Jacob is 5 Months!

Little man is 5 months! We started cereal the other day. We are going slow....just giving him a few bites each morning to get him used to swallowing. With Chase it was much more stressful trying to get him to eat cereal because the doctors actually wanted him to get calories from it. So its nice not having to worry about that this time around. He just had his 4 month appointment and he was up to 17 pounds (67%) and 27 inches (89%). He is starting to nap in longer chunks and rolling all over the place. He is great at giving his toothless grins. We love this little guy so much!

Veterans Day Weekend

We actually did something fun this weekend to blog about! We enjoyed a three day weekend thanks to Veterans Day. Huge thanks to all those who have served and are currently serving. There is a squadron from our base that is gone right now and I think of them often as they are away from their family during the holidays.

On Saturday morning Brad and I went horseback riding. I had a groupon for it and since Brad had never been we thought we would be a fun date. Brad got assigned Vegas.

And I had Cindy.

We brushed the horses then got them saddled up and rode around the ring for a bit to make sure we could control them. Then we set off on a half hour trail ride. It was a nice day and the colors were beautiful. She gave us the offer to come back for a longer trail ride. We might just have to take her up on that. We both had a lot of fun.

On Friday we headed up to the Science Museum in Raleigh with some friends. There were a lot of animals to see and a 3-D movie on Tornados.

I think this was the highlight of the day for the kids - riding the escalator. The adults had to take turns letting them go up and down.

Jacob was there too :)

We have been reading several dinosaur books lately so I thought he would be more interested in the dinosaurs. He really wasn't. He also wasn't too interested in taking pictures. Oh well.

I just remembered I need to post Jacob's 5 month pictures and the pictures of the first attempt at eating cereal. Look out for another blog post :)

Halloween

We are still not sure what we believe about this holiday and what we want Chase to do/participate in. I do think it is super cute to dress kids up though. Daddy's office had a candy hunt that we went to. Then our plan was to go around to our neighbors and trick or treat but it was raining pretty good so we only went to a few. Unfortunately since it was raining we have a lot of candy left over. Chase did pick up on the idea of candy pretty quickly! We had picked out an outfit together at Old Navy and he was going to be a monkey but he absolutely refused to wear it. So getting him to wear a flight suit was our only option. Its funny because he kept calling him Daddy's co-pilot (a t-shirt he has). Our fighter friends will know that you don't say you want to be a co-pilot in a fighter pilot squadron! We also had the cutest little lion!

Chalk

This is the perfect time of year to be in NC! The weather has been very nice out and we try to take advantage of being outside. With out backyard still under construction that leaves us with bike rides and chalk on the driveway. For a kid that doesn't really like to color he loves chalk. He is also doing really well with his letters. He can recognize most of them most, most of the time. He is also learning to write them. Here are a few examples...

This is supposed to be an "E."

Working on his name. 

Jacob is always so content outside. We've been home a lot trying to get Jacob on a good nap schedule. He is in between the nap every feeding cycle and longer naps (morning and afternoon) with a short evening nap. He is at the fun age where he is interactive and smiles a ton but pretty much stays in the same place when you put him down. Not ready to be chasing 2 little boys!

Gameday!

I enjoyed being a little bored during the game today. Go K-State!!

Williamsburg

We took a couple days and headed to Williamsburg as a family. We wanted to take advantage of the free tickets to Busch Gardens for military. We had a great time but it was tiring. Having all 4 of us in one hotel room is not ideal. I don't realize how much noise Jacob makes at night until I worry it will wake up Chase. 

After we got there and went swimming we headed to downtown Williamsburg. Chase loved all the horses.

He's never really been a stuffed animal person to recently. He loves his puppy.

We also walked around William and Mary and found the Kappa house. My grandma, great aunt and aunt were all Kappas here.

We spent the next day at Busch Gardens. Chase's favorite thing was the train. (His least favorite thing is getting his picture taken).

Daddy got to ride several roller coasters. The weather was great and there were hardly any lines so a perfect day to go.

Chase wanted to do several of the rides by himself.

At the hotel pool, Jacob got to go swimming for the first time. I think he enjoyed it but it was pretty chilly so we didn't let him stay in long.

The next day we headed to Jamestown but we didn't want to pay to do anything. With the mood the boys were in we knew we wouldn't last long. Instead we headed to Ft. Eustis (where Brad spent some time when he was enlisted in the Army) to see the *free* US Army transportation museum. Chase enjoyed seeing all the helicopters and trucks.

But of course his favorite was the trains. The train yard was closed so this is the closest we could get.

We had a great time as a family but like I said it was tiring! I slept a lot of the way home and I think Chase watched 4 straight hours of Mickey Mouse. We got back last night in time to see KSU's win over TTU. I was going to be mad if I stayed up to watch it and they end up losing. Go Cats!

Jacob is 4 months!

Our boy is getting so big! Here are a couple pictures along with a baby picture of me thrown in. When I showed the picture of me to Chase and asked who it was he said Jacob. 

With the weather getting nicer we try to play outside more. Poor Wagner. This is when I miss England. It was not humid there and we had great walking paths around our village. We could go see horses or down to the pond and throw rocks in. I really wish there were sidewalks here. We keep as busy as we can in our driveway!

First time giving the boys a bath together. It went over pretty well. Today Jacob was in a giggly mood. I had Chase come over and tickle him. Then I would tickle both boys until they were just laughing. Moments like that make it all worth it. Even when I'm tired from one boy or the other being up several times at night and up early I love being a mom to these guys!