I took Jacob to get some 6 month pictures made....they turned out great! He was soooo good! Here are a few!

He is too cute (I know I am biased!0

We are having a blast! He is almost crawling! It should be any day now!

We are having fun at home! Jacob's favorite new toy is an old remote we took the batteries out of! He will play with it for hours! He went for his 6 month check up and is now 17 lbs 10 oz and 27 1/2 inches long. He is right at 50th percentile for both! He is growing fast!

We went home over the Labor Day weekend and Jacob got to visit with ALL of his grandparents and great grandparents! What a treat it was! We were tired by the end, but so thankful for all the time we got to spend with our family!

We are getting our running shoes ready for when Jacob starts crawling!

Watch out world, here he comes!

I have had this in draft form for a few weeks....it is old now but thought I would still post it!

We have had a fun last few weeks! Jacob is still teething, so we have found our new best friend....teething tablets! Ms. Roberta at school told us about them and they are great! Of course anything he can put in his mouth, he will. This includes his hands and sometimes he tries to put the whole thing in!!



Anyway, about a week ago, they told us at school that he had been getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. We hadn't seen it for ourselves so we weren't too sure about it. But low and behold...he is!! He has started getting up on his hands and knees and sometimes rocks back and forth and then falls down. He doesn't stay up too long, but it is a great start! We are excited!

AUBIE

One of my favorite memories from childhood was going to the Auburn Football games to watch my godmother, Missy, cheer. I remember getting a paw print panted on my cheek and picking up Auburn cups after the game with Miss Peggy. I remember watching homecoming parades and drinking lemonade!!

Well, after my brief stint as an Alabama fan, and Josh's obsession with Auburn football, it wasn't too hard to go back to my childhood days of cheering on the Tigers! Now I have new great memories of tale gating and going to the games with Josh, mom, Ryan and Emily!

Ever since Jacob was born (even before) we have been anticipating taking him to Auburn! His first trip was in May for Ginny and Robby's wedding. It was a short trip and he was young, but he did get his Auburn stroller!! We are eagerly awaiting Jacob's first football game! I know Josh can't wait to throw the football with him!

Well, as fate would have it, Jacob got to meet Aubie last weekend! I was in Tuscaloosa for a camp at the University of Alabama. Josh and Jacob were in Birmingham and ended up driving down to pick me up (I know, I have a very sweet husband!). Well, being in mom mode, I realized that Aubie was there for Mascot Camp! I sweetly went up to Benji and Adam, the Mascot instructors and asked them if we could get our picture made with Aubie and they said no problem!! I quickly called Josh and told him to bring Jacob's Auburn shirt!

We waited anxiously for Aubie to "get ready." I guess he had a hard time picking what shirt he would wear (you have to read the shirt on the pictures)! Aubie finally came out to meet us and it is something I will never forget! I guess as a parent, I remember the great memories my parents gave me and am eager to give those to our son. I am sure it is a story that we will tell Jacob when he is old enough to understand. Aubie came out and was so great with us! He waved to Jacob but didn't come over too quick so he wouldn't scare him! He came over and sat down on the floor and I knelt down with Jacob. He looked at Aubie and reached out to feel his face.

We proceeded to slowly get Jacob closer to Aubie and he wasn't scared at all! Just really curious! (Don't forget to read Aubie's shirt.....toooooo funny! I can't believe he had that at camp!) We slowly got closer and were able to put Jacob in Aubie's lap! He was so great!! And the rest of the mascot staff were such a great help trying to get Jacob to smile and look up!

We took several pictures and Jacob was great!! We stood up and got to take a great family picture! I am sure it will grace our house for many years to come!!

I just wish it was a few months later and this could be our Christmas card! But for now it will have to just be our "Happy Football Season" picture!! It was truly a great experience! I don't think Josh and I could keep the smiles off of our faces the rest of the day! Hopefully it is just the first of many Auburn and Aubie pictures for the Morris family!!

Why I love mornings

I have always been a morning person. Thank goodness Josh is too. We always feel guilty sleeping in after about 8 am or so. Well, we are glad that Jacob has turned out that way too! Now my mornings are even more special because of our "routine" with Jacob! Here is how it usually goes:
I am usually ready by the time Jacob wakes up. Josh usually goes into his room and gets him. It always brings a smile to my face when I see the two of them together in the morning. Both with their "just woken up" eyes and smiles on their faces. Jacob's smile in the morning makes my whole day! He is so happy and excited for what the day has to come! The three of us usually swap good mornings, etc for a few minutes and then Jacob gets a bath. Here are a few picturesthat we took first thing in the morning:

We started giving him a bath in the morning and he seems to really like it. He got a "big boy" bath tub that he enjoys. We are so glad he likes the water! Jacob and I usually have several "conversations" about the day and how he slept that night while he gets "fresh and clean." For some reason he LOVES being wrapped in his towel! He smiles and laughs and doesn't mind it at all! We think he would stay like that all day if we let him! He talks like crazy on his changing table while we get him dressed for school. Here is a picture of him in his towel (you can tell he loves his fingers right now!):

After that, he gets a bottle and cereal. He is doing really well eating his cereal and fruits! So far we have fed him bananas and peaches. We should have had the camera ready on the peaches. His face was so funny! (We will remember that next time we try something new!) There are some pictures below of him in his highchair. Emily's coworker gave us a smaller one and it is PERFECT for Jacob right now!

After he eats, he plays in his bouncy seat for a little while so I can gather any last minute things for the day. Then it's off to school! I can't tell you how much I enjoy our morning routine. He is so smily and talkative and it just makes my day! I hope that we can continue this as a family as Jacob gets older, as it is such a joy!

Happy days and hiccups

I am still trying to figure out how to post video to our blog, but for now, this will have to work!
Saturday while Josh was mowing the grass, I decided to put Jacob in his bumpo seat and put the tray on it so he could play with his toys. Needless to say he was laughing like crazy! Of course, when I pick up the video camera, he stops, but you can see the aftermath.....the hiccups!! Jacob has been getting the hiccups ever since I was pregnant with him! Here is a short video clip of him...you can hear his hiccups and he talks a little...too into his toys!


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-244260603641949776

Hope you all are well!

Laughing day

Well, today has been a day full of laughs!! Jacob has been laughing so much!! Josh can really get him to laugh loud! He gets the hiccups sometimes, but it is so much fun to watch him laugh!!
Here are a few pictures from today!

One of Josh's co-workers gave him this onezie for Jacob. It is TOO funny!

Also, this weekend Jacob starting pushing up on his arms while on his stomach! All that tummy time helped!

Cereal and sleeping through the night

Well, with Jacob being 4 months old now (time surely flies!) we decided to start him on some cereal and fruits. We decided that a little help from Mimi would help us with getting Jacob to eat. So, while we were in Gulf Shores, we started feeding Jacob cereal. After about 2 feedings, he had the hang of it!! YEA! A few days later we started feeding him bananas and he loved those too! He now opens his mouth really well and finishes every bit we have fixed for him!



I love this picture....he has this little smile like he is up to something!

I am convinced that Jacob has an internal alarm clock that wakes him up everynight between 2:30 am and 3:30 am. Oh what Josh and I would do for him to sleep all night! We got back from Gulf Shores Sunday night and decided that would be his first night to sleep in his crib in his room! We set up the monitors and put him to sleep! He seemed to like his own room! Well, little did we know that Monday night, he would sleep through the night for the first time! YEA! I woke up that night about 2:30 am knowing that in the next hour he would wake up to eat. I woke up again at 4:00 am and he was still asleep! He ended up sleeping until a little after 6 am!

Tuesday night he woke up again at 3:30 am and last night he woke up at 4 am, but we think that was because his diaper had leaked. One of my nicknames for him is "pee pee man" because he does that SOOO much! We have been trying different types of diapers in hopes that one will be "more absorbant" while Jacob is sleeping! No luck yet!

But, we are hoping that he is almost to sleeping through the night! We think he likes being in his room, and really likes his crib! My, how he is growing up already!