December Updates!

In a few days Jake will be celebrating his first Christmas! We are so excited and so is he. He has already tried to open a few of his gifts. Christmas morning will definitely be lots of fun with unwrapping gifts and playing with boxes. Don't worry we will take lots of pictures and video.

Jake had his 9 month appointment with his new doctor. He is now 20lbs 6oz and 29 3/4" long. He gained 2 1/2 pounds and grew an inch and a quarter!! We really like his new doctor and we love how small the practice is. Jake is healthy and growing perfectly!!

We found another tooth. We had no idea it was even there until the other day. I was holding him and he was laughing and sure enough his top tooth is almost through. Right now he is my little vampire with his 2 eye teeth coming through. Jeff got a great pic of him yesterday with his fangs. Jake is waving and clapping and crawling and pulling up on everything. He has started to try to climb but hasn't figure it out yet. Which is fine by us, lol. I know soon I will be at work and Jeff will send me a video of our boy walking. It probably won't be much longer. Jake is eating all kinds of new foods. Thankfully he is not a picky eater!

Jake has enjoyed his 1st snow storm. We got 21 inches of snow! We took him out for some photos and he kept checking everything out. Who knew we needed a snow suit. I didn't even bother looking at any because we don't get much snow. We were able to get out to the store yesterday to get a newspaper. Jake's picture was in there for baby's 1st Christmas. The roads are a horrible mess and still are. They haven't even plowed our road yet.

Last night Jake started closing his eyes when he saw the flash from the camera. It was the cutest thing and Jeff got some great video! Our little guy sure is growing up fast.

Jake's 1st Santa Visit!

Santa's Wonderland!








Jake was so sleepy this is how he fell asleep in his car seat on our way home!

On Sunday we headed to the Bass Pro Shop to take Jake to his first Santa's Wonderland. We got there at 1pm. Of course the store was packed! We made our way over to Santa and soon realized that the end of the line was on the other side of the store. It was insane!! So Jeff and Jake waited in line while I went to search for an elf. I finally made my way to the front of the line and asked about the bass pass. You are given a ticket for a certain time to come back to have your picture taken so you don't have to wait in line. She gave me a pass for 3pm. This was at 1:30. So I make it back to Jeff and Jake and then we had plenty of time to walk around the store. We went back at 2:45 to get in line and we were second in line with the bass pass....this was a separate line from all the people who didn't have a pass. That line still went to the other side of the store. I forgot to mention that at 1:30 I put our name down for a table at the restaurant because it was going to be a 2 hour wait. I knew the timing of all this was going to be very ify!! Sure enough we are waiting for Santa to get back from his little break and the restaurant timer starts to vibrate. You have got to be kidding me!!! So Jeff ran over to the restaurant to save our table. Thankfully, our friends Troy and Carol were meeting us at the restaurant and could hold the table for us. Long story short...the restaurant accidentally made our timer go off by mistake. So poor Jeff ran back over to us just in time to see Jake with Santa. I had let a nice family go in front of me while I was waiting for Jeff to get back. Finally, our sweet baby Jake got to sit on Santa's lap!

Jake did great with Santa. He just looked up at Santa and in one picture I wish I could have read Jake's mind. I have one shot with Jake's hand raised and looking at Santa. I would have loved to have known what he was thinking!

Jake was a trooper through it all!!! He just took everything in and not once did he cry. After his picture we were able to get our table. Jake ate like a champ and was so good at the restaurant!!