Jacobs Love to Bounce

One more fun thing about the four month mark is that we are now encouraged to let Jacob start building and work on strengthening his neck muscles. This means that the Johnny Jumper was brought in from the garage and introduced to the little monkey. I realize that my opinion is severely biased but I just had to show off how amazingly handsome he is!

Say Cheese!

I have mentioned before that Alexis is taking interest in taking pictures. We have handed her down an old digital camera and so far she has filled her 1g card two times. Most of the pictures she takes are very unflattering to whom ever she has in focus. I thought though, that I would share with you her creative genius. You be the judge.

"Alright already enough with the pictures"

4 months

Mister Man eating some rice cereal!

Yup, that is what I said. Four months already. We took him for his well baby check, which he passed with flying colors. He is staying on the 5% curve, which means according to the rest of the nation he is a very small guy, but to us he seems ginormous. He tipped the scales at 11lbs 11ozs. When talking about how much and how often our mister is eating Doc laughed and nicknamed him Jake "The Barracuda".

Gramma dishing up some carrots


The great thing about hitting this four month mile stone is that we are now able to feed him baby food and rice cereal. Now, most babies, when introduced to rice cereal make a face then sort of spit it out. Not our barracuda, he went at it like it was best meal in the world. Because he did so well with the cereal we brought in carrots the following day. The only problem is that you literally cannot get the food to his mouth fast enough to keep him content.

There are tears in his eyes but I assure you it was because I could not get it into his mouth at a pace that he agreed with, not because he didn't enjoy the meal!

He is our little man and we love him!

Birthday Girl

Alexis celebrated her 5th birthday last week! That's right, she is already 5. I really have no idea where all the time has gone. Bryan and Nicole were trying to match Alexis' silly faces
The most "regular" face Alexis has made in a picture isn SOOO long
Our big little man just hanging out

The celebration started off with my good friends, Bryan and Nicole, coming to visit her. While they were here went to Chuck E. Cheese for the after noon, then came home to celebrate with a confetti cake, and open a few presents.

"Oh Good! A singing Barbi"

Wall-E
The Vanity

The following Saturday she and three of her school friends had a little party at Teddy Bear Junction (think Build-a-Bear) in the mall. My family was there and Rhonda and Tom drove over from Seattle. Everyone got to pick out and make an animal and sing and dance. The party wrapped up with an ice cream cake from Maggie Moo's.

Limbo

Alexis(squared) doing the Chicken dance

Same
Braden was too cool for school

Time so sing Happy Birthday
Alexis was really into the singing
Airplane time

She made out in the gift department this year. She got enough books to last us for bedtime for a month or so, gift cards and money, clothes, blankets, jewelery, purses, Barbies, and activity books!

To wrap up the event I took a Costco cake to school with her where she got to give all her classmates a piece of cake and have everyone sing to her one last time for the year! Talk about Diva!