Pioneer Day

We just got back from Paso Robles, where Jacob (and Daddy) got to experience their first Pioneer Day. Some of the festivities included the anual Pioneer Day parade full of tractors, and a trip to the Pumpkin Patch.

Pioneer Day

While we were there, Jacob got lots of practice attempting to crawl. Nana and Papa's dog was a huge motivator for Jacob. Unfortunately, we forgot the video camera, so we recorded some of his attempts at home. We also included his "swimming," which is rapidly disappearing as he improves with crawling.

Crawling, Almost

At long last, Jacob has figured out a crude form of locomotion. He digs his toes into the floor and then flexes his knees to scooch along the floor. It's slow going, and doesn't work so well on bare carpet (rugburn!), but he's certainly pleased with himself. Mommy and Daddy are quite proud too.

Our new favorite game is to build a little tower out of plastic stacking cups and set it about a foot out of his reach. Then we just sit back and thirty seconds later, he'll invariably have crawled over to it and knocked it down. He loves knocking down towers.

We'll be leaving town for Nana and Papa's tomorrow morning but maybe we will bring along the video camera to try to record Jacob in action. It's pretty fun to watch. Not exactly action-packed, but still highly entertaining.

(Sorry, no new photos this time.)

Jacob Explores His World

This is an eclectic selection of snapshots from the last two weeks.
He's been growing fast! Two teeth are have broken through the gums now, and we're starting to think that he's going to be able to crawl any day now.
The last four pictures in the album are pretty hilarious... Mandi sent out an email which I'll quote verbatim:

Jacob can finally fit in (and the weather is cooperating) his totally adorable outfit from the Baxters. He is so cute! He is also wearing his new shoes that I bought him to keep him from kicking his socks off. Except... the pictures show the problem.

Jacob Learns About Shoes

Babble

Jacob is starting to get the hang of consonants! We managed to capture a bit of his babble on film. (Once again, the video starts out gray for the first second... weird.)

Bounce bounce bounce!

Jacob has figured out how to bounce in the bouncer! Before he would just move his feet around randomly, which kind of worked, but he's mastered it now. Look how much fun he's having!

(The first second or two is all gray, not sure why. It looked fine before I uploaded it.)

Grandma and Grandpa babysit!

Last night Mandi and I went to see a concert! Of course, we couldn't take the boy. So it was up to Grandma and Grandpa to come visit and watch Jacob for the evening!

Thankfully Jacob was mostly on good behavior and a good time was had by all.

Grandma and Grandpa babysit!

Fun with Solid Food...

... and a tooth!
... and a visit from Molly!

Jacob has been busy in the last week or two. First of all, he is learning to master the art of the spoon. As you can see, he is still a novice, but he's enjoying himself at least! Normally we use a bib but this time we decided to let him have some fun.

Also, we had a visit from Molly! She's temporarily back from Samoa and this gave her a chance to meet Jacob for the first time. As you can see they made friends right away.

And last but not least, a tooth! It's not easy trying to photograph the inside of a baby's mouth. They like to squirm, clam up, and get their tongue in the way. So our picture is a little blurry—but it's a little tooth, poking up through the gums, and it's razor-sharp! This made its appearance on Tuesday and has been inching up ever since. It's still barely protruding but you can tell there's progress being made.

Fun with Solid Food