Silly Me, but vote!

Ok so my good friend Katie told me that she entered Maggie in the Regis and Kelly beautilful baby contest, and suggested to enter my little guy in it too, I know what your thinking, Jake will win easily but i need your opinion see i took some great shots of him and can't decide which ones to enter! (insert laughs here)

Christmas

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Notes on Jake

Finnaly i'm back on line and after reading all of my friends blogs realized that i haven't written much about our little guy in a while.

So an update on jake.

*He has learned to get where he wants to go, over christmas in michigan he learned to roll roll roll to get where ever he wanted to go, and of course is also trying to crawl, and usually after being on all fours and rocking back and forth for a little while he'll drop to his elbows and army crawl/push his but up in the air and worm his way around.
*He understandably hates his car seat and will arch as strongly as he can to prevent getting buckeled in. Too many 12 hour drives back and forth to mississippi might be to blame.
*Jake is very tickelish and loves to giggle when ever you come near him with tickeling fingers.
*He is babbleing more and his favorite thing to say is Ra Ra RAAAAA.
*I'm afraid with our moving back and forth he's not the best sleeper and can put up quite a fight when he thinks he's not ready. Our pediatrition suggested keeping him up until 9 and getting him really tired to aleviate this. I think our little guy just doesn't want ot miss the party. We're currently trying everything we can to not loose our minds with all of the night wakings but will hope to update and throw a party for that matter when sleep returns to our house. Knowing that we might just have to wait till michigan for this to happen. Since the move back and forth might be throwing him off - new room and crib and all.
*He's eating 2 solid meals a day and so far he's likeing most of it but isn't always sure that he wants to eat when we'd like him to, he's great at sealing that little mouth shut.
*With his new sence of freedom of movement he can easily get frustrated when he bangs his head on something because he can't crawl under the TV stand to get a box, or crawl out of his crib. He doesn't seem to be sure why his head hurts after he bangs it and will go right back to it when put back down.
*We love him very much and can't wait until we know more about what is going on inside that little head of his. His mood swings from happy to sad to happy are mesmerizing and baffeling to this stay at home mom.

Santa - I love Santa!

Ok maybe this picture doesn't capture it but he did seem to enjoy the meeting. When asked Santa reported that he and jake had a long conversation about what he'd like for Christmas - he said he talked his ear off! Got to love a funny mall santa! Yet the little boy before Jake did have a "Sammy esk" experience So santa must not be that good! He he! We're headed home on friday so we hope to see some of you while we're there but till then we'll be blogless! Ho Ho HO!!!

If you have a minute check out this video, it was a couple of weeks ago when jake was just starting to try to crawl? Judge for your self but he's picking up his little booty and everything!! So proud!

Carrots?

This picture is a bit deceiving it seems that after just 5 bites of unprotested spoon fulls of carrots, my little guy decided they were disgusting!

On that 6th bite he closed one eye and quivered his head as i would after a sip of mint julep! (oh how i want to go to the derby again) They were his official first real food so i've got high hopes that the next one goes better. Today i decided to make it easier and just spike his cereal with a little carrots and again the first few bites were fine but then it was back to the one eyed head quiver! Too funny!

This is our happy guy in his Adored red outfit which he loved because it is a hooded, and footed, head to toe outfit so lots of ends to chew on. Oh how excited he is when he finds his toes and then gets to keep chewing on his outfit long after he's lost the actual toes!

The Coast

Jake at tom O'Brians in New Orleans. He just wanted to hold the Hurricane. To bad we didn't run in to Jocelyn they could have shared a shared a juice! On the beach in Biloxi. It was 65' but a bit windy.

How is it possible for our little guy to cry for hours at night and still wake up this happy! Its like he doesn't even remember! Lucky little shit! Jake's had a few rough nights where he wakes up and for about 15 min just crys and doesn't open his eyes. Chris sometimes will wake him up and as soon as his eyes open he's better. I just pace the house until its over. Maybe he's dreaming of Sammy's santa. During the day however he's the happyest camper, he loves his jumper of course but also any chance for someone to hold him or help him stand and he'll giggle like mad if you find one of his tickel spots!

Jump Jump

Just a quick note to share a few more cute pic's. of our little boy. First I'm afraid jake went through the cutest tounge sticking out phase and i didn't get enough pictures of it! Except this first one when we're tailgating at the Alabama game. Which by the way i think all football lovers need to go to a southern game. The fan support is amazing and the sound level so much fun.

Here is a quick one of him loving his jumper too.