10 Months Old!

Jacob turned 10 months old yesterday! He's having a busy few days. Grandma B. is visiting for a couple of days. Mommy is getting a lot done around the house! As for the fun stuff, we went to Crystal Beach yesterday, and Jacob met up with one of his little friends from our playgroup. It was a really nice day for the beach, but it started to get windy so we went home. Jacob fell asleep in the car on the way home, and Mommy woke up him up getting him out of the car. If it hadn't been so warm, he could have stayed in there. So, I messed up his nap and got overtired. We survived the day though, and he eventually did take a nice long nap with Grandma.

Today, I did some more work around the house, and Jacob has played, and played, and played. I think Grandma might be wearing him out! They're both having fun though. Tomorrow, Grandpa B. is joining us, and we're going over to Daddy's work to have lunch.

Jacob is starting to recover from his cold. He still has a runny nose, but I think the end is in sight. He is still really enjoying cruising around the house. He will climb up on anything, and he will even hold on with just one hand, or even let go. He can stand by himself for a few seconds before he loses his balance! He will now walk around holding onto our hands, and is pretty good at it. Sometimes it seems like he is barely holding on. I think he's very determined to learn to walk. He's still eating really well, too. New foods lately have been cottage cheese, veggie chicken nuggets, and zucchini. He likes them all. He wasn't crazy about cottage cheese, but he likes it mixed with applesauce.

Time to go! Mommy and Daddy are going out to eat tonight, so I better be ready when he gets home.

Poor Jacob

I don't have any new pictures right now, but I haven't updated for awhile so I wanted to do that. For the past week, I've been dealing with a snotty-nosed baby. Literally--poor Jacob got his first cold. He started off sneezing a lot and rubbing his nose, and then it started to run like a faucet. Sometimes I couldn't tell whether he had drool or boogers running off his chin. Yuck. He barely lets me near him with a Kleenex, much less the nose-sucker thing, so I couldn't help him out very much. Now, after almost a week, his nose is less runny but I think it's starting to stuff up. He's battling this cold pretty well, and hasn't seemed too miserable. I would probably be more broken up over "my baby's first cold" if he hadn't had all those tummy issues when he was 1-2 months old. I think that was way worse than this.

We spent Saturday over at Uncle Mike and (soon-to-be) Aunt Katie's house. They had a pool party, and it was a nice hot day for it. Grandpa and Grandma Schoenbauer brought a little pool for the kids to play in. Jacob took a few dips in it, and even went in the big pool with Daddy for a little bit. He also liked sitting at the edge of the pool and kicking the water. He took one nice, long nap in the afternoon, and when he woke up he watched the "big kids" (adults) play with a ball in the pool and make lots of big splashes. He thought that was pretty funny. For supper, in addition to his yummy banana, he ate some of Mommy's cheeseburger and bun. He had his eye on my pop can the whole time, just in case I felt like sharing.

We have a busy week planned, so hopefully I can pop in later with some new pictures and fun stories!

New Slideshow!

Hot off the presses! Check it out (under the Photo Slideshows heading at the left).

Jacob's Pool Party

We had a busy weekend. On Saturday, Jacob and I went to my friend Mandy's baby shower. She is due in early August, and Jacob is very excited to meet his future new friend, who will be named Ethan. He was a very good boy at the shower, of course. When we got home, Tom had gotten a lot of yard work done, so we all relaxed outside for the rest of the day. We went to Fuddrucker's for dinner and ate outside. Jacob ate a few small bites of my cheeseburger and fries (the slippery slope has started).

On Sunday, it was really warm again and Jacob got to try out his new pool! We spent the entire day outside. Jacob would have liked to crawl around on the grass, but the ground is so hard that it seemed to hurt his knees. We ate lunch and dinner outside on the patio. By late afternoon, Jacob was all tuckered out and fell asleep in my arms.

I'll have to be sure to take these pictures down before he runs for public office, so there isn't a nudity scandal. He has little swim trunks, but we figured it's his pool and our backyard, so why not let him get some fresh air on his bottom? He gave us a good laugh by crawling around the pool in circles. His little bare butt was so cute.

I think that's it for our big weekend. Oh, here's a random item: we ate pancakes one night last week, and Jacob loved them. I guess I'll have to make those a lot! Also, I added 4 new videos!!!

Back by popular demand

As my friend Kelly so kindly pointed out, I haven't posted in awhile. We've been busy with playgroup and all the fun outings that go along with it (and not sleeping, thanks to tooth #8). I still haven't had a chance to finish his slideshow, either. Can I get a nanny? Or, at the very least, a housekeeper?

Kneeling, one of his newest moves

"Look at all my teeth!"

Playing at an indoor playground

Getting buried in the ball pit

Oh no, there are two of him! Or maybe he just found himself in the mirror.