Rocking Chairs

Chad's parents and my parents both had very similar rocking chairs when we were little. Our parents took pictures of us in the rocking chairs when we were babies. Well, now that we have Jacob and my parents still have that rocking chair we got a picture of him in it.

Here's Chad at about 7 months old...

Here's me around 13-14 months old...

Here's Jacob at 11 months old...

I just thought these were so fun! I should put them in a frame!

Random Pictures

So since I recently found the memory card reader and card adapter for my tiny phone memory card from the last 3 months...here are a few pictures of Jacob!!!

This is from July, Jacob is in his laundry basket and loving it!
These two pictures are from our July trip to Pittsburgh. My cousin Beth gave Jacob an apple!

This is from a July trip to the park.
I asked Chad to go change Jacob's clothes after some type of messy incident and he came back like this! Chad's Pitt Basketball shirt and my George Fox shorts! (July)
Uncle Jeremy got this Army shirt for Jacob and an Army bear after he completed his Leadership Training Course. It's a little big for Jacob, but he'll fit in it soon! (August)
This is Jacob with a mouth full of toast and being silly in his highchair! (August)
This is one of the many turtles we find on our morning walks. Jacob really wanted to hold it! (August)

In August, our friend from college, Dave, came to visit and we went to the zoo. Jacob liked this giraffe sculpture.
Jacob's favorite thing...climbing the stairs. (August)
Just a cute picture in overalls in August!
And here are pictures form this month...It's getting harder to get clear pictures since jacob is constantly moving! So sorry for the blurry pics!

Jacob is a climbing boy! He climbed on top of the back of the couch...crazy!This is a chair that was my dad's. It will eventually be the time out chair, like it was for my brother and I. Jacob was sitting in it, but he decided to get out right as I took the shot!

Jacob is ready to cheer on the Steelers in an outfit that was my brother's!
Jacob has 2 stuffed animals that he randomly carries around... a lion and a dinosaur.
This picture you can just see the lion's mane, but Jacob really likes him!
Here's the dinosaur...I don't know what's with Jacob's face, he was really happy!

Book shelves + Jacob = Mess

First of all, I'm sorry for lack of pictures lately. I lost my memory card reader and then found it and now I'm not sure where it is again. But I found and used different one so I have a couple pictures for all my readers (though I think that might just be my mother-in-law and aunt).

Jacob loves to crawl out to the living room/library and pull books of the book shelves! Of course, then I have to put them back in alphabetical order by author. But it's really funny. I have a video that I hope to edit and put up as well.

Here a couple pictures of him caught in the act. He is either going to love reading or want to be involved in demolition (which he is already good at!).

Oh and Jake currently has a cold, pray that it gets resolved really soon.

First Steps!

Jake has made his first few steps the last few days! He's not really walking yet, but he's getting more confident in not holding on to things! I can stand him up in front of me and he will walk 3-5 steps to get to me! Today he was holding onto our papasan chair and was a little bit away sitting on the floor and he let go and walked 3 steps to me.

So any day now he will realize he can really walk!

My life is about to get crazier! Whoohoo!

Fall?

The last two mornings on our walks, Jake, Morgan, and I have enjoyed the smallest taste of Fall weather. I love the Fall. It is my favorite season with Winter at a very close second. I think I've posted my reasons before. I have greatly enjoyed the just warm enough in the sun and cool in the shade feeling! However, we live in North Carolina so I am not getting hopes up that this will last and get cooler soon...I think it's supposed to be back in the mid to upper 80s next week.

But this glimpse of the coming Fall has brightened my spirits! I can't wait!

Snoops

Today, my family dog, Snoops, went to doggy heaven. She was born February 3, 1996 in Pennsylvania. My dad and I brought her home to our house in New Jersey in April that year. She lived a long life for a Basset Hound, 13 and a half years. She was a good dog, well except when she was stealing food from the counters. She stole and ate pizza crusts, loaves of bread, meat, anything she could from the counters. She loved to try to get into the trash. She would come running the second she heard a bite being taken out of an apple. She had a beautiful basset howl. She loved to sleep and eat! She curled up beside me in my bed to help calm my nerves the night before I went to college for the first time, before I went to Africa, and before I went out to Oregon for college. She was a woman's best friend! She will be dearly missed. We love you Snoops.

Here is a typical picture of her from this past year belly up soaking in the sun!

Short little story

Sorry it's been a while. Quick update...Jake has 2 teeth.

Our awesome friend Dave from college, George Fox University, came to visit for a few days this week. He lives in north eastern Washington (the state) and rode his motorcycle to Colorado to visit Travis and Eva-Lynn (from GFU) and then to Arkansas to visit Dane (from GFU too) and then to see us! He is then going to NY, Milwaukie, Colorado again, then California for Dane's wedding. It was so great to see him. Such a blessing to see a close friend who we haven't seen in a long time!

We decided to all go to the zoo. It was a lot of fun. We just walked around talking, looking at animals, and Dave took pictures. The trip was pretty normal until we were standing the African bird dome thing. We were standing right at a railing that looked down at a little pond while Dave took pictures of a Scarlet Ibis. Chad was holding Jake when...Jake grabbed his hat and trew it over the railing into the water! We stood there trying to figure out what to do. There were signs everywhere saying "DO NOT THROW THINGS IN THE WATER!" Well, Jacob can't read! I took Jake and Chad went over the railing and retreived the hat! It was pretty funny though. Jake had been the hat all day and had not touched it at all until the exact moment when it would make the most trouble!

Anyway, we had a blast with Dave and hope to somehow see more of our friends from college soon...we don't have plans to go to see them, but we desperately want to!

I will try to post some more pictures soon.