Chop Chop

On the weekends Marc makes coffee. His coffee maker grinds the beans and sometimes the noise makes Jacob cry. Today Jacob was sitting on my lap watching Marc make the coffee. When the grinding started Jacob looked a little worried so Marc explained to him what was happening. Marc said the coffee maker was chopping up the coffee beans and then he kept saying "chop chop chop" over and over again while making his hands chop up and down. Jacob thought this was the funniest thing in the world (even as funny as the word poopy). We tried to get a video of him laughing about it but once he saw the camera he was distracted. Here is one attempt to get it on video.



You can tell it is morning, Jacob still looks sleepy :)

A trip to the park

About a 3 minute drive down the hill from our house there is a great, huge park that has beach access, hiking trails, playgrounds, a big salt water pool, and a perfect wading pool. We go for lots of walks at this park and yesterday we went to play! Jacob had to do more swinging!! The pictures where he has big smiles are because he is going HIGH!! Can you see his crazy hair blowing in the wind???

Just because...

Story Time

This weekend was so nice and sunny we thought we needed to get out for a walk so we loaded Jacob in the stroller and walked to story time at Barnes and Noble. This was a bit different than the story time I take Jacob to at our library. The library story time is just for babies and we sit in a circle with the babies on our laps and sing songs, play with scarves and jingle bells, and the librarian reads a couple of big books. Jacob loves it!
But this story time was different. It was for kids of all ages and they only read one book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", but Jacob seemed to like it anyway. We were amazed at how focused he was on the book, paying attention and sitting in his little chair!

Swinging for the First Time

All bundled up and ready to try to out the swing at the park...


Yep, he likes it. We think we might have dare devil on our hands! The higher and faster the better.

Check out the action and hear what Jacob has to say about his first time on a swing!

Aunt Becky

Jacob's Aunt Becky came to visit! She was great fun to play with and a good baby sitter when I went to work on Wednesday. Here are a few pictures of her visit and a few she took of Jacob while they were playing.

Photo shoot

Later this month my (Susannah) Grandma, Jacob's Great-Grandma, turns 90! My parents are going to DC to celebrate with her but we can't go. So we made a Happy Birthday sign and had Jacob "hold" it while we took pictures. We got a few good shots before he started eating it. And yes, he is sitting up all by himself!!

Floating Hair

I remember laying in the tub with my hair floating around me when I was little ( maybe 5 years old). Jacob has so much hair that he can do it at 7 months :) Here a few pictures of his floating hair during his last bath.

And of course he HAS to eat his toes in the tub- at least they are clean!