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.

Attack of the Giant Spider! Eek!

This photo was taken after it was killed and I'm not going anywhere near that thing, so Isaac can clean it up when he gets home! (shiver)

I HATE spiders! I'm sure you can imagine the adrenaline rush when I saw this bad boy! I had just finished giving Jared a baby food feeding and was carrying him into the living room when I spotted the nasty creature. I swear that thing was the size of one of those fake spider rings at Halloween, which also freak me out by the way! haha! I quickly laid Jared down in a different room, ran and grabbed a shoe and the bug spray and rushed back to find the spider darting under the carpet! Eew! Luckily, he came back out and I sprayed that thing until it was barely able to move, then I smashed it with the shoe to make sure it wasn't going anywhere and then I sprayed it some more! Just another tidbit of information, as if all this doesn't make your skin crawl enough, I'm pretty sure this is the same spider that I thought was dead in the closet several months ago but had disappeared by the time I came back to kill it.. I hate when I find things like this. It makes me wonder what else is lurking in the corners and I don't want to think about that! I am rather proud of myself, though! Super Mom to the rescue! haha! Now I can't wait until Jared is old enough to want to kill them for me! haha!

Belated Superbowl Post

We had a Superbowl party at our house this year with several of our friends in the area. It was really fun because we had the guys that wanted to exclusively watch the game in the theater upstairs and the girls downstairs playing games and talking with the game on in the background. It was a full house with about 14 people and 4 little ones! We overplanned a bit with the cookout and had enough leftovers to eat lunches all week! Crazy! :)

I think Jared enjoyed his first Superbowl! My mom got a Colts outfit from a friend and it was just the right size for him! Too bad they didn't win.. I thought this picture was funny because it looks like Jared is disappointed that the Colts lost! haha!

This picture is blurry because Jared can't stay upright on his own for very long yet and falls forward every time. Apparently, his head is too big in proportion to his body, so he's going to have to work a little harder to stay upright! haha! He does take after his daddy! :)