All Tuckered Out

Yesterday I watched Josh D. for the day. Josh and Jacob had a blast! Of course, Jacob refused his nap. He was having way too much fun! He did fine staying awake that long, until dinner. Alan was feeding him and he was eating really slowly. His eyes started getting that glazed look and he finally just fell asleep halfway through his meal. Every few minutes he would wake up a little, eat a Cheerio and fall back asleep. It was so funny! His little catnap got him through until bedtime, so all was good. :)



Here are the boys watching Veggie Tales. Josh spotted the video in our cabinet and I figured that having them watch a video was an opportune time for me to grab some lunch.



A random picture taken last night.
Jacob was put in the bath right after dinner since the potato had completely dried to his face while he took his little nap. I found this robe in his closet and saw it is sized for 0-9 months so I decided to try it. It was more like a 3/4 length sleeved smoking jacket than a robe.


This is what it should fit like. This was taken when he was almost 2 months old. :P

We've got a walker!

I would say Jacob is officially walking. :)

Here are a couple videos that we took this weekend.



This one cracks me up! He had been practicing walking around a lot that evening and was getting tired.

Big News!

After over two years of searching, we finally found our house! We went to the open house on Sunday, went back on Monday to re-look at some things and take some measurements, made an offer yesterday and the seller accepted this morning. We are just so, so excited!

Not sure why the seller took a picture of the side of the house, but anyway, the house is a 1910 Craftsman


Front porch - it wraps around


Entrance with the living room on the right and the formal dining room on the left (behind the glass paned pocket doors)


Living room


Kitchen


Eat-in kitchen


Formal dining room - we will be using this as a playroom since the kitchen is so big


Also downstairs is a bathroom and laundry room.
Upstairs are 3 bedrooms, a bathroom and 2 bonus rooms. One will be Alan's office and the other will be my room to do with whatever I please. :D

The backyard is nice and big and even has a little fenced off area in the back for a garden. The rest of the yard is all fenced so Homer can roam to his heart's content and there is a 2 stall detached garage for all of Alan's tools. :)

Weekend Update

First of all, let me just start out by saying that we haven't seen our mousy friend for a few nights. YAY! That makes me so happy!! We are thinking perhaps he got into the poison Alan put under the deck and is now dead. None of the traps that Alan set out have been touched and there are a lot of them around. If he was still hanging around, I think he would have tried to get at some of that delicious peanut butter. So, good riddance Mr. Mouse!

On Saturday I headed out to San Pedro to visit my friend Megan. We had a wonderful day-o-fun! We had a nice lunch and then did some shopping. Love those girlie days! She took me to an awesome spice store. They have everything! And it is all good quality stuff for a fantastic price. I got some hot chocolate mix that is super delicious. Anyway, we had a nice day and I didn't get home until almost six.

While I was gone, my parents picked up Jacob and took him to a fall festival where they had a petting zoo. Silly boy was most afraid of the little rabbits. Those little animals are so scary! He seemed to enjoy the goats, though. Must get that from me because the goats are my favorite too. :)




On Sunday we went to the Spanish service at our church to see my friend's little girl get baptized. It is so interesting because the service is done in both English and Spanish. Pastor John has perfected going back and forth between the two. I would not be able to keep my train of thought! After the service we went over to my parents' to feed Jacob lunch and put him down for a nap while we went to a lunch celebrating the baptism. Jacob doesn't do lunch dates anymore because he naps from 12-2/2:30.

Speaking of Jacob's sleep - for the time being we've got a good routine going. He goes to bed at 8:00, sleeps until 6:00 or 6:30 and naps from 12-2. The morning wake time is simply wonderful! I feel much more rested these days. :)

Jacob has been taking more and more unassisted steps lately. It is so cute to see him toddle across the room! I don't think it will be long before he takes off and then starts running. :P He practices a lot standing up from a sitting position. He's getting really good at it too and when he walks and starts to wobble he can correct it and stay standing.

Have you seen my pregnancy ticker? Almost 24 weeks already! I see the doctor tomorrow and will get the results of the ultrasound. Hopefully they didn't see anything worrisome. I have been feeling really good. I have been walking about 3 times a week and I even jog the downhill parts. The second trimester really is the best part of pregnancy for me. I am over the tiredness and nausea, but am not to the huge uncomfortable stage yet. :P I'll have Alan take a picture of my growing belly in the next couple days.

Here is a random picture of Jacob, taken last week. He must have been a little sleepy because he just stopped to take a little rest on his big Homer dog pillow. He laid like that for about 30 seconds, popped his head up when he heard me grab the camera, then laid back down for another quick little rest.



He loves his Homey so much. Whenever Homer comes in the room, his little face lights right up and he squeals. He especially likes seeing him in the morning or when Homer comes to visit during a bath. He thinks that is so funny! His new thing is to feed him too. He'll bite off half the Cheerio and give Homer the rest. Of course Home LOVES that!

Stupid, stupid, stupid mouse

I sincerely hope this is my last post about this mouse. Unless it is just to say that it is dead! Last night I was so frustrated. Around 9:00 Alan and I started hearing noises. We weren't sure if we were just being paranoid or if it really was the mouse. It really was the mouse. We didn't see it before we went to bed, but once we had settled in we started hearing scratching on the carpet in our room. Alan looked a couple times, but couldn't find it. So annoying knowing that he was in the house, but nowhere to be found. Finally Alan found him squashed between the wall and our bookcase. This is a big mouse and he had gotten himself stuck (evil laugh). Alan grabbed a broomstick and attempted to rid the world of this annoying beast, but he got away. UGH! So Alan proceeded to go on a mouse hunt. By this time Jacob had woken up from all the commotion so I tried to get him back to sleep. After I don't even know how long, Alan gave up the chase hoping mousy had left the building, Jacob was back in bed and all seemed okay. Until we started hearing noises again. Grrrrr. Jacob woke up again screaming. Have I mentioned that I HATE this mouse?!? I went back in and rocked him for a while and Alan went to sit with a flashlight and have a little mouse-watch. He never did see the mouse again so he just gave up. Finally at midnight we were all back in bed either asleep or attempting to. There was little evidence (meaning poo) that the mouse spent the night in the house. I think at some point during Alan's chasing and watching, mousy had left. Even though I am pretty sure he isn't in here and all doors are shut so he can't get in, I still stand back every time I open a door or cupboard. I hate living like that. Stupid mouse!

Another Visit

10:20 pm Thursday ~ I had just drifted off into blissful dreamland when I was awoken by SNAP! The mousetrap went off. Alan jumped out of bed and I knew from the commotion that it didn't actually catch the mouse. I heard lots of scurrying by the mouse, the dog and bumping around by Alan. Oh great. Stupid mouse. Stupid trap. I was sitting up in bed and did see a small creature's shadow run past the French door outside so I was pretty certain it had left the house. From the amount of droppings I found around the house today, apparently little mousy had a little romp around the house before setting off the trap. Nice way to spend the morning - vacuuming mouse poo. Alan put poison under the house this morning and also put up another flap on the dog door. A mouse could still certainly come in, but hopefully that will deter it. Alan thought it looked like the same mouse. It was the same size anyway. Perhaps almost getting killed last night will keep him away. Stupid mouse. After all that I couldn't get to sleep.

Creatures

Last night as we were getting ready to to go bed, Alan spotted something out of the corner of his eye. Just like that a mouse goes shooting from the corner of the dining room and into the kitchen. Lovely! It was a big one too. I am not too fond of the rodents, so was not really looking forward to going to bed knowing there was a mouse in the house. Alan started setting some traps. He accidently set one off and that scared the mouse from behind the fridge. Thankfully it decided to run toward the laundry room and out the dog door! Whew. Now Alan needs to fix the dog door so none of its friends decide our nice, cozy warm house is a good place to be. The flap is starting to rip off so the hole is pretty much open. I think if there was a flap there it would be harder for the mouse to push on in. Hopefully that mouse told his mousy friends that 1) we have traps and 2) there is a big angry dog that will chase you.

My title is CreatureS because today after lunch I pulled off the tray insert on Jacob's highchair and discovered a huge moth under it. How does a moth get under that? Gross.

Also, sometimes when Jacob is throwing a tantrum, he seems a bit like a wild creature. He has been telling us more and more when he is unhappy with something, like today when we had to leave the park. He pitched a BIG fit. There was lots of screaming and flailing and bucking. He told me how he felt the whole way home too. Ah, toddlerhood.

Here are a few pictures of my wild creature from last week on Halloween.

Standing on his own. What a brave little lion!


ROAR!!!