Grampa's Trains

We arrived in Fort Smith on Saturday afternoon, and I couldn't wait to see the CHOO-CHOOs!

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Fun visit with Papaw and Grandma

We just finished up a fun week with Grandma and Papaw in Louisiana!

I really like throwing rocks into the crawfish pond:

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And I got to ride in my cool blue truck!

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Daddy and I had fun opening his Father's Day presents:

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Papaw put this little cart together for us to ride on:

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And a friend of Papaw's let us ride his TRAIN!

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Even Mommy and Daddy wanted to ride!


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the king

Here's my little guy wearing his "crown" and his big boy pull-ups and he's filling up his boat with gas. I think he'd be a big help to Uncle Pete and Aunt Jen when we get to the lake :) Check my picasa album for more pics.

our little helper

After a day of meals with Jacob - his area is a total mess. We usually get the dustbuster out and he's usually terrified of it. Finally he's not scared anymore and wants to help. Next - we teach him to wash our cars!

Birthday pics

Here are the birthday pictures

Stats Update

Back on our 18 month check-up - Jacob's stats were:
weight - 25 lbs./2 oz. height - 32" head - 18 1/2"

His 24 month stats are:
weight - 26 lbs./11 oz. height - 34 1/2" head - 19"

he's grown so much in 6 months!!!!

oh yeah - and he's quite heavy too!! :D

Birthday Video

Jacob got some cool presents for his 2nd birthday!

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Also, while I'm posting videos, there's another one I've had in the works for a while that you really need to see. Let's just say that Daddy is VERY proud of his little boy:

Party #1

Jacob will be 2 years old tomorrow!!!! So, we are having a few parties for him. Today I brought treats to Jacob's day-school. I made rice krispie pops with mini chocolate chips. Yumm. Jacob was the only kid that ate the whole thing. Once I showed him what to do with it, he was off to the races:) The other kids nibbled, but mostly played with the sticks. It was pretty funny to watch them all. Tomorrow daddy works late so not much of a party before it's bedtime - but we plan to celebrate as a family on Friday night and then next weekend, we'll have some friends over for cake and more presents!! This year's cake will be a CAR. Wish us luck on making that one. Since Jacob likes to say (and eat) cookies - I think I will make him a cookie cake for our family party. He calls them "coo coos".

little ladies man

We have this "word" book for Jacob. Every day we go through it and learn some new words. So yesterday Jacob was looking at the book and the first few pages are of boys and girls doing things and pointing to different body parts. Jacob looks at each one and points to it and says "girl"... girl girl girl.......I tried to explain that some were boys....it was like I spoke Greek because they were ALL girls in his mind. :) Oh - and out of the blue I guess we are starting to learn the alphabet. Hank and I always have T-shirts with words on them. Sometime ago, Jacob learned what "o" looks like. Last night Hank taught him "s". He giggled himself silly saying "esssss" "esssss". I guess it's cuz snake and slinky start with s and he loves saying those...He's just saying words like cray now. Every day a few more. Yay Jacob!....that's "J" "A" "C" "O" "B"

Back home

I'm back home. Didn't do too much this week. I colored alot. I'm on my 2nd "BIG" coloring book and my 2nd box of crayons. I used the others all up at my Papaw and Grandma's. I'm saying lots of new words lately. Daddy taught me to say "goooooo Gators!". Now daddy makes me say it all the time. I also say and recognize: clock, yellow (yeyow) chair, shoes, elbow, cup, knee... the list goes on.

We go for his 2 year check up on the 9th. Oh - and he's signed up for day camp for June and July - it's a Tuesday/Wednesday morning program. He's gonna have such fun :)

2 weeks until the big day. 2 years old!! I just can't belive it. We're thinking of making a "car" cake as he loves cars. Found some cool designs on the web, so we're gonna take a stab at it. I am bringing cup cakes to his day school the day before his birthday too so he can have a little party with kids his age.

Until next time....

I'll be back home tomorrow!

Jacob has been at his Papaw & Grandma's for a week. Here's some of the highlights I've learned about...

1. Now that he can say "Gators" when he sees the FL Gator logo....his bedroom at their house is all FL Gator's so he goes and gets the pillow off the bed and brings it into the living room where one of their LSU friend's is visiting. Jacob shows him the pillow and says "Gators!". Hank is so proud.

2. Mom and dad have this little electric truck (remembee the Christmas pics?)...He can now ride it by himself and has been doing it every day - having a blast.

3. He picked up rocks from the drive and tossed them in the crawfish ponds to watch the rocks splash every day.

4. They took him to a friend's house for Sunday lunch and the friend gave him a tiny tractor to play with. Mom said he tried to "ride" it... he's also been riding Papaw's tractor some too.

5. Mom said he finds a picture of Hank and me and points and says "mama and dada".. so guess he misses us :)

I know all this wou.d be better with pictures - I hope to get them from mom and dad's camera and post them. Can't wait to pick him up tomorrow. I missed him terribly!!!!

Storytime and Stairs at Aunt's

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Video from Cabela's in PA

Here's a short video showing how much fun Jacob had at Cabela's:



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Pictures from our trip to see Aunt Phyllis

Here are the pictures from our recent trip to Pennsylvania to visit Daddy's Great Aunt Phyllis Carter. I had a great time. We spent a lot of time in the car going and coming, but in-between we did a lot of cool things. We went to a Cabela's store near Allentown and also visited Aunt Susie and Uncle Joe. I did great on this major road trip - at least, that's what Mommy and Daddy say.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone! Thanks Grammy for this fun little hoppin bunny. I play with it all the time! Aunt Jenni made me these cool "ears".
Here are the rest of the pictures

I've added a new album of stuff we've been up to lately. I am working on the Easter pics and hope to have them up tomorrow. So - Jen - these will hopefully tide you over until I get the rest uploaded :D

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

a new toy

Mommy got me this cool workbench at the sale the other day. It makes all kind of noises and it each tool talks to me. It's fun :)

Another word - Daddy will be so proud!

Just now I was sitting on the floor. I'm wearing an old bowl game t-shirt. On the shirt is a very small football. Jacob walks up and points to it and says "football!". Then he runs over to the remote control football and says it again with glee!. Then he goes and finds then nerf football and says it yet again. I was so excited for him and he started clapping for himself and running around pointing to all the footballs he could find. Too cute!!! YAY Jacob :)

VIDEOS! (Jacob's growing vocabulary)

Before we get to Jacob's new word, I would like to share a video that follows up on one of Jacob's tshirts. You saw the shirt in a picture a few blogs ago. It reads: "WARNING: I MAKE A MESS." This is true. But, to get the whole story, please watch this video:

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Jacob has added to his vocabulary! Check this out:
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