Jacob Isaiah: 8 months

Here are a few pics from Jacob's eighth month of life!  He really began to change this month as he started to army crawl and get things that he wanted!  He began to be a better eater and until late May, would devour his baby food.  His favorite is sweet potatoes and any fruit.  He will tolerate green beans, peas, and his baby cereal, but he loves any of the orange vegetables.

He is all smiles now when we pull out the camera and loves to laugh and play with us all the time.  What a blessing God has given us!

During this month, he really started to enjoy his bath.  In the ninth and 10th months, he started to get REALLY excited about bath time.  He splashes, giggles, yells, and eats his ducks.  If he is fussy, a bath is a sure way to make him happy.  His little duck bathtub was from Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Bert and he LOVES it.  We even play with it when it is not bath time and he will crawl 1/2 way across the house to get to it!

When bathtime is over, he is borderline mad!  He doesn't like being dried off and he looks back at the bathtub like, "I was still having fun!"

Brett's Cell Phone Pics

Here are some of the cute pics that we took with Brett's cell phone from the first days of Jacob's life.  I loved the picture below with his little arms up over his head. 

Propped back like a little man for his nap!

I loved holding him and watching that sweet face as he slept.  People told me that I should enjoy that stage of sleeping b/c it would go by so quickly.  It sure did!  Since Jacob sleeps so well in his crib, I don't really get a chance to hold him while he is sleeping now.  Sometimes I ask Brett if he can get him out of the crib so I can hold him while he sleeps!

This was one of the first semi-smiles that we got!  Sweet boy!

Big Smiles! :)

Well. . . it has been awhile!  It is now June 13th and I am sitting here on the couch as our little man takes a nap!  I am officially done with the 2011-2012 school year and summer has begun!  I am so excited about getting caught up on my blogging.  I am aiming to do at least a post every day until I get caught up. . . so stay posted for more updates.  This will be much like the flurry of posts I did during my spring break like 2 months ago!  Now that I am at home for the summer, I am hoping to be much more consistent so that I can truly count this as a "sort of" baby book for sweet J baby!  Below are some of the sweet smiles we caught him doing in March!  He is wearing all the great stuff Aunt Lauren got him!

Daddy making him laugh in his high chair!  It is so funny to see the half thrilled/half scared face when daddy is saying "I'm gonna get you!!!!" 

Steph let us borrow Em's riding toy for Jacob to play with.  Although he really began enjoying it at the end of May, he really liked to sit on it as early as early April.

This pic makes us laugh because he looks like an almost one year old, but he actually couldn't sit up there by himself.

Easter with the Thompsons

One of the things we definitely miss about living in Georgia is all the family time!  Growing up, Easter was a big holiday for both of our families.  We would family hop back and forth from house to house for the family gatherings.  Since we definitely wanted to be in place at our church for Easter, we were so happy that at least one Easter celebration came to us this time!  We are really close with my first cousins on my mom's side and are super great friends.  Although we live in four different states, we have remained close as we have all become adults.  One of my cousins, Kristi, now lives very close in Durham, NC as her husband is in grad school at Duke.  She was super gracious to have us all over for Easter.  Mimi, Papa Stan, Uncle Stan, Bert, Steph, Em, Hannah, Brett, Jacob, and I all headed over to their place to celebrate together.  Mike, Ali, David, Kristi, Jay, Uncle Jimmy, and Aunt Kathy were all there to greet us (oh. . . and Birdie too!)

Mike met us at the car and whisked Jacob off to play :)

Emily and Jacob definitely entertained us.

The "blue solo cup" provided hours of entertainment for Jbaby.

Jacob loves Ali :)

Normally, in GA, we all have a big Easter egg hunt for the big kids.  Mom, Dad, Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Ann, and Uncle Bud chip in and put money in the eggs for us to find.  It is soooooo fun!  The boys almost push each other in the ditch to find the prize eggs of $20.  Since we were in urban Durham, Aunt Kathy did a modified version.  She put the money in the eggs and then let us pick the eggs that we wanted in rounds.  The boys were as violent as they were outside!!!!

Here is Em upset that she is being held back from the action.  Jacob is like, "What is going on?"

Grabbing eggs in round 2.

Round three. . . I think someone is about the get hurt!

Look at that blocking out action by Stanley and David!

Even Hannah woke up to see what all the yelling was about.

Em is like, "Please let me down!!!!!"

Last round:  only one egg per person.  This was a very agressive round!!!

Here is Em helping uncle Brett count his money.  He was worried that Em was going to take it to her daddy!  Ha!  :)

Thanks for having us Kristi!  We had so much fun sharing the holiday with all you Thompsons!

Emmy Spends the Night

The occasion for Emmy's first overnight stay was a sad one!  Little Hannah Banana had a bad eye infection and ended up having to stay the night in the hospital.  Steph and Bert had left her with us for the evening totally thinking that they would be back to get her.  After the hospital staff couldn't get the IV in Hannah's little arm (after trying 4 times), they decided to admit her so that they could monitor her after they gave her antibiotics.  Emmy and Jacob had a great

time together and were both exahusted by the time bedtime rolled around.  There was not a peep from either one when we put them down, even though Em is usually not too sure about new places.  She wanted to help with EVERYTHING about Jacob and he loved having her there.  They are the best of friends!

March 24th 2012: Army Crawling Begins

On the morning of March 24th, Jacob decided to make his first move at crawling.  We had been putting his toys out in front of him for a long time, trying to make him interested.  He had started reaching, kicking those legs, and whining for the toys, but he hadn't made any moves for them.  On Saturday morning, that changed!  He decided he REALLY wanted his toy rings and made a little scoot for them.  It was so cute!  I cannot even express how glad I was that I was home to see it!  I soooooo wanted him to start crawling on a weekend so that I wouldn't miss it!  I was smiling the rest of the day after he did it and so glad that I would have that memory forever!  Here is where he started:

And this is where he finished!  Such a big boy!  We can't believe how fast he is growing up!

So proud of myself!

A week later, he was all over the place!  We caught him scooting out of the room for his toy!

Here are some of of his favorite things to crawl to:  The Baby Einstein DVDs!

The Sound dock--as soon as we turn his music on he scoots right over :)

He also loves Emily's spinning toy!  We are so proud of you sweet boy!

Aunt Brenda's Push Toy :)

Aunt Brenda gave mom and extra push toy for our kiddos to play with.  Since Jacob didn't have one, they sent it up with Steph and Bert for Jacob to play on.  He loves it, and especially loves to make the "spinner" spin on the back of the little car.  It cracks us up that he's so big that he looks like he could just scoot around the house!  In reality, we can't take our hands off him!

Sooooo fun!

Here he is trying to get the hang of pushing it.  He would fall flat on his face if we let him go!

Having fun with daddy!