Little sliding Monkey

We have been going to the mall lateley to give Jacob something to do. he needs to always be on the go. Well we like to go to the jugle gym play area. Since he like the stairs at our house so much we thought Chad though he would see what Jacob would do if he was put at the base of the stairs of a little slide that stands about 3 feet off the ground. This is what we watched him do the first time we stood in front of the stairs to the slide. Our little daredevil!

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Getting a Laugh

Well now since we got one of those new flip cameras for Christmas it has been fun catching Jacob in all kinds of trouble. For some reason I was laying on the ground while Jacob was being so fussy. He crawled up on me and of course as Dads have to do, I started to pick on him. He got some new foam block toys from my uncle David and I was blowing one at him as he tried to knock it out of my mouth. He thought it was so funny. I love when he starts to get giddy.

ChristmasLaughs

As we all know Christmas at teh Bairds can be well.... interesting. since I married Sarah, Russ and Dodie have been coming to the Christmas eve festivities. This means plenty of gag gifts and jokes played on one another. The GIANT ashtray from the 70's was back and so was the heart from the doctors office. John I wish you could have been there. We cleared the room of the kiddos and Christmas went PG13. Poor dave and Natalie we ruined 'em. After Bob got 50 Million in Obama bucks then this is what Russ got. This was a great Christmas and we can't wait to wake up in the morning and do our family Christmas!

If you can't tell what is so funny the boobs bounce to the music. watch carefully again as they dance up and down to the beat of the song!

TEXAS VACATION Nov 11-Nov 17

We had a wonderful time on our 2nd vacation with Jacob. This was our first time flying with him and he did great. We flew into Dallas and drove to my sister's house.
We drove to the watergardens in Fort Worth, which was pretty cool.



That night we had a good time at Main Event playing video games and then headed over to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner, YUMMY!!!! The next day we went to downtown Dallas to see the grassy knoll where Kennedy got shot. Chad had a great time seeing the area and the museum and hearing the theories behind the shooting. We then checked out the new Hard Rock cafe in Dallas. Saturday night Chad and I drove back into Dallas to go to SamOwen's wedding. The reception was amazing, being at the top level of a hotel and huge windows looking out over all of Dallas.



Chad had a great time meeting up with people from CO that he has not seen for a long time. Our time with Jackie and Charlie and their girls was a ton of fun. Jackie was so good to Jacob taking him for walks and feeding him and rocking him to sleep.
Sunday we drove all the way to Houston to go to my uncle's house. My uncle John has a beautiful house, a nice boat, jet skis and a hot tub. So even though it was pretty cold outside, we still went for a boat ride and rode the jet skis, WITH WINTER COATS ON :) we were the only people on the lake!

John fed us some really good food, my dad tried lobster for the 1st time, and overall we had a great time there.
Jacob was soooooo good for the trip. He had a few times when he got fussy because of being tired or waking up in the middle of the night and not wanting to go back to sleep (car rides at 3am to put a baby back to sleep are fun times ;) but Chad and I were really proud of him.

6 and 1/2 months

Jacob has come a long way since the last time I have posted. He has been so much easier the last month. A big part of that is because he is able to sit up and crawl now so he is able to get where he wants to go. He has been great with all the different baby foods, so far he has had peas, beans, squash, prunes, pears and rice cereal. He does try to put everything in his mouth now so maybe he would eat anything I would give him....He has been taking 2-3 long naps during the day and he sleeps through the night, which has been WONDERFUL for me. It has been so fun to see how his mind and body develop in months...
That is about it for Jacob. Chad has started management training at his job so he will be very busy with work for the next 3 months.
We are staying away from my brother's family right now, 3 out of his 4 kids have the swine flu. The 1 year old and the 2 parents have not gotten it yet, hopefully they can some how make it through without getting it.

Jacob turned 4 months this week and we have been seeing so many changes in him. First of all he is growing like crazy, he is already 15 lbs!!! He is also getting to be a lot more fun to interact with. He is laughing a lot more, he turns to you when you call his name a few times, he is talking more, just overall a happier baby. He is also able to entertain himself more. He loves to reach for things and try to grab them and loves to play with his hands and feet. We are just having so much fun watching him learn new things all the time.

Our First Family Vacation to CA (June 23-June 28)

One of Sarah's roommates from college was getting married in CA, so we decided to plan a family vacation around it. This was our first vacation with Jacob and he did soooo good! We started our journey at 3am so that Jacob would sleep and he slept the whole trip, yay!! We met up with my best friend from college, Jen, and her husband Adam. We got to meet her daughter Rubie for the first time and Jen got to meet Jacob. We stayed up in Crestline where Adam's parents live. The weather was beautiful, so we got to hang out by the lake a few times, visit Thousand Pines Camp where Jen and I worked 3 summers, and show Chad Lake Arrowhead. We got to visit some friends from camp and their kids which was fun catching up. Friday night we drove down to Orange County for Lindsey's wedding which was very nice. Saturday we went to Hunington Beach, we laid out on the sand, made sand castles, watched street performers, went to Wahoo Tacos :) and then we drove on to Balboa Beach. We took to the ferry to see Balboa Island to go check that out. Sunday we went back to Balboa Beach to go for a family bike ride down the beach front which was so much fun on a tandum bike (and Jacob attached to me in a bjorn). We enjoyed hanging out there all day and then jumped in the car and drove 6 hours home, Jacob slept the whole wayyyyyy, it was soooo nice.