Jake and his Dada

Jake loves his Daddy. When it starts getting dark outside each evening, I think Jake senses that Matt will be home soon. He starts saying Dada and begins looking outside. Then, when Matt pulls into the driveway, Jake can barely wait for him to open the door and put down his bag. He squirms and [...]

Junk Food Addict

I left Jake in the sun room for a few seconds the other day while I ran inside to get my phone. My battery had died and so I had my phone charging in the living room. Matt called, and as I was on the phone with him, I heard Jake in the other room [...]

Our little mess

I took a blogging hiatus these past few weeks. Life got a little busy and since I can’t take a break from feeding or changing Jake, something else had to give. 
We’ve had a lot of firsts these past few weeks. Here’s a short list. . . 
Jake ate chicken for the first time and loved it.
Jake [...]

Breaking News from Jakeland . . .

We have a crawler!! Finally. We thought he was going to skip crawling altogether considering all he wants to do all day long is hold on to my fingers and walk around the house . . . and considering he just rolls or inchworms wherever he wants to go. 
But this morning Matt was watching Jake [...]

Jake Break

A week or so ago I started making a bunny for Jake’s friend Audrey who was turning one. I made my own pattern, but when I went to sew everything together, I quickly realized that the bunny was way too skinny. So I scrapped my work and beat myself up for a few days. Then [...]

Charlie would have been a cute name.

We love Jake’s name (Jakob Eliot). It has meaning and family significance. Our Jake is the last (unless we’d have another boy) male to carry on Matt’s family name. So, we thought it would be cool to look at Amish names since Matt’s dad’s family was Amish. After looking at a long list of Amish [...]

Dragon Tales/Tails

We spent Halloween evening at home this year. Jake goes to bed between seven and eight, so we decided to stay home and pass out candy to the neighborhood kids. Only five showed up. We bought five bags of the snack-size candy bars, so the way I figured it, each kid went home with almost [...]

So Squeezably Soft

No this is not a post about toilet paper. It’s a post about babies. 
Why did God make them so squeezably soft? Seriously, sometimes I think I might squeeze Jake’s guts out when I hug him. I can’t handle the cuddlerific qualities of babies. They are so squishy, rolly, and jiggly. Why are these things so [...]

Happy Election Day!

We voted. Did you? 

Well, okay, Jake didn’t really vote, but at least two people at the polls asked us if it was his first time to vote. We said “yes.” He was really excited. 
We had such a good voting experience this morning. We literally walked in and had no waiting whatsoever! It was amazing! I [...]

Matt’s been busy again.

“Take that, you silly knight. That will teach you to not drain my moat again.”