8 months!

I can't believe Jacob is 8 months already! He is officially crawling on his knees now, and has been doing that for about 2 weeks now, pretty much days after we moved into our house. So it's nice he has more room, but we got to be really careful with our stairs and everything he wants to get into. He's really moving now!

And I don't have any good videos of him crawling yet, I'll put one up soon though. But I do have a video of his newest trick- clapping! He's not very good at it yet but he knows to clap whenever I say yay! I love it!

And I always like to document when Jacob does something new for the first time. So here are a couple other firsts...

first time sitting at a highchair at a restaurant

first ride sitting in a grocery cart- I love not having to tug him around in his carseat all the time! as long as he's not sleeping- shopping always seems to make him tired :)

first time playing drums- loves to make noise

first time going bowling

And the last one is not really a "first" but more like a 3rd and 4th- Jacob is getting 2 more teeth on the top! So he has been teething for a bit lately, but it will be cute once they fully come in!

Anyway, he's getting big and getting more and more fun to play with everyday! We're glad Luke is back from all his business trips now and has the week off for Thanksgiving so we can have fun!

Baby's 1st Halloween!

Jacob was a turtle for halloween this year! Ever since he was a baby I thought he kind of had a "turtle head", he's kind of grown out of that look now, but I still thought it would be cute to have a turtle baby! So I found the sleeper at Babies R Us and then found an old helmet at a yard sale and then painted it to match! It was a big hit!


We went to a Trunk-or-Treat party at church on Friday night which is always a lot of fun. I dressed as a bunny so Jacob and I were like a tortoise and the hare kind of thing together. Jacob thought my ears were hilarious.

this is the cake I made for the cake walk

more of Jacob sporting his turtle costume

And here is Jacob with all his little friends...

Jacob and Gwen have been friends since they were little, only a month apart

Jacob and ballerina Angela

Jacob with Carolyn and Angela- he loves these girls!

And they love him too! We're going to miss them so much!

Halloween afternoon we went to a Halloween/Birthday party for my friend's daughter Natalie. She turned one and her and Jacob are little buddies- we're going to miss them when we move too!

Then on Halloween night, Jacob and I went over to the house to pass out Halloween candy in our new neighborhood. We met one neighbor that lives two houses down, but it was fun to just be able to hang out in the house and get the feel of the neighborhood and get lots of funny comments from the trick-or-treaters. My favorite was a little girl that said "I like your clean house" but of course it's still just empty- haha but clean works for me! Here's Jacob hanging out in our clean house.

he looks a little bored, haha

So it was a fun Halloween, but now all the fun and parties are over, so we have a busy week ahead of packing, Luke finishing up busy season at work and then we'll be all moved into our house by Friday!