Fourth of July and golf clubs

Jake insisted on bringing the golf club into the bath tub tonight. There is also a picture from when we went to lunch at Canyons on the 4th of July and the skunk in our yard where we are renting.

More Jake Walking

Jake walking

We finally got Jake to take some steps on his own..... All it took was golf clubs.

11 months old!

Jake is 11months old today. Things that he has accomplished in the last month:

Crawling up the stairs

First word: dog

Jake loves Bailey and loves trying to pet her a lot

Still in #3 diapers

can escape through the baricade in the living room

Jake loves crackers and mandarin oranges still eats a lot of mashed potatoes

He's personality seems to be that he is cautious but outgoing

when he gets frustrated he shakes his hands in the air

We are excited to move into our first house next month.

Lowes and the Brown Family Yard Sale

We went to Josh's best friend's Family Yard Sale in Beaver Dam. It was lots of fun and I grabbed some shoes for Jake and a kids balance beam for work:) Then we went to Lowes to look for a refrigerator for our new house and looked at other things we would like to put into our house.

one more photo

Applebees, almost 11 months old

10 1/2 months old

10 months, 1 week

Like Father, Like Son

10 months old and house hunting

So today its raining but because I finally got a job as Membership Director at the Corpening Memorial YMCA in Marion, NC we can start looking for our first house! I am excited and have already got a favorite, so we will see how it goes today. But Jake is 10 months old! Not too much has changed since the 9 month mark. Jake took a very small baby step yesterday but I can't get him to do it again. He stands by himself for a very long time but then sits down if he can't grab on to anything. He is afraid to take the first step.

He likes cruising around furniture and can crawl very fast. They call him their escape artist at daycare. He can clap his hands and talks a lot and sometimes points his finger in the air as he talks. He loves his pacifer and tries to put in our mouthes too:) He still doesn't sleep through the night but we have been out of town a lot and he has been sick for the last month and has two eye teeth coming in so I am hoping it will start getting better soon. Jake loves putting everything in his mouth still, the cell phone, the remote control, etc. His seperation anxiety kicks in as he now cries when Josh dropshim off at daycare.

His favorite foods are probably sweet potatoes and bananas but he eats a good bit of table food these days. Two more months and we can give him regular milk! He wears size 3 diapers still and is in 9 month clothes or smaller 12 month old clothes. Here are some pics I took this morning.