Catching Up: Halloween & Trick or Tri

Despite Ben & I not exactly loving Halloween, I think we had worthy celebrations this past year!

Trip to Mr. Bone's Pumpkin Patch - Jacob clearly loved it ;)

Ward Halloween Party - Jacob dressed up like a Jack-o-Lantern and loved it

Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland

Jacob was such a trooper - stayed up with us all night!  At Disney until 10 pm!

Disneyland doesn't cut any corners.  This is all the candy we came home with!

Trick or Tri Triathlon

Before Jacob could crawl, he spent most of his day in Downward Dog

Jacob: Seven Months

Our little boy is growing up SO darn fast!

At seven months, Jacob:

- is CRAWLING!

- is PULLING HIMSELF UP to STANDING!

- is SITTING UP all on his own like a champ!

- is a super determined and curious little MOVER!

- is starting to babble a little bit

- at his six month appointment around Thanksgiving time, Jake weighed 17 lbs. 12 oz. and was 2 feet and 1 1/2 inches tall . . . around the 50th percentile and under - our little  man!

- loves to visit Disneyland with Mama & Daddy!

- loves the swing at the park

- loves, loves, loves the bath tub

- isn't super keen on baby food, but we try!

- is a B+ napper and sleeper-through-the-night

We love our little man to pieces!

Catching Up: Back in LA

I am finally getting caught back up on this blog of mine.  It has been so good to be back in Los Angeles, living in one place, and living together.  We are having so much fun as a little family of three!

Jacob was welcomed back to LA with 3 doctors appointments 3 days in a row.  He was such a doll and is a healthy little babe!  He also loved kicking the paper on the doctor's table.

Jacob reminds me of my parents' dog Oreo - crying when his toy gets stuck under the couch!

We've gone to the beach a few times.  Jacob is NOT a fan.

Doug came to visit!  Such fun!

Jacob looooves the bath tub.  Here he had just learned a new trick - rolling over IN the tub.

Jacob also looooves the swing!  This was his first time.  He smiled the whole time, until he got sleepy, and when I took him out he promptly fell asleep on my shoulder.  Not the only time he's fallen asleep in the swing.

Jake is just one of the gang!

Ben's first ever time to Disneyland!  Jacob's second.  We are loving having passes!

We took Jacob to a pumpkin patch during the Halloween season.  He was not impressed.  Neither were we!

Jake's favorite toy this fall - a big bowl of Halloween candy!  He doesn't know what it is, but he does put it in his mouth.  He's managed to get a number of them open so it's time we throw it all away.

My little yogi - Jake is always doing downward dog!  Cracks us up.

Ben competed in the Trick or Tri triathlon!

It is so fun taking Jake to the grocery store now that he can sit in the cart.  On this particular day, we were stopped by someone who works in the "industry" and told that he should be a model (that actually happens every time we go out . . or every time I open the door for the UPS man or anybody else).  The lady at the store then gave me a list of talent agencies to contact so that he can do some modeling!  Ha!

Baby food is a new adventure in this house.  We love Jakey's booster seat!

He's quite a happy fellow MOST of the time.

Grandma Molly came to visit!

As Jacob has become mobile he's gotten himself stuck in many places.

Now he is crawling and pulling himself up to standing!  Crazy!

Ben walked in just as he was swinging a leg over the edge of the crib.  Yikes!  Time to lower the mattress.

Jake is soooo cool.

And . . he looks just like me.