Thanksgiving and Adam's Graduation

It's the day after Christmas and I'm just now getting around to posting about Thanksgiving.  Oh well... So for Thanksgiving, my parents and our friends, Autumn and Andy, came to our house for dinner.  I did my first turkey which turned out to be way easier than I thought it'd be.  We had a fun evening and enjoyed TONS of food!  Adam decided to give Jacoby a mohawk for the celebration.

Here are some family Thanksgiving pictures we took.  Jacoby was being so funny!  He kept giving me kisses when we were trying to take a picture of the 3 of us.

Adam's parents got to our house late Friday night and on Sunday, we all went to Indy for Adam's graduation from the IN Law Enforcement Academy.  Jacoby did well on his first night in a hotel.  We also discovered Jacoby's first tooth while we were there!

Adam's graduation was on Tuesday and my parents and Autumn and Andy met us for it.  All of my pictures from the ceremony were too dark, but we took several afterward.  We had a great time.  Jacoby and I are so proud of Adam and we're really glad that he's back home now!!

Busy, busy, busy...

I went back to work 2 weeks ago.  It was sad to leave my baby, but luckily I had wonderful hands to leave him in, so that made it a whole lot easier for me to go back to work.  Jacoby chose to wait until the week I started working again to begin sleeping through the night.  Better late than never, I guess.  He knew Mommy needed her sleep that week!  The Sunday after my first week, we had tickets to go to the Colts/Patriots game in Indy.  Probably not the best timing, but it all worked out and was a lot of fun!!!  We went with our friends Autumn and Andy while Jacoby had his first sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa's.  I returned at 2:30 am and then got up around 5:30 to get ready for school.  Needless to say, I went to bed pretty early that night.  Here are some pictures from the game.

Of course Andy had to make a funny face.  I'm surprised Adam actually smiled in our picture!

The Indianapolis Fire Department spread this huge flag out over the field for the national anthem.  It was really neat!

Jacoby is now 6 months old.  I can't believe that I've been a Mommy for half a year.  Here are the picturesI took with his elephant for 6 months.  I did take him to Sears for some more 6 month pics, but I did not buy the cd, so I don't have those pictures to share.  They turned out pretty cute, too, though.

Jacoby started to wrestle with his elephant after I took a few pics.

This past weekend was very busy as well.  On Friday, Adam and I went to see New Moon- yay!!  Saturday was Jacoby's pictures at Sears and then we went to Washington for my niece, Elaina's first birthday party that was combined with her cousin, Addison's 2nd b-day.  Elaina has grown so much, but Jacoby has almost caught up to her!!

And finally, I just had to share this picture of Jacoby all bundled up to go out in the cold weather.  I love this little hat!

A Little Dino

WOW--- I'm way behind, but here are some Halloween pictures.  We didn't do too much, but we took our little dino to the mall because Adam needed to get some pants, so we figured we'd go ahead and put Jacoby in his costume since they were trick-or-treating at the mall.  Then we went to my parents' house where we "skyped" Matt, Victoria, and their little ladybug, Elaina. 

This last picture cracks me up.  Notice Jacoby's grip on Grandma's earring and the look on his face...

Some Videos for You!

Jacoby is 5 months old!!  He has changed so much just during this month.  I was looking at some of the videos we've taken of him and on October 1, he was just starting to figure out how to roll over and now he's rolling over like a champ!  I was trying to pick out which video to put on here and ended up with 5!  As you can tell, Jacoby is a huge source of entertainment for us!  Here is his 5 month picture taken with his elephant and then be sure to hit play on the videos after the picture.  Stay tuned as we'll have some pictures from Jacoby's first Halloween posted soon.  I'm also adding some new photo albums - look for September and October pictures on the right side of the screen under photo albums.

4 Months, Rice Cereal, and a Happy Baby!

Jacoby turned 4 months old on Sept. 18th!  He's growing very quickly!  This is his 4 month picture with his elephant.

We started him on rice cereal and he's starting to get the hang of it!  He gets quite messy, though, especially when he sticks his fingers in his mouth full of cereal.

Adam wants to make sure that Jacoby becomes a Red Sox fan at an early age.  I think it's working...

Jacoby likes to play in his jumperoo, but I think I let him play a little too long on this particular day!

I've tried so hard to catch a picture of him smiling big, and I finally got it...

Here's a little video of my baby boy laughing.  His good mood came out of nowhere.  He had been screaming his head off, I picked him up, he spit up all over both of us, I set him down to wipe us both off and then this is what he did...

And lastly, I finally finished the wall art in the nursery- here it is.