Christmas Parade 2008

Saturday was the Lee County Christmas Parade. Lots of candy! - We filled up the Santa hat :)

Playgroup Fun

Last week we had playgroup at the mall. The kids didn't even realize that we didn't put any quarters in the "rides" - they had alot of fun :)

Isn't the tree awsome! Jacob loved the train running through it.. When the train gets to the top it takes off on a track that runs the length of the mall... very cool :)

I just uploaded about a zillion pictures from our week in Nebraska. Jacob and his cousin Ben had quite a time playing at Ben's house on the piano, playing with all the toys and playing the Wii too. While we were there we visited the Zoo twice! We also went into Omaha Thanksgiving night to see them turn on the Christmas lights in the city. The next night we went into Papillion (the suburb Pete & Jen live in) and did all the fun stuff they had....we saw Santa, got free hot chocolate and popcorn, took a carriage ride, heard choir and band and stayed warm by the bonfire...We had a blast! So - for those who were not with us - enjoy all the pictures. I had a hard time deleting them -but I really did delete some :) We are looking forward to a busy December with church stuff, parties, family coming, and all the stuff that goes along with Christmastime. Merry Christmas everyone!

Fun at the Park

Just a few pictures from our day at the park a few weeks ago. Daddy was off this day so we all got to go.

Turken-tacky in Nebraska

We're in Nebraska!
For a quick review of Turken-tacky Day 1, see Mommy and Daddy's blog.

Umpah

This past weekend I went down to Florida to visit my Great-Grandfather. We all call him Umpah. I had so much fun with him and Nana-Jan. Umpah taught me how to color in the lines! We colored 2 pages in my "choo choo" coloring book. Mommy took video of it. Hopefully you will get to see that video on my blog real soon.

Love, Jacob This is me and Nana-Jan reading my favorite book "Dogs Colorful Day". She read 5 books to me this day and we also went to the park by their house. Jan pushed me on the swings and watched me go down the slides. We had such fun!

Here's the latest pictures on Jacob's album

Go Gators!

I almost forgot to post this picture of Jacob in his Gator jersey. Thanks Ms. Mary Ann! Jacob also loves to take apart his bike. He takes the handles and the horn off - then puts them back together. Maybe he'll be a mechanic when he grows up? :)

Random

Here's me in my cool cat shirt Aunt Baby made me for Halloween

Here's me with Miss Manda and Mr. David at the last football game. As you can see, they live in a "house divided". All our Florida friends will understand :) I LOVE to climb the steps at the game. I'm gonna miss that..

Candyfest 2008

1. Last night was our church's annual Candyfest. It's a huge even with tons of booths, inflatables, hayrides, prizes, candy and lots of fun! This year we made Jacob a LEO. He was such a little trouper and wore it for about 1- 1/2 hours before he wanted it off. Once we took it off so he could sit in the firetruck, it wasn't going back on :) He was a big hit. I even had a grown up friend who said he's going as a LEGO to his costume party. Fun times... Jacob did about 6 of the little games. He stood in line and waited his turn to play and then he got candy. After the first time getting candy - he was all about standing in ALL the lines to get ALL the candy.

Choo Choo Pumpkin

Tonight we carved our pumpkin. Jacob helped scoop out the pumpkin guts. He wanted to help sooo much..

Since carving was not an option, we let him color on his little pumpkin ta da...

Fun Week!

What a fun week! We started off having some fun in the back yard. Finally! a cute picture of Jacob standing still and facing the camera! Last Wednesday night, Grampa (or PawPaw - I think we may change it) came for a visit and read Jacob his latest favorite book "Dog's Colorful Day"
The next day we had playgroup at the pumpkin patch. This is the best I could get Jacob in a photo with the entire group. He was not about to sit on hay when there were pumpkins he could pick up and move around!

YAY - he posed!!!

and then again with Grampa!!

Friday night it rained like crazy so we stayed home from the football game and painted pumpkins.

Saturday we went to see Hank's band in the Chicken Pie Festival Parade! Yep - chicken pies - yum :) - and here's the chicken in the parade!

Jacob could care less about the band once he started collecting candy!

So there you have it...a week of fun. The only thing not in the pictures was the LCHS Homecoming parade we took Grampa to and it poured rain the entire time - lots of candy -but no pictures - oh well.

Jacobisms

Yesterday Jacob went to preschool for the morning. I send him with a lunch. Yesterday's lunch was hot dog pieces, cheese, goldfish crackers and grapes. When I picked him up, his teacher said "oh, he ate good today - although a little girl stole his cheese" So, once home, I went through his lunch sack and sure enough - the only thing left was hot dog. Later on, he's sitting on the potty and telling his daddy about his day. He says "daddy I ate all my lunch!" I explained that "no, Jacob you ate grapes and goldfish and some kid took your cheese, so that means you only ate grapes and fish for lunch!" Jacob, still sitting on the potty, says "cool." He finally knows how to use that word now :) This child LOVES grapes...he spots them a mile away in the store.

In other news.....Jacob is changing so much lately. His vocabulary has taken off and he NEVER shuts up! Constant chatter which warms my heart mostly - but on occasion - I wish he had a mute button :)..He LOVES Thomas the Tank Engine. I DVR it every Saturday and each day we watch it before he goes for a nap. When "choo choo" goes for a nap at the end of the show, then Jacob goes for his.....As you know, Jacob LOVES the alphabet and has for many months now. We are now working on counting past 10... it's coming along....Also working on shapes....I think he has definitely mastered colors though - hopefully he'll have his grammy's artistic flair and put it all to use one day....

You may have noticed in the most recent video that Jacob is wearing "big boy pants". Well - he wears them, pees in them and still has no clue what it's all about. But I know he'll catch on one day - so when we're at home, we put him in the trainers and try to time trips to the potty. The first time he peed in them he says "mommy, I spilled?" he's so confused!!! funny stuff :)

Jacob is pretty busy these days. We have gotten into a pretty neat weekly routine. Mondays - we just hang out -the two of us, Tuesday mornings I go to a ladies' Bible study at church and Jacob plays with all the other kids on the church playground, Wednesday mornings he goes to preschool and Wednesday nights we go to church and he goes to his class where he makes cool crafts and has tons of fun playing with his buds Chuckie and Alex, Thursday mornings we go to playgroup - lately outside parks, outside BK, pumpkin patch.. Fridays we hang out till afternoon and then go to daddy's football game where Jacob LOVES to dance and clap with the band. Bad mom didn't have the video camera this past game. He was standing on the chairs jumping full on and dancing with both bands at halftime - too funny

Guess that's about it. Oh! Jacob also rides (or tries to ride) a little trike at church - so I think it's time to get him one for Christmas. I was trying to teach him how to pedal... that was a sight....when I let him go, he just scooted along - but he was steering pretty well :)

Jacob says "Go Gators!"

One more video

After this, we are finally caught up on videos....at least, until Jacob does something else cute.

Special warning to Pete Crawford: At the end of this video, you will get a preview of something you will probably see a lot of on October 25.

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Pumpkin Patch 2008

Jacob enjoying the pumpkin patch

Here's more pictures

VIDEOS!

I'm trying to get caught up on all the videos we have that need to be posted. Here's two videos from the summer:

First, a short series of clips from our visit to Arkansas in June:

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Next, here's a set of mostly unedited video clips from our August trip to Arkansas. Jacob and Ben had a lot of fun together!

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Outside Fun

Jacob has been having some fun times lately. Last week at playgroup, we went to Turtle Grove Park. They have this giant turtle that is too cool.

and they have this super cool fast slide that shoots you down real quick...

and then Jacob tried to climb on the alligator... isn't the mosiac wall the best!
later....we did some football practice in Jacob's room...dad he may like football AND band... hope that's ok....

then we tried our hand at the frisbee...

So, as you can see - a fun week..I added more pictures on Jacob's photo album