Two Eventful Months

It's been an eventful two months, not only with St. Patrick's Day and Easter, but also with Rose's first haircut and Jacob's baptism.  Jacob continues to grow and develop.  He can now sit up with some help, and has taken over Rose's high chair at the dinner table, bumping her to a big girl stool.  Jacob also will babble up a storm if you let him, and has just started to roll over in both directions.

Rose continues to grow and develop as well.  She's just the 2 1/2 year old ball of energy you'd expect her to be, with an imagination that continues to impress.  When she's not playing outside, she loves having her Dr. Seuss books read to her.

Onto the pictures.

Pigtails!

Strawberry Shortcake came to American Greetings.  After talking about her all week, once Rose saw her she didn't want to go anywhere near her.  Thus the picture with Mommy and Jacob instead.

Helping Daddy work

Rose loves helping Jacob during tummy time and when he's on his activity mat

Selfie!

Of all the attempts at a four generation picture, this one came out best.

Meeting Aunt Debbie

Making "Mamaw Cookies" with Mamaw

Rose was a champ at her first haircut, and the girl cutting her hair did a great job with her

Onto the baptism pictures.  Thank you to Uncle Ken for baptizing Jacob, and Aunt Jenny and Uncle Josh for being Godparents.

I want to sing in the choir like Grandpa!

And now, jumping back to Easter pictures.

Black jelly beans?!

Hunting for eggs at Great Grandma's house

That was a lot of pictures.  I'm spent.

March Update

St. Patrick's Day pictures are coming soon, complete with matching outfits made by Mamaw.  In the meantime, here are some random pictures from the past few months.

Jacob is now two months old, and is starting to smile, laugh, and interact with the world around him.  He especially loves to smile for his older sister, which is good because Rose loves her little brother.  Rose continues to grow and mature.  She's putting together more and more complex sentences (and paragraphs) and loves doing puzzles.  She can't wait until the weather's nicer so she can run around outside more (Mom and Dad agree), but until then she's happy building snowmen and making snow angels.

Now, onto the pictures.

The "nice" family picture

The realistic family picture

with GG

Three kind-of smiles - and more importantly, zero tears - is a big win for Papa

Meeting Great Grandma

Rose showing Jacob how tummy time is done

After four kids, eight grandkids, and now two great-grandchildren, Great Grandpa knows how to calm down a baby

while Rose spent all afternoon reading with Great Grandma

Why yes, I am cute, aren't I?

Almost ready for St. Patrick's Day!

Introducing Jacob David

Jacob came into our lives at 10:16 PM on Monday, December 30, 2013.  At birth, he was 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and 19 inches long.  All are doing well.

All four grandparents came to visit in the hospital.

Yay, time to go home!

The welcoming committee (Rose, Mamaw, and Papa) had a message for Jacob on his return.

Bath time!

Baths are exhausting

Our new family of four

Fall Update

We'll start at the end of September, when we went to the Maryland/DC area to visit friends and family.  We spent a few days out at the beach, but Rose wanted to spend most of her time there on the playground.

Papa came out for a fall photo shoot at the French Creek Metroparks here in Sheffield.

Obligatory "kissing the belly" shot.

"No!  No kisses!"

We also went down to Hillcrest Orchards in South Amherst for a corn maze and some pumpkin and apple picking.  Rose enjoyed getting lost in the maze as much as she enjoyed eating apples off the trees and trying to pick up the pumpkins.

"Rosie's pumpkin!  Face!"

It was a wet, cool, windy Halloween night, so Rose stayed home to help us pass out candy in her jaguar costume.

Rose turned two at the beginning of November, and had plenty of family and friends come out to celebrate.

She did much better with her cake this time than she did for her first birthday.

We also had another obligatory "age made out of leaves" photo shoot.

And just this past weekend, we hosted Thanksgiving once again.

Rose has been a flurry of activity again, both physically and verbally.  She can now run and jump, and speaks in phrases and sentences instead of just single words.  This week, we moved her into her "big girl room," which has taken her a few days to adjust to.  Now it's time to prepare the nursery for baby number two, who will be here in a few short weeks.  Speaking of the pregnancy, Erin has been doing quite well outside of the expected heartburn, aches, and tiredness.