Happy Thanksgiving

This was Jacob's first Thanksgiving. We had it at my parents house which was nice for everyone as they are kind of in the middle of us all. I probably should have taken more picutes of the rest of the family, but that did not seem to happen. Here is the trurkey that the men folk cooked outside in the deep fryer, while the women folk cooked all the sides in the house.

Jacob tried some mashed potatoes and grandma Lynn's cornbread stuffing. He has been eating more and more big people food, but he is still eating some stage 3 baby food. We are lucky that he is a good eater.

Mmmmmmmmmm..........Sweet taters! Even though Mommy and Daddy both don't like sweet potatoes, we still let him try it. Right now he likes them!

After we ate we walked down to the park becasue it was such a beautiful day. Well the women folk and the kids went to the park, while the men folk stayed home and watched football.

Jacob really liked the swings! This was his first time in a big swing! As you can see, he had a blast!

Grandma Lynn wanted to take him down the slide so we made her go up there first.

She decided it might be too hard to get up there with Jacob in her arms and get down the slide in once piece. So she decided to come down off the slide.

So this is her "fake" I am coming out of the slide picture. I am probably going to get in trouble for posting these pictues, but I think they are funny and cute. My mom is a good sport and loves her grandbabies!

This is a cute picture of Jacob and his two cousins Jack and TJ. They love baby Jacob!

The smaller slide was a little easier for Grandma Lynn to manage!

This is Jack showing off his mad skills! He is a good climber!

Jacob had a great time playing in the grass. It was a new texture for him so he thought it was fun to pull out the grass and of couse try and eat it. Grandma Lynn was good at keeping him from eating the grass!

I love this picute of TJ who is now 13. This picture of him reminds me of my dad! My dad has always been an avid hiker and out doors kind of guy. We have many picutes of my dad up in trees much like this one.

I think this is super cute. TJ is looking at the camera, Jack is looking one way and Jacob is looking the othter! Just like a bunch of rotten boys!

In the Big BathTub

Well we decided it was time to move bath time upstairs into Jacob's bathroom. Bath's in the sink are a lot easier on our backs, but he was getting a little big for the sink and getting water everywhere when he splashed and played. I thoguth he might enjoying having a little more water and toys to play with in the big tub.

And I was right, Jacob loves bath time which is great. He thinks sitting on Mr. Alligater is pretty cool! You can still see the cotten in his ears from his ear surgery, so we still have to be carefull about getting water into them. But it was an easy transition from the sink to the tub. Someone is getting to be a big boy!

Bath Fun in the Sink

There is something so cute about a baby taking a bath in the sink! Of course it helps when you have a kid as cute as ours is!

Also it helps when mommy does funny things to the baby's hair! This is like a little oompa-loompa curl on top of his head. You can also see the cotton sticking out of his ears from his recent ear surgery. We had to be careful not to get water in his ears.

Jake was splashing around so much and having such a great time that I think it is time to move to the big bath tub! He seems to be getting a little bit big for the sink. Water was everywhere!

Jacob Get's Tubes

As many of you know, Jacob has had several ear infections starting when he was two months old. It has been something we have battled with for months and months. After having 7 ear infections, two of which were double the Dr finally let us get tubes. Today was surgery day and this is the only picture I took before the procedure. The procedure does not take long, but for the parents it feels like forever. Jacob was a bit out of it when when we went back to get him, but after we got him home and he slept off the rest of the anesthesia, he was fine. Thank goodness everything went well and we have not had any ear trouble since! The tubes were just what he needed!