob's attention.

Oh how he loves them!

Keys & Recorded Books

Here is little man with "Jacob's Keys" trying to make a break for it!  I still can't believe that he knows what to do with keys since he doesn't really see us open the door that much.  EVERY time he picks up his keys he walks to a door and tries to put them in a doorknob.  He would love nothing more than to get outside!

Mom and Dad gave us a recordable book for Jacob for Christmas.  Brett and I recorded it together and J loves it!  He listens to it over and over.  For the first 24 hours, it helped us to get every meal in him!  He "read" it while we ate :)

Crib Playtime

Jacob has a precious little routine when he wakes up in the morning or from a nap.  As soon as he opens those little eyes, he starts jabbering jibberish.  Mamamama dadadad babababa et et et et.  It is super cute to listen to over the monitor.  We can tell if he is awake for good by how spirited the jabbering is.  If he is up for the morning, he starts to talk really loudly and adds some squealing in there with it!  When we walk in, we usually find something like this:

Little precious then gets a great big grin on his face and starts saying mamamamamamam or dadadadaddada depending on who walked in the door.  Then we get to the funny part.  He wants to play in his crib for a LONG time after someone comes in there to get him.  I might have started this months ago when I would throw stuff in his crib and then he would throw it back out (toothpaste, etc.)  He thought it was great fun. . . but now it has expanded to more.  He will roll, crawl, climb, and stand up and down for 10 minutes (or as long as you will let him).

Brett is able to pick him right up out of the crib whenever he feels like it, but I have no such luck.  Since my back is hurt, I have to get Jacob to stand up by the edge of the crib, I kneel down and then pick him up to where he is sitting his bottom on the edge of the crib.  Then I stand up and pull him to me so we can walk 2 steps to the changing table.  He makes it interesting b/c every time I reach in to get him to stand up, he plops his little bottom back down on the mattress and just looks up at me a laughs/smiles.

Just hanging out in my crib. . .

Look at that stinker grin!  Sylvia and George laugh so hard when then see him doing this and even Sylvia is starting to have a hard time getting him out when he is doing his antics!  Love him!

Christmas with the Roberts

As soon as we fed Jacob cereal and yogurt, we headed over to Mimi & Papa Stan's for breakfast.  Mom always cooks breakfast casseroles on Christmas morning and it is so delicious!  We kept J in his pj's because they were so cute.  Here he is finding some fun stuff at Mimi & papa Stan's.

As you can tell, Hannah Beth was a little sleepy for the festivities.  She was just about to get to go back for another nap.

Emily helping Mimi "read" the presents and get them to the right person.

Jacob loves his Uncle Bert.  He  just crawled right up there with him to snuggle.

Family shot before we dig in to presents :)  Jacob was teething as you can see he always had his fingers in his mouth.

Here he is helping Papa open some presents.  Or, maybe Papa was helping him open his presents.  I can't really remember, but it was cute :)

Brett opening one of his. ..

Here is one of the favorite toys of the year:  A Radio Flyer Wagon!  Em & Hannah got this so that they could take super fun trips to the Zoo.  Jacob might have loved it the most of all.  He probably went for 15 rides around the house on Christmas day!  Papa stan started it and the rest of us pulled them around all morning, afternoon, & evening.

Em wasn't sure about giving Hannah a turn, but she eventually let her.

Another favorite was Jacob's train table.  Em and Jacob loved it so much!

They had so much fun making the cars go all over the tracks and roads.

We decided that it would be cute to get a pic of all three of them in the wagon.  Hannah didn't think it was too funny and was reaching to get OUT!

Here they are with Hannah in tears.  Steph got her out right after this pic.

David suggested that we should start getting baby cousin pics on the couch since we would be adding to the bunch THIS JULY!  Michael and Alli are having a sweet little one in late July.  We are so excited and can't wait to have more playmates for Jacob, Em, & Hannah.

Here is a a big family shot with 6 aunts & uncles, 8 cousins, 5 spouses, 3 babies, and one in the oven!  What a fun group!

David was super sweet and let Emily and Jacob go for horsey rides.  Jacob did not want the ride to be over, but I think David's knees were about to die!

Christmas Morning!

We haven't exactly decided how/if we will be doing Santa Clause with little man, but for this year, he didn't really know what was going on anyways!  So, we decided to put out all the things hat we had gotten him for Christmas as well as all the cool stuff he had just opened at Nana & Papa's.  Here is Brett working really hard on Jacob's grill set at 12 AM.  He joked that it came in as many pieces as a real grill!

 Here is our work in progress. . . his block table, cars, new blocks, and a grill. . .

 He was a little tired Christmas morning from our long day the day before, but not too tired to grill!  He was so cute checking it all out!

 He hasn't even noticed to super tall tower that Daddy built him yet. . .

 Now he begins putting things inside the little cabinet at the bottom of the grill.

 He LOVES his polar bear book from Aunt Rachel and Uncle Clint!

 Please notice that he is sitting on one of Papa's canes as well!  That kiddo loves to walk around with his cane.

 Look at our sleepy sleepy pumpkin!  Merry Christmas sweet one!