4 months old!

I really feel like Jacob has grown up a lot in the last few weeks! His personality seems to be shining through a little more and he's just growing up fast!
He went to the doctor yesterday for his 4 month checkup and he is now 14 lbs, 6 oz and 26 inches long- they say he's pretty tall for his age- 90th percentile!

Here are a couple updates of what Jacob has been up to...

He's gotten much better at grabbing his toys and playing by himself.
This is a picture of his guilty face. I put him to bed one night when I was in MD and when I came back a little while later he was up playing with blocks with my dad and two sisters! Yea he's guilty and he knows it...

This picture is of Jacob talking to Luke on speakerphone while we were in MD and Luke was back at home in CO. Every time Jacob would hear his dad's voice he'd perk up and turn and look for him, it was cute. But he definetly did miss his daddy and liked "talking" to him every night.

Jacob loves to pull out his pacifier and try to put it back in himself, still not very good at putting it back in but it's cute when he tries. I have a cute video of him trying to put his pacifier in, which maybe I'll try putting up later.

He still loves to suck his whole hand and his thumb every now and then, and it's always very loud and sloppy! Definetly has turned into a big drooly baby. A lot of this has just been because of his teething though.

Laughs all the time now, for lots of people, and usually without even being tickled- I loove to hear him laugh! And he does this pose a lot when I get out the camera- it's hilarious! He puts his hands together and smiles, haha I can't get enough of it. Here are some more...

And another big mark is Jacob can roll over now from his belly to back! That was pretty exciting when my family all got to see him do it for the first time and now he'll do it over and over! It's fun but also means, I'm going to have to start baby-proofing the house soon!

Jacob loved playing with all my family when we were visiting Maryland...

twins with Julia

playing with Andrea

hanging with Erika

resting with Grandpa

listening to the Ipod

listening to Erika play guitar

wearing Andrea's glasses

One of my big worries about coming home from our trip from MD though were Jacob's sleeping habits. He had been doing really well before we had left and had established a good schedule for himself. But going to MD where we lost 2 hours and never seemed to really catch up with the time difference, and didn't have a real crib or his own room, it was very hard to make good sleeping habits while we were away from home. So he hogged the bed with me every night, but I really didn't mind it since we were on vacation.

But I worried about coming home, and was pretty sure that my 2 1/2 week vacation would ruin his sleeping habits for life since I spoiled him so much letting him sleep with me and so on. But of course he surprised me once again. Luke and I decided that since we got home on the day Jacob turned 4 months, and he was all off any routine anyway, it would be the perfect time to introduce him to his crib and get rid of the bassinet altogether. Anyway- Jacob has never been better at sleeping through the night and taking naps! I'm just relieved that he has bounced back, accepted he's in a crib at nights, is sleeping allll through the night (and usually even longer), and even takes several, long naps in the crib throughout the day too! I'm actually blown away, but thrilled! Like I said, Jacob's growing up fast!

Trip to Maryland

Jacob and I took a trip home to Maryland to visit my family and to be home for my good friend Amy's wedding. It was great because I got to visit with lots of friends and spend plenty of time with my family too. This was also the first time my dad and sisters were able to meet Jacob so they were all real excited, and my Grandpa came out for 2 weeks to visit him too.

So one of the first things I did when I got home was plan and go to Amy's Bachelorette Party. A small group of us went on a dinner cruise at the Baltimore Harbor and we had so much fun! It was really nice to be able to have my family babysit Jacob for the night too.

I was also Amy's Matron of Honor for her wedding, I was so excited to be a part of things- I had never been in a wedding before! But everything went so well and was so beautiful! I even got to show off Jacob to all my friends at the wedding since Erika brought him and took care of him through the ceremony and reception. And he did such a great job, I was worried about him being loud or disrupting things but everyone said they didn't hear him at all, so I was happy to be able to bring him.

And I spent a lot of fun time with my family. Luke surprised me by coming out for a couple days for the 4th of July weekend, so both our families had a bbq at Luke's parents house on the 4th, and later that night our family went to fireworks. It was Jacob's first time, but he enjoyed watching them, and luckily wasn't bothered by the sound.




Later that week my mom, grandpa, my sisters, and Jacob and I went to the DC zoo.

Of course Jacob had to wear his animal shirt to the zoo

and I had to take a picture in front of the turtles because I call Jacob a turtle head :)

My family also took a week trip up to Deep Creek Lake, a place my family has been many times before but this time it was with my parents, grandpa, my three sisters- Erika, Julia, and Andrea, and Jacob and me. We all really missed my two brothers that couldn't be there, and I still missed having Luke around, but we still had a good time and did lots of fun stuff.

We went jetskiing the first day and all took turns driving for the 2 hours we rented it. Here is my sisters on the jet-ski, Julia was so excited to drive since she had just gotten her liscense the week before. My little sister Andrea got to ride with all of us and said Julia went the fastest and was most fun, and I was the slowest, haha- I think I got too scared of flipping over and falling in! But it was still probably the most fun we had all week!

The next day we rented a pontoon boat and went tubing off it. It didn't go as fast as we would have liked but we still had a good time riding around. The most exciting part though was when my dad was riding all crazy and fell off, haha. And Jacob sat in his car seat the whole time, just enjoying the ride!

Later we went to a park at the beach and hung around. It was so pretty there we all actually drew pictures of the view from the beach. Even Jacob drew a picture!

The next day we went on a short walk to Swallow Falls.

And then we went to a park and rented canoes. I went with Andrea, but we got tired after a half hour, so we parked the canoe and went to go play at the park and in the sand at the small beach there.
Later that night we also went mini-golfing and my sisters and I went go-carting. It was their first time doing that, so that was a lot of fun too! So that was our trip! We drove the 3 hours home the next day and then I flew home to Denver the next morning.

baby was zonked out in all the long car drives and each airplane ride, works for me!

We had a great, long trip and can't wait until we can go back in January and see our family and friends again!