Action Packed Weekend

We started our weekend celebrating Grammy Deb's birthday with a great meal cooked by Auntie Kaylin. Jake enjoyed the company so much that he just refused to go to bed at his normal 7:00 pm bedtime. Instead, he stayed up until almost 10pm! We figured he would sleep in on Saturday, so we really didn't mind much. He made his parents very happy by sleeping until 8:30am on Saturday morning..Daddy went in to go get him as he usually does on the weekends and couldn't believe his eyes. Jake was sitting up in his crib with his legs dangling out the side..holding onto the bars as if he were in prison. We think he may have been stuck as he was crying a bit and not too happy. Anyhow, it was very cute to see him sitting up, as he is normally just rolling around in the crib when we go in to get him. The camera was in the car..so unfortunatly, we have no shots of it.

Saturday we traveled to Massachusetts and celebrated another of Jake's granparents birthdays - Papa Kevin's. We have been celebrating a lot lately - as three of his grandparents were born within a four day span! Jake got to hang out with cousins Mia & Jasmine and got passed around all day, loving the attention. He showed them his army crawl technique and listened to Mia play "Happy Birthday" on an organ, sheet music and all. It was quite cute!

Wonder who he got his BLUE eyes from?



We then traveled over to see Chad & Deb's new little one - Sophia is as cute as a button as is her big brother Alex. It was very nice to be in Mommy's old stomping grounds as we got to visit Great Gramma Bettie and see YaYa Connie too. Gramma Bettie hasn't been feeling well lately but had a great time seeing Jake & Mia..they really brightened her day.

Jake was a great traveler and pretty much slept to and fro..and also slept in for us again this morning. I could hear him moving around in his crib but he was in the corner where you can't see him on the video monitor. I heard sounds like "uggh, aggggh", like he was working very hard to do something. Alex and I both darted to his door and walked in - to this:



So proud of himself!


He has learned to pull himself up and stand on his own! He was really proud and laughing as we walked in. Thankfully, we had the camera on hand and he was every so happy to smile for the camera. Daddy hung out with Jake for most of the day while I was gone and he created a little play area for him..but all Jake wanted to do was:




Stand on his own two feet!!

In all, it was a very exciting weekend..getting to spend quality time with a lot of our family and also watching Jake hit another milestone. He is very proud of himself standing and will most likely be walking in no time. Watch out!