Bill and Miss (plus two)

Happy Halloween!  Jacob dressed up like Tigger today.  He was so adorable.  This morning after his morning nap, we got ready and went to visit Papa at his office.  We met everyone he works with and took him a treat, yummy lemon bars!  Then we went to Nani's office to say hi to her and Uncle Dave.  While there Jacob took another couple of steps a few times.  I fear that more and more steps are in our future.  It's actually really exciting though.  I really thought he wouldn't be attempting to walk until closer to his birthday, but I guess when he's ready, he's ready.

After our late morning visits we came home, ate lunch and then took another nap in preparation for another Halloween outing.  In the afternoon we went to city hall where they decorated all the office buildings and were giving out lots of candy.  Jacob scored with 5 pieces of candy.  He got a twizzler, starburst, sixlets, reeses peanut butter cup and a butterfinger.  Most of the time I told them not to give him candy, but when I saw the girl holding a peanut butter cup and butterfinger,  I kept my mouth shut and let her throw it into his pumpkin.  It was pretty warm outside, so we left his costume unzipped with the hood off.  On the way home, Jacob threw a fit.  It took me about 30 minutes to calm him down once we got home.  After a few teething tablets, he finally calmed down and took another nap. 

When he woke up, we had a quick dinner and then we were off again for our final Halloween outing.  The three of us went to our church's Family Fest.  There were TONS of kids there.  Jacob had a great time just looking around at everything that was going on.  We took a family picture, good thing they were taking pictures otherwise we wouldn't have had a family picture of this event!  Then Jacob went into the petting zoo and pet a cute goat.  He wasn't too sure about touching them at first, he was content just sitting next to one of the goats, but daddy stood him up and then he was able to feel the little goat.  He also rode on a train with mommy, we were the caboose!  After walking around a little more we were all pooped and we knew it was time to go because it was getting a little too close to bed time.

So now we are home, out little Tigger is asleep and mommy and daddy each have one candy bar to eat...I say this was a good day.  so until next time...mommy and daddy love you!

All in all, we had a fun day

I just have to say that my son Jacob is SOOOO CUTE! Well, he wasn't so cute when he woke up at 5:30 this morning, but after that he was so adorable. We played around this morning and then we had to go to Nani and Papa's house to let the guys working on their kitchen in. After that we came home, Jacob took a fairly long nap while mommy was able to get a lot of cleaning done. Then we went grocery shopping. This is the best Jacob has been while at the grocery store. I think it's because about half way through the shopping I gave him a teething biscuit. Those things are MESSY and boy was he a MESS by the time I got to the checkout. He had crumbs all over his face...literally all over his face, all over his cheeks, on his forehead, even on one of his eyelids. He had the stuff all over his hands and halfway up his forearm. The cart cover was FILTHY, but he was having a good time eating his biscuit. He was making so much noise while eating it...he was definitely enjoying it. On the way home, he had another fit and I knew his poor teeth were hurting him again. So he got some teething tablets when we got home and took another nap.

After dinner, daddy was rolling him around in his dump truck. Yes, daddy sits Jacob in the dump part of the truck and "drives" him around the family room. It's actually cute and Jacob loves it (and daddy loves it because he gets to make truck noises as he's driving it). Anyway, I was waving to Jacob saying bye-bye as he was driving past me and HE WAVED AT ME!!! This was a true wave this time...not him trying to get food off his hand. He stopped and I waved at him again and he waved back. Oh it was the most adorable thing I've every seen...I got a little teary eyed. So precious!

THEN...daddy made mommy go get him some Golden Spoon and this is when the MAJOR even occured...here's daddy to tell the rest...

Hi.  This is daddy.  So I have some really BIG news about Jacob.  About 1 minute after mommy left to go to Golden Spoon I had Jacob facing the couch as he was standing up and I called him to walk to me with my arms held out and guess WHAT???... he took 4 steps to me.  I was so excited and couldn't believe it!!!  I tried calling mommy and she forgot to take her cell phone with her so I had to save the news until her return.  So the trick for those new parents out there is to hold out your arms while being close enough to catch your baby.  Then they might just walk to you!!!!  Today is a day we'll never forget!!!  It was funny because after his last step, he got nervous and realized what he was really doing.  He then froze up and fell down.  You're cute Jacob!  So until next time...mommy and daddy love you!!!

We finally made it to church this morning.  We haven't been in a few weeks for various (poor) reasons.  Unfortunately, we weren't able to make it through the whole service.  Jacob got up this morning at about 5:45am, which then threw his morning routine off a bit.  When we left for church, he was already tired and should have been sleeping.  I was thinking I would just let him nap during the service.  Well, when we got there, he fell asleep during the worship, but only slept maybe 10 minutes, then he woke up crying...so we went into the mommy room.  He was fine there, playing with his toys (and taking other kids toys) and then all of a sudden he started crying (and pretty loud too!).  So of course I thought he was sleepy.  I tried putting him to sleep, but he kept screaming.  So I took him outside, where he calmed down a little, but then started screaming again.  I realized it was time for a bottle.  So back into the room for a bottle.  He drank a couple of ounces and started SCREAMING again.  That was it, I packed up our stuff and took him outside again.  We sat by the fountain for a little and he was okay, then the screaming started again.  He didn't want his bottle, he didn't want to sleep, he was teething.  Yesterday I saw his two upper teeth wanting to break through.  Then in the morning during his breakfast I noticed a dark blue spot on his gums over what will eventually be his right front tooth.  So we called Grandma Gloria to see what she said about it...apparently it's normal.  So I know that he is teething again.  So anyway, back to the church story...I texted daddy to tell him we needed to go.  All the way home Jacob was SCREAMING!!!!!!  He was crying so much that he started to gag himself and when we were about 2 miles from home...he gagged so much that all of his bottle came back up, onto his shirt, jeans, carseat and me!  Yuck!  Poor baby.  We got home I took off his jeans and gave him some teething tablets.  Once he took those he fell asleep for about 1 1/2 hours and then he was pretty much fine the rest of the day.  Unfortunately, we were supposed to meet one of daddy's friends for lunch (Bruce and Taylor).  So daddy had to go to the lunch alone, but then they came back to our house to hang out for a little while.  I hope those teeth come in soon.

 Yesterday, Jacob, nani and I went to "My Gym".  A new one opened up by our house and they had an open house.  So we went to check it out. Jacob had a GREAT time there.  HE was climbing up and down all over the mats there.  Of course he found a little girl to fall in love with and they seemed to keep running by eachother.  they were so cute.  He loved climing up on one of the larger mats and then climb off of it.  I thought we would just check out the place and maybe stay 30 minutes...we were there for 2 hours and Jacob was non stop the whole time.  Fortunately, Nani and I were able to get a 10 minute chair massage when we were there (but now both of us are sore today!  so much for a massage!).  Daddy was able to come for the last hour and he and Jacob had a great time climbing over everything.

 This past week Jacob and I stayed in most of the week.  Jacob was still getting over his cough and the air outside was yucky.  There were many wildfires going on in Lake Arrowhead, Orange County, by Magic Mountain and in San Diego.  It was so windy last Sunday and Monday which didn't help the firefighters.  Our house smelled like smoke on Sunday night and we weren't really close to any of the fires.  Anyway, we stayed in to make sure Jacob didn't inhale that dirty air.  Jim, Jen and Matt got evacuated from their house in SD for one night.  We were praying for them that they would be able to return to their home unharmed, and they did!

Other than that we had a pretty boring week staying inside.  This weekend was fairly good.  Jacob has been waking up VERY early...which is not pleasing to mommy and daddy.  He's been waking up somewhere between 5:30 and 6:00 am.  I'm not quite sure why.  He's been going to sleep at about the same time as usual.  Anyway, I am hoping that trend ends soon because I'm not a big fan of waking up that early!

Well, this week is Halloween and Jacob is all ready to show off his Tigger costume at City Hall during the day and then at church at night.  We can hardly wait.  So until next time...mommy and daddy love you!