Black Friday

We love Black Friday. This year the outlet mall in Foley opened at midnight Thanksgiving night - we had plans to be there at midnight, but that didn't happen. So, instead we went early Friday morning. Jacob did so well all day shopping.
Then that evening, Jacob & Sophia took pictures together - I'll post those as soon as I get them.

After pictures, we went to Bellingrath Gardens with Leon, Karrie, Sophia, Tony, Leah, & all of Leah's family to see the Christmas in Lights. http://www.bellingrath.org/
It was really beautiful and Jacob loved it. But, he fell asleep about 45 minutes into the walk around the gardens, he tried to stay awake as long as he could.
I got a couple of pictures before he fell asleep.

Leon, Karrie & Sophia

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving morning - Nonna & Pop gave Jacob a present to kick off the holiday season.

Here he is looking like - "what do I do with this?"

"Hmmm - do I play with the Grinch or Max?"

For Thanksgiving, we went to Tony & Leah's house. Leah did a wonderful job with Thanksgiving dinner and we had a really great time. I didn't get any pictures while I was there. I just completely forgot!!

Winter Day

Last Sunday, Nov. 19, my neighbors were out in the cul-de-sac playing, so Jacob & I went outside to join them. It was like a winter day here - weather in the low 50s but windy, so it felt mucher colder. I wrapped Jacob up and put him in the neighbor's wagon - he absolutely loved being outside especially since he's been sick and stuck in the house.

Jacob & Sara

Jacob looking at Hannah like she's crazy!!

9 months

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.

I was out of town for 4 nights - the first time I spent a night away from Jacob.

It was really hard - but thanks to Nonna (my mom) for keeping Jacob over that time period.

It wasn't easy, especially since he got sick (cold and now ear infections).

On Nov 16, Jacob turned 9 months old!!!

It's getting harder and harder to get him to sit long enough for a picture so there are very few.

Here are his 9 month pictures with Pluto.

Happy Halloween

Jacob has started attending the watermelon patch (www.thewmpatch.com).

It's a play school for children 0 -5 years of age.

He loves it. He has a scheduled class on Wednesday morning where they have activities for his age group. His nonna takes him to class. They also have open play through out the week and they go play just about every day. He can play by himself and climb on stuff.

Last Monday (Oct 30), they had a Halloween Party.

We took Sophia with us also.

Here are some pictures of them.

Jacob as Yoda

Yoda (Jacob) and Hermione (Sophia)

Check out Jacob's feet!! He did that on his own - I didn't cross them. That is how he sits now.

The party was Sophia's first visit to the patch. As soon as we got there, she started taking off her costume - there was just too much to do and her costume was in the way. Jacob sat around for a little while - there were tons of kids every where. Then he wanted to start playing also, so I took off his robe, but left on the head piece. Here are some pictures.

On Halloween night, we went to Tony & Leah's house for trick or treating. Jacob ate pizza for the first time and had a lollipop also. (It was Halloween - what could I do)

He wasn't very happy Halloween night for some reason - every time I put him down, he cried. So, it was really hard to get any good pictures of him, but I tried.