The Next Step Up

First bath in the sink: 4 days old

First bath in the big tub: 2 1/2 months old
when he didn't fit in the sink anymore.
(I didn't see the need or have the space for one
of those giant baby tubs. I got this $5 sponge thing
from Target and it's worked just great.)

First sitting up bath: 8 months old... tonight!

Experience the fun of water pouring over his head. He loved it.

The post-bath ritual: immediately eating his feet

He still pretends to be an airplane to balance sometimes.

Yummy clean fingers

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Man Time

It was a football weekend around here.

Last night Pop came over to watch the Razorback game with Daddy. Jake decided to watch some too. As you can tell, only one of them was really interested.

Today Jake took my side of the bed and watched the Cowboys with Daddy for a little while so I could take a tiny nap.

Loungin' out.

I think they like each other.

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Garage Saling

(Pardon the snot and drool. He's still sickish.)
I like garage sales. I've found good things before. But I'm not one of those people who gets up every Saturday at 6am to go to them. I get mad when I get to a sale at 11:00 and they're already closed. Especially when I made a special trip for it. Now that Jake is sitting up on his own and it's still 6 weeks until Christmas, I thought we needed to head out and look for some "floor toys". Today I found all of these and spend just $18. We have:
a taggie football that jingles
the drums that play music
phone and remote that play music
bead maze toy that plays music
story book butterfly that sings to you
stacking rings that play music
ball drop toy that plays music
and the xylophone.
Can you see a (noisy) theme here? I'll tell you that my back seat was very noisy on the drive home. I also got 6 Leap Frog DVDs for only $20. I was really excited about those.
Jake has already figured out the xylophone...


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Eight Months Old!

Jake turned eight on Thursday.

Weird thing: The pants are 0-3 months (What?!) and the shirt is 3-6 months. He usually wears 6-9 months. Dumb baby clothes sizing.
P.S. The pants DO fit. It just didn't look like it in this picture.

Cuteness.

This was the first month he didn't want to stay still.
Other than the hilarity of the one month pictures.
I still laugh every time I look at those.

The foot.

Recent happenings:

He will grab at everything now. Toys, necklaces, neck skin...

He had his first date with Lindsay, Brandie's baby.

"It's a laaaaaaady..."

He is in the extremely early stages of wanting to learn to crawl.
He has started moving his legs a little when on his stomach.
The other night he rotated himself 180 degrees.

He can feed himself a tiny bottle.
We're still working on figuring out the sippy cup.

He is finally big enough to fit in the doorway bouncer.

He had his first two sick baby visits to the doctor this month. Just after his seven month birthday and then again this week. He's doing better, but is still really stuffed up and has the same horrible cough that I have right now. It's a house o' fun around here.

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Sometimes It's Funny...

...to put Jake in the sink.

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Fall Foliage

When I went to pick up Jake today I decided to take a few more pictures of him in Candice's yard (after the ones she took in the previous post.) I didn't notice until I was finished that his collar was turned under the whole time. Sorry, Mom.

Pictures are way easier when they can sit up on their own.

I'm gonna roll down the hill!

Yes, they're the same overalls from the pumpkin patch.
I love them so much.

Cute pose? Check.

I can give myself a handshake.

Hey up there!

Biggest tree stump ever.

Oooo... mushrooms!
P.S. Check out his new kicks! Love 'em! Stride Rite, baby!

And then a car went by.

Crunchy leaves!

Mmmmm... leaves!

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More Fun With The Cousins

Jake gets to go spend three days a week with Aunt Candice and his cousins when I'm at work. Yesterday and today, Candice took some pictures of them having some fun.

He was enjoying their swingset.

He LOVED going down the slide!

It's fun to be pushed by Alyssa Kate!

Today she took them out to get some fall cousin pictures.

It's hard to get all three to smile. Or look.

"Mommy, they're heavy!" said Alyssa Kate.

We love our cousins!

Hanging with Alyssa Kate.

Sharing a leaf.

Sweet Caroline.

This is a tree.

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First World Series

Not that we supported either team, but it was important, right?

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Halloween the First

This post has way too many pictures...

Halloween Eve (Friday) we went to the big carnival up at church, basically to just roll around and show off Jake.
He was ready to go ham it up!

We saw Alyssa Kate and Caroline, the puppies, at the carnival.

Hey stroller babies!

Jake was thrilled at all of the attention he got!

Aren't we the cutest?

Gene Simmons was there.

Jake got exhausted from all of the smiling at his fans.

Back at the house.

Thing 2 likes Halloween too!

Best homemade costume ever!

On Saturday morning, Granna gave Jake his Halloween gift bag.

He was ready to look in it.

He was excited about his book, hat, plates, bowls, and Christmas ornaments. Yes. Christmas ornaments. What of it?

Mmmmm... Halloween card!

We love Halloween!

Mama-Jakey Matchey-Socky

Happy Guy

Mimi gave Jake this great Halloween shirt!

Jake loves his pumpkin patch pumpkin.

This thing is my size!

Happy Halloween, Y'all!

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My Boys

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