First Field Trip

On Thursday we went on our first field trip... to the zoo! Candice had invited us to go with her and the girls, as I had to go back to work this week and needed things to do. So Jake got all dressed up for the zoo...

...with a giraffe on his top...

...and his bottom.

He also had a zebra on his pacifier...

...ducks on his socks...

...and an elephant and turtle on his car seat.

Despite the dark clouds in the sky on the way to work that morning (had to fit this picture in here somehow)...

...we were ready to go!

Shortly after we go to the zoo, the sky cleared and it was beautiful, although hot! (Also had to fit this picture in.)

So Jake enjoyed the monkeys...

... and the bird show (which his Mama hated)...

...and rhinos...

...and elephants.

He also enjoyed the lions...

...and tigers...

...and bears. (Oh my!)

We also visited the giraffes since he had them all over.

Yay! Giraffes!

Alyssa Kate and D also had a good time.

They get along really well for being 2 1/2 years apart in age.

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And I Forgot

Jake was very happy about his first trip to church last Sunday.

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Danger, Intrigue, and Magic

"This boy is doing more than just playing a video game. He has entered another world. A world of danger, intrigue and magic..."
This is great:




I love the point that they make (that I had never thought of) that their name is the Mario Brothers, so are their names Mario Mario and Luigi Mario? Some questions just have no answers.
Favorite line from "Mario Mission Control": "Have you ever been to the mansion that has the eyeball in it?"
ALSO... Those two "secret" things I've done and/or heard of... the one with the beanstalk to the sky is nearly impossible to do without falling in the pit. I've always heard of the other one to get 99 lives but believe it's impossible without being killed by the turtle-duck, or, as I have recently found out they are called by the boys playing Mario Kart Wii, Koopa Troopa.

Who are Mario and Luigi? They are us.

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He Doesn't Quite Get It

Preface: I've always had a large number of words that I hate. I won't name any of them, so that you may not torture me with them. As I've gotten older and been around people with children, that list of words/phrases that I hate has grown to include ones related to children. They include, but are not limited to "play date," "pack 'n' play," and "tummy time." This is related to "tummy time" or as I have decided to call it "Neck-sercises."
Jake has a ridiculously strong neck, as seen in my post a few days ago. He loves to practice lifting his head when lying on your chest. Like so:

But he HATES to be on his stomach on the floor. You can see in the following pictures that he's not at all thrilled be in this situation. However, he also doesn't seem to get what part of his body he's supposed to be lifting. It's kind of hard to tell, but he's lifting the entire bottom half of his body, from the waist down. Skillz.

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First Easter

We had a fun first Easter! Here's what it looks like when you try to take a picture of a three year old, a ten month old, and a one month old. If you put them all together, everyone is looking at some point.

The cousins

Jake with his Easter basket from Mimi.

In his bigger-than-life bib. :)

Jon's family kept saying we needed to put him in the basket.

He wasn't so thrilled about it.

So he was just happy to look excited next to it.

In his super cute Easter overalls.

With his one-day-late Easter basket from Mommy.

Lots of goodies!

With his new buddy Snoopy.

Chillin'.

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One Month Old!

Jake's already a month old today! Happy Easter! Here are today's pictures with Snoopy. Not a whole lot of change since two weeks ago. He gained 12 ounces this week, after not gaining any weight the week before. We turned up the eating volume and he turned out the ounces in response.
So Jake was pretty active when taking these pictures.

I got a good first picture.

And second picture. But then he started to take off...



So I put him back where he was supposed to be:

But then he took off again...




So stinkin' hilarious!

He's in his Easter outfit, but I'll post more Easter pictures later.

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Flying Baby

This is what a 4-week-old baby with incredible neck muscles looks like:

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Aaaaaaah!

Who doesn't love fresh warm laundry straight out of the dryer?

Jake does!

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Happy April!

This is just going to keep getting further into the month every month.

Jack: The Calendar - April page

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That Peach Tree

You ready? I'm about to actually update on something I wrote about a month ago! Remember that peach tree? Well just before we went to the hospital to have the Jake, it really started blossoming and looking like this:

and this:

and this:

And now it looks like this:

and this... tiny peach buds:

and this... green leaves:

We're on our way to peaches!

We also have this other really pretty, albeit small, tree in our backyard:

Somebody told me they think it's a dogwood.

I haven't google imaged "dogwood" yet.

So I'll just take their word for it.

Pretty.

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Did You Notice?

Did anyone else notice this Creepy Weird Guy in the audience at American Idol tonight? He was just sitting there motionless, not smiling and not clapping. They showed him more than once and it was weird enough for me to think that maybe he's some kind of marketing for a new show or movie? It was just too weird.
And for those of you dying to know who my Idol favorites are this year, since I have a complete lack of posts about the topic, they are as follows. My favorites are Allison, Adam, and Kris. I like Danny, but I'm just kind of over the hype about his greatness. Scott and Anoop are my least favorites and I don't really care for Matt either. I liked Lil a lot at the beginning and actually proclaimed her the winner, but she's just not doing that great, which is sad. So that's my opinion, for what it's worth, which I'm guessing is really not much. Go Allison, Adam and Kris!

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Sweet Sleeper

Jake is so cute and sweet when he's asleep. He also does some of the funniest things with his hands and arms. Most of these are taken in my lap. (I keep my camera right next to me at all times for such occasions.)





Sleeping in his swing.

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Camouflage Baby

Can you find the baby hidden in the pictures below?



I realized the other night that he had pajamas and a blanket with the same pattern. Obviously.

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The Last Quarter... and ER

I've been planning this post for a while, and could have actually posted it back in February, I think, when it actually happened. It was on the list of things I needed to post about all at one time, but never did. So here it is now.

My brother and I both got one of these books from my mom back in my senior year of high school... 1999. (Although he somehow managed to nearly destroy his, mine is still in surprisingly good condition having been moved to 6 different living locations since then.) We were both excited to keep up with the state quarters. 2008 seemed so far away and I thought it would take forever to fill this book. It was and it did.

6ack in January, I had only one space left to fill in the book, as the Hawaii quarter came out at the end of 2008. I couldn't find it anywhere. I somehow got in the conversation about it with the boys and one day C found the long searched for Hawaii quarter on the playground at school and gave it to me when he got in the car that afternoon.

Today I remembered I had never put it in there as it was still sitting in my purse. I pulled it out tonight and shoved it into its designated hole in the book.

So beautiful and also a little sad. I've been committed to this book for 10 years now and it's finally full. It looks good.

On that same note and yet completely unrelated, don't even get me started on the sadness I'm feeling for the end of ER. I've been watching that show since EIGHTH GRADE! Fourteen years now! I grew pretty exhausted of it a few years ago, but it's really gotten pretty good again for the past couple of years. I teared up a little bit last week as they showed the preview for the finale this Thursday. It should be good and more tears are to be expected.
Back when ER had its 300th episode in 2007, I wrote a horrible Ode To ER. You can see it here if you want. I'm warning you. It's pretty bad.
Thanks for treating me well, ER. I don't know what I'll do next Thursday when you're not there! Yes I do. I'll probably watch something else I TiVo'd earlier in the night. But I'll still miss you.

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