2nd Grader

Kindergarten

1st Grade

 

(the day we said good bye to our sweet Reese.)

 

2nd Grade!!!

1st time starting the school year as a bus rider.  He’s such a big boy!  He is really excited about the teacher that he has this year! 

Caleb and our neighbor friend Nate that is going into the 4th grade.

Caleb and his favorite person.  Jake is saying Mom, why are you doing this to me?? so early in the morning too..

Jake and Grandma Brendy

There goes my baby.   Hope you are having a great first day of 2nd grade baby.  I’m so proud to be your mom.

8/24/11 boys

 

I could not be more in love

* 6 months *

Jake is 18lbs 6oz.  (that’s what Caleb weighed at 4 months!)  His check up went very well.  He got 3 shots and did great. 

Jake is rolling all over the place, holding his toes all the time, reaches for and grabs toys and anything else he can get his hands on and then it goes directly to his mouth.  He’s still working on getting his first tooth.  You can only see a little part of it.  He is a ball of slobbery drool :)  Jake holds his bottle really well now and gets really upset when you take it away after its empty.  He will fight hard to keep on sucking on an empty bottle.  He likes to watch some cartoons in the morning when I’m getting ready.  His favorite seems to be Little Einstein's.  Caleb was very into baby Einstein but Jake doesn’t seem interested.   He likes the actual characters in LITTLE Einstein's better.  He laughs at them.  He has never disliked any food he has tried.  He drinks 4 bottles of formula a day (8oz).  Sometimes 3 bottles.  Then he eats baby food twice a day and has started getting little tastes of things like mashed potatoes when mommy’s eating.  he is very interested in other peoples foods.  he drinks a juice/water mixture from a sippy cup when he has his food especially.  He grabs the spoon and tries to hold it in his mouth when I’m feeding him.  He thinks he’s so much older than he is.  He almost has sitting up on his own completely figured out.  He still falls over so you cant leave him like that and walk away!   He smiles at his brother all the time.  He also smiles at his Daddy whenever he sees him.  I usually have to work for the smiles!  He screams and squeals when he’s tickled.  His most ticklish spots are his armpit area, belly, neck and thighs.  He still loves taking a bath and now splashes all over the place in there.   His favorite thing besides his bottle is his monkey lovie.  He sleeps with it at every nap and every night.  He likes to hold it and rub it with his fingers.    He got to try the baby swing at the park this week and really enjoyed it.  I can’t wait to get him a  swing now.  That’s all I can think of right now but I’m sure I’m missing lots.  He’s growing way too fast! 

Caleb has been the best big brother ever.  He is so good to Jake and tells me all the time that Jake is the best gift he’s ever received.

 

Does anyone still check this blog??  I am the biggest blog slacker ever…   

University of MD Baseball Camp

Megan was awesome (like always) and let Ryan take her camera to take pics of our boys at camp on the last day.  These are my favorite shots with Caleb.

 

Connor, Caleb, John, Justin  our little all stars :)

Coach Neiman

The other great coaches there that worked with the age group Caleb was in.

The best Coach of all.

OC July 2011 (Jake’s 1st beach trip)

Last week I had to make a quick trip for work to our warehouse and it is about 40 minutes away from OC, MD so we decided to leave weds night, I had to work for a little bit Thursday and then Friday thru Sunday we had a nice time just doing whatever Caleb wanted.  He’s usually the boss.  We did some outlet shopping, napped a tiny bit (not nearly enough), played putt-putt twice and went to the beach once.  I can’t wait to get to a beach again.  i really want to go back soon.  I just did not get enough beach time in!  I spent the one day at the beach playing with Jake and getting him to sleep in the shade and then built a turtle in the sand for Caleb.  Here are some cell phone pics from our trip.  I still have to figure out what’s wrong with my camera and upload those photos soon.  I figured this is better than nothing coming from me, a not so great blogger.. 

These next pics are pre-OC. 

This is Caleb knocked out after a LONG, HOT day of baseball camp at University of MD.  He did so great. 

Here’s Jacob knocked out after a long day of being spoiled by his Grandma Brenda and aunt Erin.

This is Jake and daddy looking cute at giant one night. Nothing looks hotter on my hubby than a sweet baby, that’s for sure.  Even with the glare from his bald head.

And this is big boy holding his bottle.  He’s really growing so fast.  He reaches out for toys now and puts everything in his mouth.  he rolls over and he scoots.  If he can get the upper body going while doing tummy time he would be crawling in no time.  He thinks he is so big.  He loves to be tickled, especially when i pretend I’m eating him up, like around his chin, neck, chest area.  he laughs so hard he kinda lets out little screams at first.  It’s too funny.