We are thankful!

Happy Thanksgiving!

There is so much we are thankful for.

1. Our beautiful little boy
2. a wonderful family
3. good jobs
4. a New house
5. a healthy family
6. of course great friends!
7. and so much more!


MMMM...dinner


Sharing with Daddy


Using a spoon, but...


Eating with hands is easier


A quick and messy game of Peek-a-Boo


or "pissaboo"


OK! Im Done!


We went to the Military Aviation Museum today, I think I have blogged about it before. Its a really cool place with WWII planes that are refurbished and fly. Today they had a model train show and Santa! We missed Santa though, and Jake isnt big enough to care yet.
Right now he LOVES trains and planes so he had a great time.

He is so funny because when he really likes something, he doesnt really get excited, he gets really intense and studies it. Thats why he is so serious in these pics!

Yeah-- he wore his train conductor outfit!






Watching the plane warm up with PopPop


Getting ready to take off


The plane started then stopped, if you look, Jake is signing "more"


Very focused on the plane


Down the runway


I think all generations enjoyed this!


Playing around in an old Army Jeep

ooosh-shis and paaanes

Jake is really starting to develop his vocabulary. It seems like he is picking up new words almost every day. He is copying a lot of what we say also.
So i realized I have to stop saying " MOEY SHUT UP"!! and have changed to "MOEY PLEAAASE BEEEE QUUIITTE" lol.

here is a list of his words

bye-bye
moey
moeycat--moeyta
car -- dar
wheel -- whee
fire truck -- fi-du
juice-- joosh
plane -- paaane
shoes-- oosh-esh
train -- beep beep or choo choo
please -- peese
thank you -- taa-too
ball
nice -- nysh
bubbles -- bub-bl
eyes
nose -- noshe

I am sure there are more, he repeats a lot but these are the words he uses without prompting

A couple cute pics

The "you need to update the blog" Blog

We have been very busy since the last blog. we had Lauras wedding, the "black eye" and of course Halloween!

Jake was a ring bearer in Lauras wedding on 10/16. We dont have pics of the wedding yet, but I can assure you he was soooooo cute! here is a pic from the Rehearsal.



I expect Jake to get some bumps and bruises but its always a little shocking when your husband calls and says " uhhh, jake MAY have a black eye when you get home." Excuse me, he MAY have a black eye, hahah! Yeah he had a little black eye. It wasnt to bad and didnt seem to bother him at all. In fact when it happened Kurt said he barely cried, Tough guy. It did earn a new nickname of Bruiser for a couple days.






Jake is learning so fast. I have lost track of how many words he knows but there are quite a few. He also does a good job of following one or simple 2-step commands. He LOVES animals and we think it is the cutest to make him do all the animal sounds. the cat is hard to hear but the sheep and the lion are my favorite!



Since he really loves animals we took him to the pumpkin patch where they have a petting farm. he really liked the animals but his favorite thing at the farm was the tractor. He made a B-line to the tractor the second he saw it.




















we had walked away from the tractor at this point but Jake wasnt a fool and the second he could he went right back to it!









This was the first halloween I have really been excited about in 20 years or more. I could not wait to get home and dress jake up in his tux and take him out. I knew he wouldnt really understand what was going on but he seemed to like it. his halloween basket is actually his easter basket and its a fire truck so he was really excited about that. when he got candy in the basket you could see his eyes light up and he would smile all the way back down the driveways! it was really cute. We dont really give Jake pure sugar but we let him try a sweettart and he shared a tootsie pop with me. He wanted more but he was jacked up on a sugar high already!

Jake found our candy before we even went out!













He was so excited for his Dumdum


Jakes Loot (which we ate!)


Sharing a tootsie pop!



WE had to have a little fun with Jake and made him a Chippendale dancer!