Drive-In

Last weekend, we drove to the Lake Shore Drive-in at Monticello. We laid down the back seat and brought the futon matress and tons of pillows so we could chill out in the back and let Jared crawl around during the movies.

If you can't tell, Jared was staring at the light above my head. What is the fascination with lights for kids?! :)

Jared loved crawling around in the back and pulling himself up on the window! He even fell asleep about a half hour into the first movie and slept the rest of the time! I love my little man! :)

He absolutely gets a kick out of Cockapoo. He just laughs and laughs!

He was sharing his crackers with her and just laughing! So cute!

It's been a while!

Our laptop died, so we have to use the desktop to do anything and its so much slower that we hate to use it. I finally uploaded some pictures, though, and thought I'd blog about what's been going on around here.

Jared started crawling about a week ago.

and of course the first thing he goes for is the TV stand full of "no-no's!"

I found a new suit since he finally grew into 6-9 month clothing!

Long story short, my mom basically broke her foot recently, so Jared and I went down to visit last week. My dad rushed home after work and this is how I found him! Grandparents are so cute! :)

Jared LOVES dogs and apparently Soda-pop didn't care to have a baby bouncing on his back!

First time in the big bathtub!

Such a cutie! He LOVES to splash around in the tub! He even face planted in the water and still didn't care! My little tough guy! :)

I decided to take him to the zoo today to see if he liked it. He really didn't care too much, but he was also getting really tired. This was in front of the new River Otter exhibit. You could actually watch them swim by underwater, or even crawl through a tunnel and watch them swim around you! I LOVE our little zoo, especially since its free! :) He did at least look at the singing dogs!

Hawaiian Hut!

Kelly and I decided to get together for lunch this past Wednesday. We braved it with the little guys in tow, and I say braved it because neither one of them had taken a nap yet! If you haven't been to the Hawaiian Hut in West Lafayette, you should! It was SOOO good! A bit pricey, but totally worth it! The decor was really fun, too! Just thinking about it is making me crave it again! :)

Leon's face cracked me up in this one!

Best buds already! Jared absolutely adores both Kelly and Leon! :)

Leon wanted to sit in my lap, and then Jared got jealous and wanted to as well! Thanks, Kelly, for grabbing the camera and capturing this adorable moment! :)

Jared has two more teeth coming in, but they're the incisor teeth on the sides and not his front teeth. I couldn't get him to hold still long enough to get a better picture of both sides coming in. Although, I guess by looking at this picture, it does appear that one of his front teeth is trying to poke through as well! Crazy! This kid is going to have 5 teeth by the time he's 8 months old (which is actually tomorrow, so I guess it would technically be a bit later than 8 months)!

Here comes Peter Cottontail!

My Aunt gave Jared this adorable little Easter sleeper with bunny ears and a little tail, so of course I had to try it out on Easter!

He loves playing with his daddy!

He was cracking up at this little bunny!

He can really get around now, just by rolling all over the place! He can finally get himself into a sitting position from lying down without any help. I guess its time to lower the crib!

A friend of mine gave me the idea of putting all Jared's toys in a box for him to "find" and play with. He loves digging around in the box for things and really enjoys the actual box, too! I'd like to find something a bit prettier than a box to have in our living room, but until I find it, I guess the box will do.

Visiting Grandparents

We went down for Grandma Hall's 75th Birthday last weekend and Jared really enjoyed spending time with all his grandparents!

After reading a friend's blog, I decided to try Jared with some Sesame Street, and...

He LOVED it! I also had about 30 minutes of uninteruppted "mommy" time! Awesome!

My little brother stayed part of the week and Jared LOVES him! Stevie will never be able to get away from him once he starts crawling! :)

Look at that toothy little grin!!!

Enjoying some Rock Band! He actually fell asleep during it! We've trained him well! haha!
A nice little family picture before they left. Yay, I actually remembered to get out the camera!

While the weather was nice, we went out for walks everyday. He would fall asleep everytime! What a terrific little guy!

This Little Piggy...

Not only does he love to play with his feet, but this little piggy has gained another 2 lbs in a month! He now weighs 14 lbs 11 oz!

I'm in for some trouble if he can make this big of a mess already!

He kept trying to grab the camera. He was talking to me in this one. Just yesterday, he started saying, "Da da da da!" It was even cuter since he was saying it really loud while Isaac was taking a nap and it woke him up. That's about the only time I've ever seen Isaac wake up smiling! I love this little man more and more every day!

6 Month Update

I forgot to turn the flash off, so he blinked in this one, but he's just too cute!He finally started sitting up on his own about a week after he turned 6 months old.

I recently discovered that an old friend from my freshman year at IUPUI moved to the Lafayette area and had a little boy just 3 1/2 months after I had Jared! We LOVE our play dates together. The boys are really hitting it off, too! It's so cute! We can't wait for nicer weather so we can go to the park and the zoo and later the waterpark!!
My mom was possibly more excited than me about Jared starting baby food! We definitely have some baby food storage going on now!
My mom also had fun letting Jared pick out a few new toys this past weekend. He LOVES driving his little toy! Look at that smile!

He likes to honk the horn and it says, "Beep, beep, out of the way!" He's going to have major road rage! haha!

He's getting used to the sippy cup now. He was totally relaxing while drinking his juice.

He was sooo exhausted today that he fell asleep with the sippy cup hanging from his mouth. While Isaac was burping him, he was still asleep and just sat there with his head hanging over Isaac's arm! Poor little guy. I let him try prunes today and he was very unhappy the rest of the day. I won't be doing that again. He had a major blow out (Finally!) around 7 and was happy again.